| 20 Maya day name hieroglyphs are used to express a global landscape. Believing every place was
bound by rules and deities of the 4 cardinal directions, the Maya saw the globe as a part of a
celestial landscape incorporating the Underworld, this world and the Heavens. The World Tree
spanned each of these worlds, its roots in the ground, its trunk in this world, its leaves in the air. |
In this calendar, East was red, the rising sun, bringing new beginnings; North was white, the sun at
its zenith, often bringing sacrificial offerings; West was black, sunset and darkness, showing our shadow selves and South was yellow, the sun’s
journey underground to emerge as the new sun, expressing abundance in our everyday life. |
