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All things important to the Mesoamerican civilizations were recorded in the Amoxtin, long pieces of amate paper or deer skin that are the prehispanic books.
She holds a knife, symbolic of her act of sacrifice, and the lord opossum carries pulque to the four directions. It will be much more complex, with more figures, but here it is so far.
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The sunlight and warmth bestowed by the Sun of every specific day gives its destiny to those born on each date.
Children are "baptized" in a ceremony in which their tonalli, the spirit that their day of birth had given them, is sealed and established within their body.
The Tonalamatl is a book which describes the Mexica or Aztec calendar, used to foretell the destiny of people, nations and the cosmos itself. The Tonalamatl defines a persons characteristics, personality and destiny according to the day of their birth.
Today is the day 7 eagle in the sacred calendar. The Tomalli, or destiny, of this day, and all who were born on it, is ruled by the eagle. Eagles are associated with Tonatiuh, the sun. like him, they ate celestial warriors who battle the forces of night, chaos and darkness.
Before the dawn of time, Xochiquetzal lived in the garden of Tamoaanchan. Ometeorl asked her not to pick the flowers which grew from the tree ar its center. She greatly desired them, so Huehue coyotl, asked her to pick them. She did and Ometeotl banished her and the other goods.
Pulque is necessary to religious ceremonies, where it is consumed, but also offered to the Teteo and the earth.
It was also drunk by warriors before going to battle, in order to give them bravery, and is therefore associated with valor, sacrifice, and death.
He is born and comes into the world, bringing the properties of pulque with Him. Drinking and drunkenness were viewed in a very different light than they are in the West. Drinking is a sacred activity, in which the drunken state is evidence of possession by a divine being.
Patecatl is the Lord of Pulque, the prehispanic alcoholic beverage, which is the ancestor to tequila and mezcal.