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Wayeb (unlucky days)

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Divinity Atlas. "Wayeb (unlucky days)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/haabmonth/wayeb-unlucky-days.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Wayeb (unlucky days). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/haabmonth/wayeb-unlucky-days

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@misc{divinityatlas-wayeb-unlucky-days,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Wayeb (unlucky days)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/haabmonth/wayeb-unlucky-days},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Wayeb is the five-day span appended after the eighteen Haab months to complete the 365-day solar year. Maya sources from across the region treat it as a dangerous, liminal stretch outside ordinary time, not as a nineteenth month, and traditional practice restricted activity during it accordingly.

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