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The Aztec Sun Stone is not a calendar.

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The Aztec Sun Stone, often called the Aztec calendar, is actually a ceremonial monument representing Aztec cosmology and the cycles of the universe. It was not used to measure time like a modern calendar.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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