Kawoq represents the family, both our blood family and our spiritual family. Number 4 symbolizes balance, stability, and security. This is a good day to connect with the people you love, to find comfort in their support and solidarity, and to reenergize yourself through their love and warmth.
3 Tijax – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Tijax, represented by the double-edged obsidian knife, has the energy of healing, harmonizing and cutting; it gives us the power of opening new pathways. Number 3 represents rhythm; it is communication, creativity and optimism. The confluence of these two energies allows us to connect to the vibration and movement of everything that surrounds us, flow with the continuous dance of life, use the knife of Tijax to cut off the fears and the negative energy that are holding you back.
Support Saq’ Be’ this Season!
Thank you to everybody that participated in our December fundraising event! You all stepped forward with an amazing show of support, helping us to raise around $2K! Your generosity will propel us to achieve amazing things in 2016. It’s never too late to make a donation. A special thank you to those that claimed the prizes, offered below.
Donate online to Saq’ Be’ by the end of the year and have a chance to claim some amazing prizes! As we work hard to raise support to continue and expand programs and offerings, Saq’ Be’ will be offering some unique and special prized to our supporters that step up with contributions before the end of the year. Here are the details:
Top donations received online between December 1st and December 31st will be eligible for the following prizes:
Original Painting by Yamanik Pablo of your unique Ch’umil, including number, sent from Guatemala. Yamanik painted all of the Ch’umil used on the SacredRoad.org website. Minimum Donation $300 to be eligible. One available.
Personal Maya Chart Reading by Maya Ajq’ij and author of the Book of Destiny Carlos Barrios. Minimum Donation $200 to be eligible. Two Available.
Jade Necklace of your individual Ch’umil sent from Guatemala. Minimum Donation $50 to be eligible. Two available.
Free entry into an upcoming online workshop with a Maya Ajq’ij (Spiritual Guide). Minimum Donation $25 to be eligible. Two available.
Donation leaders will be updated on this page on Monday’s leading up to December 31st, beginning on December 7th. Donations made during this period will be cumulative: If you make a $100 donation then a $200 donation, your total will be listed as $300 (and you will be eligible to receive the top prize if you are the top donor). Items sent from Guatemala may take up to several months to arrive. All donations are tax-exempt in accordance with US Tax law.
Current Donation Leaders
Thank you so much to all the contributors that make the work of Saq’ Be’ possible!
$300+ Level (Custom Ch’umil Painting – 1)
Chad and Brinda J. – $1,000
$200+ Level (Personal Maya Chart Reading – 2)
Cathie S. – $500
Heidi C. – $200
$50+ Level (Jade Ch’umil Necklace – 2)
Susan H. – $50
Linda C. – $50
$25+ Level (Online Workshop – 2)
Juliet C. – $25
Alicia C. – $25
2 No’j – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
No’j symbolizes nobility, patience, prudence, and sublime love. Number 2 is duality; it represents the positive and the negative. Move through this day putting into practice the virtues of No’j, good things will come your way and they will come in the perfect moment if you are patient, just be careful not to become slothful.
1 Ajmaq – Today’s Ch’umil and Trecena Prayer
Ajmaq is the day of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation with the Great Father and today it converges with number 1, which symbolizes the beginning. Use the energy of 1 Ajmaq to practice understanding and acceptance; remember that when we love we should not keep track, we should learn to let things go and accept the imperfections of the people we love. This is the first day of the Ajmaq trecena (thirteen days); during these days focus in being forgiving and understanding.
Prayer from Don Pedro Ixchop
In this sacred day I ask you, Ajaw, to forgive all my sins, to vanish my mistakes and my misdeeds. I ask that all impurity will be vanished, don’t let me succumb to the temptation of my enemies and my adversaries. I ask you, Ajaw, that I won’t resort to the dishonesty of the pleasures of men and women. I ask you to grant me strength and resilience before the pleasures of the body; don’t allow these pleasures to enter my body, Ajaw, Heart of the Sky and Heart of the Earth. I ask you to strengthen the natural and necessary pleasures that are meant for our body, our destiny and our path. Maltiox, maltiox, maltiox, and four times maltiox.
Ajaw Great Father or Supreme Being
Maltiox Thank you
Syncretism in the Maya Culture
Thanks to our friends Jim and Brenda with the Oasis Theater Company, we are pleased to be able to share this video that features elder Juan Manuel Mendoza discussing the way that traditional Maya culture and spirituality has been embedded in Santiago Atitlan. He shares a tour of the church in Santiago that embodies traditional imagery, often featuring Ri Laj Mam (Maximon). This embedding within the church has been a key to the survival and vitality of the Maya traditions for the last several hundred years. Thank you to Juan Manuel for your generosity in sharing this information with us!
Juan Manuel Mendoza, a Maya elder from Santiago Atitlan, talks about Maya syncretism with the Catholic Church. Here we see one of the many examples of how the Maya incorporate their belief system and ideology in the midst of an imposed religion and philosophy. It demonstrates the resilience and tenacity of the Maya people as they continue to practice their beliefs in their homeland.
13 Tz’ikin – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Number 13 symbolizes magic and realization, it is the energy that allows you to change and create. Tz’ikin, represented by the bird, symbolizes liberty, luck, love, and fortune. The convergence of these energies gives you the possibility of connecting to the energy of joy, love and abundance; elevate your prayers to the Creator and Maker and ask 13 Tz’ikin to create the ideal conditions for love, abundance, and happiness to come into your life. This is the last day of the Aq’ab’al trecena (thirteen days), light a candle to thank Aq’ab’al for the light it has brought and which has illuminated you during these days.
12 I’x – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
I’x is the strength of Mother Earth; it symbolizes the power of the jungle and the protective spirit of the hills, mountains, and plains. Number 12 brings the energy to help others and to practice sharing; it represents the consciousness of being. This is a good day to ask for the life of the animals, both domestic and wild; to ask for the spirit of Mother Earth.
11 Aj – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Aj brings with it the energy of renewal and resurgence; it is the victory over any evil, the symbol of resurrection. Number 11 represents spiritual tests and payments; it is a day to learn thorough experience and to transmute these experiences into knowledge. Face any challenges that may rise today with the strength given to you by Aj, have the certainty that every challenge that life brings you provides you with the perfect teaching; remember that there is a blessing in every experience and every outcome.
10 E – Today’s Maya Day Sign (Ch’umil)
Number 10 symbolizes self-exploration; it is a number of energetic highs and lows. E is the path of destiny; it is the guide and the means that help us travel the road of life. This is a good day to leave behind those things that no longer belong to you, to focus on your purpose and aim in life, setting aside the fears and allowing new and different paths to open before you.