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This research project aims to document and analyze the use of the indigenous calendar in Mexico and Guatemala, linking contemporary practices with ancient manuscripts. It seeks to preserve endangered knowledge and explore the cultural significance of time in Mesoamerican societies.
European libraries and museums hold a small corpus of – still quite enigmatic – ancient screenfold manuscripts from the Aztecs, Mixtecs, Mayas and other indigenous cultures in Mexico and neighbouring Central America.
The central structuring principle of these pictographic and hieroglyphic texts is the prehispanic calendar, which was not only the dominant framework for historiography and astronomical observations, but was also used for divination, medical treatment, ritual performance, community…
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