☽︎Sky and Signs

Ehécatl, wind

Sign 2 of the twenty in the tonalpohualli. Direction: north. Patron after the Codex Borgia: Quetzalcóatl.

The wind, a form of Quetzalcóatl, who sweeps the road for the rain. Nahui Ehécatl, 4 Wind, is the name of the second sun on the Sun Stone.

The next Ehécatl days

In the Maya count: Iq' / Ik'.

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.

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