Birth Sign Bonanza: One-Reed
This is the fifth in our series of features on the importance of birth signs in Aztec times. Prepared by Julia Flood, each can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF symbol below.
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Download the 2-page feature on Ce Acatl (original in Publisher) - click on pdf icon
Here's what others have said:
2 At 10.06am on Tuesday December 31 2019, Tecpatl wrote:
Damn! I was born on day Chicuacen Tecpatl! Thanks for this information, Im quickly going to go change my name on Twitter to Chicome Quiahuitl, but could I know more about why Day Seven Rain is lucky, and why is Nine Crocodile so horrible?
Mexicolore replies: This is outlined in Book IV of the Florentine Codex, where we read (Anderson & Dibble translation):-
’They said it [7-Rain] was a good day. Merciful, pitying, and compassionate was the one born precisely upon it. He became fortunate. It was as if his fortune, his deserts, his good luck rained down upon him: as if it sprinkled on or swirled about him...’
(8-Flower, which followed, was also a good day, but then...)
’They feared the one which followed in order - Nine Crocodile.
’This, so they said, was in no way good; it was perverse, full of vice. It accorded one rags and tatters. Nothing could become a remedy or cure for the day which had followed...’
But no explanation is given as to quite WHY these days had these characteristics! Superstition played a huge part in these claims. In general 7 was a ‘lucky’ number and 9 an ‘unlucky’ one. Perhaps it has something do do with the association of these days with the period 1-Reed, which was closely linked to the wind (god). ‘And so they said it was an unfortunate time. He who was then born, whether nobleman or commoner, was of scant merit or deserts. Just as worthless as the wind was his life. It was swept away by the wind...’
1 At 12.57pm on Wednesday September 16 2009, tifongirl wrote:
i would love if you post more of these day signs...they are so cool!