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Lords of the Day

In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin)[citation needed] are a set of thirteen gods who ruled over a particular number, from one to thirteen. When combined with one of twenty day signs related to natural phenomena, those numbers give the names of the 260 days in the sacred calendar or tonalpohualli, from 1-Dog through 13-Water. They were cyclical, so that the same god ruled over the fate of the day with their number every thirteen days.

According to the 16th-century French manuscript Histoyre du Mechique, each of these gods also corresponded to one of the thirteen heavens. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are:

The Codex Borgia associates a series of birds with each of the gods:

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