The corresponding Maya day is Kab'an, in Yucatec Caban, from the word for earth, and it is associated with the earth itself and, in several sources, with earthquakes and with the movement of the ground; the Aztec equivalent day is Ollin, movement or earthquake, which is the day-sign of the present world age in the Aztec cosmology. Colonial Yucatec sources also link it to thought or reasoning. The Dreamspell reading of navigation and synchronicity keeps the earth and adds a modern layer; the association with earthquake, which is the concrete and rather alarming content of the Aztec parallel and of some Maya readings, is not present in it.
Caban is the seventeenth of the twenty authentic Tzolk'in day signs, its imagery the earth, intelligence and synchronicity; the living K'iche' daykeeping tradition knows the corresponding day as No'j, meaning thought, knowledge or wisdom. In the directional scheme, Caban belongs to the east and the colour red, opening the Tzolk'in's fifth and final four-sign directional set. Arguelles's Solar Seal 17, Red Earth, borrows Caban's earth and synchronicity imagery closely, one of the system's more direct name-borrowings, keeping both the earth association and, loosely, the sense of intelligent, patterned movement No'j carries in K'iche' tradition.