CMGG entry for "{YUK}K'AN"      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: K’an (day 4)
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of "{YUK}K'AN"

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Safronov

Houston Panel B5

 

·     The 4th day of the Tzolk’in calendar.

·     Variants (1):

o A. The logogram OHL/WAAJ in a blood cartouche.

·     Houston Panel B5 shows a very unusual form of K’AN:

o An unclear form of the LEM-like element hanging from the ceiling is present, and the concentric circles appear to be a variation on the “lipped-U on two pillars” present in more conventional forms of K’AN.

o We nevertheless know that this is K’AN because the LC is clear and the CR corresponding to it requires that the Tzolk’in day-name be K’AN.

o It certainly helps that the glyph at B5, though not obviously K’AN, is not entirely incompatible with such a reading.