%0 Journal Article
%T THE H AH U CALENDAR. AN EPISTEMIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS TO ESTABLISH ITS STRUCTURE
%A D£¿mixi Geraldine Patrick-Encina
%J Ra Ximhai
%D 2011
%I Universidad Aut¨®noma Ind¨ªgena de M¨¦xico
%X This research has been carried out within the framework of a larger, deeper study in course, regarding the conception of time-space order of two cultures of otomangue linguistic filiation: the Maya and the H ah u-Otomi. Two premises have been considered: first, that both civilizations participated in the structuring of the 260 and the 365-day cycles, and that they perpetuated the cycle of 260 days in a synchronic manner, in spite of their geographic separation; second, that the Nahua culture may have introduced certain changes to the H ah u calendar in order to give it a character of its own, and that such changes may have been the slight out-phase of the cycle and the selection of another date for the beginning of the year, which was previous to the H ah u start of the year. Then a comparative study between Mexica and H ah u year-bearers has been done, using as a calendric support the 260-maya cycle Tzolk¡¯in identified throughout the author s research (Patrick, Manuscripts 1-4). Thus, the following aspects have been elucidated: the H ah u-otomi year is structured to follow-up the Moon within the time-frame of an oriented solar year; the cycle of 365 days begins on 29th March (Gregorian date); the day that names the year (or year bearer) is number 359, that is, the penultimate day of the eighteenth twenty-day-month, called Ambuoendaxi in Huichapan Codex, which corresponds to 22nd March, the Spring Equinox; the tradition to celebrate H ah u  New Year  on 19th March in Mexico State may be explained in terms of the transcendence of the Julian calendar date; and the closing of 100 Anuixuii (52-year-cycles) represented in a 100-bead necklace called thebe, most probably occurred in 2006-2007, in the year 1 Anqua or 1-Rabbit.
%K Time-space order
%K Mayan calendar
%K Mexica calendar
%K H ah u calendar
%K Year-bearers
%K D mixi correlation
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