Tzolkin Trecena Notes – 1 Flint (Etznab)

Day 118 of the 260 Day Tzolkin

Gregorian Date: February 23, 2012

Year Bearer:  13 Caban (Earth, Tijaax)

Trecenas are thirteen-day periods in the Tzolkin. Each Trecena starts with the Number 1, but with
a different Day Glyph. As a wave of the Thirteen Heavens, the underlying energy is governed by
the First Day Glyph of the Trecena and influences all thirteen successive Day Glyphs. Being aware
of the predominant energy of the First Day of the Trecena, we can align our intentions with that
energy and allow our goals to manifest.

This Trecena starts with 1 Etznab (Flint/Mirror) – reflection, spiritual warrior, self-sacrificing healer
and defender, facing the truth with strength.

To the Ancient Maya, Flint symbolized the consciousness of duality, right and wrong, good and evil,
faith and fear, the spiritual warrior who, through his actions, chooses the ethical and moral path.
The symbolic knife can be healing (as used by a surgeon or curandero) or destructive (as used by a fighter). This recognition of the duality allows each of us the opportunity to transcend pain and
suffering by choosing to live in joy and gratitude. As Kenneth Johnson states in Jaguar Wisdom,
“Indeed, it is only when we have become aware of the duality of human existence that we are
in fact awakened to the healing potential that lies within all of us. If the sword of consciousness
that makes us aware of duality can wound us, it can also heal.”

© 2006 Judith Ann Griffith

There is evidence of another ancient interpretation of the Flint glyph. According to Tony Shearer in
Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun, there was a Maya story told to Friar Juan de Cordova on the
day of Flint about a light coming from the Sun as a Solar Beam bringing with it the “Book of Days”
which we know as the sacred calendar or Tzolkin.

As we journey through each day of this Trecena:

In Lak’ech (I am another you), William and Viola www.tzolkincalendar.com ©2007 William and Viola Welsch