[D66] [JD: 13] Zapotec system 65-day unit COCIYO

[R.O.]

(4x65 = 260)


[...] The colonial Zapotec 260-day count had four major subdivisions of 65
days each, called cocijo ̄ (pZap 3 *ko+ se7yu ‘thunder, lightning’, als
meaning “Dios de las lluuias” according to Córdova [1578b: 141r]; also
referred to by Córdova as pitao ̄ ‘god’). Each was composed of five
trecenas, numbered first through fifth (Córdova 1578a: 202, 203–204).
The 65-day unit is referred to in the remainder of this chapter as the
COCIYO . There are parallels to this quadripartite subdivision in pre-
Conquest codices from several Mesoamerican culture areas (Urcid 2001:
90); Michel Oudijk (personal communication to Thomas Smith-Stark,
2005) points out in this connection the appearance of the storm god
with each of the four quarters of the 260-day ritual calendar on page
27 of the Borgia Codex (Anders, Jansen, and García 1993: 167–174).
Only in the Zapotec system, as far as we know, are these subdivisions
enumerated or recognized terminologically.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319700170_The_correlation_of_the_colonial_Northern_Zapotec_calendar_with_European_chronology


  The correlation of the colonial Northern Zapotec calendar with
  European chronology

  * January 2007

  * In book: Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in
    Cultural Astronomy Studies in Honor of Anthony F. Aveni (pp.17-81)
  * Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  * Editors: Clive Ruggles, Gary Urton

  * Project: Mesoamerican calendars
    <https://www.researchgate.net/project/Mesoamerican-calendars>

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