5 Ix, 5th day in the 13-day Tzi' (Dog) Week
5 Ix, (Ch'orti'/Quiche/Yucatec): Mother Earth. Glyph of earth god or corn.
5 Ocelotl (Aztec): Jaguar
Direction: North
Note: Ix is a female god spirit or earth spirit in Ch'orti and refers to being split open (i.e. corn). 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.
Tzi' Week: In this hemisphere, dogs accompanied and guided early people from the north as the only domesticated animal - the earliest companion to humans. Tzi' also represents Sirius, the dog (guide) star. When Venus is not visible it is the brightest object in sky, aside from the sun and moon. Tracking Sirius through the elliptic the Mayans were able to predict precession of the solar system through the galactic elliptic. This is, in part, how the Mayans were able to set their calendar to end one cycle and begin a new cycle in December 2012. Today, Sirius disappears from the sky in April and reappears in the early morning sky in June in Central America. Its reappearance would have been an indicator to plant, just after the rainy season had started.
Ix in Tzi': These signs celebrate Mother Earth and the stars in the sky and thus celebrate the dream of people of flying, of journeying to the planets and stars, guided by our science which we learned through careful observation of the patterns on earth and patterns in the sky, such as the Dog Star, Sirius.
Acajutla High Tides: 2:49 AM and 3:21 PMSemi-diurnal Tide range (Difference in High/Low Tides): 2.27 meters average and increasing. Another good night for fishing with a nearly a full moon.
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