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Codex Fejervary Mayer - Sacred Aztec Calendar
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6e316087-de08-450f-ae85-d6c20b5f8400/72162192-6CC5-4F08-A43F-F9043278D71A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/07/codex-fejervary-mayer.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/07/codex-fejervary-mayer.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/07/codex-fejervary-mayer.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/527784FF-A0AF-4BA2-B41F-6B3B9AD2A419" alt="Codex Fejervary Mayer (famsi) cosmos" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/07/codex-fejervary-mayer.html"><DIV>Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is a 15th or early 16th Aztec (or Mixtec) manuscript on deer skin from Veracruz in central Mexico. Named for a Hungarian collector and British patron, this pre-Columbian accordion-style document outlines the cosmological and calendrical orientations of the Mayan people. As a typical calendar codex <SPAN>tonalamatl</SPAN> dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar -- the <SPAN>tonalpohualli</SPAN> -- <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Fej%C3%A9rv%C3%A1ry-Mayer">it</A> is grouped in the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Borgia_Group">Codex Borgia group</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/07/codex-fejervary-mayer.html">The painted manuscript divides the world into five parts. T-shaped trees delineate compass points: east at the top, west on the bottom, north on the left, and south on the right. 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