Ix is the fourteenth 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 from the inscriptions. Recorded here by its Yucatec name, Ix, it corresponds to the day I'x in the living K'iche' tradition. Its imagery is the jaguar, the great cat of the forest, sign of earth-magic, the sacred landscape, and the power of the daykeeper and the shaman. It is associated with the spirit of the earth, with strength held in reserve, and with the altars and mountains where offerings are made. 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, framed as that living tradition understands them.
Ix is the fourteenth of the twenty Tzolk'in day signs; the living K'iche' tradition knows the corresponding day by the same name, Ix, one of the small number of day signs where the Yucatec and K'iche' names coincide directly rather than diverging. Its imagery is the jaguar, one of the most significant animals in Maya religion and royal iconography, associated with the earth, the night sun's passage through the underworld, and with rulership itself, jaguar pelts and thrones being standard markers of Classic-period kingship. In the directional scheme, Ix belongs to the north and the colour white. Contemporary daykeepers also associate Ix with earth-based ritual specialists, and the day is traditionally regarded in some highland communities as favourable for divinatory and shamanic work specifically.