Tonalamatl

Baraja Tonalamatl Mexican Aztec playing cards based on the prehispanic Codex Borgia manuscript - “A synthesis of Mesoamerican Cosmogonical, Chronometrical, Astronomical and Mathematical thought”. The cards run from 1 - 13 in each colour, plus 20 violet cards and six extra cards, making a total of 78 cards. See the Box►

Above: cards from Baraja Tonalamatl Mexican Aztec playing cards based on the prehispanic Codex Borgia manuscript, 78 cards in box, unknown publisher / manufacturer, copyright 1985. Because it contains 78 cards it has also been regarded as a tarot deck. The violet cards are numbered from 1 to 20 using the numbers printed in the bottom panel, although the top panels have a completely different order. The unnumbered violet card which has no number could be construed to be the number 0 Fool card from a tarot deck. There are no clues on the box.