Calendar Glyph Table

comparing glyphs from 260-day calendars

	theAbysmal 260-day calendar	Maya tzolkin	Nahua tōnalpōhualli	New Age dreamspell
I	turtle	waterlily	caiman	dragon
II	wind	wind	wind	wind
III	night	night	house	night
IV	web	net	lizard	seed
V	serpent	serpent	serpent	serpent
VI	death	death	death	worldbridger
VII	deer	deer	deer	hand
VIII	rabbit	Venus	rabbit	star
IX	moon	water	water	moon
X	coyote	dog	dog	dog
XI	raccoon	monkey	monkey	monkey
XII	mushroom	rain	grass	human
XIII	tobacco	young maize	reed	skywalker
XIV	bear	jaguar	jaguar	wizard
XV	goshawk	eagle	eagle	eagle
XVI	fisher	wax	vulture	warrior
XVII	earthquake	earth	earthquake	earth
XVIII	mirror	flint	knife	mirror
XIX	storm	rainstorm	rain	storm
XX	sun	sun	flower	sun

comparison of meaning assigned to 20 glyphs in four different calendar systems: theAbysmal, tzolkin, tōnalpōhualli, and dreamspell.

Colourful Calendars

Experimenting with symbolism and cardinal directions.

theAbysmal Calendar divides the year into 365 days, as well as 364+1 and 360+5 days. On top of that, it follows all sorts of measures beyond the 7-day week. Most recently, I’ve been sorting out a series of 20 glyphs to function much as they do in the Mesoamerican calendar system, however, I’ve changed some of them to better suit the ecological characters of the Eastern Woodlands. For example, I replaced Monkey with Raccoon, but they both serve as trickster types. I replaced Jaguar with Bear, as they are both powerful animals associated with magic.

What I discovered in all of this was that the Year named after Rabbit occurs during the Leap Year. This wasn’t intentional (not deliberate anyway), but so delightful to trip over.

So this upcoming year (New Year is December 21st 2019) is the year 8~Rabbit. Make of it what you will.

The colours for the cardinal directions are represented below:

blue = North
green = East
yellow = South
red = West
black = down
white = up

As applied to the calendar, these colours reveal patterns within structure. Enjoy for what they’re worth.

Year 7, 8~Rabbit, by 7-day Weeks and Months (364+1)
Year 7, 8~Rabbit, by 13-day Weeks and Houses (364+1)
Year 7, 8~Rabbit, by 9-day Weeks and Hora (360+5)
Year 7, 8~Rabbit, by 5-day Weeks and Hora (360+5)

What do you think?
*Please don’t berate me for my lack of design skills. I can barely identify greyscale. LOL