The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. This 13th trecena was under the auspices of the goddess Tlazolteotl, who is shown on the upper left wearing a flayed skin, giving birth to 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 column along the right side. The Codex Borbonicus is an Aztec codex written by Aztec priests shortly before or after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Like all pre-Columbian codices, it was originally entirely pictorial in nature, although some Spanish descriptions were later added. A trecena is a subdivision used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars, which divides the 260-day calendar into 20 periods of 13 days each. ...
In Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl was an earth, sex, childbirth and a mother goddess. ...
In Aztec mythology, Centeotl (also Centeocihuatl or Cinteotl) was a god of maize (originally a goddess), and a son of Tlazolteotl and husband of Xochiquetzal. ...
The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. ...
first page of the Codex Argenteus A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a handwritten book, in general one produced from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages. ...
The Spanish conquest of Mexico was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. ...
The Codex Borbonicus is a single sheet of amatl "paper". Although there were originally 40 accordion-folded pages, the first two and the last two pages are missing. The codex is now 46.5 feet long. Part of the Huexotzinco Codex, printed on amatl Amatl (from the Nahuatl paper) or Amate (Spanish) is a type of paper developed in Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. ...
Codex Borbonicus can be divided into three sections:
The first section is one of the most intricate surviving divinatory calendars (or tonalamatl). Each page represents one of the 20 trecena (or 13-day periods), in the 260-day year (or tonalpohualli). Most of the page is taken up with a painting of the ruling deity or deities, with the remainder taken up with the 13 day-signs of the trecena and 13 other glyphs and deities. The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. ...
A trecena is a subdivision used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars, which divides the 260-day calendar into 20 periods of 13 days each. ...
The Tonalpohualli,the day-count in English, is the 260 day sacred calendar of early Mesoamericans. ...
With these 26 symbols, the priests were able to create horoscopes and divine the future. The first 18 pages of the codex (all that remain of the original 20) show considerably more wear than the last sections, very likely indicating that these pages were consulted more often.
The second section of the codex documents the Mesoamerican 52 year cycle, showing in order the dates of the first days of each of these 52 solar years. These days are correlated with the nine Lords of the Night, deities associated with the movement of celestial bodies. Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ...
The third section is focused on rituals and ceremonies, particularly those that end the 52 year cycle, when the "new fire" must be lit. This section is unfinished.
See also The Aztec calendar was the calendar of the Aztec people of Pre-Columbian Mexico. ...
Quetzalcoatl in human form, using the symbols of Ehecatl, from the Codex Borgia. ...
Aztec codices (singular codex) are books written by pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial era Aztecs. ...
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