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Aztec and Maya Calendar

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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Sunday May 29, 2072 is:

Tonalli:

day

Yei Atl

3 - Atl (water)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Mazatl

Mazatl (deer)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Chicuei Tecpatl

8 - Tecpatl (flint knife)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Itztli

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

11 - Teotleco (XII)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.3.0.5.9

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

The significance of this day

Day Atl (Water, known as Muluc in Maya) is governed by Xiuhtecuhtli, God of Fire, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Atl is a day for purification by subjecting oneself to the ordeal of conflict. It is a good day for battle, a bad day for rest. Water brings out the scorpion, who must sting its enemies or else sting itself. Atl is the day of the holy war, which is always a battle with one's own enemies within.

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.

Terrence Howard was born on day 3-Atl.

Aztec facts

The conqueror Hernán Cortés arrived on the eastern shores of the Aztec empire in the year 1-Acatl (1519). It had been predicted that on such a year Quetzalcoatl would return from the east to retake his rightful share of the throne. This belief probably weakend the defense of the Aztecs.

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