Dates, however, were not assigned by a simple reference to days of the month, but by days of the week; these weeks being of thirteen days each, and including every day of the year. The week days were not named, but numbered only.
As will be noted in the Annals, more importance was attached to the day on which an occurrence took place than to the year. This is common with untrained minds. Every citizen of the United States knows that George Washington was born on the 22d of February; but it would puzzle a large portion of them to be asked the year of his birth.
Names of the Cakchiquel Months.
Name. Signification.
1. Tacaxepual, Corn planting.
2. Nabey tumuzuz, First of winged ants.
3. Rucan tumuzuz, Second of winged ants.
4. Çibix, Smoky, or clouds.
5. Uchum, Re-planting.
6. Nabey mam, First grandson.
7. Rucab mam, Second grandson.
8. Liꜫinꜫá, Soft to the hand.
9. Nabey toꜫ, First cacao harvest.
10. Rucab toꜫ. Second cacao harvest
11. Nabey pach. First incubation.
12. Rucab pach. Second incubation.
13. Tziquin ꜫih, Bird days.
14. Cakan, Red clouds.
15. Ibota, Mat rolling.
16. Katic, Drying up.
17. Itzcal ꜫih, Bad road days.
18. Pariche, In the woods.
