I wrote 'red' meat because colour seems to be one of the qualities used when constructing the month calendar. Of course meat is red, but I had to write it because colours are not very important in our material society. Who reflects on the fact that meat is red?

I guess the contrast from red (meat) to white (bones) in Mac contra Kankin is balanced by the colours of Xul and Yaxkin:

To this must then be added the distinction between the animal and vegetable kingdoms:

	fauna	flora
brown?			green
	6 Xul	7 Yaxkin
red			white
	13 Mac	14 Kankin

We could improve the structure by also adding 'raw' contra 'cooked', with midsummer as the time of 'cooking'. I am using these concept following Claude Lévi-Strauss. With 'cooked' means changed by culture, while 'raw' means natural.

This game can be taken one step further, to the contrast between Mol and Ch'en:

There are similarities between the ek (black) glyph type and mol:

ek	8 Mol

"Difficulty is encountered with this glyph [ek], on account of its similarity of form with the month Mol, minus the surrounding dots. Its use as a main element is therefore unclear. As a color prefix it is simple, either as sign of the West, or in other connections ..." (Gates)

I have not copied the surrounding dots in Mol. This is how it can look in complete form:

Then we have Gates' glyph number 356:

"This glyph is most puzzling. Surrounded by dots it becomes the month Mol, that word meaning 'heap'. In the pictures in the Madrid the form at times seems to represent the sprouting plant. Again the form is at times almost indistinguishable from glyph 68, for black; note 356.3.1. Very careful analysis is called for." (Gates)

It seems rather obvious for me, though. The 'hill' is a heap of vegetable mould - it is the heap of 'cooking'. Black is the colour of the earth of the MOuLd.

The opposite of Mol is Ch'en, because it is a well. High as a hill contra low as a well. Also earth contra water. But it is black down there:

	earth	water
high			low
	8 Mol	9 Ch'en

The black contrasting pair Mol and Ch'en says 2 (of the same colour), and there are also 2 white months and 2 red ones:

9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh	13 Mac	14 Kankin
black	?	white	red	red	white

The 2nd in each of these 3 colour pairs apparently are 'dead' (the structureless fluid water, the meat, the bones).

6 Xul	7 Yaxkin	8 Mol	9 Ch'en
	10 Yax presumably represents 'sky' (because 8 and 9 are 'earth' respectively 'water').
10 Yax
11 Sac	12 Ceh	13 Mac	14 Kankin