Aztec and Maya Calendar

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The last New Fire ceremony rituals (performed at the end of a 52-year calendar round or xiuhmolpilli) under Aztec reign were probably held from January 23 to February 4, 1507.

In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, this day (Monday, August 20, 2012) is:

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



11 - Ollin (movement)	1 - Mazatl (deer)	13 - Tecpatl (flint knife)

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

Xiuhtecuhtli	19 - Panquetzaliztli (XVI)	12.19.19.11.17

The significance of this day

Day Ollin (Movement) is governed by Xolotl as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. This is an auspicious day for the active principle, a bad day for the passive principle. Ollin is a day of the purified heart, signifying those moments where human beings may perceive what they are becoming. A good day for transmutation, which arrives like an earthquake that leaves in its wake the ruins of rationality, order and the preconceived.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Mazatl (Deer) is ruled by Tepeyollotl, the Heart of the Mountain, the Jaguar of Night, lord of the animals and darkened caves. Tepeyollotl is Tezcatlipoca disguised in a jaguar hide, whose voice is the echo in the wilderness and whose word is the darkness itself, calls to the heart in the voice of the conch. These are 13 days associated with the hunt: whether one is the hunter or the game, this trecena reminds us that our lives are determined by the act of stalking. The arts of tracking and back-tracking, of spotting and camouflaging, of following tracks and covering tracks, rule our lives to the degree that we master them. These are good days to study the routines of others; bad days to keep to your routines.

Aztec and Maya Calendar

Did you know?

Tonalli:

Trecena:

Xihuitl:

Yoaltecuhtli:

Xiuhpohualli:

Long Count:

The significance of this day