This is the third of the thirteen numbers, or tones, that combine with the twenty day signs to form the 260-day Tzolk'in. In living Maya daykeeping the coefficient is simply the number three, oxib', and in the rhythm of the trecena, the thirteen-day period a day sign opens, the third day is often associated with action and service set in motion. The name recorded here, Electric, and its keyword of activation belong to the modern Dreamspell system of Jose Arguelles, a New Age framework from the 1980s that is distinct from the Maya calendar and not part of traditional daykeeping. The daykeepers reckon by the number itself. The authentic element is the coefficient three and its role in the interlocking of thirteen numbers with twenty day signs that generates the 260 unique days of the sacred count.
The third of the thirteen numbers that combine with the twenty day signs to generate the Tzolk'in's 260-day count, marking the third day of its trecena, the thirteen-day period formed as a fixed sign's number counts upward from one to thirteen before the day sign itself advances to the next in sequence. The widely circulated Dreamspell name for this position, "Electric," is not a traditional Maya term; it comes from Jose Arguelles's 1987 system, which layers its own invented tone vocabulary onto a structurally similar but numerically distinct 260-day count that does not stay synchronised with the authentic Tzolk'in over time, since the Dreamspell calendar skips the Gregorian leap day while the true Tzolk'in count, kept unbroken by living daykeepers, does not.
Sources Time and the Highland MayaBarbara Tedlock with Dreamspell: The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013Jose Arguelles