Question

What happened on the last day of the aztec 52-year cycle?

Answer 1

 On the last day of the 52-year cycle, the gods would decide whether to destroy the humans and the world.

Answer 2

At bottom, the ancient Mexicans had no confidence in the future, their fragile world was perpetually at the mercy of some disaster: there were not only the natural cataclysms and the famines, but more than that, on certain nights the monstrous divinities of the west  appeared at the crossroads , and there were the wizards, those dark envoys from a misterious world, and every 52 years there was a great fear that fell upon all the nations of the empire when the sun set on the last day of the century and no man could tell whether it would rise again.