SIGNIFICANCE OF GLYPH
It symbolizes the knowing. The drawing in the center represents the brain and the points are the three grades of the human spiritual growth.
THE DAY
The Energy of this day is good to nourish the mind, to harmonize relationships, to ask for clarity and especially to transform knowledge and experiences into wisdom. This is a good day to ask for good memory, for the signs in the blood, in the fire, in the stones and the sacred Tzi’te’. It is also a good day to unite ideas, to study the Mayan signs, to give offerings to the Kab’awil, to ask for understanding in marriage, to do away with bad ideas, to change the bad habits, to ask for vitality, to ask for force, and warmth and movement in the sick body. N’oj is where the mind-energy governs, the knowledge and the good memory. It is the connection of the universal cosmic mind with the mind of the human being. Nobility is the major virtue that the energy of N’oj brings because this day is gifted with all the virtues, especially: patience, prudence and the sublime love. The renunciation brings clarity and it is the guide of life. It governs also the studies, the human science and the studies of the mind.
THIS DAY IS GOOD FOR
It is good to ask for the knowledge or tranquility; for peace or nobility; it is a good day to analyze; it is a good day for understanding between couples; it is a good day for the studies, for the scientific investigation; it is a good day to ask for good thoughts; to do away with obsessions, bad ideas and people that have bad intentions; and to be in harmony with the supreme being.
PRONUNCIATION BY ELDER MARIANO XUTUMIL
B’alam was pretty excited to go with his grandfather to the mountain. They left very early in the morning, to the Sacred Mountain of Alux, to pick some Tz’ite’. These are the red beans used to communicate with Chuchqajaw (Mother and Father of the Universe). B’alam went to bed early so that he would wakeup as soon as his grandfather called him.
“Son, the Tz’ite’ beans are picked with a lot of respect.” B’alam looked up and his wide black eyes lit with intrigue when he asked the elder: “Why grandpa?” “Because they are sacred,” the grandfather answered with a tranquility that comes with his years, “and before you touch sacred things you blow the palms of your hands, to clean them so that your energy will not take away the strength of the sacred.” “What do you mean?” B’alam asks with more curiosity. “If the beans are on the ground they are dirty, why should I clean my hands before touching them?” “The beans are not dirty, they fell from the tree and are absorbing strength from Mother Earth, for us to communicate with the energy of Uk’u’x Ulew (Heart of the Earth)” “So through the beans we can only communicate with the energy of earth?”
For 5,000 years the Maya have simultaneously used 20 different calendars for various purposes: agricultural, sacred, and predictions, amongst others.
On the first day of the year, people wear new clothes, with new energy to start the year without the burden of the previous one. They also light a new fire, as the old fire was put out at the beginning of the Wayeb’. During these five, days the fire, the comal (clay or metal dish used to make tortillas), the pot used to cook maize and the grinding stone rest – until a new fire is lit at the start of the new year.