Tonalamatl

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Cinteotl
. The 13 day-signs of this trecena, starting with 1 Earthquake, 2 Flint/Knife, 3 Rain, etc., are shown on the bottom row and the left column.

The tonalamatl

Spanish conquest. The word itself is Nahuatl in origin, meaning "pages of days".[1][2]

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 other glyphs. These day-signs and glyphs were used to cast horoscopes and discern the future.

The best surviving examples of tonalamatl are the Codex Borbonicus and the Codex Borgia.

See also

References

  1. ^ León-Portilla (1963) 116-20.
  2. OCLC 45966622
    .

Bibliography

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