Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. Codex Nuttall: Hooked On Boustrophedonics! << The Talented Mr. Student: Books, Class, and "Passing" | Front Page | Mann and Little Man >> Codex Nuttall: Hooked On Boustrophedonics! Posted by John Holbo on 01/30/08 at 09:13 AM I’ve been browsing - rereading would, I guess be too strong a word - my dear old Dover edition of the The Codex Nuttall. I mention this because I recently found a fine site. The screenfold is 94 pages, folded. Elsewhere on the FAMSI site (that hosts the codices) there is a fine and highly informative discussion by one John Pohl. Nuttall reverse begins on page 42 with an account of 8 Deer’s parentage, his early conquests, and his meetings with oracles and other powerful personages who were instrumental in his rise to power.
You gotta love the names. The Mixtec Group codices portray the histories of divine gods and heroes together with over twenty-five generations of kings and queens who claimed to be descended from them. Yeah. I’m probably reaching to find minor slips. The Dover edition Well, yes and no. Native America - Cosmologies. Mesoamerican calendars tracked the solar year, the lunar year, the Venus cycle, and other phenomena including supernatural and ritual cycles whose fundamental basis remain unknown.
This cyclical calendar is made up of a 260 day spiritual calendar and the 365 day solar calendar. The 260 day calendar was the most important and remains in use to this day in the Highlands of Guatemala, Chiapas, and . It may recreate the human gestational period or perhaps the cycles of Venus and was used by the ancient Maya as a kind of almanac for divination. (In Yucatec Maya it is called the tzolkin and was composed of 13 periods of 20 days each. The 365 day calendar (know as the Haab to the ancient Maya of Yucatan) corresponds to the solar year with 18 periods of 20 days each.
. - Dr. Mayan Calendar Tools. Mayan Day Signs. Jaguar Nights: A Journey through the Tzolkin.