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Macuili Ollin:
An Animation of the Aztec Calendar


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The Aztec Calendar:
Math and Design
The Aztec Calendar: The
Pointer
By
Charles William Johnson
In
memory of my grandfather Pablo González Casanova
Acknowledgements
A word of thanks to the public-access library of the
Middle-American Research Institute at Tulane University,
in New Orleans, where I was able to consult rare and
out-of date works.
"To my uncle Henrique González Casanova,
in memoriam".
THE AZTEC CALENDAR:
THE POINTER
Table of Contents
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The Pointer of the Aztec Calendar
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The Aztec Calendar
The Day-Glyph Ring
The Pointer and the Day-Glyph Ring
The Coordinate Dots of the Pointer
Nahui Ollin with a Star
The Numbered Coordinate Dots of
the Pointer
Indicated Day-Glyph on the Pointer
The Axis of the Pointer
The Four Years
The Pointer and the Year Glyph
The Months on the Day-Glyph Ring
The 13-Day Cycles on the Day-Glyph
Ring
Trecena Cycles on the Day-Glyph
Ring
The Ollin Glyph on the Day-Glyph
Ring
The 13-Day Cycles of the Aggregates
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The Venus Pattern in the Pointer
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52-Year Cycles Marked on the Pointer
The 52-Year Cycles Pattern on the
Pointer
The 243-Year Pattern of Venus
52-Day Cycles on the Pointer
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Observations
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©1995-2008 Copyrighted
by Charles William Johnson. All Rights Reserved
Reproduction prohibited without written consent of the author.
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