Mamalhuaztli

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Mamalhuaztli is a stick.

Etymology and History

Ancient Aztec identified the Orion's Belt as Mamalhuaztli, and it represented the wood sticks used to light the new fire in the commemoration celebrated every 52 years by the Mexicans and their neighbors named toxiuh molpilia which means binding of the years and coincided with the beginning of the new year named xiuhtzitzquilo.[1][2][3]

Mythology

IAU Working Group on Star Names

Reference

  1. ↑ Herbert J. Spinden (1916). The Question of the Zodiac in America. New Series, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1916), pp. 53-80. doi: https://www.jstor.org/stable/660290
  2. ↑ LOS CÓDICES DE MÉXICO pdf
  3. ↑ Códices coloniales de México
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