Solar 365-day Calendar
This 365-day calendar was corresponded roughly with the true solar year, was divided into 18 'months' of 20 days each, plus 5 'nameless' days at the end of the year. It seems however that the mesoamericans did not take the leap year into consideration, meaning that the year was pushed a quarter of a day from the true solar year, each year.
The years were given their name in much the same way as the days of the 260-day calendar, 20 names were paired with 13 numbers giving 52 different possibilities for year names
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