Veintenas
Ochpaniztli
Veintenas
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Origin 1200 to 1521
The eleventh veintena, the sweeping, dedicated to Toci, Our Grandmother, and to the earth and purification goddess Tlazolteotl. Ritual sweeping of houses and roads preceded a woman's sacrifice, her skin then worn by a priest impersonating Toci, in rites Sahagun's informants tie to the maize harvest.
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Origin Period Origin PeriodLate Postclassic Period, the Aztec Triple Alliance, kept in living informant memory through Sahagun's mid sixteenth century interviews. 1 Place of OriginCentral Mexico, the Basin of Mexico and the wider Nahuatl speaking highlands under the Aztec Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan. 1 Origin of the NameThe Nahuatl name recorded here, Ochpaniztli, follows the spelling given by Sahagun's informants and set down in the Florentine Codex by Spanish trained scribes; other colonial sources and modern transliterations spell it differently. 2 Disputed
Approximate Gregorian SpanLate August into early September 1 Scholars have proposed several correlations between the xiuhpohualli year and the Gregorian calendar. The month range given here follows one widely reproduced reconstruction and is offered for relative placement only, not as a settled date: the 365 day count carried no intercalated leap day, so its alignment with the solar year is understood to have drifted across the centuries of its use, and colonial era testimony was recorded decades after the practice had ended. Attributions
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Principal FestivalThe sweeping rite and the sacrifice and flaying of Toci's impersonator 2 Meaning
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Standing as a Comparative CategoryA standard analytic category in the study of religion 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Ochpaniztli's ruling deity is recorded as Toci and Tlazolteotl; Toci has no live entity yet.
Toci, Deities Ochpaniztli's ruling deity is recorded as Toci and Tlazolteotl.
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