This is the fourth of the thirteen numbers, or tones, that combine with the twenty day signs to build the 260-day Tzolk'in. In living Maya daykeeping the coefficient is simply the number four, kajib', a number of special weight, for four is the number of the directions, the corners of the world, and the pillars that hold up the sky. The name recorded here, Self-Existing, and its keyword of definition and form belong to the modern Dreamspell system of Jose Arguelles, a New Age overlay from the 1980s distinct from traditional Maya practice; the daykeepers reckon by the number itself. The authentic element is the coefficient four and its place in pairing thirteen numbers with twenty signs to produce the 260 distinct days that structure Maya ceremonial life.
The fourth of the thirteen numbers that combine with the twenty day signs to generate the Tzolk'in's 260-day count, marking the fourth day of its trecena. Four carries broader numerical significance across Maya and wider Mesoamerican cosmology generally, corresponding to the four cardinal directions and their associated colours, east and red, north and white, west and black, south and yellow, the same four-part scheme that assigns each of the twenty day signs its own direction and colour in the cycle recorded on this site's Tzolk'in day-sign pages. The Dreamspell system's own name for this position, "Self-Existing," again reflects Jose Arguelles's 1987 invented vocabulary rather than a term used by contemporary Maya daykeepers, who count in their own languages without this overlay.
Sources Time and the Highland MayaBarbara Tedlock with Dreamspell: The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013Jose Arguelles