The Mean Circumference of the Sarcen Circle
With the model we have so far, which thus far only describes the sarcen circle, we have circumference values of 326.4209971 ft (outer circumference) or 120 Meg Yards of 2.720174976 feet, and 305.7985077 ft (inner circumference).
We can also determine a mean circumference value — 326.4209971 + 305.7985077 = 632.2195048, and 632.2195048 / 2 = 316.1097524.
The system of numbers I use (i.e., “Munck’s”) is all about multiplication and division – addition and subtraction usually aren’t kind to it, and normally force us to accept approximations. A standard of accuracy of .9995 or higher appears to be a universal standard that we can use to help evaluate approximations. Although this standard may have been truly universal in the ancient world, I often refer to it as “the Giza Standard”, because it was developed in the present by working with the architecture of Giza, primarily the Great Pyramid.
Thus we can accept the raw mean circumference value 316.1097524 as meaning the valid and important figure 316.0557713, to an accuracy of 316.0557713 / 316.1097524 = 0.9998292330, better than the proposed universal .9995 minimum.
This mean circumference value relative to the inner and outer circumference values, gives us for ratios
326.4209971 / 316.0557713 = 1.03279555933
316.0557713 / 305.7985077 = 1.03354255610
Both of these are important numbers, particularly the second one, as some people who’ve followed Munck’s work may already know. It’s easily enough to make us think we’ve done something right here, although there is further exploration of the meaning of these values we can undertake later.
The ratio between these two figures, by the way, is
1.03354255610 / 1.03279555933 = 1.000723277
Anyone “just tuning in” might want to make a note of that figure, 1.000723277, which more than makes up for the slightly lopsided averaging here.
1.000723277 first appeared in print, to the best of my knowledge, when a reader named Doug wrote into Munck’s newsletter to inquire about it. Munck, who was of course already aware of it, called it a “gremlin” in the works, and Michael Morton and I followed suit.
What it really is, is THE most important fine ratio in the entire system of numbers I work with. In the past several years, it’s been revealed as the ratio between two primary sets of numbers that express ancient planetary cycles, and it’s also very important to ancient metrology in this mathematical system.
The Outer Bluestone Circle
For the outer bluestone ring, Prof. Thom (Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany, pg 145) determines a likely diameter of 28.65 Megalithic Yards. This is remarkably close to the half-Radian, 57.29577952 / 2 = 28.64788976. 28.64788976 x 2.720174976 = 77.92727284, the diameter in feet, and 77.92727284 x Pi = 244.8157478 gives us the circumference in feet.
Since we already seem to have discovered the use of two “Egyptian” units of measure, the Remen and the Royal Cubit at Stonehenge, 77.92727284 / 1.216733693 = 64.04628970 Remens and 77.92727284 / 1.718873385 = 45.33624962 Royal Cubits. Both of these are also significant. 64.04628970 is (for example) exactly ten times the perimeter/height ratio of Mycerinus’ pyramid at Giza in my recent revision; 45.33624962 is one-half of 90.67249924.For a better perspective, let’s backtrack here a little to a very important fact. For the circular monument in question, the 360 degrees of a circle divided by the inner circumference in feet gives us360 / 305.7985077 = 1.177245771, thus Stonehenge gives a dramatic display of Munck’s “Alternate Pi”, 1.177245771. I’ve also shown in the previous post about Stonehenge where Stonehenge dramatically displays the number 1.067438159 as the ratio between outer and inner circumference of the sarcen circle.
1.067438159 / 1.177245771 = 90.67249924 / 100
Relative to the circumferences values for the sarcen circle
326.4209971 / 244.8157478 = 1.3333333333
316.0557713 / 244.8157478 = 1.2909944484
305.7985077 / 244.8157478 = 1.2490965570
All of these ratios are significant, although I’m a little disappointed to see the 1.333333333 ratio, it’s a little bit “pedestrian”, it’s simply 4/3. What might be more interesting is if it turned out to be something like 1.331433599, which is half of an important timekeeping number, 2.662867199, that seems to be involved in the calendar formulas imbedded in the proportions of Mesoamerican calendar-related artifacts like the Sun Stone and Tizoc Stone.
As always, this is when ancient architecture and artifacts are measured first and foremost in modern feet, which my work (and Munck) indicates was an ancient universal standard of measurement that we’ve inherited without inheriting its history. It’s what gives profound meaning to other ancient measurements.
I do have some misgivings about this still, even after over a decade. 77.92727284 x 10 is very near to the Mars Synodic Period of 779.96 days, although I have yet to actually be able to make 779.2727284 stick as a representation of this ~780 cycle. It may not be entirely out of the question that what was intended for the outer bluestone circle was slightly higher than 77.92727284 and closer to 779.96 / 10.
1.2909944484 is reassuring to see, it’s the reciprocal of the square root of 60,
1 / (1.2909944484 / 10) = 7.745966692 (sqrt 60)
which is not only a particularly powerful data retrieval tool as previously mentioned, it’s an intrinsic part of Munck’s interpretation of Stonehenge. To Munck’s reckoning, the 60 stones of the sarcen circle and the 15 stones of the sarcen “horseshoe” indicate that we should apply the square roots of 60 and 15 to our Stonehenge calculations. (I’ll have more to say about this later).
Suffice it for now that sqrt 60 seems to have been quite popular in ancient American architectural math, and for good reason.
Perhaps if we see how the tentative 77.92727284 ft diameter of the outer bluestone circle relates to the sarcen circle circumference values we’ve already been looking at, it might lend more clarity?
326.4209971 / 77.92727284 = 4.188790204
316.0557713 / 77.92727284 = 4.055778673 = (1.622311470 / 4) x 10
305.7985077 / 77.92727284 = 3.924152566
These are significant numbers too, so hopefully the nomination of values for the measures of the outer bluestone circle look like less of a mistake.
77.92727284 also responds well to two of the numbers that Stonehenge seems most enthusiastic about expressing thus far, 1.177245771 and 1.067438159.
77.92727284 x 1.17724571 = 9.173955211 = 2.920160646 x Pi which is very significant (1.177245771 also works at higher powers to retrieve additional data from 77.92727284)
77.92727284 / 1.067438159 = 73.00401615 — this is the best valid representation to date for the number 73, which is important to ancient calendars, and 73.00301615 / 2 = 365.0200808 / 10, so there is the ~365-day calendar year as well.
If 77.92727284 is the correct diameter for the outer bluestone circle, you saw it here. There’s a lot more that can said about this, but for now let’s call that a start.
–Luke Piwalker
Luke Piwalker 