Aztec World Ages and the Calendar Stone

[Galen Brokaw]

Michael,
Although I was not specific, you are right that I was referring in 
general to Mesoamerican texts, not just the Maya. But I did not refer to 
actual astronomical observations themselves. I referred to quantities 
and sequences "_related_ to astronomical observations." Variations of 
the calendar, which was originally based on actual astronomical 
observations, were wide-spread in Mesoamerica. And there seems to be a 
"numerology" associated with calendrics that extends to more general 
cosmogony and religion. Thus, the numbers and sequences involved in 
calendrics and cosmogonic numerology throughout Mesoamerica are 
_related_ in one way or another to the astronomical observations 
explicitly made by the Maya. I could be wrong, but I don't think that in 
  general terms this is controversial. It seems to me that the 
controversial part has to do with the extent to which, and the 
particular way in which, indigenous texts are infused with numerological 
significance.

Galen

Michael Swanton wrote:
> “It is well known that many indigenous pictographic
> texts explicitly record quantities and sequences
> related to astronomical observations and calendrics,
> and that other non-quantitative imagery often has a
> numerical dimension.”
> 
> Outside the Maya region, what Mesoamerican codices
> explicitly record astronomical observations?
> 

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