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DID YOU KNOW?
FACTS & FICTION WITH A MEXICAN TWIST
FEBRUARY 2004
Photo Strip 188
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Pyramid of the Serpents
Drawing by Marquina
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Relief on Temple of the Serpents
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Glyph showing calendric fix
Drawing by Salido Beltrán
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Did You Know That...
...pre-Columbian astronomers agreed how to "fix" the calendar
at a congress held in Xochicalco in 765 A.D.?
Several ancient civilizations developed astonishingly accurate calendars. Even so, occasional adjustments were needed to bring the calendar back in line with solar events. Archaeologists studying the site of Xochicalco, just outside the city of Cuernavaca in central Mexico, believe that a major conference of astronomers was held there in the eighth century A.D. in order to implement an adjustment of six days.
The conference may have been a sequel to an earlier astronomical gathering (700 A.D.) held in Copán, in modern-day Honduras, commemorated at that site by a richly-decorated altar. An altar may have been good enough to commemorate the Copán gathering, but in Xochicalco the organizers went one stage further and built an entire lavishly decorated pyramid as a memorial to the event.
The scenic and imposing ruins visible at Xochicalco today reflect only a small proportion of what was formerly a much more extensive city. The name Xochicalco means...
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