Ajaw
![Logogram for the 20th named-day of the Tzolkin Maya calendar cycle, Ajaw (this version typical of many monumental inscriptions).](/Images/godic/202412/18/MAYA-g-log-cal-D20-Ajaw5828.png")
Ajaw or Ahau (pronounced IPA-esp [aχa:f] or [axaːu]and written "ajaaw") ('Lord') has two significations in the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It may represent a political title attested from Mayan epigraphic inscriptions, or it may designate the concluding, 20th named day of the divinatory calendar (tzolk'in), on which a king's k'atun-ending rituals would fall.