K'at
nawal 4 of 20 · in Yucatec Maya K'an
- Meaningnet; what gathers and what entangles
- Direction and colour (Yucatec tradition)south, yellow
Its name comes from 'net', from tangling and untangling: the fishing net, the net that keeps the corncobs, and also fire. On K'at people pray for a child to be born. People born on this day are said to be good, to promote rules and laws, at times fragile, and close to fire.
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 K'at is the day for paying debts to the World and the ancestors, and Tedlock records a very negative character for people born on it; current texts see it in a more balanced way. The Yucatec name K'an means 'yellow, ripe'.
The next K'at days
- 11 K'at: 2 November 2026
- 5 K'at: 22 November 2026
- 12 K'at: 12 December 2026
- 6 K'at: 1 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.