Muluc is the ninth 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, Muluc, it corresponds to the day Toj in the living K'iche' tradition. Its imagery is water and the moon, and in the K'iche' Toj the theme of offering, payment, and the settling of debts, purification and the reciprocity between people and the sacred. It is a sign of emotion, atonement, and the giving that keeps the world in balance. In the directional scheme that runs through the twenty signs it belongs to the east and the colour red. These are the meanings the Maya calendrical tradition carries for the day, framed as that living tradition understands them.
Muluc is the ninth of the twenty Tzolk'in day signs; the living K'iche' tradition knows the corresponding day as Toj, a name meaning payment or offering, read by contemporary daykeepers as governing debts, both material and spiritual, and their settlement. Muluc's own Yucatec imagery centres on water and on ritual offering, consistent with Toj's meaning even though the two names are not linguistic translations of one another. In the directional scheme, Muluc belongs to the east and the colour red, opening the third of the five four-day directional sets. Some epigraphers connect the Muluc glyph, which can incorporate a jade or water-drop motif in Classic inscriptions, to water's broader association across Maya religion with both material wealth, jade being a store of value, and ritual purification.