The Aztec calendar
The Aztecs had a much distorted sense of time as they had two different calendars, one practical and one religious. The practical calendar (The Xiuhpohualli) consisted of 365 days and 4 season just like ours. However it also had 5 day weeks and 18 months in a year. The religious calendar ( The Tonalpohualli) was sacred to the Aztecs. There was 20 symbols and 13 numbers. Giving it 260 days in the year. Every 52 years the 2 calendars would align, on which the Aztecs believed the world would end in an eruption of natural disasters.
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sacrifices
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Sacrifices were very important and significant to the Aztecs as they believed blood would keep their precious gods satisfied and happy. They believed that if the gods were not appeased they would end the world. The Aztecs sacrificed many animals but most notably they sacrificed humans as well. Usually slaves or captured solider would be tied on top of a podium on a selected temple and stabbed to death. It was gruesome and inhumane but even nobles were required to stab themselves and drain blood for the gods in a practice called bloodletting.