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The 365-day xiuhpohualli consisted of 18 twenty-day "months" (or veintenas), plus an additional 5 days at the end of the year. Some descriptions of the Aztec calendar state that it also included a leap day which allowed the calendar cycle to remain aligned with the same agrarian cycles year after year.
Xilonen, the goddess of maize, changed sex over the course of the growing season, turning into Centeotl, the Maize Lord. [13] Maize in its early stages was slender with long hair and had milky kernels whose shapes reminded the Mexica of breasts, all suggestive of a woman's body, while maize in its later stages is hard, erect, and phallic shaped ...
tēcuilhuitōntli (“lesser feast day”) Jun 29–Jul 18 Jun 02–Jun 21 Huixtocihuatl: 8: huēyi tēcuilhuitōntli (“greater feast day”) Jul 19–Aug 07 Jun 22–Jul 11 Xilonen: 9: tlaxōchimaco (“giving of flowers”) miccāilhuitōntli (“lesser feast day of the dead”) Aug 08–Aug 27 Jul 12–Jul 31 Huitzilopochtli: 10
She is particularly recognized during Huey Tozoztli, the first of sequence of three festivals held in high season marking the harvest. During the festival, her priestesses designate seed corn that is to be planted in the coming season.
Next (higher) Order of the Sacred Tripod: Next (lower) Order of Loyalty and Valour: The Order of the Cloud and Banner (Chinese: 雲麾勳章/ ...
The female equivalent of Xipe Totec was the goddess Xilonen-Chicomecoatl. [7] Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. [8] He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is often depicted as being red beneath the flayed ...
[22] Immediately after he died a new victim for the next year's ceremony was chosen. Tezcatlipoca was also honoured during the ceremony of the ninth month, when the Miccailhuitontli "Little Feast of the Dead" was celebrated to honour the dead, as well as during the Panquetzaliztli "Raising of Banners" ceremony in the 15th month.
It was one of the lower five banners. According to the general annals of the Eight Banners, the Bordered Blue Banner was one of the banners located on the south right wing (Blue banners are located southward, the Plain Blue Banner being on the south left wing). [1] This banner was commanded by Prince Zheng, the lineage of Šurhaci and his son ...