On Jan 29 the trecena of Lamat/ Q'anil began. Lamat is the Yucatec Maya word, and Q'anil is the quiché maya word. There are 12 mayan languages still in use with many more dialects and variation. The most commonly known mayan names for the day glyphs around the world today are the yucatec words. Not only are there the various living languages of the Maya to describe this calendar, but there are also the aztec language words. The meaning and energy trajactory of each glyph is better understood when you get to see the various names for this energy and what this word means in native language. Each day sign or glyph energy is considered to be a living lord, like a person, and cannot be wholely described by their name or any words. Daykeeper calendar shamans are trained to be in relationship with these energies and to receive directly the imparts of guidance on how the energies may manifest as each cycle of the spiral calendar rounds goes up another level, to a faster higher vibrating expression of the basic patterns and codes of creation.
The "Trecena of Abundance" summary is from the Mayan Calendar Portal also MCP on facebook & "Ceremonial Days" below by me.
Trecena of Lamat/Q'anil
Jan 29: 1 Lamat/Q'anil
Jan 30: 2 Muluc/Toj
Jan 31: 3 Oc/Tz'i
Feb 1: 4 Chuen/B'atz'
Feb 2: 5 Eb/E
Feb 3: 6 Ben/Aj
Feb 4: 7 Ix/I'x
Feb 5: 8 Men/Tz'ikin
Feb 6: 9 Cib/Ajmaq
Feb 7: 10 Caban/No'j
Feb 8: 11 Etznab/Tijax
Feb 9: 12 Cauac/Kawoq
Feb 10: 13 Ahau/Ajpu
The Trecena of Abundance
A lush and fertile sign, Lamat, or Q’anil in K’iche’ Maya, brims with the energy of positive growth and abundance. Lamat represents the seed, corn, pride, harvest and food. It is the nagual of all kinds of animal and plant seeds, and the daysign of fertility and harvests, of prosperity and abundance. It signifies corn and its four colors known to the Maya: yellow, white, red and black—which are also the four colors of the twenty daysigns in the Tzolk’in, represented by the four cardinal directions of the globe.
Take these next thirteen days to enjoy and celebrate the abundance in your life, without guilt, without hesitation: celebrate who you are, what you bring to this world and your loved ones, and what your loved ones and the world around you, in turn bring to you.
Let us remember what true abundance really is: it’s not money or fame, and it’s not power or influence. Abundance is life in its breathtaking diversity of forms and colors. Abundance is the unfathomable volumes of sunlight, water, air and nutrients that cycle throughout the biosphere. Abundance is a rich harvest that leaves plenty of fruits, vegetables and grain for the next season or to share with your neighbor. Abundance is an endlessly overflowing fountain of joy, elation and happiness that never dries up and never asks for anything in return. Abundance is that nobility of spirit that keeps no score and no grudges, a spirit completely content and free of toxic emotions and thoughts.
Think about what living an abundant, joyous, fulfilling life really means to you, not what advertisers want it to mean to you, and pursue that—not the plastic idealizations of modern life you see and hear in the media and the Internet. Do not allow the poison of envy, greed, inferiority or inequality to enter the vessels of your soul. Respect your natural merit and worthiness of a full and enriching life.
This Trecena, choose to live in breathtaking abundance.
~ Birgitte Rasine
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Lamat Ceremonial Days: (by Phe)
While the actual original meaning of the Yucatec word Lamat is unknown, the significance is clearly to do with the ripeness and abundance of the growing crop, and the day is said to be good for the corn. The meaning of the quiché word Q'anil is the seed, or germ of the corn and also means life and creation. The aztec word for the day of Lamat, is Tochtli, which means rabbit. A creation myth story, written by Kenneth Johnson is below, on the rabbit in the moon, venus, ecology in her ripeness and being drunk
Feb 3: 6 Ben/Aj - the flow of your energy in fluid response with strong counsel and leadership, by resurrection of nature and preservation of environment. Ceremonies in the gardens & forests with plants & seeds are powerful today.
Feb 4: 7 Ix/I'x - The resonant jaguar shaman - this day is to increase the force of the animals in nature.
Feb 5: 8 Men/Tz'ikin - Reflections of infinite vision, a holographic mirror of connectivity. This is the Men day subsequent to the recent Men trecena in which your path during this coming cycle may have been revealed to you. Ceremonies blessing for abundance, the vision and intuition, and a path of heart and love are powerful today.
Feb 6: 9 Cib/Ajmaq - The highest vibration of the light in consciousness with the wisdom of the elders and the quietude of the owl. It is traditionally the day of forgiveness. Real forgiveness of self & others allows all abundance in this trecena to truly flow.
On the Rabbit as Lamat, Kenneth Johnson tells this story:
"There are other shades of meaning here, too , for the rabbit's heiroglyph is the Mayan symbol for the planet Venus. To the Maya, Venus was not associated with the goddess of love, as it is in western civilisation. Instead, the Maya linked the cycle of Venus with powerful and dynamic events in the world of politics and ecology. The god Lahun-Chan, with whom the Yucatec Maya associated Venus, was a deformed monster who wreaked havoc as he lurched drunkenly through the world of the gods.
This wild drunkenness was strongly associated with the day-sign Rabbit. The rabbit in question would seem to be the "rabbit in the moon"... This mythic rabbit is a cheerful drunk, the companion of Mayahuel, the goddess of drinking. It is in the story of Mayahuel, the Aztec deity who ruled this day-sign, that we can most clearly see its associations with alcohol and general indulgence, as well as with the spirit of growth and vitality, of "ripeness".
Mayahuel, it is said, was a virgin goddess under the protection of the celestial monster or Sky Serpent. Quetzacoatl, in his cosmic form as the god of the wind, stole her from her guardian and fled with her to earth. He became one with her, and the two of them were transformed into a great tree with two branches, a male branch to represent Quetzalcoatl, and a female branch to represent Mayahuel. The Sky Serpent, angered, came with his celestial helpers and attacked the tree that held the spirit of his former ward. The female branch was torn to pieces: Mayahuel was dead. In sorrow, Quetzalcoatl returned to his customary form and buried the bones of the virgin goddess. From her grave sprouted agave or maguey plant from which the liquor known as pulque is brewed.
The story of Mayahuel and Quetzalcoatl is an Aztec version of a myth common all over pre-Columbian America. The story of the goddess who dies, is buried and returns in the form of growing things is fundamental to Native American mythology. It signifies that the earth is regarded as the physical body of the Divine Mother. In many version of the myth it is corn, not agave, that grows from the body of the slain Earth Mother, as corn was the Native American "staff of life".
The story of this Aztec "corn mother" has an esoteric meaning as well. The tree into which Quetzalcoatl and Mayahuel are transformed is yet another symbol for the World Tree standing at the centre of the universe. The World Tree is also within us as the spinal column, which carries the "body lightening" (Coyopa) up and down in its spiral pattern. Other spiritual traditions concerning this life force inform us that the "inner tree" has both a masculine or yang channel (Quetzalcoatl) and a feminine or yin channel (Mayahuel). In this Aztec myth, we see a version of the "fall from grace" - the loss of that original male-female unity which, in spiritual traditions all over the world, is equated with the condition of paradise. "
- Kenneth Johnson "Jaguar Wisdom" (book).
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These Mayan Tzolkin cycles are also posted on the Parallel Perception Forum
where you can also read previous cycles, and an article, "20 naguals of the Tzolkin" written by indigenous Maya Quiché daykeepers, on the energy of the days.
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