12 Ix, 12th day in the 13-day Akbar (Night) Week
12 Ix, (Ch'orti'/Quiche/Yucatec): Mother Earth. Glyph of earth god or corn.
12 Ocelotl (Aztec): Jaguar
Direction: North
Note: Ix (pronounced 'ish') is a female god spirit or earth spirit in Ch'orti and refers to being split open (i.e. corn beginning to grow). Ix is the only day sign which is shared in Ch'orti', Quiche, and Yucatec Maya, which shows how old it is. These languages took different courses by 1500 BC if not earlier. 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. It is time to rid this day sign of its spots and return Mother Earth to its rightful place.
Akbar Week: Balam Akbar or Night Jaguar was one of the four leaders that founded the Mayan-Mesoamerican civilizations. The nation that he founded was also called the Greathouses, possibly due to the large or long houses that they lived in. The Greathouses lived near the ocean on El Salvador's eastern coast and became a great sailing people. Most of the great Mesoamerican peoples, other than the Mayans, come from the Balam Akbar lineage.
Ix in Akbar Week: The great founders, including Balam Akbar, taught great reverence for the earth and to always give back a little to ix, Mother Earth.
Acajutla High Tides: 6:02 AM and 6:24 PMSemi-diurnal Tide range (Difference in High/Low Tides): 1.63 meters average and decreasing.
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