1 K'ante', 1st day in the 13-day K'ante' (Madre Cacao) Week
1 K'ante' (Ch'orti): Madre cacao tree (gliricidia)
1 Q'anil (Quiche); 1 Lamat (Yucateca): Glyph of Venus
1 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.
K'ante' is the last week in the traditional 260-day year, culminating with the day 13 S'utz/Ahau.
Astronomy of K'ante' week: Mars appears in the late evening sky as it does every third K'ante' week. During our era of several hundred years, K'ante' week will never have an eclipse, nor will the sun ever be square to the lunar nodes.
Acajutla
High Tides: 2:37 AM and 2:55 PM
Semi-diurnal Tide Range: 1.70
meters
and increasing (distance between high tide and low tide).
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