7 K'ante', 7th day in the 13-day Ik' (the Void) Week
7 K'ante' (Ch'orti): Madre cacao tree (gliricidia)
7 Q'anil (Quiche); 7 Lamat (Yucateca): Glyph of Venus
7 Tochtli (Aztec): Rabbit
Direction: South
Note: The k'an te' (yellow tree) or madre cacao was the ruler over the third regent or the third age, which ended about 3100 BC. The first age was associated with white, the second age with black, the third age with yellow, to be followed by red. In the Popol Vuh, the hero twins Hunahpu and Ixbalamque lured their older brothers to the k'ante' where they fooled them to put an end to their reign over the third age. The k'ante' provided shade for the fragile cacao trees along the Mayan Pacific Coast. The thicker k'ante' branches were used to make wood fences.
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.
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High Tides: 10:45 AM and 11:08 PM
Semi-diurnal Tide Range: 1.47 meters
and increasing
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