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Today in the Mexica Tonalpohualli, also known as the Aztec Calendar

Tonalli*:

day

Trecena:

13-day period

Cempoalilhuitl:

20-day period

Xihuitl:

solar year
 
 

* 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.

(Correlation: Ruben Ochoa)


The significance of this day

All thirteen thus go to their conclusion; because of this, all of the day signs are brought together in one group, beginning with One House, and [then] Two Lizard, Three Serpent, Four Death, Five Deer, Six Rabbit, Seven Water, Eight Dog, Nine Monkey, Ten Grass, Eleven Reed, Twelve Ocelot, Thirteen Eagle. And when all these days had ended, then set in ?(Florentine Codex, Dibble and Anderson, bk 4, page 96)

 

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