Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Physical Attributes Facet
3. Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name)
4. [attributes and properties by specific type]
5. form attributes
6. size/dimensions
7. [size/dimensions by unit]
8. size/dimension units for duration
9. months
10. [months for Nahua calendar]

Narrower term/s

• [veintenas for xiuhpohualli] (Nahua calendar)
• Atlcahualo (veintena)
• Tlacaxipehualiztli (veintena)
• Tozoztontli (veintena)
• Huey Tozoztli (veintena)
• Toxcatl (veintena)
• Etzalcualiztli (veintena)
• Tecuilhuitontli (veintena)
• Huey Tecuilhuitl (veintena)
• Miccailhuitontli (veintena)
• Xocotl Huetzi (veintena)
• Ochpaniztli (veintena)
• Teotl Ehco (veintena)
• Tepeilhuitl (veintena)
• Quecholli (veintena)
• Panquetzaliztli (veintena)
• Atemoztli (veintena)
• Tititl (veintena)
• Izcalli (veintena)

Anotations

Scope note:

Periods of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars comprising 20 days, not coordinated with the lunar cycle. The term is most frequently used with respect to the 365-day Aztec calendar, the xiuhpohualli, although 20-day periods are also used in the 365-day Maya calendar (the Mayan tun), as well as by other Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Zapotec and Mixtec. A period of twenty-days in the xiuhpohualli or Nahua solar calendar. A period of twenty days in the xiuhpohualli or Nahua solar calendar.