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MC MHD.SE1.6
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MC MHD.SE1.1&2&3
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MHD.SE1.4&5
· The 6th day of the Tzolk’in calendar.
· Variants (3):
o A. %-sign – Mostly mirror imaged.
o B. Skull = “death” (often with a %-sign on the cheek or right side of head).
o C. Head with eyes closed and eye lashes.
· Do not confuse (the skull-variant of) KIMI with EB. They are both skull-based day names, but the distinguishing characteristic of EB is the “left half of a crescent” (with the left tip pointing down) with a dotted protector (usually in the top right or right). This crescent is not present in KIMI, which has instead (optionally) a %-sign.
· MC lists this day name Kimi with a glyph which consists solely of a %-sign in the blood-cartouche. A warning about its use is appropriate. MHD.SE1 consists of a head facing left (either a skull a living human head, optionally with a %-sign), but SE1.6 is a subvariant consisting solely of the %-sign (no head in sight). The warning is that It’s found (as a day name) only in the Codices. This can be concluded from a search in MHD based on “blcodes contains SE1” (2026-03-13) and:
o In the “Classic - Blocks" option – 117 (=2+115) hits:
§ … “blengl contains kimi” – 2 hits:
· "05 Chikchan 06 Kimi" (with blsem = “personal name”).
· "07 Chikchan 08 Kimi" (with blsem = “personal name”).
Although they have “kimi”, they’re not directly a calendar (Tzolk’in) date – instead, they are the name of a person, born, perhaps, on the boundary between two days Chikchan and Kimi. Unfortunately, there’s no image shown for either of these hits. But it’s not a “real” date anyway, just part of a name based on Tzolk’in dates.
§ … “blengl does not contain kimi” – 115 hits:
· All to do with “death” (various inflections of kam-), nothing to do with the day name.
A manual examination of these hits shows no image, too eroded to tell, or a skull (with or without a %-sign). I didn’t see any clear instances of solely a %-sign. The simplest form with a %-sign has it in the left half or left bottom corner of the boulder outline, with at least a slightly curved vertical line in the middle, this last having two vertically touching dots on the right of the line, about halfway down the line (reminiscent of a wood property marker).
o In the “Codical - Blocks" option, 78 (=164+138) hits:
§ … “blengl contains 260 cycle”, 164 (=12+1+138+13) hits, and a manual examination revealed:
· No image at all or no image of glyph itself (only of the entire page the glyph is on): 12 hits.
· A circular glyph with cross hatching in the top right (a bit ITZAM-like): 1 hit (a “one-off” or “outlier”).
· A full head, looking left: 138 hits:
o The overwhelming majority of these have a squarish ka-comb with teeth pointing downwards (= a “closed eye with eyelashes”).
o The fair few have an element in the centre or right resembling the “wood property marker”, except that there are sometimes three dots instead of two.
· %-sign only: 13 hits:
o Interestingly, all but one of the 13 hits has a “mirror image” %-sign: the / being similar to an S rather than the mirror image of an S. An alternative way of describing this is that the dots are in almost always in the NE and SW quadrants, and only once in the NW and SE quadrants.
§ … “blengl does not contain 260 cycle”, 314 hits:
· I did not manually examine these because there are too many of them and they’re not calendar related anyway.
The end conclusion from all these queries and manual examination is, indeed, that the lone %-sign for the 6th day of the Tzolk’in calendar is written with only a %-sign only in the Codices (and that when it occurs (alone), it almost always has the orientation of the mirror image of the %-sign rather than that of the standard %-sign.