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THE INSURGENCE of CHAN SANTA CRUZ

APPENDIX!

DAY SIGNS of the MAYAN CALENDAR

	*imix*	A sign of the beginnings of things; often translated to mean the wind before Creation. (In parts of Central America, however, it is the eleventh sign.)
	ik	A sign often interpreted as breath - that is, an action by the Creator upon matter with the result being the germination of life.
	*akbal*	A sign of night and darkness; consequently associated with the womb, the prenatal state.
	*kan*	Associated with the lizard, it is a sign of youth in both its exuberance and ignorance... among nations, a sign of Juventud.
	*chichan*	A sign of the snake that sheds its skin many times before dying... it is, consequently, associated with age and experience.
	*cimi*	The death sign. Its situation implied that the Maya viewed life as only the first stage of the soul-journey.
	*manik*	Following death, this is the sign of descent into the Underworld - often represented by a deer, sometimes by a hand, sinking beneath the waves.
	*lamat*	Another animal sign, this of a rabbit... sometimes other rodents... symbols of fecundity.
	*muluc*	A fish or water sign - some interpretations from Central America, not unlike contemporary Christians, view it as a sign of religious devotion.
	oc	Sign of the dog (visible on the glyph), it has been associated with the animal nature - sexuality for its own sake as differentiated from lamat's procreativity.
	*chuen*	Associated with the monkey... a sign of creativity, especially in the arts and sciences (among the Maya, science and religion were closely correlated)
	eb	A sign associated with a road or, especially, bridge... often viewed in the context of the soul's journey through the Underworld.
	*ben*	A sign of reeds or grass that is often symbolic of a ladder, a means of climbing upwards through the World Tree from the Underworld to the sky.
	ix	The tiger - a sign of powerful sorcerers whose domain is the Overworld (whose stars mirror a spotted jaguar's hide).
	*men*	The muan bird, sometimes a quetzal or owl... that which takes flight from the earth.
	*cib*	A sign of the vulture or other scavenger bird - eaters of the soul-carrion that, in Asia, might be called karma.
	*caban*	A sign associated with beeswax, hence, a heaping up of flowing substances, often sexual... where mountains exist it is the volcano's sign.
	*eznab*	Flint - more specifically, the sacrificial knife with which hearts were removed and offered up, hence, the paraphernalia of religion.
	*cauac*	The flood sign - a magnification of its opposite, muluc, a sweeping away by water preparatory to...
	*ahau*	The sign of revolutions and the end. All cycles terminated, kings are overthrown and, every 5,124 years, an old world passes and a new one is generated at 4 ahau. The next great revolution… sometime misread as apocalypse but, in fact, a revolution of the spirit occurred on the winter solstice, 2012.