2 Akbar in the Mayan-Mesoamerican Calendar

2 Akbar, 2nd day in the 13-day Ik' (the Void) Week
2 Akbar (Ch'orti'): Night (Glyph of razors or jaguar fangs)
2 Aq'ab'al (Quiche) / 2 Ak'bal (Yucatec Maya): Darkness; night
2 Calli (Aztec): House
Direction: West

Note: Today's day sign honors one of the four great ancestors: Balam Akbar or dark jaguar, who 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. This is likely where the Aztec name for this day sign came from. 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.

Ik' Week:  Ik' Balam is the name of one of the first four civilizing humans. Ik's village at the mouth of the Rio Lempa was most likely wiped out in the global flood event of the draining of Lake Agassiz in about 6400 BCE (Before Common Era). Ik' is also the dark spot in the Milky Way, or the Tree of Life, and specifically the center of the galaxy where there appear to be no stars. Also known as the void. Now we know that there is a black hole at this location. When the Mars retrograde cycle happens while aligning with the center of the galaxy, it occurs on the earliest possible date of the tzolkin. This is because of the elongated orbit of Mars being pulled by the densest mass of the galaxy. This allowed the Mayans to predict the exact day of the turning or retrograde motion of Mars. This is also how the Mayans determined the exact center of the galaxy with such accuracy, i.e. when Mars turned retrograde in that spot it would advance the Mars retrograde calendar before expected.

Akbar in Ik' Week: Most of the great sailing nations of the Americas come from these two leaders, with Akbar's family following in the foot-steps, the sail-steps, of Ik' after Ik's family was wiped out in the flood. Let yourself go and trust the ocean currents.

Acajutla High Tides: 5:49 AM and 6:08 PM
Semi-diurnal Tide Range: 1.70 meters and decreasing. Low tide ranges the next seven days lead to poor fishing and crabbing. Concentrate on the fields or take a short trip.