While researching to find out if Davis Bradley's excellent reproduction of the famous Tenochtitlan "Sun Stone" is Mayan or Aztec, I've learned some fun things about it. Apparently, no one can agree on exactly how it's read. There are discrepancies from the Spanish conquistadors right through to modern scholars as well as variations in local customs. Chronologically, the Maya seem to be a much older culture than the Aztec, although the Mayan calendar is supposedly based on the less precise Aztec calendar. As I write this, I continue to read new sites and searches attempting to find credible answers and information, but I am only finding more contradictions and inconsistencies. There seem to be many puzzling facets to this thing, some not at ll noteworthy, and some that are outright disturbing. Astronomically, a lot of things seem to coincide cleanly with some translations of the calendar, but in some cases we should have long since felt the effects of anything cataclysmic happening. It's an argument I've made many times before, we assume a lot of things about how the cosmos works, some things seem mathematically to make a lot of sense, but until we've physically been there and applied the scientific method, we don't know for certain what is the temperature of the sun or the direction in which the Milky Way rotates. I believe the mysteries of Human history are subject to the same thinking.
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