Wind. Ik'ar (Ch'orti'), Iq' (Kiche), Ik' (Yucatek), Ehecatl (Aztec).
This is one of only three sign names that is essentially the same in the three Mayan languages in which the tzolk'in is normally presented. Ik'ar and the related syllable Ik' have numerous meanings in Ch'orti' - Ik'ar meaning wind, breeze, or evil wind. Ik' can mean air or atmosphere. It is likely that Ik' also referred to the void in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. And it's likely that Ik' at one time meant dark and evening, two of its meanings in Yucatec.
Ik' was one of the four founders of the Mesoamerican people and in that contest his name meant Evening (the time when the winds start blowing). Each of the Mayan founders took turn leading the raft flotilla. Ik' two the second hardest shift, the evening shift. Eventually the Ik' lineage settled at the mouth of the Lempa River at a place called Island of Learning or Tehuakan. Because of the quickly rising ocean the Ik' lineage settled in highland Mexico, calling it Tehuakan and eventually became the Zapotecs, Mixtecs and one of the sources of the Nuhuat peoples. The Maya called the Ik' lineage the "wind hunters".
Ik'ar is very similar to aether. Ik'ar is associated with the zodiac signs Gemini and Aquarius. You can hear Ik'ar in Icharus who flew up to the heavens.
The first six days of Ik'ar week at the present are part of the Ajmok-Tojmar-Ikar eclipse period and only solar eclipses with a Saros number of 149 or higher or lunar eclipses with a Saros number of 141 or higher occur in Ik'ar.
1 Ik'ar corresponds to the period in history of 6461 BCE to 6271 BCE in the Mars retrograde long-count calendar.
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