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  2. Aubin Tonalamatl - Wikipedia

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    The Tonalamatl was painted in the eastern part of the state of Tlaxcala, a region populated by Otomí speakers. [1] Its history during the 16th and 17th century is unknown, but according to the Library of Congress, [2] the Aubin Tonalamatl was part of a collection owned by Lorenzo Boturini Benaducci (1702-51) that was confiscated on his expulsion from New Spain in the mid-1740s.

  3. Tonalamatl - Wikipedia

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    The tonalamatl [toːnaˈlaːmatɬ] is a divinatory almanac used in central Mexico in the decades, and perhaps centuries, leading up to the 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.

  4. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    It can be divided into three sections: An intricate tonalamatl, or divinatory calendar; documentation of the Mesoamerican 52-year cycle, showing in order the dates of the first days of each of these 52 solar years; and a section of rituals and ceremonies, particularly those that end the 52-year cycle, when the "new fire" must be lit.

  5. Codex Borbonicus - Wikipedia

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    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 tonalpohualli (or 260-day year). 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 ...

  6. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer - Wikipedia

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    As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia Group. It is a divinatory almanac in 17 sections. Its elaboration is typically pre-Columbian: it is made on deerskin parchment folded accordion-style into 23 pages.

  7. Codex Telleriano-Remensis - Wikipedia

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    The second section, spanning pages 8 to 24, is a tonalamatl, describing the 260-day tonalpohualli calendar. The third section is a history, itself divided into two sections which differ stylistically.

  8. Aztec medicine - Wikipedia

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    The Tonalamatl (religious calendar) had an impactful role on the Aztec belief system. They believed that the Tonalamatl determined everything about the individual except their profession. A person's longevity, luck, sickness, and even their name was determined by the month and day they were born.

  9. Itztapaltotec - Wikipedia

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    Itztapaltotec is an obscure figure, known only from tonalamatl (calendars). Brief, confusing information about him is given in two related manuscripts, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis and the Codex Ríos (or Codex Vaticanus A).