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Aztec and Maya Calendar

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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Wednesday January 8, 1947 is:

Tonalli:

day

Nahui Ozomahtli

4 - Ozomahtli (monkey)

Trecena:

13-day period

Ce Tochtli

Tochtli (rabbit)

Xihuitl:

solar year

Mahtlactli-omei Acatl

13 - Acatl (reed)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Tepeyollotl

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

18 - Tozoztontli (III)

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

12.16.13.1.11

(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-Tochtli (Rabbit) is ruled by Xiuhtecuhtli, Lord of the Year. Tochtli is the last trecena of the sacred year. It signifies the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one. These are 13 days associated with the mystical sacrifice proper to the vanguard of another age: it is an auspicious time, one great workers united in their goals; it is also a dangerous time, one of great risks requiring great courage and diligence. These days remind us of the old god, the first god, who both separates and unites the worlds of dreaming and waking: somewhere between winter and spring, something wakes in the dreaming heart which endures across the span of the cycling ages. These are good days to focus on the needs of others; bad days to focus on one's own needs.

David Bowie was born on day 4-Ozomahtli.

Aztec facts

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.

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