The Thirteen-Day Periods of the Tonalpohualli and the Twenty-Day Periods of the Cempoallapohualli in Codex Mexicanus
Very few are the correlations in pictographic sources between the “count of the days/fates”, tonalpohualli and the count of the twenty day periods cempoallapohualli. Both calendars were closely related since the thirteen days of the first conjugated chronologically with the twenty days of the second...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/77888 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/77888 |
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| Palabra clave: | Calendarios trecenas veintenas nemontemi Códice Mexicanus fiesta principal Calendars thirteen-day periods twenty-day periods Codex Mexicanus main feast |
| Sumario: | Very few are the correlations in pictographic sources between the “count of the days/fates”, tonalpohualli and the count of the twenty day periods cempoallapohualli. Both calendars were closely related since the thirteen days of the first conjugated chronologically with the twenty days of the second, but the space-time frame defined by the beginning and the end of the periods of twenty days is not visually circumscribed in the tonalpohualli. A notable exception is to be found in the Codex Mexicanus, a pictorial miscellany which contains, among other things, two tonalpohualli or more precisely two parts of a single tonalpohualli. In this document, some pictures or alphabetic annotations indicate the specific day of the cempoallapohualli on which the principal feast might have been celebrated. This correlation allows us to deduce, as we will see, the beginning and the end of each twenty-day period. |
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