I am Tat Apab'yan Tew, an Ajq'ij – spiritual guide of a K'iche' Maya lineage of the highlands of Guatemala since 1998. In addition to being an expert reader of the Maya Calendar, day keeper, bone healer, herbalist, I am the only man that has been trained as a midwife in the highlands. Having the trust and privilege to support the women in successfully going through all the process of welcoming a baby, from guiding and healing for successful inception/conception, throughout support, care and necessary ceremonial, herbal healing and communication through singing to the baby during the gestation and finally receiving the baby in the Maya ways.

During the decades of practice reading the Maya Calendar and work as a midwife of the highlands I developed an extended scheme of understanding the consciousness of the baby through the pregnancy time. An introduction of that has been shared in my first book – The Birth of a Universe, The Maya Science of Pregnancy.

Being fluent in K'iche' language, English and Spanish, I am sharing the ancient science worldwide. The book and the extended wisdom of the pregnancy time and how it shapes the consciousness for the whole life has been presented in USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, England, Greece, Romania, Russia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Australia, Israel, Argentina and other. I have been running in person conferences and events throughout the USA, Europe and Mexico for over a decade. Apart from sharing in conferences, I am holding online courses for an international group of students in English and Spanish.

Another book, following 'The Birth of a Universe' is currently being written, explaining what pregnancy brings and what is the role of participant elements during conception to understand what personality and character is in adult times.

I am an Associate Professor by Universidad Maya Kaqchikel, Nimatijob'al Maya' Kaqchikel, Campus Xenacoj, Guatemala 2015 to date.

My efforts have been directed to present an ancient knowledge not as a folkloric tale, but as a science that can explain us all as the result of inception/conception processes. A full science still to be shared.

In my own words

The Maya science and philosophy that studies procreation points towards a sacred and cultured femininity. In the acts of one's mother are the biological and cognitive connections that will structure the deployment of the different forms of conscience through which one will face the world and decant in perception and interpretation.

What People Say

"Ajq'ij Apab'yan Tew, International Associate Professor from Universidad Maya Kaqchikel, sustains the ancient traditions of the Maya people in his role as reader of the Mayan Calendar, bone therapist, auxiliary midwife, and ceremonial historian. His new book expresses these traditions in a way that speaks to the heart of the practitioner and layperson alike".

Katherine J. Bailes, JD, PhD.
Mythological Studies, Johnson County Community College.

"Ajq'ij Tat Apab'yan Tew, International Research Associate Professor at our Universidad Maya Kaqchikel of Guatemala, presents in this text a vision of our Maya ancestors, transmitted by grandmothers and grandfathers, which shows the awareness and counting of time as a way of doing science, a knowledge based on the observation of the dynamics of the movement of the universe where, systematically, each component is important for everything that has life".

MA. Licerio Camey
Sociologist, Academic coordinator, UMK

"If there is one Ajq'ij who could bring this poetic, ancient & profound science to the global contemporary consciousness without losing or damaging it's authentic nature it is Tat Apab'yan. His class has not only highlighted this time in my life but has taken over who I am at the core. He knows this information like a fish knows water. He has an incredible wealth of knowledge in the Maya Calendar & an otherworldly manner when answering questions. He spoke with certainty of things that would mystify a person who doesn't know this science. He is magical, in reality he is better than any wizard. He is a healer & works with the compounding components of this science & traditions".

Jamie Johnson
North Caroline, USA

"Studying the Maya calendar has changed my life so much, and I am so glad that I have found this path. I hope that in the future, more people will come to realize the importance of this ancient knowledge."

Nicholas A. Krieger
Oregon, USA