Panquetzaliztli (Raising of Banners) was the veintena festival dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, held around the winter solstice and marked by the raising of paper banners, ritual foot races reenacting the god's birth and defeat of his sister Coyolxauhqui, and the making and ritual consumption of an image of the god formed from amaranth dough (tzoalli).
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Calendar SystemAztec solar year (xiuhpohualli) 1 Its own record calls it "the veintena festival," the twenty-day-month system this enum value names. Date RuleAround the winter solstice, one of the eighteen fixed veintena (twenty-day month) festivals of the Aztec solar calendar. 1 Fixed or MovableFixed date in its own calendar 1 Observance
Observance Type Observance TypeVeneration of a deity or holy figure 1 Connections
Associated With
This source names Coyolxauhqui directly: "god's birth and defeat of his sister Coyolxauhqui, and the making and ritual consumption of an image of the god formed from amaranth dough (tzoalli)."
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Belongs to Tradition
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Follows Calendar
Originated In
Source Panquetzaliztli (Wikipedia)
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1. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain
Bernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, School of American Research and University of Utah Press, 1950Book 2, the ceremonies of the veintenas, PanquetzaliztliView the Source Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar
Diego Duran; translated by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971on the veintena calendar and Huitzilopochtli's festival
Panquetzaliztli (Wikipedia)
Originated In: Mexico, LeadQuote, Originated In: Mexico, Lead
is the name of the fifteenth month of the Aztec calendar
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