- 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...
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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....
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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...
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celebrated from 12
February until 3 March.
Dedicated to the Tlaloque, this
veintena involved the
sacrifice of
children on
sacred mountaintops, like
Cerro Tláloc...
- 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...
- and
Avanza Pais (Forward Country) "El caos se
apodera de Perú, con una
veintena de
muertos y una
presidenta en la
cuerda floja". Público. 17
December 2022...
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These French words have
synonymous cognates in Spanish: docena, quincena,
veintena, centena, etc.
English dozen,
French douzaine,
Catalan dotzena, Portuguese...
- for year
names In the post-classic
Aztec calendar the 20 days
called veintenas in
Spanish and meztli,
meaning moon, in Nahuatl, were also important....
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Eleventh veintena of the xiuhpōhualli...
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Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. — Burr
Cartwright Brundage Quecholli, the 14th
veintena, the 20-day
Aztec month (November 19th
Julian calendar,
November 29th Gregorian...
