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cualli tonalli.

Headword: 
cualli tonalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a good day, a propitious day for doing something in particular (in the Mesoamerican calendar)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 56.

Orthographic Variants: 
qualli tonalli
themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency