4 Ix, 4th day in the 13-day M'ax (Monkey) Week
4 Ix (in Chorti', Quiche, and Yucatec Maya) - Mother earth. Glyph of earth god. Ix is a female god spirit in Chorti and refers to being split open (i.e. corn). Ix is the only day sign which is shared in Chorti', Quiche, and Yucatec Maya, which shows how old it is. These languages were split apart by 1500 BC if not earlier.
4 Ocelotl (Aztec) - Jaguar
Direction: North (North signs refer to the oldest dieties, i.e. from the 'first age' of human beings.)
Note: The earth sign ix became associated with the jaguar after the pellegra crisis, the period in which there was an epidemic of niacin deficiency which came from relying too much on corn in the diet. Corn came from Mother Earth. Pellegra causes the body to become lesioned with spots like a jaguar and eventually is deadly. This was resolved when nixtamalization (which means, 'ridding the corn of ix') was discovered.
Monkey Week: This 13 day week will often have an eclipse every other tzolkin year. If it happens early in the week it may be a full or partial eclipse but if it happens late in the week it is penumbral (minimal), since we are nearing the end of the eclipse period. Monkey is also the only week of the tzolkin where Mars is always retrograde (for at least several hundred years), every third tzolkin (Mars has a 780 day cycle - three tzolkins). Mars is retrograde now. And will be again three Monkey weeks from now. On the next Monkey week (260 days), Mars will be an evening 'star' almost to disappear from the sky. On the Monkey week following that, Mars will be a morning 'star' having recently appeared in the eastern sky before dawn.Acajutla High Tides: 5:39 AM and 6:06 PM
Semi-diurnal
Tide
range (Difference in High/Low Tides):
1.60 meters average; neither increasing or decreasing. Generally the tide range would be increasing or decreasing during this portion of the week, but since it is an eclipse period it will stagnate at times. The Mayans would have known this by 200 BC.
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