Tonalamatl
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tonalamatl-269-9219477
title:
Tonalamatl
text:
The tonalamatl is a divinatory almanac used in central Mexico in the decades, and perhaps centuries, leading up to the Spanish conquest. The word itself is Nahuatl in origin, meaning "pages of days". The tonalamatl was structured around the sacred 260-day year, the tonalpohualli. This 260-day year consisted of 20 trecena of 13 days each. Each page of a tonalamatl represented one trecena, and was adorned with a painting of that trecena's reigning deity and decorated with the 13 day-signs and 13 o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Aztec divinatory almanac
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonalamatl
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date modified:
2021-10-20T21:01:23Z
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13
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