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	The Electronic Tonalamatl
		The Tonalamatl is a C program that automatically posts important Mexican historical events associated with the current calendar date.
		Tonalamatl is to both commemorate significant events and to generate discussion in the newsgroup soc.culture.mexican.
		Dates are given in the header of the Tonalamatl in standard Gregorian format as well as in calendrical systems of the Aztec, Maya, Zapotec, Otomi and Purepecha.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~rjsalvad/scmfaq/almanac.html (300 words)

	Learn more about Aztec calendar in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The tonalamatl was subdivided in various ways; in some manuscripts each of the twenty 13-day periods, or weeks, is shown separately, together with the figure of a god who was especially associated with the first day, but whose influence was supposed to extend over the whole "week".
		As the days were known by their tonalamatl names, it is obvious that the first 105 days of the year recurred at the end, after the 260-day period.
		Since each "month" consisted of twenty days, and there were twenty day-signs, it is obvious that each month in a given year started with the same sign; but that since the last month was followed by the five unlucky days, each year began with a day-sign five days later than the last.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/az/aztec_calendar.html (4874 words)

	Dictionario General
		The Tonalamatl were books that served as guides for priests.
		Deities associated with the patron god were also painted, as well as their nahuals (animal alter egos) which were birds or other animal forms that the gods could assume.
		The Codex Borbonicus, Codex Borgia and Codex Aubin are examples of the Tonalamatl.
	archaeology.la.asu.edu /tm/pages2/dict.htm (1097 words)

	Aztec calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This period of 260 days constituted the divinatory or ritual calendar, known as tonalpohualli.
		The tonalpohualli was subdivided in various ways; in some manuscripts (known as 'tonalamatl' or 'book of days') each of the twenty 13-day periods, or weeks, is shown separately, together with the figure of a god who was especially associated with the first day, but whose influence was supposed to extend over the whole "week".
		In some manuscripts the tonalpohualli is arranged on a different system: in five long horizontal rows of 52 days each.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aztec_calendar (348 words)

	ashurbanipal.net : About the Mayan Calendar.
		The tonalamatl consists of a sequence of thirteen numerical coefficients cycling in parallel with twenty names, for a total cycle length of 260 days.
		Looking at the detail of the image, the tonalamatl can be thought of as two gears: one with thirteen teeth for the thirteen coefficients, and one with twenty teeth, one for each of the day-names.
		It's important to understand that the tonalamatl is a divinatory calendar; it does not correspond to our months and seasons in any way, and the names of the days should not be taken to imply any correspondence with physical phenomena.
	www.ashurbanipal.net /mayancalendar.php3 (1520 words)

	Public Anthropology
		Since previous scholars had thought that the symbolic representation of the Lords of the Night in the Tonalamatl was of great importance, and did not think that it was possible for the Mayans to formulate a calendar where the last lord, Quiahuitl, was left out, they devised numerous explanations for this apparent irregularity.
		But Bowditch calculates that if one Tonalamatl came to an end in the course of a year, one would be added to the sequence of Lords, and if two Tonalamatls ended in one solar year, two would be added.
		He notes that this is in fact the case, thus he proves that 1) the Tonalamatl was indeed cyclic within a regular solar year, and 2) each cycle began with the same lord, leaving out the ninth.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1900.htm (13791 words)

	ARARA :: issue 2 [Guest Contributor :: Gordon Brotherston]
		In his 1961 catalogue, Nowotny demonstrated how all the chapters allotted to these 284 pages belong to the tonalamatl by depending on its ever-present sets of numbers and signs (9; 13, 20 etc) for their reading order and direction.
		In some cases he also intimated how these chapters relate to the tonalamatl thematically - to the notions of birth, coupling, funeral, behaviour and labour, and other aspects of human time proper to that gestation cycle -, and to the cycles of sun and Venus years named by particular sets of tonalpoualli signs and numbers.
		It is read vertically downward, unlike the tonalamatl chapters in the rest of the screenfold that are read right to left, and it actually runs through the upending between the obverse and the reverse side (pp.38 to 39).
	www2.essex.ac.uk /arthistory/arara/issue_two/paper6.html (6266 words)

	Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy by James Q. Jacobs
		These complexities have been useful in deciphering calendar dates.
		Cycles of 13 and 20 days were combined in the 260 count of days (tzolkin in Maya, tonalamatl in Nahuatl).
		Any day in the tzolkin can be specified by the position of the day in the two simultaneous cycles.
	www.jqjacobs.net /mesoamerica/meso_astro.html (4649 words)

	Library Associates Newsletter Winter 1995
		During the past year the library was fortunate in acquiring a number of books from Loubat's personal library, the gifts of Mr.
		Of the first importance are facsimiles of four early Native American manuscripts: Codex Borgia, Codex Fejérvary-Mayer, Codex Vaticanus B, and (to give it its published title) Das Tonalamatl der Aubin'schen Sammlung.
		In each case, the copies are those presented to Loubat by the editor, Dr. Eduard Seler, whose work Loubat underwrote and who dedicated each volume to his patron.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /advancement/newsletter/37/florimund37.htm (165 words)

	Free-ResearchPapers.com - Aztecs Culture
		supervisory role, for they were expected to read the tonalamatl almanacs to determine the best time for planting and harvesting V.
		They were in charge with preparing the soil, breaking up clods, hoeing(with the coa digging sticks), leveling, setting boundary markers, planting, irrigating, winnowing and storing grain.
		The second kind of farmer were the horticulturists their job was planting of trees, transplanting, crop sequences, rotations and a supervisory role, for they were expected to read the Tonalamatl almanacs to determine the time for planting and harvest.
	www.free-researchpapers.com /dbs/a13/hsz191.shtml (3593 words)

	85.06.02: Mexican Culture Taught Through the Aztec Calendar
		Such animals include the howling monkey, the sign for the day Ozomatli; ocelot, sign of the day Ocelotl; and the blue iguana, sign of the day Quetzpalin.
		The Tonalamatl (Aztec Calendar) probably originated at a very early time in the lowlands among a preMaya people, and with maize, cotton, potterymaking and fundamental religious concepts was among the cultural traits inherited by the later civilizations, both Maya and Mexican (Aztec).
		In other words the Mexicans did not borrow their calendar either directly or indirectly from the Mayas, nor the Mayas from the Mexicans, but both civilizations were coheirs of an earlier culture.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/6/85.06.02.x.html (5051 words)

	Untitled Document
		Your name should be a proud reflection of who you are as a Native person, and reveal certain characteristics about yourself.
		First of all, It is highly recommended that the time and effort be made to travel to Mexiko, find a Tonalpokeh who is able to provide your Tonalamatl and get your Nawatl name from them.
		However, it is entirely understood that not everyone has access, time or money to make this trip happen.
	www.mexika.org /Names.html (530 words)

	Power, arts, spirit define a nation / History of Mexico comes alive through the people who made it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shorris wraps up with a fourth section that also takes its inspiration from Mayan thought.
		In the Tonalamatl, or "Book of Predictions," he suggests adding a "sixth sun" to the Mayan's five sun cycles of history, a new era of building "a nation of autonomous citizens," an equitable mestizaje.
		Especially for those of us living north of the border, his book provides an expansive, creative and nuanced guide to the roots of just such a possible future.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/12/RVGKK8IJ9H1.DTL&type=printable (752 words)

	Definition of tonalamatl - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		tonalamatl is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com.
		For More Information on "tonalamatl" go to Britannica.com
		Now you can take the Eleventh Edition with you anywhere as Franklin's new Speaking Electronic Handheld!
	www.m-w.com /dictionary/tonalamatl (82 words)

	Luna Kafé - Ikue Mori: Labyrinth
		Chambers fizzle away, revealing whole pits of these hypnotizing creatures, tongues flicking, every one of them audible.
		All one tunnel yes, but segmented, like the wings of Quetzalcoatl's feathers, altering like the ever-rotating faces on each panel of the Tonalamatl.
		Levers that click and panels that slide back to reveal...
	www.lunakafe.com /moon67/usny67.php (399 words)

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