Maize in Word and Image in Southeastern Mesoamerica

Atole Boiled maize dough in water, often combined with other additives to make a ceremonial drink.

Calendar The Mayans and the Mixe-Zoqueans both employed two main calendars, a sacred almanac of 260 days-composed of a number cycle from 1-13 running concurrently with a 20-day name cycle-and an agricultural calendar composed of eighteen 20-day months plus 5 nameless days for a total of 365 days.