Word origin · etymology
K’iche’ Maya calendrical name.
Chol Q’ij is the K’iche’ name for the sacred day count, alongside the Yucatec name Tzolk’in. These are distinct language forms, not English acronyms.
How we know · epistemology
Living cultural calendar practice
The sacred count is sustained through K'iche' knowledge and practice, beyond its arithmetic pattern. A software conversion can identify a date under stated conventions; it cannot confer the authority or lived knowledge of a daykeeper.
Connected concepts
Sources & provenance
Use the citations beside each section to distinguish a calculation convention, a historical teaching and an editorial example.