Calendar Stone Research Paper

The actual Calendar Stone was discovered in 1790 in the central plaza of Mexico and is now at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. The Calendar stone was used by priests in the early 1400’s in the Valley of Mexico before the Spanish Conquest in 1519 so they could record days that they thought were good to have religious ceremonies or festivities for their gods.

The Aztecs were extremely religious and they worshipped all their gods. They would do anything that they thought the gods would want done. as well as they would do anything they thought the gods would want done. The Calendar stone was usually used by priests so they could record days that they thought would be were good to have religious ceremonies or festivities for their gods.

The calendar stone was made up of two different smaller calendars placed on different rings of the calendar stone. On the calendar stone we know as the sacred calendar came first on the rings circling the centre however the Aztecs knew it as Tonalpohualli

All 20 days in the month of this calendar were was given it’s own name. The other calendar which was further on a later father away from the middle is known to us as the solar calendar or to the Aztecs as Xiuhpohualli (Year count) this year consists of 365 with 20 days in a month similar to the sacred calendar but with 18 months instead of 13. However the remaining five days that don't equally fit into all the months at the end of the year are considered unlucky days known as nemontemi to the