Mayan Calendar & Numeral Systems Mexico & Central America Cyrus Thomas 1901

From the Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, v. 19 (1897-1898) and v. 22 (1900-1901).

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars. By the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec accounts and reconstructed from Late Classic and Postclassic inscriptions, the deity Itzamna is frequently credited with bringing the knowledge of the calendar system to the ancestral Maya, along with writing in general and other foundational aspects of Maya culture.

Mayan calendar systems. Month Symbols. Mayan calendar systems. Maya glyphs of the months, by Cyrus Thomas

Size of sheet: 11.5” X 7.5”. 262 pages. Over 30+ illustration.

Condition: Disbound from a volume on ethnology, comes with front and back boards, is not attached to boards. Very clean. See photos.

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