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Kimi (Kame): The Death Day, Sixth Sign of the Maya Calendar

Prepared by the Mayan Astrology Calculator editors · Sources below · Reviewed 10 October 2026 · Calculation: gmt584283-proleptic-gregorian-v1

Quick answer. Kimi is the sixth of the 20 day signs in the 260-day Maya calendar; in K'iche' it is Kame. Its names in several Mayan languages come from roots meaning "to die", and its glyph shows the skull of the death god. In the K'iche' Popol Vuh, the lords of the underworld are named One Death and Seven Death after this day. Highland records also describe it as the day above all others for asking forgiveness. Dreamspell calls this slot "White World-Bridger". [1][3][4][6]

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Kimi at a glance
Position in the 20-day cycle 6 of 20 [1]
How often it returns Every 20 days; a pairing such as 6 Kimi returns every 260 days [2]
Yucatec name Kimi (16th-century spelling Cimi) [1]
Possible Classic-period reading Cham? (tentative; cham is "to die") [1]
Highland Guatemala (K'iche') Kame or Keme; Camey, Queme, Came in colonial calendars [3]
Other names Tox, in Tzeltal, Jakaltek and Santa Eulalia lists [4]
Meaning Death; from roots meaning "to die" [1][4][5]
Central Mexican counterpart Miquiztli, "death" [4]
What the glyph depicts The skull of the death god, or a "percentage sign" attribute of death gods [4]
Haab' days it can share Only day 4, 9, 14 or 19 of a Haab' month [1]
How we calculate it GMT correlation 584283, proleptic Gregorian dates [8]
Dreamspell alias (modern, José & Lloydine Argüelles, from 1987) "White World-Bridger", seal 6; a separate system with a different count [9][10]

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Where Kimi sits in the 260-day count

Kimi follows Chikchan and precedes Manik'; 5 Chikchan is followed by 6 Kimi. [1] Like every day sign, it meets each number from 1 to 13 once in 260 days. [2] In the 365-day Haab', Kimi shares its possible positions (4, 9, 14 and 19 of a month) with Imix, Chuwen and Kib. [1]

What the name means

This is one of the least disputed names in the calendar. Thompson wrote in 1950 that the Yucatec name "is beyond question from the same root as cimil, 'to die', 'death'". [4] Kettunen and Helmke list the Classic Maya verb cham, "to die", and give Cham? as a tentative Classic reading of the day. [1] In K'iche', Christenson's dictionary has kämik, "to die", and kämikal, "death", alongside the day name Kame. [5] The Aztec day in the same position was Miquiztli, "death". [4]

Thompson also recorded an older Chiapas and western Guatemalan name, Tox. The colonial bishop Núñez de la Vega described "13 Tox" as a horned demon. Thompson argued that the horns were a European idea of the devil, added after a century and a half of Christian teaching, and that Tox, like the Popol Vuh's death lords, was originally a god of the underworld. [4]

The glyph

The day sign has two forms. The head form is the skull of the death god. The simpler symbolic form is a mark that Thompson called "the peculiar percentage sign", an attribute of the death gods in the codices. [4] The augural animal of the day in Yucatec lists is the cuz owl, "which in Maya belief was a portent of death". [4]

Thompson summed up: "The name and picture of the sixth day unquestionably refer to the death god." [4] He also noted a surprise: "strangely, the day is considered lucky in one respect or another by the Quiche, the Ixil, and the people of Santa Eulalia." [4] The highland records below show why.

One Death and Seven Death in the Popol Vuh

In the K'iche' Popol Vuh, the lords of Xibalba, the underworld, are called One Death and Seven Death. The story introduces them when they hear the hero twins' father and uncle playing ball on the road to Xibalba. [6] Allen Christenson's translation notes that "Kame (Death) is a named day on the highland Maya calendar. The death lords thus both bear calendric dates as their names." [6]

These are names taken from the 260-day count, the same practice by which people were named after their birth day. [3] They do not make the day itself "evil" in any simple sense.

Kame in highland tradition

The 260-day count is still kept in highland Guatemala by Ajq'ijab' (daykeepers). [2] The records of Kame are mixed:

  • 1854 manuscript. Vicente Hernández Spina's calendar lists Kame as a "bad day". [3]
  • 20th-century fieldwork. Weeks, Sachse and Prager, summarizing Bunzel (1952) and Tedlock (1992), describe Kame as "symbolic of the ultimate dissolution of all things, good and evil, in death", and as "the day above all others for forgiveness or pardon for all the evil deeds that one has committed". [3]
  • A good day for some. The same summary notes that for some it is a good day, "for it signifies that one's evil deeds will be forgiven and that sickness will pass". [3]
  • The west. K'iche' daykeepers interviewed by Estrada Peña assign Kame to the west, "the region where the sun 'dies' and descends into the underworld". [7]

These records describe ritual use in specific communities. They are not predictions for anyone born on Kimi, and a "death" day does not foretell death. We are not daykeepers. Our reports treat Kimi as modern reflective writing about endings, release and forgiveness.

Traditional Kimi vs Dreamspell "White World-Bridger"

"White World-Bridger" is seal 6 in the Dreamspell, a modern system begun by José and Lloydine Argüelles in 1987 and published as a kit in 1990. [10] Dreamspell gives it the keywords Death, Equalizes and Opportunity. [9] The name "World-Bridger" is Dreamspell's own; it is not a translation of a Maya word.

The two systems count differently. Dreamspell fixes 26 July 1987 as "Kin 34, White Galactic Wizard" and skips 29 February. [10][11] 15 Oct 2026 is 6 Kimi in the traditional count; Dreamspell calls it Kin 50, White Spectral Dog. The next Dreamspell "White World-Bridger" day, 11 Oct 2026 (Kin 46, White Resonant World-Bridger), is 2 Ik' in the traditional count. [Link: Dreamspell vs traditional converter → /dreamspell-vs-traditional-maya-calendar]

Colors, directions and "elements"

  • Prehispanic pattern: north. The days were assigned to east, north, west and south in turn. Estrada Peña, citing López Austin, notes that this order would put Kame in the north. [7]
  • Contemporary K'iche' practice: west. Today Kame belongs to the west, where the sun "dies". [7] Both placements are documented for different periods.
  • Color. "White" follows the north–white pairing of colonial Yucatec texts; assigning it to one day is a modern reconstruction. [12] Dreamspell also colors this seal white. [9]
  • Element. Some charts, including earlier versions of this site, give Kimi the element "earth". We found no traditional source for Greek-style elements on day signs; on this site it appears only as a labeled modern convention.

Upcoming Kimi days

Calculated with the GMT 584283 correlation, the same method as our calculator, as of 10 October 2026: [8]

Gregorian date Tzolk'in (traditional) Haab' Dreamspell, for comparison only
15 Oct 2026 6 Kimi 19 Yax Kin 50, White Spectral Dog
4 Nov 2026 13 Kimi 19 Sak' Kin 70, White Overtone Dog
24 Nov 2026 7 Kimi 19 Keh Kin 90, White Crystal Dog
14 Dec 2026 1 Kimi 19 Mak Kin 110, White Rhythmic Dog
3 Jan 2027 8 Kimi 19 K'ank'in Kin 130, White Cosmic Dog
23 Jan 2027 2 Kimi 19 Muwan Kin 150, White Resonant Dog
12 Feb 2027 9 Kimi 19 Pax Kin 170, White Magnetic Dog

The date tables use your local date when JavaScript is available. Without it, they stay at the 10 October 2026 snapshot.

Each falls on day 19 of its Haab' month, one of the four positions (4, 9, 14, 19) open to Kimi. [1]

Kimi with each of the 13 numbers

Each number links to its page; the anchors let number pages link back here. 1 Kimi and 7 Kimi are the days that give the Popol Vuh death lords their names.

Kimi and relationships

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FAQ

Are Kimi, Cimi and Kame the same day? Yes. Cimi is the colonial Yucatec spelling, Kimi the revised one, and Kame (or Keme) the K'iche' name. [1][3]

Is Kimi a bad sign to be born on? Historical sources disagree, and none of them is a personal forecast. One 1854 list calls Kame a bad day; 20th-century K'iche' accounts also call it a day of forgiveness, and some consider it good. [3]

Is "White World-Bridger" the same as Kimi? It fills the same slot in Dreamspell's list, but Dreamspell's count differs, so a "World-Bridger" birthday is usually not a Kimi day. [9][10]

Who are One Death and Seven Death? The lords of the underworld in the Popol Vuh, named after the days 1 Kame and 7 Kame. [6]

Why does another calculator give me a different day sign? It may use the Dreamspell count, or a correlation constant other than 584283, which shifts results by a day or two. [8][13]

Is Kimi a zodiac sign? No. It names a day that recurs every 20 days. → How we calculate

Sources

  1. Kettunen, Harri, and Christophe Helmke. Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs, 17th rev. ed. Wayeb, 2020, pp. 49, 51, 56, 80, 89. https://www.mesoweb.org/resources/handbook/IMH2020.pdf
  2. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. "The Calendar System." Living Maya Time. https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system
  3. Weeks, John M., Frauke Sachse, and Christian M. Prager. Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala. University Press of Colorado, 2009, pp. 3 (Table 1.1), 12, 14. https://www.upcolorado.com/media/acfupload/9780870819969.pdf
  4. Thompson, J. Eric S. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1950, pp. 75–76.
  5. Christenson, Allen J. K'iche'–English Dictionary. FAMSI, s.v. "Kame", "kämik", "kämikal". https://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/christenson/quidic_complete.pdf
  6. Christenson, Allen J. Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People. Electronic edition, Mesoweb, 2007, p. 101 and n. 232. https://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf
  7. Estrada Peña, Canek. "Anima' ri cho, anima' ri plo: Imox y el agua entre los k'iche'." Estudios de Cultura Maya 45 (2015): 191–224, pp. 202–203. https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/2813/281336894007.pdf
  8. Mayan Astrology Calculator. "Calculation Methodology and Cultural Scope." https://mayanastrologycalculator.com/methodology
  9. Foundation for the Law of Time. "Learning the 13 Galactic Tones and 20 Solar Seals." https://lawoftime.org/infobooth/sealsandtones.html
  10. "Dreamspell." Wikipedia (citing Argüelles & Argüelles, Dreamspell kit, 1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamspell
  11. Argüelles, José. Rinri Project Newsletter II.2.1. Foundation for the Law of Time. https://www.lawoftime.org/pdfs/Rinri-II-2.1.pdf
  12. Stuart, David. "Day Sign Notes: Imix / Imox." Maya Decipherment, 14 Aug 2025 (on the colors of the imix che' world trees). https://mayadecipherment.com/2025/08/14/day-sign-notes-imix-imox/
  13. Van Stone, Mark. "2012 FAQ." FAMSI. https://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/faq.html

Reviewed: 10 October 2026 · Calculation: gmt584283-proleptic-gregorian-v1 · Corrections: contact us