Chicano Time
Among activists there is a saying that meetings always start on “Chicano Time”. This usually means that everyone is running 5-10 minutes late. Well, in this posting I will show that it really exists.
Most people do not know that the so-called “Aztec Calendar” is actually a constellation chart. The popular image only shows the round center because the rest of it is badly damaged. The calendar was the center of a larger slab that I believe was the capstone of the Teocalli to Huitzilopochtli. I also believe that we were oriented to the Southern sky. When viewing the constellations in the Southern Sky they appear to come up from the horizon towards the sky moving to your right. In astronomy this is called the Right Ascension. Modern constellation charts correlate the Right Ascension with the 24 hours of the day. Basically, every 15 degrees equals one hour of Right Ascension.
Anyone who has read even a little on the “Aztec Calendar” is familiar with the 20 days of the Mexica Month. Well, these are, also, the 20 hours of the Mexica Day. One Mexica Hour equals 1.2 hours on the 24 hour clock (1.2 x 20=24), and we had 18 degrees of Right Ascension for every hour (18×20=360).
In conclusion, I would like to add that we had knowledge of Pi and of compasses. Notice that each ring of the calendar is perfectly round and each ring has a different pattern that does not duplicate any other ring. There are numerous pictures of our compasses in our original manuscripts if you know what to look for. I won’t include pictures here unless someone requests more information on them.
