This day symbolizes the Guardian of the well-being who reminds our first grandparents, of the difficulties, lawsuits and problems they experienced. At the beginning of the world, managing to overcome all obstacles and carrying out their work with humanity, affirming themselves as the guardians of well-being and security.
It is the day of intercessors, defenders, judges. Precious day of the rod of authority, day of the woman who warms the bosom of the house with her mother's love. The energy that the rains bring to give us good harvests.
Kawoq is synonymous of fertility, versatility, music, painting and imagination. Day of nature's energy and it's elements. The wisdom of the midwifes and the sacred use of healing plants.
It's glyph in the upper part represents the members of the family, the families in the communities, the communities in the societies and the cosmic clusters and groups. It is represented in nature with the turtle.
The person born in Kawoq received B'atz' energies in its conception and its fate will be influenced by Kej. Kawoq person is prone to problems and difficulties, but knowing its day she can be protected and trained as a defender or authority of social life.
Positive characteristics:balanced, calm, tender, affectionate, familiar, can be a spiritual guide, a midwife, a mother and a responsible father with a vocation to heal diseases, especially the diseases of women.
Negative characteristics: drunkenness, lawsuit, hardship, anger, can be blamed of any loss or ills that may occur.
Kawoq is special day on which the Ajq'ij and the Iyom, midwife, offer the ceremony to ask for the dawn, the well-being of the people, the health of the sick, to end lawsuits and problems, and for the value of Pizom Qaqal, rod of authority, by triumphant. In this day it asked the good management of medicinal plants and good climate for crops.
... Ixmucané made nine drinks, and from this food came strength and fatness and with it they created the muscles and vigor of man ... from yellow corn and white corn they made their meat, from corn dough they were made the arms and legs of man ... were endowed with intelligence; they saw and at once their sight expanded, they managed to see, they came to know everything in the world..
- Popol Vuh