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echo: indian_affairs
to: ROSLYN REID
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-12-04 22:05:00
subject: Fidonet future

RR> prolly earlier than the 15th century.  i've come across their calend
RR> but it's usually accompanied by somebody's off-the-wall interpretati
Yeah -- there are all those people interpreting everything about the 
Aztecs and the Mayans.  It's downright disgusting at times.
I researched Nostroamus once.  I took a book from 1910 that interpreted 
his prophecies; and another from 1980.  Then I checked the same 
quatrains, and found totally different interpretations.  It's all in the
eye of the beholder, I think.  
RR> since the aztecs wrote things down, it's easy to find their astronom
RR> lore.  but what of other NAs?  does any oral tradition survive?
Lots of oral tradition survives.  The problem is: you probably aren't 
going to find anybody who will tell it to you, even if they happen to 
know it.
            Sondra
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