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Aztec and Maya Calendar

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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Wednesday December 3, 2025 is:

Tonalli:

day

Ome Itzcuintli

2 - Itzcuintli (dog)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Atl

Atl (water)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Ce Tochtli

1 - Tochtli (rabbit)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Piltzintecuhtli

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

2 - Tozoztontli (III)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.13.2.10

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

The significance of this day

Day Itzcuintli (Dog, known as Oc in Maya) is governed by Mictlantecuhtli, God of Death, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Itzcuintli is the guide for the dead, the spirit world's link with the living. Itzcuintli is a good day for funerals and wakes and remembering the dead. It is a good day for being trustworthy, a bad day for trusting others of questionable intent.

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 facts

Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital was captured by Hernán Cortés on August 13, 1521 (day 1-Coatl). This date, as recorded by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, provides an anchor for the correlation of the calendar.

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