Itzcuintli, dog

Sign 10 of the twenty in the tonalpohualli. Direction: north. Patron after the Codex Borgia: Mictlantecuhtli.

The dog, which by tradition guides the dead on the road to Mictlan.

The next Itzcuintli days

• Sunday, 8 November 2026: 4 Itzcuintli
• Saturday, 28 November 2026: 11 Itzcuintli
• Friday, 18 December 2026: 5 Itzcuintli
• Thursday, 7 January 2027: 12 Itzcuintli

In the Maya count: Tz'i' / Ok.

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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