Today in the Mexica Tonalpohualli, also known as the Aztec Calendar
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* If you were born between 12am and before sunrise (Central Time), use the previous Gregorian
day because days in the Azteca/Mexica calendar start at sunrise. For pre-1979 dates, use this spreadsheet: Ruben Ochoa Pre-1979 Dates)
(Correlation: Ruben Ochoa)
The significance of this day
3 Tochtli is a good day. For him then born, that which he ate appeared. It was not apparent nor understandable whence he obtained his reward. So it was said that he was like a rabbit. Without its being apparent, grass, herbs, and maize straw served him as food. Vegetation burst forth over the land, spreading green, fresh, tender, germinating, sending forth shoots, growing green-very green, extending a rich green; a twisted tangle of plants, deep green, matted, growing together, everlasting. Only in grassy fields and swards were the rabbit?s dwelling place, burrow, and grazing place. He lapped and sucked up the dew; with nodding head and nipping tooth he nibbled up his food. Just so was the vassal or man when the time of his sign was 3 Tochtli. It was not apparent how his food appeared, nor known how came his sustenance, his daily ration.(Florentine Codex, Dibble and Anderson, bks4-5, page 37)