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In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Monday September 24, 1537 is:

Tonalli: − +

day

Mahtlactli-once Ozomahtli

11 - Ozomahtli (monkey)

Trecena: − +

13-day period

Ce Cipactli

Cipactli (crocodile)

Xihuitl: − +

solar year

Chicuacen Calli

6 - Calli (house)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Itztli

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

11.15.17.15.11

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

8 - Teotleco (XIII)

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso [adjust])

The significance of this day

Aztec facts

In the Mayan Long Count, the 13th b'ak'tun (144.000 day cycle) started on the winter solstice of 2012 (December 21, 2012).

Day Ozomahtli (Monkey) 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.

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