Xiuhpohualli
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 172 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5116-6799-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xiuhpohualli (literally, year/xiuhitl-count/pohualli) was a 365-day calendar used by the Aztecs and other pre-Columbian Nahua peoples in central Mexico. It was composed of eighteen 20-day "months," called veintenas or metzli (the contemporary Nahuatl word for month) with a separate 5 day period at the end of the year called the nemontemi. Whatever name that was used for these periods in pre-Columbian times is unknown. Through Spanish usage, the 20 day period of the Aztec calendar has become commonly known as a veintena. The Aztec word for moon is metzli, and this word is today to describe these 20-day periods, although as the sixteenth-century missionary and early ethnographer, Diego Duran explained: Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная...