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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Sunday May 24, 2020 is:

Tonalli:

day

Mahtlactli-once Ozomahtli

11 - Ozomahtli (monkey)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Cipactli

Cipactli (crocodile)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Chicuei Tecpatl

8 - Tecpatl (flint knife)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Itztli

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

13 - Ochpaniztli (XI)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.7.9.11

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso - Nicholson's veintena alignment [adjust])

The significance of this day

Day Ozomahtli (Monkey), known as Chuen in Maya 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-Cipactli (Crocodile) is ruled by Tonacatecuhtli, Lord of Nurturance, the primordial god of creation and fertility. Cipactli is god of the land, the great earth monster, floating on the sea of stars. This is the first trecena of the sacred year. The 13 days of this trecena are governed by the primordial urge to create order out of chaos. The three means by which the Old Ones established order are still our most important treasures: speech, agriculture, and the family. The lineage of thought runs from seed to fruit to seed: these are good days to participate in the community; bad days for solitude.

Aztec facts

Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, often combines two terms to create a metaphoric expression (difrasismo). Examples are 'atl-tepetl' ('water, hill') for the concept of a settlement, or 'atl-tlachinolli' (water, fire) for the concept of war.

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