Aztec and Maya Calendar

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The Aztec, Maya and most other mesoamerican people used the same 260-day calendar with an identical correlation. So the Aztec date 1-Cipactli corresponds to 1-Imix for the Maya, etcetera.

In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, this day (Sunday, February 10, 2013) is:

Tonalli: day	Trecena: 13-day period	Xihuitl: solar year



3 - Ozomahtli (monkey)	1 - Atl (water)	1 - Calli (house)

Yoaltecuhtli: Lord of the Night	Xiuhpohualli: 365-day calendar	Long Count: (Mayan calendar)

Centeotl	8 - Etzcualiztli (VII)	13.0.0.2.11

The significance of this day

Day Ozomahtli (Monkey) is governed by Xochipili, the Flower Prince, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Ozomahtli is a day for creating, for play, for celebrating. A good day for lightheartedness, a bad day for seriousness. Ozomahtli is a warning about how easily the noble person can be trapped by the lures of public life.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Atl (Water) is ruled by Chalchihuihtotolin. These are 13 days of instability and unexpected events, of accidents and coincidences: these are good days to gamble a little on a long-shot; bad days to gamble a lot on a sure thing. Every day rollercoasters between all-good and all-bad, between rapture and terror. This trecena advises the priest-warrior to perfect the art of shapeshifting: only by mimicking the nature of water do we become an agent of change rather than a target of it. The purified heart casts no reflection in the smoking mirror.

Aztec and Maya Calendar

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Tonalli:

Trecena:

Xihuitl:

Yoaltecuhtli:

Xiuhpohualli:

Long Count:

The significance of this day