Kame
nawal 6 of 20 · in Yucatec Maya Kimi
- Meaningdeath; the ancestors
- Direction and colour (Yucatec tradition)north, white
Its name is linked with death, understood as transformation: it holds the good and the bad, and its messenger is the owl. On Kame people ask to be kept from wrong paths and accidents, and it is a day to remember the ancestors. People born on Kame are said to be strong and to be tested by life.
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 Kame is also linked with 'asking for the good' and with marriage; it is chosen for marriage proposals.
The next Kame days
- 13 Kame: 4 November 2026
- 7 Kame: 24 November 2026
- 1 Kame: 14 December 2026
- 8 Kame: 3 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.