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The Thirteen Days of Trecena 16

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The Thirteen Days of Trecena 16

Trecena 16 runs from 1 Cozcacuauhtli through 13 Tochtli, rabbit, its span carrying vulture, movement, flint, rain, flower, crocodile, wind, house, lizard, serpent and death before closing on the sign that opens Trecena 20, the last of the twenty, immediately after. This trecena's closing day sign, Tochtli, is one of the four year bearers, so the vulture week ends on a date capable of naming an entire solar year in the separate 365 day count, and its position as the second to last trecena in the tonalpohualli places it near the close of a full run through all twenty weeks, a point at which the tonalpouhque's tonalamatl reading would have been approaching its own natural conclusion before restarting at Trecena 1.

The favourable, patient reading this trecena carries under Xolotl's patronage sits just before the count's final trecena, whose own augury of abundance and warning against the pulque gods closes the whole 260 day cycle on a note that mixes plenty with caution, so that the tonalpohualli's last two trecenas together move from patient, gathered wealth toward abundance shadowed by its own excess, a fitting close to the reading a diviner gave a client working through the entire count in sequence.

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