5 Sih Mauhn, 5th day in the 13-day M'ax (Monkey) Week
5 Sih Mauhn (Chorti'): Black hawk. Glyph of a skull.
5 Tz'ikin (Quiche): Funeral festival.
5 Men (Yucatec): To do.
5 Cuauhtli (Aztec): Eagle
Direction: West
Note: The Quiche and Yucatec names were confused over time with the sound of the Chorti day sign. The black hawk or eagle was the one that brought the serpent out of the sea and mixed its blood with that of a tapir and corn dough to make the first humans, in the Popol Vuh creation story.
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: 6:15 AM and 6:41 PM
Semi-diurnal Tide range (Difference in High/Low Tides): 1.53 meters average and decreasing
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