13 Sih Muahn, 13th day in the 13-day Akbar (Night) Week
13 Sih Muahn (Chorti'): Black hawk. Glyph of a skull.
13 Tz'ikin (Quiche): Funeral festival
13 Men (Yucatec): To do
13 Cuauhtli (Aztec): Eagle
Direction: West
Note: The Quiche and Yucatec names appear to have become confused over time with the sound of the Chorti day sign. The black hawk or eagle was the creature that brought the serpent out of the sea or lake and mixed its blood with that of a tapir and corn dough (masa) to make the first Mayans, in the Popol Vuh creation story. The tapir (cimin) symbolizes those that ruled the cave that the Mayans escaped from. The serpent (chan) was brought out of the lake by the sih muahn and placed around a crater lake (Coatepeque) to make a rainbow (makchan) that protected the first Mayan people.
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.
Acajutla High Tides: 6:46 AM and 7:10 PMSemi-diurnal Tide range (Difference in High/Low Tides): 1.54 meters average and decreasing.
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