Definition of Trecenas. Meaning of Trecenas. Synonyms of Trecenas

- A trecena is a 13-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars. The 260-day calendar (the tonalpohualli) was divided into 20 trecenas. Trecena...
- Each trecena is named according to the calendar date of the first day of the 13 days in that trecena. In addition, each of the twenty trecenas in the...
- tōnalpōhualli as aforementioned consists of twenty different day signs or Trecenas, which in almost all representations are accompanied with a glyph depicting...
- which were known as trecenas in Spanish, which some chroniclers considered equivalent to w****s in the Gregorian calendar. Each trecena is named after its...
- were gods (and goddesses) who each represented one of the 13 days in the trecenas of the 260-day calendar. The same god always represented the same day....
- consisted of 20 trecena of 13 days each. Each page of a tonalamatl represented one trecena, and was adorned with a painting of that trecena's reigning deity...
- Tepeyollotl rules over both the third day, Calli (house), and the third trecena, 1-Mazatl (deer). The word is derived as a compound of the Nahuatl words...
- the thirteen Lords of the Day, representing the 12th day of the Aztec trecena. Tla****zcalpantecuhtli plays a significant role in the creation of Tonatiuh...
- ****ociation of four sister deities. Tlazōlteōtl is the deity for the 13th trecena of the sacred 260-day calendar Tōnalpōhualli, the one beginning with the...
- the month of the Aztec calendar and the beginning of one of the twenty trecenas of the tonalpohualli. The Tecpatl knife was traditionally used for human...