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The Mexican (“Aztec”) and Western Yucatec (Landa) Maya 365-Day Calendars: A Perpetual Relation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R. David Drucker
R. David Drucker*
Affiliation:
Krueger Enterprises, Inc., Geochron Laboratories Division, 24 Blackstone St., Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

The Mexican ("Aztec") 365-day calendar and the Western Maya (Yucatec) 365 day calendar in use at the time of the Spanish conquests of Mexico and the Yucatan have an invariable relation to each other. The first nine mesomonths (named 20-day intervals) of the Yucatec 365-day calendar are coterminous with the last nine mesomonths of the "Aztec" calendar. The proof reconfirms the validity of the modified Thompson (584,283) correlation between Mesoamerican and European calendars.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 816 - 819
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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