FW: Nahuatl, trecena and veintena

Thu Aug 27 21:40:15 UTC 2009

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Van: Baert Georges [mailto:lahunik.62 at skynet.be] Namens Georges R. Baert
(lahunik.62 at skynet.be)
Verzonden: donderdag 27 augustus 2009 23:31
Aan: 'macehual08 at gmail.com'
Onderwerp: Nahuatl, trecena and veintena

Dear Sir:

The month of 20 days is in Nahuatl: Meztli.

Trecena and veintena, derived from the Spanish trece and viente, are rather
modern terms used by Mesoamericanists.

No friar of the Post-Conquest period used this terms.

The Nahuatl word for trecena was no longer known, neither for the term
veintena.

No record of the veintena survives in a Central Mexican manuscript made
before the Conquest, because it did not play the same role in divination,
that the trecena, as part of the tonalpohualli did. 

Lahun Ik 62

Baert Georges

Flanders Fields

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