Block Prints: Nahuatl Hieroglyphs of the Mexika Calendar

Participants carve and print one of the 20 Mexika (meh-SHEE-kah) daysigns of the tonalpohualli, a solar-based calendar that correlates with the Mayan calendar and that of other Indigenous cultures of present-day Mexico and Central America. It is also closely aligned to the highly accurate Persian calendar used in Iran and Afghanistan, because it also begins the day after the spring equinox (March 20 or 21 on the Gregorian Calendar developed in Europe.) The Mexika people, commonly known as "Aztecs," founded the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan which was replaced by Mexico City and gave Mexico its…