Cipactli, crocodile
Sign 1 of the twenty in the tonalpohualli. Direction: east. Patron after the Codex Borgia: Tonacatecuhtli.
The first sign. Cipactli is the great earth crocodile; in an old account the gods made the earth from its body.
The next Cipactli days
- Friday, 30 October 2026: 8 Cipactli
- Thursday, 19 November 2026: 2 Cipactli
- Wednesday, 9 December 2026: 9 Cipactli
- Tuesday, 29 December 2026: 3 Cipactli
In the Maya count: Imox / Imix.
The "Aztec horoscopes" that describe the character of each sign are mostly modern: the old sources give no personality profiles by sign. So this page has only what the sources say: the name, its meaning, the direction and the patron, which also varies between the codices.