picture-writings

Updated: January 25, 2026

Astrological charts formed a large proportion of these picture-writings. Here, as elsewhere, we may trace the origin of astrology. The signs of the days and years were represented, for convenience sake, by different animals, and objects, like the signs of the Zodiac which we still retain.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern