Etznab in Yucatec is Tijax in K'iche', and the sign is the flint or obsidian blade. Both traditions read it as the cutting edge, the instrument of sacrifice and of surgery, and the Classic glyph is drawn as a knapped blade with a crosshatched pattern that also carries the sense of a mirror.
Central Mexico places Tecpatl, flint knife, in the eighteenth position, an exact agreement, and Tecpatl is additionally one of the four Nahua year bearers alongside Calli, Tochtli and Acatl. The blade is one of the images that needed no translation anywhere in Mesoamerica.
The mirror reading is worth keeping alongside the blade. Polished obsidian was the mirror material, and the same stone that opens a body also shows a face, so the sign carries both the wound and the reflection. Highland daykeepers connect Tijax with healing as well as with conflict, since the blade is the surgeon's as much as the sacrificer's. Etznab is not a Year Bearer in either Maya set, the Classic Ik, Manik, Eb and Kaban or the Yucatec Kan, Muluc, Ix and Kawak.
The eighteenth position is also a reminder of how the glyphs were read. Etznab's crosshatching is a scribal convention for a dark, reflective or stony surface, used in many signs beyond this one, so the day glyph is legible partly through a general graphic vocabulary rather than as an isolated picture. Decipherment of the day signs proceeded alongside decipherment of that vocabulary.