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Tonalpohualli: The Sacred Almanac Of The Mexica

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The tonalpohualli (count of days) was the sacred almanac of the Mexicas. This ritual calendar was registered in the tonalamatl (book of days), a green-fold bark paper or deerskin codex from which a priest (called tonalpouque) cast horoscopes and predicated good and bad days of the cycle. both of the calendars are inter-relate in religion and ceremony, it 's the tonalpohualli that is considered the sacred calendar. The rituals were all divided up among the gods. his solar calendar was inseparable from the Sacred Round, or Sacred Almanac.The formula by which the two calendars were combined meant that no one date would be repeated for a period of 18,980 days. Thus the last day of a solar cycle and the last day of a
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