Link to Abstract on 52-year Aztec Xiuhmolpilli Cycle

Here's a link to an Abstract about how the Aztecs predicted Events according to their 52-year cycle. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=43751.

Discusses the Eclipses that fell on either the solstices or the equinoxes. The Venus cycle isn't acknowledged.

Hey, there was a big Venus Cycle happening in 1513 when Ponce de Leon landed in Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth! That's probably the cycle that brought the clap and smallpox to the Americas. More on this important subject later...

Article cited: Ancient Mesoamerica (1999) 10:87-88 Cambridge University Press.