"The Course, the Route." B'i'r (Ch'orti'), E (Quiche), Eb (Yucatec), Malinalli (Nahuat-Aztec)
Using a GMT correlation of -95, the 13 day week of B'i'r begins today. In the Wisdom Ch'orti' dictionary B'i'r is spelled "Bihir". B'i'r is the itinerary, the circuit, the path, the road, the way. It
refers especially to the treacherous course by water through islands, rocks, and steep cliffs as the Maya sailed to various parts of the world, such as the Straits of Magellan or the Caribbean islands. The left-hand part of the Mayan glyph for this day depicts the water path around a jutting peninsula. The Quiche name for this day, "E" would be "tooth" in Ch'orti', where teeth symbolize the sharp points and islands that the Maya encountered while sailing. A related word in Ch'orti' would seem to be eht which is "trial" or "test". The Aztec name which means "twisted" also refers to the twisted course that they often needed to take through close straits and islands. The Aztec glyph appears to be a reed sailboat.
B'i'r has to do with maps, with navigation, with creating itineraries, with stories of journeys passed down through the generations, with solving hard problems, with finding a way out of seemingly intractible situations. B'i'r is twisted; it is a trial, a sharp tooth that gets in our way, a "beer" at the end of a journey.
B'i'r is in between B'atz and B'ahk' in the tzolk'in which illustrates what the Maya provided on their courses on the ocean - their civil engineering capacity of B'atz and their cultivation knowledge of B'ahk'.
In the Mars retrograde long-count calendar this day corresponds to 2973 BCE.
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