Xiuhpōhualli
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xiuhp-hualli-280-5347329
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Xiuhpōhualli
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The xiuhpōhualli is a 365-day calendar used by the Aztecs and other pre-Columbian Nahua peoples in central Mexico. It is composed of eighteen 20-day "months," which through Spanish usage came to be known as veintenas, with an inauspicious, separate 5-day period at the end of the year called the nēmontēmi. The name given to the 20-day periods in pre-Columbian times is unknown, and though the Nahuatl word for moon or month, mētztli, is sometimes used today to describe them, the sixteenth-century m
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365-day calendar used by the Aztecs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhp%C5%8Dhualli
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2024-03-22T23:13:43Z
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