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What this app is not

Three things that get confused

What it covers

Three confusions this project declines to trade on: it is not a horoscope, the Sun Stone is not a calendar, and the counts are not settled.

The full entry is in Spanish, and here is why

What you have read above is this project's own summary of what this app is not. The full entry — the part that rests on the sixteenth-century sources — has not been translated, and that is a decision rather than an omission.

We chose not to touch the primary text. Those sections quote Sahagún, Durán and the codices in their own words, often in sixteenth-century Castilian. A quotation carried across stops being a quotation: it loses the register, the ambiguity and the exact wording someone might want to check against a facsimile.

In Spanish the entry carries:

Read the full entry in the original Spanish → Nahuatl names and terms are identical in both versions.

How to cite this page

Alma Mexica, «What this app is not», The documents. Revised 2026-09-17. https://almamexica.org/en/document/en-claro-lo-que-no-es/