Closing and Beginning of the Otomi Year in the Tudela Codex
New findings reveal how the corpus of codex of the Magliabechiano Group is based on a codex with a clearly Otomi year structure. Lecture given at the II International Congress on Colonial Manuscripts and Codex on March 9, 2022 by Geraldine Patrick Encina.
Thay Ranchero share about the Otomi Cosmovision around the end of the year
Eastern and western horizon calendars for Cuicuilco, an Otomi site
Presentation given at the “Cuicuilco, Ancestral Heritage” Conversation, organized by the Mayor’s Office of Tlalpan on March 8, 2022. It shows how the alignment towards the east for the rising of the Sun behind Papayo Hill on March 23 has the function of closing the 360-day cycle in the Otomi system, while the alignment of the main ramp of the circular base towards March 29, looking at the sunset in the west, has the function of inaugurating the Otomi new year in Anttzâyo. After about twenty days, the rainy season begins, which nourishes the earth, and which in the Otomi worldview must have explained the abundant water that fell down the slopes of Zacatépetl Hill – something that other speakers at the Conversation explained. That is why Cuicuilco was very special, because it connected the feminine, aquatic, fresh aspect that ushered in nighttime with the masculine, dry, hot aspect that ushered in daytime.