![]() ![]() Here’s how it looks laid out in the formation of a grid with each of the 13 columns representing a day or a night which are the 7 days and 6 nights of Creation. The 1st column is called the 1st Heaven, The 2nd column is called the 2nd Heaven and so on through the 13th column which is called the 13th Heaven of the Tzolkin round.Įach of the 13 columns called Uinals also represent the 13 Heavens or the 7 days and 6 nights of Creation ~ ![]() The 13 Tones start over, while the glyphs continue through to the 20th before starting again at the first Day Sign, “8 Imix” at the top of the second column. The 14th day is: 1 Ix or 1 Jaguar, which is the 14th glyph. This matching process continues downward through the first or left-most column. The first day of a new Tzolkin round is: 1 Imix / 1 Crocodile (top left in the chart below) moving downward to day two, Day two is: 2 Ik / 2 Wind The Maya name is followed by the English translation: In their writing a zero is symbolized by a glyph that looks like a conch shell) The image below shows how the numbers 1-13 are written: (The Maya are credited to be the first people on Earth to use a Zero. Two bars = 10 (with additional dots added for 11-13)Įach day increases by one, up to the number thirteen, and then starts over again at tone one. One bar = 5, and then dots are added to it for 6 – 9 In the image you see the dots and lines that represent the 13 Tones, in the inner wheel. The outer wheel is the 20 Glyphs or day signs.ġ3 tones x 20 glyphs = 260 Kin (distinct energies) The inside round is the 13 Tones, while the outside round is the 20 Glyphs (also called day signs).Īs the wheels turn, the 13 Tones and 20 Glyphs match up producing a unique energetic signature, each day, for 260 days. Without taking the Tzolkin into consideration, the Mayan calendar becomes a set of numbers disconnected from profound deeper meaning. The Tzolkin, is the hub of all the Mayan calendars which serves to connect and clarify what the true Mayan Calendar actually is. The Tzolkin describes the energies of Creation moving through cycles within cycles, based on a 13:20 ratio that permeates the entire Mayan calendrical system.įor illustration purposes, the 2D graphic below shows what the Tzolkin would look like visually as well as how it functions, as a round-within-a-round… a wheel-within-a-wheel. Only four of these Ancient Mayan books are known to exist today. The Maya used books (made from tree bark) formed with accordion style folding leaves that were an ongoing record keeping system of the ebb and flow of the energies of time, called a “Codex.” All of these books were burned or destroyed during the the Spanish conquest, led by Cortez and Catholic bishops that accompanied him, in 1519 AD. It is actually the Aztec Sun Stone and not a Mayan Calendar. The image you see to just below is often referred to as the Mayan Calendar. Symbols from the Tzolkin are carved into the stonework of the ancient Mayan pyramids and stelea (sculpted stone monuments) but there is not one singular carving that you could call a calendar, per se. The Tzolkin is not a physical object carved in stone. You couldn’t hang it on your wall, or carry it around as a day planner. It isn’t typically what you’d think of when you think “calendar”. ![]() All the other Mayan calendars are synchronized to it. ![]() The Tzolk’in is the oldest of all the Mayan Calendars and is referred to as the Master Calendar. The classical Tzolkin Calendar is one of the most important Mayan calendars for modern people to understand. ![]()
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