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echo: indian_affairs
to: SONDRA BALL
from: ROSLYN REID
date: 1997-11-29 17:05:00
subject: Fidonet future

SB>RR> indian astronomy?  hmm...i'd like to see something on that too.  i d
SB>RR> believe i've ever come across it.
SB>
SB>Even though the Aztecs were the leading astronomers of the world, bar
SB>none, at the end of the fifteenth century; and had a calendar more
SB>accurate than the European calendar of the time, and every bit as
SB>accurate as ours today?
prolly earlier than the 15th century.  i've come across their calendar,
but it's usually accompanied by somebody's off-the-wall interpretations.
since the aztecs wrote things down, it's easy to find their astronomical
lore.  but what of other NAs?  does any oral tradition survive?
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