This is the ninth of the thirteen numbers, or tones, that combine with the twenty day signs to form the 260-day Tzolk'in. In living Maya daykeeping the coefficient is simply the number nine, b'elejeb', a number strongly associated with the nine lords of the night and the levels of the underworld, and often felt as a day of the ancestors and of greater cycles. The name recorded here, Solar, and its keyword of intention belong to the modern Dreamspell system of Jose Arguelles, a New Age overlay from the 1980s that is distinct from the Maya count and not part of traditional daykeeping. The daykeepers reckon by the number itself. The authentic element is the coefficient nine and its role in the interlocking of thirteen numbers with twenty day signs that produces the 260 unique days of the sacred count.
The ninth of the thirteen numbers that combine with the twenty day signs to generate the Tzolk'in's 260-day count, marking the ninth day of its trecena. Nine carries its own separate cosmological association in Maya tradition, corresponding in some colonial and epigraphic sources to the nine levels of the underworld, Xibalba, paired with the thirteen levels of the heavens in a cosmological structure distinct from, though sometimes loosely associated with, the Tzolk'in's own thirteen-number count; the Bolon Yokte K'uh, a group of nine deities attested in Classic inscriptions including the much-discussed Tortuguero Monument 6, is one specific attested reference point for the number nine's independent religious significance.
Sources Time and the Highland MayaBarbara Tedlock with Dreamspell: The Journey of Timeship Earth 2013Jose Arguelles