"Are you drunk?" "Did you consume something strange?" "Ayahuasca hits hard, huh?" No, no and i don't know, gentlemen, and I haven't tried LSD yet (the one from PSX, I mean)
Between March 11th and 13th (be careful when saying 13 in Spanish...) the Mexihcah (a.k.a. Aztecs) celebrated the New Year, after the five vain days (nemontemi), thus completing a year of 365 days! (yes, that's why it was easy to make a calendar change among the natives)
However, what were people in Mexico doing this time of year back then? Well... Nothing.
Nemontemi are considered days of misfortune. These days, from what I've read, were used for introspection and reflection, about life and other things. Fasting also occurred among some inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, especially among priests, who already fasted during almost the entire Izcalli
(which by the way, like the other 17 "months" of the calendar, the Izcalli lasted twenty days).
And so we begin a new year, ladies and gentlemen. Feliz año!
(Image of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, which occurred on March 13, 1325, about 700 years ago, Codèx Durán)
Between March 11th and 13th (be careful when saying 13 in Spanish...) the Mexihcah (a.k.a. Aztecs) celebrated the New Year, after the five vain days (nemontemi), thus completing a year of 365 days! (yes, that's why it was easy to make a calendar change among the natives)
However, what were people in Mexico doing this time of year back then? Well... Nothing.
Nemontemi are considered days of misfortune. These days, from what I've read, were used for introspection and reflection, about life and other things. Fasting also occurred among some inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, especially among priests, who already fasted during almost the entire Izcalli
(which by the way, like the other 17 "months" of the calendar, the Izcalli lasted twenty days).
And so we begin a new year, ladies and gentlemen. Feliz año!
(Image of the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, which occurred on March 13, 1325, about 700 years ago, Codèx Durán)
