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    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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    The Aztecs (/ˈæztɛks/ AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people...
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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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    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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    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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    common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to...
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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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    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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    Tecpatl (category Aztec mythology and religion)
    the sign of the eighteenth day, the twentieth day of the month of the Aztec calendar and the beginning of one of the twenty trecenas of the tonalpohualli...
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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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    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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    New Fire ceremony (category Aztec calendars)
    an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years—a full cycle of the Azteccalendar round”—in order to stave off the end of the world. The calendar round...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    asteazkena ("week-last", Wednesday). Zerubavel (1989), pp. 50–54. "Aztec calendar stone". aztec-history.com. Zerubavel, Eviatar (1985). The Seven-Day Circle...
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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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    businessman Hubert L. Eaton. A smooth Olmecan head, an intricate Aztec sun calendar and a sinuous Teotihuacan bas relief were some of the sculptural features...
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  • Nahuatl pronunciation). It is the name of one of the day-signs in the Aztec calendar. It may also refer to: Coatl, a character from the 1945 novel, Captain...
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  • calendar, in particular, summarizes its years into groups of 60, while the Aztec calendar considers groups of 52. Look up century in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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    Lords of the Night (category Aztec calendars)
    they ruled over. The lords of the night are known in both the Aztec and Maya calendar, although the specific names of the Maya Night Lords are unknown...
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  • regarded as intercalary. The xiuhpōhualli (year count) system of the Aztec calendar had five intercalary days after the eighteenth and final month, the...
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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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    The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states:...
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    conquest of the Aztec Empire. As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia...
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