Cimi is the sixth of the twenty day signs of the Tzolk'in, the 260-day sacred count of the Maya, kept by living daykeepers and reconstructed for the Classic period. Recorded here by its Yucatec name, Cimi, it corresponds to the day Kame in the living K'iche' tradition. Its imagery is death, not chiefly as an ending to be feared but as transformation, release, and passage, the necessary turning that clears the way for renewal, and the honoured connection to the ancestors. In the directional scheme that runs through the twenty signs it belongs to the north and the colour white. These are the meanings the Maya calendrical tradition carries for the day, presented as that living and reconstructed tradition frames them; among daykeepers Kame is a day for remembering the dead and for letting go.
Cimi is the sixth of the twenty Tzolk'in day signs; the living K'iche' tradition knows the corresponding day as Kame, a name directly related to the word for death in K'iche' and other Mayan languages. Cimi's imagery is death and transformation, read in the daykeeping tradition not as an omen of literal mortality but as a sign governing endings, transitions and the release that precedes renewal, a reading consistent with the broader Mesoamerican treatment of death as a stage within a cycle rather than a final termination. In the directional scheme, Cimi belongs to the north and the colour white. The Cimi glyph in Classic-period inscriptions is conventionally identified by a stylised skull or closed eye, one of the more visually consistent day-sign glyphs across the epigraphic record.