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- Toxcatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈtoːʃkat͡ɬ]) was the name of the fifth twenty-day month or "veintena" of the Aztec calendar which lasted approximately...
- Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the primordial dual deity. His main festival was Toxcatl, which, like most religious festivals of Aztec culture, involved human...
- "The most remarkable festival in connection with Tezcatlipoca was the Toxcatl, held in the fifth month. On the day of this festival, a youth was slain...
- conquest of the Aztec Empire, in which the celebration of the Feast of Toxcatl ended in a m****acre of Aztec elites. While Hernán Cortés was in Tenochtitlan...
- indigenous people. As Cortés approached Tenochtitlan, the Tenochcah celebrated Toxcatl. At this event the most prominent warriors of each altepetl would dance...
- time, the Mexica (Aztecs) began to prepare for the annual festival of Toxcatl in early May, in honor of Tezcatlipoca, otherwise known as the Smoking...
- M****acres in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas: Xaragua, Cholula and Toxcatl, 1503–1519". In Kiernan, Ben; Lemos, T. M.; Taylor, Tristan S. (eds.)....
- fully armed jaguar knights and eagle warriors. During the 20-day month of Toxcatl, a young impersonator of Tezcatlipoca would be sacrificed. Throughout a...
- poverty and slavery. The main rite of Tezcatlipoca's cult took place during Toxcatl, the fifth ritual month. Every year at that time the priest selected a...
-  759–760. ISBN 0-684-81913-9. Quipoloa, J. (2007). "The Aztec Festivals: Toxcatl (Dryness)". The Aztec Gateway. Archived from the original on 16 September...