Show THE AZTEC CALENDAR A gentleman asks the NEWS to give owe ars are about the alteo calendar stone this celebrated 0 article r of sculpture was wag found in the year 1790 la in the city of mexico and ana was afterwards placed in the wall of the cathedral it ie a rectangular block of porphyry thirteen feet ono one inch square three feet three inches thick and t estimated to weigh twenty four boim OKI the sculpture is CODI contained SInei to in a circle eleven feet anti ami a little mote more than one mob inch in diameter the central contral circle contains a representation sen tation of thi the sun god the next zone c e four parallelograms and two circles surrounding hieroglyphic hieroglyph lo ligne these theme have been interpreted as aa meaning that the world has been des del troyed at faur dif terent terl ler ioup by wind and rain the faces of cox cox the mexican noah noab and his hin wife are seen in the fourth square and the sym gym bol of water is in engraved below their faces facea the next zone one contains coo bains the tablets of what has been called the oos coo mo logical ages then comes a circle with a succession of small squares ach enc losli g five round points this ame z ne is divided into four parts by large irlan rl angular gulai figures aud it wives together with the next zone a representation of the year of 65 days the remaining zone one con talus taine t wenty twenty four quad quadrangular I 1 ar figures figure the cymbola for the cycle of 62 52 years we are told that the ancient mexicans Mex ioana held beld the belief that at the ona end of a cycle the earth would be destroyed oy by the sun own at the th period they therefore j extinguished 4 their fires and clothed themselves to mourning at midnight human sacrifices were slain plain on the wound odthe of the a rock was placed and a new corpse obtained by revolving a stick of hard bard wood in a bole in the reck the of fire in this manner obtaining looked upon as is a promise that the was would not be destroyed destroy ed before earth the end of the cycle of fifty two years which bad now commenced allusions to this peculiar idea are thought found in the hieroglyphics in the to be zone of the stone the bottom outer two plumed serpent of tile the stone has heads with human burnan faces and the be outer zone is but the bodies of these animals terminating in triangular this feathered serpent has points been thought to represent the founder institutions of the people by of the elaborate calculations calculation the year some christ is arrived at as the 1479 after in which the stone was completed year and set up in the great pyramid of mex co AS particulars about for further interesting subject the reader is re the north americans of forred to by john T snort short an antiquity associated press dispatch recently announced that a complete translation 0 had been laid before a the calendar of rt at chicago co 00 gross gress and that the pa paper per had bad excited great those present presen t it is to lote interest reat among be hoped that this iran translation will be made accessible to the public in due time as ae the subject is one of the to all who take an anee et import importance hibb highest history of this interest in the past conti continent neoL |