Tlaxochimaco

{{Short description|Name of an Aztec festival and month}}

File:Tlaxochimaco,_the_Ninth_Month_of_the_Aztec_Solar_Calendar_WDL6711.png

Tlaxochimaco is the name of the ninth Month of the Aztec calendar. It is also a festival in the Aztec religion, dedicated to the Aztec God of War Huitzilopochtli. It is called the Bestowal or Birth of Flowers.{{cite web | url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/6711/ | title=Tlaxochimaco, the Ninth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar | publisher=World Digital Library | accessdate=21 July 2013}}{{cite book|author=Mark G. Plew|title=Explorations in American Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Wesley R. Hurt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2WMahbVf6oC&pg=PA75|accessdate=21 July 2013|date=1 January 1998|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0-7618-1184-8|pages=75–}}{{cite web | url=http://www.amoxtli.org/cuezali/festivals.html | title=The Aztec Festivals | publisher=www.amoxtli.org | accessdate=24 July 2013 | url-status=usurped | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916191933/http://www.amoxtli.org/cuezali/festivals.html | archivedate=16 September 2015 }}