Men is the fifteenth of the twenty day signs of the Tzolk'in, the 260-day sacred count of the Maya, still kept by highland daykeepers and reconstructed for the Classic period. Recorded here by its Yucatec name, Men, it corresponds to the day Tz'ikin, the bird, in the living K'iche' tradition. Its imagery is the eagle, vision, the higher mind, and the far sight of the bird that rises above the land; the K'iche' Tz'ikin is also the day of fortune and money, the messenger between the sacred and the human. It is associated with aspiration, clarity of sight, and good luck. In the directional scheme that runs through the twenty signs it belongs to the west and the colour black. These are the meanings the Maya calendrical tradition carries for the day.
Men is the fifteenth of the twenty Tzolk'in day signs; the living K'iche' tradition knows the corresponding day as Tz'ikin, the general K'iche' word for bird, matching the Yucatec sign's own association with the eagle and with vision, both literal eyesight and, by extension, foresight or wisdom. In the directional scheme, Men belongs to the west and the colour black. Birds held wide-ranging symbolic importance across Maya religion, from the principal bird deity associated with the Popol Vuh's antagonist Vucub Caquix to the many bird forms taken by deities and ancestral spirits in Classic-period art, and Tz'ikin is read by contemporary daykeepers as governing prosperity, good fortune and clear sight in both a practical and a spiritual sense.