B'atz'
nawal 11 of 20 · in Yucatec Maya Chuwen
- Meaningmonkey; thread
- Direction and colour (Yucatec tradition)west, black
Its name comes from 'thread': the thread of time, of people's destiny and of the continuity with the ancestors. On B'atz' a new cycle of 260 days is celebrated and those beginning as ajq'ijab' are presented. People born on this day are said to be sociable, intelligent and respected, good teachers and defenders of others.
After the text of the Komon Tohil group of K'iche' daykeepers (ajq'ijab') of Zunil, Quetzaltenango, published by the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) in “Living Maya Time”.
Other readings
In Momostenango 8 B'atz' is the day of the public initiation of new ajq'ijab'; Tedlock describes people born on B'atz' as fortunate in business and marriage.
The next B'atz' days
- 5 B'atz': 9 November 2026
- 12 B'atz': 29 November 2026
- 6 B'atz': 19 December 2026
- 13 B'atz': 8 January 2027
A living calendar
The Cholq'ij is a living spirituality, not a memory of a vanished people. The meaning of a day is given by an ajq'ij, with the person in front of them, looking at the nawal, the number and the rest of the count; this page can only give the general frame and predicts nothing. If you want to know more about your nawal, go to an ajq'ij of a Maya community.
Dates are calculated with the GMT correlation (584283), the one that agrees with the count the ajq'ijab' of the Guatemalan highlands have kept without a break.