aztec calendar logo
  • aztec calendar logo Aztec Calendar
  • Introduction
  • Pantheon
  • FAQ
  • Settings
  • About

Aztec and Maya Calendar

/ /

In the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar, Wednesday March 22, 2028 is:

Tonalli: − +

day

Mahtlactli Itzcuintli

10 - Itzcuintli (dog)

Trecena: − +

13-day period

Ce Cipactli

Cipactli (crocodile)

Xihuitl: − +

solar year

Yei Tecpatl

3 - Tecpatl (flint knife)


Yoaltecuhtli:

Lord of the Night

Xiuhtecuhtli

Long Count:

Mayan calendar

13.0.15.8.10

Xiuhpohualli:

365-day calendar

12 - Hueitecuilhuitl (IX)

(Correlation: Alfonso Caso [adjust])

The significance of this day

Aztec facts

In the years after the conquest of Mexico, the xiuhpohualli (solar calendar) became tied to the Julian calendar as used by the Spaniards. This effectively introduced a leap year to the Aztec calendar every four years (this site provides the pre-conquest calendar).

Day Itzcuintli (Dog) is governed by Mictlantecuhtli, God of Death, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Itzcuintli is the guide for the dead, the spirit world's link with the living. Itzcuintli is a good day for funerals and wakes and remembering the dead. It is a good day for being trustworthy, a bad day for trusting others of questionable intent.

The thirteen day period (trecena) that starts with day 1-Cipactli (Crocodile) is ruled by Tonacatecuhtli, Lord of Nurturance, the primordial god of creation and fertility. Cipactli is god of the land, the great earth monster, floating on the sea of stars. This is the first trecena of the sacred year. The 13 days of this trecena are governed by the primordial urge to create order out of chaos. The three means by which the Old Ones established order are still our most important treasures: speech, agriculture, and the family. The lineage of thought runs from seed to fruit to seed: these are good days to participate in the community; bad days for solitude.

This website contains copyrighted material licensed under a Creative Commons License. See the About page.