Master of all the Arts, Chuen, or B’atz’ in K’iche’ Maya, is the weaver of the thread of life and the cords of time. For the Maya, history is woven with the thread of time just as clothing is sewn from the fibers of plants. Chuen symbolizes evolution, movement, motion, and development; initiation, affirmation, and favorable divination readings; intelligence and wisdom; and especially marriage and pregnancy - the tz’ite representing the Mayan priests, the ajq’ijab’, contains 2

Associated with the mystical Feathered Serpent, Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl as the Aztecs called this deity, Chicchan, or Kan in K’iche’ Maya, is one of the most powerful day signs in the Tzolk’in. The Regent of the Sky and the Ruler of Time, Chicchan symbolizes the transformation of time, transcendence, peace, spiritual development and human evolution, and represents those predestined for spiritual vocations. Yet it is also the lord of all material things and represents the con

Cimi, or Kame in K’iche’ Maya, means “death” and “rebirth”; grammatically, kame is the present tense of “the eternal Now.” Cimi represents Xib’alb’a. The Underworld of Mayan mythology, and embodies the eternal flow and cycle of death, rebirth and transformation. The Maya did, and still do believe in reincarnation; Cimi is the day sign that embodies this transcendental spiritual state. It carries a special connection to the world of the ancestors, and is imbued with plentiful