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The Thirteen Days of Trecena 14

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The Thirteen Days of Trecena 14

Trecena 14 runs from 1 Itzcuintli through 13 Ehecatl, wind, its span carrying dog, monkey, grass, reed, jaguar, eagle, vulture, movement, flint, rain and flower before closing on the sign that opens Trecena 18 next in the round. Sitting past the count's midpoint in the same stretch as the generally gentler trecenas following the movement week's extremes, this trecena's generosity theme under Xipe Totec continues a run of relatively favourable weeks the tonalpouhque would have pointed to as easier ground than the earlier, harder run through Trecenas 6 to 10.

The wind sign that closes this trecena carries, in its own right, associations with breath, speech and restless motion under its patron Quetzalcoatl in his Ehecatl aspect, a fittingly open ended close to a week whose whole theme concerns wealth and hospitality moving outward from one household to another rather than being hoarded. As with the other nineteen trecenas, the thirteen numbered days here each combine the trecena's general reading, the specific day sign's own character, and the numbered bird patron the Codex Borbonicus records, three layers of meaning a diviner working the tonalamatl had to hold together for any single date a client brought before him.

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