| Positions held by days expressed in Mayan notation | 0, 5, 10, 15 | 1, 6, 11, 16 | 2, 7, 12, 17 | 3, 8, 13, 18 | 4, 9, 14, 19 | |
| Names of days in each group | Ik Manik Eb Caban | Akbal Lamat Ben Eznab | Kan Mulac Ix Cauac | Chicchan Oc Men Ahau | Cimi Chuen Cib Imix |
Now let us summarize the points which we have successively established as resulting from the combination of the tonalamatl and haab, remembering always that as yet we have been dealing only with
the name parts of the days and not their complete designations. Bearing this in mind, we may state the following facts concerning the 20 day-names and their positions in the divisions of the year:
1. The Maya year and its several divisions could begin only with one of these four day-names: Ik, Manik, Eb, and Caban.
2. Consequently, any particular position in the divisions of the year could be occupied only by one of four day-names.
3. Consequently, every fifth year any particular day-name returned to the same position in the divisions of the year.
4. Consequently, any particular day-name could occupy only one of four positions in the divisions of the year, each of which it held in successive years, returning to the same position every fifth year.
5. Consequently, the twenty day-names were divided into five groups of four day-names each, any day-name of any group being five days distant from the day-name of the same group next preceding it.
6. Finally, in any given year any particular day-name occupied the same relative position throughout the divisions of that year.
Up to this point, however, as above stated, we have not been dealing with the complete designations of the Maya days, but only their name parts or name glyphs, the positions of which in the several divisions of the year we have ascertained.