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  2. Aztec calendar - Wikipedia

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    Jaguar, 2. Eagle, and so on, as the days immediately following 13. Reed. This cycle of number and day signs would continue similarly until the 20th week, which would start on 1. Rabbit, and end on 13. Flower. It would take a full 260 days (13×20) for the two cycles (of twenty day signs, and thirteen numbers) to realign and repeat the sequence ...

  3. Codex Borbonicus - Wikipedia

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    The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. This 13th trecena was under the auspices of the goddess Tlazolteotl, who is shown on the upper left wearing a flayed skin, giving birth to Cinteotl. The 13 day-signs of this trecena, starting with 1 Earthquake, 2 Flint/Knife, 3 Rain, etc., are ...

  4. Trecena - Wikipedia

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    The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. This 13th trecena was under the auspices of the goddess Tlazolteotl, who is shown on the upper left wearing a flayed skin, giving birth to Cinteotl. The 13 day-signs of this trecena, starting with 1 Earthquake, 2 Flint/Knife, 3 Rain, etc., are ...

  5. Lords of the Day - Wikipedia

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    In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin) [citation needed] are a set of thirteen gods that ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens. [citation needed] They were cyclical, so that the same god recurred every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are [1]

  6. Nēmontēmi - Wikipedia

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    According to Tunnicliffe (1979) [4] the Aztecs dealt with the remaining fractional-day discrepancy with the true tropical year length by adding a trecena (13 days) after each bundle of 52 years. The 13 days were not considered unlucky, but they were not labeled using the count (numbers and symbol) combinations used for the rest of the Aztec ...

  7. Tonalamatl - Wikipedia

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    The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. This 13th trecena was under the auspices of the goddess Tlazolteotl, who is shown on the upper left wearing a flayed skin, giving birth to Cinteotl. The 13 day-signs of this trecena, starting with 1 Earthquake, 2 Flint/Knife, 3 Rain, etc., are ...

  8. Mesoamerican calendars - Wikipedia

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    In the post-classic Aztec calendar, there were 13 Lords of the Day. These were gods (and goddesses) who each represented one of the 13 days in the trecenas of the 260-day calendar. The same god always represented the same day. Quetzalcohuatl (The feathered serpent), for example, always accompanied the 9th day. [citation needed]

  9. Tōnalpōhualli - Wikipedia

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    The five relates to the juncture of the day, it comes after day 4 and before day 6 in this specific 13 day cycle. [4] The 13 day cycles are subdivisions of the larger 260 day calendar, and they pertain to different rituals and times of the year. [6] The order of the days related to all aspects of life, they dictated when was the right time to ...