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Veintena, the Glossary

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A veintena is the Spanish-derived name for a 20-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Aztec calendar, Bernardino de Sahagún, Diego Durán, Lunar phase, Maya calendar, Mesoamerican calendars, Mixtec, Nēmontēmi, Pre-Columbian era, Tōxcatl, Xiuhpōhualli, Zapotec civilization.

  2. Mesoamerican calendars

Aztec calendar

The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico.

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Bernardino de Sahagún

Bernardino de Sahagún (– 5 February 1590) was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico).

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Diego Durán

Diego Durán (c. 1537 – 1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.

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Lunar phase

A lunar phase or Moon phase is the apparent shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth (because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, the same hemisphere is always facing the Earth).

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Maya calendar

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.

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Mesoamerican calendars

The calendrical systems devised and used by the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, primarily a 260-day year, were used in religious observances and social rituals, such as divination.

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Mixtec

The Mixtecs, or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero.

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Nēmontēmi

In the Aztec (Mexica) culture, the Nahuatl word nēmontēmi refers to a period of five intercalary days inserted between the 360 days labeled with numbers and day-names in the main part of the Aztec seasonal calendar.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Tōxcatl

Toxcatl was the name of the fifth twenty-day month or "veintena" of the Aztec calendar which lasted approximately from the 5th to the 22nd May, and of the festival which was held every year in this month.

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Xiuhpōhualli

The xiuhpōhualli (from (“year”) + (“count”)) is a 365-day calendar used by the Aztecs and other pre-Columbian Nahua peoples in central Mexico. Veintena and xiuhpōhualli are Mesoamerican calendars.

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Zapotec civilization

The Zapotec civilization ("The People"; 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica.

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See also

Mesoamerican calendars

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veintena

Also known as Veintenas.