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- A veintena is the Spanish-derived name for a 20-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars. The division is often casually referred to as...
- commonly known as a veintena. Each 20-day period started on ****ctli (Crocodile) for which a festival was held. The eighteen veintena are listed below....
- eighteen 20-day "months," which through Spanish usage came to be known as veintenas (“scores, groups of twenty”), with an inau****ious, separate 5-day period...
- Eleventh veintena of the xiuhpōhualli...
- These French words have synonymous cognates in Spanish: docena, quincena, veintena, centena, etc. English dozen, French douzaine, Catalan dotzena, Portuguese...
- were veintena. Veintena can be approximated as months, however, they are more aptly described as 20-day public ceremony periods. Each 20-day veintena was...
- Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. — Burr Cartwright Brundage Quecholli, the 14th veintena, the 20-day Aztec month (November 19th Julian calendar, November 29th Gregorian...
- Eighteenth and last veintena of the xiuhpōhualli...
- (casi) todo". Clarin (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-02. Traducida a una veintena de idiomas –entre los últimos, al guaraní, el hebreo y el armenio–, con...
- celebrated from 12 February until 3 March. Dedicated to the Tlaloque, this veintena involved the sacrifice of children on sacred mountaintops, like Cerro Tláloc...