Cóatl, serpent
Sign 5 of the twenty in the tonalpohualli. Direction: east. Patron after the Codex Borgia: Chalchiuhtlicue.
The serpent. According to Sahagún, Tenochtitlan fell on the day 1 Cóatl, 13 August 1521; that date anchors the count.
The next Cóatl days
- Tuesday, 3 November 2026: 12 Cóatl
- Monday, 23 November 2026: 6 Cóatl
- Sunday, 13 December 2026: 13 Cóatl
- Saturday, 2 January 2027: 7 Cóatl
In the Maya count: Kan / Chikchan.
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.