[2] See Seler, Bull. 28, American Bureau of Ethnology, p. 94. [↑]

[3] Bk. i, c. xvi. [↑]

[4] See also Sahagun, bk. i, c. xv. [↑]

[5] Bk. i, c. xv. [↑]

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APPENDIX

THE TONALAMATL AND THE SOLAR CALENDAR

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THE TONALAMATL

A Thorough knowledge of the tonalamatl is essential in order to grasp the fundamentals of Mexican religion, but its significance has perhaps been heightened by the difficulties which certainly attend its consideration. I have endeavoured to present the subject here as simply as possible, and to keep all distracting side-issues for later consideration and away from the main proof. Most of these, indeed, have been created by writers who have too closely identified the tonalamatl with the solar calendar, and have added to the obscurity of the subject by the introduction of abstruse astronomical hypotheses which have only a problematical connection with it.[1]