From: Lee, S. Classic Maya Glyph Guide, Part 1. Amsterdam: Self-published, 2023-2025. Contact: maya.glyphs@yahoo.com.
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·    The 1st day of the Tzolk’in calendar.

·    Do not confuse the day name IMIX with the phonetically (slightly) similar IXIIM = “Tonsured Maize God” (it’s almost a “swap” of the two syllables).

o IMIX is not the Classic Maya pronunciation of this day name anyway – this is just the Yucatec version, used by epigraphers because the Classic Maya pronunciation is not fully clear.

·    Variants (3):

o A. Abstract – HA’ or ba in a day name cartouche:

§ Top – a circular element with “dot necklace” below, with the circular element being:

·      A cross-hatched circle: this is HA’ in a cartouche.

·      A circle with a slightly curved arc (optionally bold): this is ba in a cartouche.

§ Bottom: “blades of grass”

o B. Head 1 – the Waterlily Serpent represents water, which is the connection to the abstract variant.

§ It’s infixed with the abstract variant of HA’ at the top of the head.

o C. Head 2 – the Waterlily Serpent represents water, which is the connection to the abstract variant.

§ It’s infixed with large circle in the top of the head, with a “washer” (“PET”) in it,

§ There is yet a sub-variant of this with the “washer” replaced by a small circle with a small crescent in it (tips pointing upwards).

·      This variant is given in K&LKettunenLacadena.pdf Methods in Maya Hieroglyphic Studies (Harri Kettunen & Alfonso Lacadena; 2018).p57.r1.c5.

·      I haven’t been able to find it in MHD. It’s not one of the hits for “blcodes = SS4a” (a sub-variant of the “PET” one, see below).

Identifying these particular variants and sub-variants is somewhat arbitrary – one could just as easily call the difference between the abstract variant with infixed HA’ vs. infixed ba as two different variants; or class Head 1 and Head 2 as a single variant, with 3 sub-variants HA’/ba, “washer”, or “crescent”; etc.

·    MHD codes:

o XE2: abstract variant with HA’.

o XE1: abstract variant with ba.

o SS2c: Waterlily Serpent with abstract element infixed in the top of the head.

o SS4a: Waterlily Serpent with “PET” infixed in top of head.

·    MHD statistics (2024-06-20) – “blengl contains IMIX” gives 187 hits, consisting of:

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes contains XE2”: 136 hits (HA’ variant).

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes contains XE1”: 62 hits (ba variant).

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes contains SS2c”: 12 hits (Waterlily Serpent with HA’).

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes contains SS4a”: 3 hits (Waterlily Serpent with PET).

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes does not contain <any-of-the-above>”: 12 hits (unreadable, deduced from context – the glyph in the cartouche is transliterated as 000).

136 + 62 + 12 + 3 + 12 = 225. The difference between 225 and 187 is overwhelmingly due to the hits which are transliterated as XE1/XE2 because it’s unclear whether the glyph in the cartouche is HA’ or ba, i.e. whether the circular element at the top is a cross-hatched circle or a circle with an arc in it:

o “blengl contains IMIX” and “blcodes contains /”: 38 hits (37 of them are XE1/XE2, 1 of them is SS2c/SS4a).