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Welcome, Bienvenidos (en Castellano),
Xihuallauh (in Nahuatl) to the Anahuac Calendar Lessons. These
lessons were funded in part with a Willoughby
L. Nason Scholarship and are an addendum to the Border Studies Curriculum
of the Center for Latin American and Border Studies at New Mexico State
University.
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that
encompasses Mexico. Anahuac is an ancient land with a rich history of
sacred and cyclical calendars that were invented and used by many different
Native groups, including the Aztecs, the Mixtecs, and the Mayans among
others. The Anahuac calendar lessons here focus on features and dimensions
of the "Aztec Calendar" or "Sunstone" that is known
as Piedra del Sol in Castellano or as the Tonalmachiotl in
the native Nahuatl language.