[Aztlan] Importance of the Pleiades

[D. M. Urquidi]

Folks;

So with this following we have an enigma:

> Pleiades. In Sahagun’s Florentine Codex
> (1950-1982:143-144) the indigenous
> informant writes about the Aztec New Fire Ceremony,
> one that ends and begins
> the 52-year calendar cycle.  Regarding the night sky
> and its center, he writes,
> “These are representations of the Pleiades which
> mark the 5th cardinal point. At
> the beginning of a period of 52 years, fire was
> newly kindled when the Pleiades
> were in the zenith at midnight.”

If the Pleiades are important during the AztecNew FIre
Ceremony and are in the zenith at midnight, where are
the Cabrillas that rise at 3 am in the morning? 
Granted the three oclock time may be erroneous, but if
Sahagun's wrote both, and the hours are different, why
did he write so inaccuratelly.  And although you give
the page numbers, which of the books of the Florentine
is the 12 midnight mentioned and which chapter of the
book. . .  assuming that the books are identified  in
the Florientine as it is in my four volumes of text
only.

As for the Madrid, if it all starts at page 112 and
ends at page 1 (all the figures that span various
pages are moving to the left next page, not to the
right next page), how accurate is the calendar that is
found there. And that includes the four serpent
versions with day names.

Dea


D. M. Urquidi
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