<pre><tt><tt>Dear Friends,<br><br>I have a question concerning the possible span of a world age as<br> numerically recorded on the Aztec Calendar Stone. Gorden Brotherston in his<br> Book of the Forth World (see his fig. 54 and pages 298-299) believes<br> that the Aztec scribes encoded mathematically the time spans of world ages<br> into the stone via the "mixcoa" or cloud serpents that frame the<br> outer rim of the great stone. I am not an Aztec scholar so I can<br> not refute or verify his interpretation. I hope those of you who are<br> familiar with Aztec signs and iconography can tell me if his reading<br> is at least plausible. <br><br>Here is what he writes on page 299 of the work:<br><br>"Just as the Era Four Ollin visually frames the proceeding four world<br> ages at the center of the sunstone, so its length is recorded on the rim<br> as we saw, in ten lots of ten Rounds imaged as cloud-snakes that issue<br> from the squared scales of sky dragons to
right and left. Now as we<br> noted above, the heads peering from the dragons' maws below belong<br> respectively to Fire Lord (left) and the Sun (right), who are One and Four in<br> the set of thirteen Heroes. Hence, each endows its dragon and the<br> Rounds on its back with number value, a capacity they and others among them<br> display, for example, in the Pinturas transcription of the world-age<br> story. As One, Fire Lord simply confirms the 5,200-year total; as Four,<br> Sun multiples it to 20,800 to the remaining four-fifths of the Great<br> Year [26,000 years]. Hence:<br><br>1x10x10x52=5,200<br>4x10x10x52=20,800<br><br> 26,000<br><br><br>In the Cuauhtitlan Annals transcription of the Sunstone cosmogony, the<br> four-fifths of the Great Year is noted as "CCCCC mixcoa," that is, four<br> hundred cloud-snake rounds."<br><br><br>My questions are these:<br><br>Do the Fire Lord and the Sun God have numerical equivalents of 1 and 4?<br><br>Are the 10
glyphs bordered by ten dots on the backs of the Serpents<br> glyphs/names for the 52 year period?<br><br>Where else in Aztec lit. is it mentioned that the so called cloud<br> serpents manifest or are seen as representing a world Era?<br><br>Finally is Gorden Brotherston still amongst the living so I might ask<br> him directly?<br><br>IF GB is correct, then I believe there are are interesting parallels<br> that can be made to the art, numerology and iconography of other<br> MesoAmerican cultures.<br><br>I look forward to your answers.<br><br>Carl Callaway<br><br><br><br><br> </tt></tt></pre><p>
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