#HEAVENLY BODIES CALENDARS FULL#
Thus, when all four names had been used 13 times, one full 52-year cycle had passed. To distinguish between repeating years they were each given one of 13 numbers, e.g. The whole year had a name, one of four possibilities in sequence: Rabbit, Reed, Flint Knife, and House. The nemontemi was a strange period of limbo when nobody dared do anything significant but waited for the renewal of the calendar proper. These still did not ensure a complete solar accuracy (achieved by our leap-year) and so the calendar did eventually slip out of synch with the seasons, which necessitated the moving of festivals and even re-naming of days. There was also an extra period, the nemontemi (literally, 'nameless' days) tagged onto the end of the year which lasted 5 days. Some scholars begin the sequence with Izcalli and so Atlcahualo becomes the second 'month' and so on. Panquetzaliztli– raising of the quetzal-feather banners.Hueytecuilhuitl – great feast of the lords.Tecuilhuitontli – lesser feast of the lords.Etzalqualiztli – eating maize and beans.This calendar was divided into 18 groups of 20 days (each with its own festival). It was this calendar which signified when particular religious ceremonies and festivals should be held. The second Aztec calendar was the xiuhpohualli or 'counting of the years' which was based on a 365-day solar cycle.
The number 260 has multiple significances: it is the approximate human gestation period, the period between the appearance of Venus, and the length of the Mesoamerican agricultural cycle. After all possible combinations of names and numbers had been achieved, 260 days had passed. This meant that each day had both a name and a number (e.g.: 4-Rabbit), with the latter changing as the calendar rotated. The 20-day group ran simultaneously with another group of 13 numbered days (perhaps not coincidentally the Aztec heaven had 13 layers).
cuetzpallin - lizard - Huehuecoyotl - good.cipactli - crocodile - Tonacatecuhtli - good.The calendar was broken down into units (sometimes referred to as trecenas) of 20 days with each day having its own name, symbol, patron deity and augury: It formed a 260-day cycle, in all probability originally based on astronomical observations.
This went back to great antiquity in Mesoamerica, perhaps to the Olmec civilization of the 1st millennium BCE. The Aztecs used a sacred calendar known as the tonalpohualli or 'counting of the days'. Neilsen tells KX News she’s already picked out a charity for next year.Follow us on Youtube! Tonalpohualli – 'Counting of the Days' The money will help Heavens Helpers Soup Kitchen purchase a Dodge Caravan that will be picking up food. I was like hey can I get enough guys to do this and it turned into this monster that’s really cool.” Neilsen says, “I literally sat back and my $20 calendar from Bismarck North Dakota– I mean it was a joke to start off with and a challenge. They presented them with a check for $16,500 this past Saturday.įounder of The Not So Heavenly Bodies Calendar Beth Neilsen says they got enough sponsors for last year’s calendars to order 200 copies and thought she would have some leftover- but that wasn’t the case. They sold around 700 calendars and all that money went to the Heavens Helpers Soup Kitchen. The Not So Heavenly Bodies Calendar exploded not only in our state but all across the country, and this year’s proceeds were just awarded to a local charity.Įxactly 46 states and two countries are who far the calendar has reached.
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