The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican...
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the Fifth Sun: The Aztec Calendar Introduction to the Aztec Calendar The Aztec Sun Stone The Sun Stone The Aztec Sunstone Calendar Library of Congress...
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Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars. By the Maya mythological tradition, as documented in Colonial Yucatec...
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Aztecs (/ˈæztɛks/ AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec...
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August 13, 1359, BCE, in Izapa.[citation needed] In the post-classic Aztec calendar the periods of 13 days called a trecena in Spanish (no indigenous word...
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Tōnatiuh (category Aztec gods)
Makes The Day." Tonatiuh was thought to be the central deity on the Aztec calendar stone but is no longer identified as such. In Toltec culture, Tonatiuh...
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The Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of teotl was construed as the supreme god Ometeotl, as well as...
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Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli (category Aztec gods)
morning star. The Annals list his victims according to the days of the Aztec calendar: old people on 1 Alligator; small children on 1 Jaguar, 1 Deer and 1...
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Cipactli (category Aztec calendars)
Aztec divinatory count of 13 X 20 days (the tonalpohualli) and Cipactonal "Sign of Cipactli" was considered to have been the first diviner. In Aztec cosmology...
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Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by...
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Xiuhpōhualli (category Aztec calendars)
[ʃiʍpoːˈwalːi], from xihuitl (“year”) + pōhualli (“count”)) is a 365-day calendar used by the Aztecs and other pre-Columbian Nahua peoples in central Mexico. It is...
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Ochpaniztli (category Aztec calendars)
Ochpaniztli is the Eleventh Month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Toci and Tlazolteotl and is also the...
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according to the Aztec calendar. The date on which the holiday falls in the Gregorian calendar depends on the version of the calendar used,[citation needed]...
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Tōxcatl (category Aztec calendars)
[ˈtoːʃkat͡ɬ]) was the name of the fifth twenty-day month or "veintena" of the Aztec calendar which lasted approximately from the 5th to the 22nd May, and of the...
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media related to Aztec deities. "Aztec Pantheon". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-01. "Aztec Gods or Deities". Aztec Calendar. "Xiuhtecuhtli"...
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common practice in many parts of Mesoamerica. The rite was not new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to...
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Huēhuecoyōtl (category Aztec gods)
patron of uninhibited sexuality and rules over the day sign in the Aztec calendar named cuetzpallin (lizard) and the fourth trecena Xochitl ("flower"...
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Tlaxochimaco (category Aztec calendars)
the name of the ninth Month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion, dedicated to the Aztec God of War Huitzilopochtli. It is...
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New Fire ceremony (category Aztec calendars)
an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years—a full cycle of the Aztec “calendar round”—in order to stave off the end of the world. The calendar round...
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Tezcatlipoca (category Aztec gods)
became the deity Tepeyollotl ("Mountainheart"). In one of the two main Aztec calendars (the Tonalpohualli), Tezcatlipoca ruled the trecena 1 Ocelotl ("1 Jaguar");...
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Veintena (category Mesoamerican calendars)
with respect to the 365-day Aztec calendar, the xiuhpohualli, although 20-day periods are also used in the 365-day Maya calendar (the Mayan tun), as well...
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Tōnalpōhualli (category Aztec calendars)
made up of 20 day signs and a 260 day cycle. In Aztec society there were multiple intertwining calendars, the tōnalpōhualli, and the xiuhpōhualli which...
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Tonalamatl (category Aztec calendars)
examples of tonalamatl are the Codex Borbonicus and the Codex Borgia. Aztec calendar León-Portilla (1963) 116-20. Elżbieta., Siarkiewicz (1995). El tiempo...
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Tepeilhuitl (category Aztec calendars)
Tepeilhuitl is the name of the thirteenth month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl and...
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Nēmontēmi (category Aztec calendars)
360 days labeled with numbers and day-names in the main part of the Aztec seasonal calendar. Their location was roughly around 5–18 March every Gregorian year...
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Atemoztli (category Aztec calendars)
Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion dedicated to Tlaloc and Tlaloque. "Atemoztli, the 16th Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar"...
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the underworld (Mictlan). The Tonalamatl (religious calendar) had an impactful role on the Aztec belief system. They believed that the Tonalamatl determined...
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Aztec philosophy was a school of philosophy that developed out of Aztec culture. Aztec cosmology was in some sense dualistic, but exhibited a less common...
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Izcalli (category Aztec calendars)
the name of the eighteenth and last month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion, for which the principal deity is Xiuhtecuhtli...
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Tecuilhuitontli (category Aztec calendars)
Tecuilhuitontli is the name of the Seventh month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion. The principal deity is Xochipilli and feasts...
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