The yearly Mewa - Bame

The Mewa changes every year and the way it does is called the Flying Bird Movement. The nine magic Mewa square numbers are also combined with the Rab-byung 60-year cycle, so that every 180 years the same Mewa number will correlate with the same element-animal year.

Bame, the Yearly Mewa, is the number in the middle of the square.

Pattern of the Flying Bird Movement

Rotation

(1996 Fire Mouse)	(1997 Fire Ox)	(1998 Earth Tiger)
(1999 Earth Rabbit)	(2000 Iron Dragon)	(2001 Iron Snake)
(2002 Water Horse)	(2003 Water Sheep)	(2004 Wood Monkey)