Your Kin: 13 x 20 = 260

How one Seal and one Tone become your Kin, and why there are exactly 260.

• The 260 day matrix
• How your Kin is found
• Why 260

13 Tones and 20 Seals turn together, like two gears.

They line up again only after 260 days.

13 x 20 = 260. That count is the Tzolkin.

Your Kin is where your birthday falls in that count.

Why 260 might matter

Pregnancy: About the length of a human pregnancy.

Maize: The time from planting to harvest in parts of Mesoamerica.

13 and 20: Two numbers the Maya used everywhere.

Nobody knows for certain why the Maya chose 260. These are the most common explanations, and none of them is proven.

Argüelles's count leaves out 29 February. So on most dates, his Kin and the traditional Maya day are not the same day. YourKodex uses Argüelles's count.

Every 260 days, your Kin comes back.

Argüelles called it your galactic return.

Plan something small for your next galactic return.

Sources

José and Lloydine Argüelles, Dreamspell (1990)

Anthony Aveni, Skywatchers (2001)