| Does anyone know what these circular pictogram thingies are called? Within 24 hours I witnessed the one at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills and the one at La Azteca restaurant in Atwater Village. |
| Does anyone know what these circular pictogram thingies are called? Within 24 hours I witnessed the one at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills and the one at La Azteca restaurant in Atwater Village. |
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Are these Aztec calendars, maybe? I guess I could have read the plaque at Forest Lawn. - AVN
Close, I think they're actually Mayan calendars:
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html
The wikipedia entry is very detailed, but doesn't show a picture of the full item, but that site does.
I'm pretty sure it's the Aztec calendar, based on the "Stone of the Sun". The Aztecs borrowed from teh Maya who borrowed from the Olmecs, so that's why some of the mythology and glyphs are similar.
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