Symbolizes the day of man or woman as the authority, principal and guide of the people. It is the strength and power that brings the destiny of humanity. It represents the four pillars of the four cardinal points that were created from the beginning to hold the Earth, the Moon and the stars with strength and energy. Constituted as a Year Bearer. Kej is the day of the delivery of the command as mother and father, the day of the value of the authority of Pizom Q'aq'al.
The glyph symbolizes the hand with its four fingers closing an energetic cycle, charging our hands to do their work with the support of the fifth finger, the ether element, the spiritual realms. Kej is represented in nature by the deer.
The person born in Kej received Kawoq energies in its conception and its fate will be influenced by Tz'ikin. It can be formed as an Ajq'ij, as determined by the Guide consulted and by the numbering accompanying the day.
Positive characteristics: people strong in body and spirit, agile, responsible and intelligent, with the power of belief, self-confident, counselors, supportive.
Negative characteristics: angry, demanding, foolish, vicious, exploiting and reckless.
Day indicated for performing the initiation ceremonies of an Ajq'ij. The ceremonies that are celebrated are to ask for strength, ask for the gestation, healing and protection of the people.
Waqxaqib' Kej, 8 Kej, day of commemoration of the dead, day to give thanks to the ancestors for all that one has of them, for possessions and above all for our spirituality. It also commemorates the ceremonies that have taken place from the beginning of the world from our first grandparents until today.
Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Majucutaj and Iqui-Balam said: Let's wait for dawn. So said those great sages ...
- Popol Vuh