Well, it’s not that much of a tale, really…
I had several similar numbers of about 1.170 appear when I was very carefully scrutinizing Mayan architecture. I had no idea at the time these numbers might belong to Mercury and I wasn’t as careful with the notes apparently as I might have been if I’d known they might be planetary values. I considered them more as merely annoyances that may not have been worth using because of the risk of their being confused with the Megalithic Foot value of, to use my numbers, 1.177245771.
In absentia of the concise materials I created at one point, I will attempt to assemble a small anthology on one or more of these numbers. This one appears on my pooly curated list of numbers
1.170576931 = 144869.2944 / 123758.8838; 1.027340742 x 1.067438159^2; 1.1553131313 / Pi^2; 360 / (6.150813123 / 2); 1.62231147 / (1.177245771^2); 1.909859319 / (1.177245771^3); 224.8373806 / 1.177245771
We can see then that such a number can be readily constructed from an interesting group of major constants including 1.177245771 and 1.62231147 most notably (most of which are known to be available at Stonehenge)
1.171028027 also exists. It is twice the reciprocal of 16 Hashimi Cubits. 1 / (16 x 1.067438159) = 1.171027395 / 10^n.
One or more of these numbers may essentially be forms of 52 x 225 = 11700 et cet and available as such at Stonehenge.
One reason there is at least a third nomination is because of the link the Calendar Round through the major constant 1.622311470, one of a small handful of the most important constants at work
HVC A 18983.99126 / 1.622311470 = 1.170181658
HVC B 18997.72194 / 1.622311470 = 1.171028023
HVC C 18990.40382 / 1.622311470 = 1.170576931
These were seen in equations relating to the Mayan Calendar and to the architecture of the Rio Bec site. It’s about where, after learning a great deal and getting a boost in understand of ancient calendars second only to that received from Tikal’s architecture, I began to wonder if I were truly ready to fathom all of Rio Bec’s cosmological secrets.
This in fact could prove to be the key equation in determining a set of alternate Mercury values from the various Half Venus Cycle values.
Some additional notes point out that some figures like these may be seen as (1 / Megalithic Yard x) / Pi.
(1 / 2.720174976) / Pi = 1.170181657 / 10
(1 / 2.719256444) / Pi = 1.170576931 / 10
(1 / 2.718208958) / Pi = 1.171028023 / 10
These same Megalithic Yard values can also be seen as various approximations of (1 /10th of) the Draconic Month, which in turn can be seen as Anomalistic Month / Pi^2.
I should point out an observation from earlier today – if we’re really some to come up with approximations for the 364 built into 819 and no doubt other alternate expressions used by the Maya, 364 / 225 = 1.617777777, suggestive of no less than three different numbers that have vied for the title of “Rio Bec Phi”. Ultimately, this could be why a curious diversity of secondary Phi-like values such as these may be have been tolerated by the ancients.
We have already seen such numbers of approximately 1.170 in a number of places.
Teobert Maler’s plan and data for the summit of the El Castillo Pyramid at Chichen Itza. In addition to much better known and less controversial calendar numbers, the upper platform has a raw length / width ratio estimated at 1433 / 1224 = 1.170751643
Similar numbers have been seen in data for Megalithic sites besides Stonehenge, and possibly in ancient Greek architecture as well.
The Treasury of Minyas: Door width at top (35 x 2 = 70 d) = 3.724389102 = 1.170051344 / Pi)
Here are some additional archival notes on any of these numbers, including this mathematical equivalent of an ice cream headache that begins as an explanation of the “Real Mayan Annoyance” 2.926442327
29.26442327 = (1 / 18983.99126) / 18 = 3 / 1.025135528 = 1.170576931 / 4 = 2 “Stecchini” Cubits of 1.722570927 ft / 1.177245771 = 4.737410115 / 1.61882914 = 1.676727943 / 57.29577951 = 315.3773497 / 57.29577951^4 (with other important numbers in the series) = (1.02152108 / 2) x 57.2957791 = 9.315155240 x Pi = (1 / 1.073519415) x Pi = (19.46773764 x 2) / (Pi/6)^4 = 1.053519238 / 360 = (1.21935097 x 2) x 12 = 6.579736264 / VOP = 1.075828718 / 2.720174976 = 1.179778205 x 8 (Pi^3) = 1.040913799 x (1.676727943^2) = 2.920160646 x 1.002151142 = 1.067438159 / 364.7562611 = (19.46772764 x 2) / (364.7562611^2) = 5.741903142 / 1.962076284
These notes point out how well such a number fits into the mathematical environment at Tikal and other places where (Pi / 3) is prevalent
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^1) = 1.117818626
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^2) = 1.067438159
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^3) = 1.019328357
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^4) = 9.733868796
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^5) = 9.295160006 (sqrt 8640)
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^6) = 887.6223994 square root of the volume of a sphere
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^7) = 84.76169252
1.170576928 / ((Pi/3)^8) = 8.094145671 = 1.618829140 / 2
1.170576931 should probably be classified as a “Wonder Number”.
We can see therein that this number is provided at Stonehenge several additional times over, and more if 887.6223994 proves to be valid for the Aubrey Circle minimum circumference.
It’s curious how much so far that the C value of this putative secondary Mercury Synodic Period value of ~117 seems to dominate the proceedings. It seems a good vote of confidence for the importance of the C set of values, and ultimately additional calendar sets.
Note that 115.53131313, the newly suggested candidate for the approximation of the Mercury Synodic Period as ~115.88, was linked to 1.170576928 in the above equations by the ratio Pi^2, which would make for a very direct and very easily remembered connection.
It’s very interesting how Venus is part of the picture either way via the 260 day Tzolkin: 260 / 225 = 115.55555555 / 100 and 260 / 117 = 5 / 225 x 100
Some time ago, the reciprocal of 1.170576931 was found to be part of a 2 Pi series which includes the Saturn Orbital Period and 819.2165597 as a possible approximation of the Mayan calendar number 819, which the ancient Egyptians may have also used.
Since Mercury intruded on the last post which was supposed to be all about Mars, it will be only fair for the concerns of the Martian cycles to intrude on this post about Mercury.
I have in my notes that:
The Metonic Cycle of 6939.688 days / Mars Synodic Period 780 days = 88.97035897, which is (2 / 224.793967) x 10^n, which may be represented in the possible maximum circumference of the Aubrey Circle by extrapolation from suggested minimum and mean values. Given a reasonable fixed value for either the Nodal Cycle or the MaSP, we should hopefully then be able to extrapolate one from the other using this formula.
The Saros Cycle of 6585.32 days / MaSP 780 days = 84.42719359, which seems remarkably close to the reciprocal of 12 x (Pi^2). 84.43431970, which is the link between approximations of the Half Venus Cycle / Calendar Round and of the Venus Orbital Period.
18983.99126 / 84.43431970 = 224.8373808 and etc.
The Nodal Cycle of ~6793 days / MaSP 780 days = 8.708974359, which bears considerable resemblance to a number found at Tikal at the very beginning of my significant adventures there, as the height of the exterior door of Temple II, where the door width and height / width ratio are the Munck favorites, the Square Munck Megalitic Yard and Munck’s “Alternate Pi” (a putative Megalithic Foot value),
(2.719715671^2) x 1.177245771 = 7.396853331 x 1.177245771 = 8.707914303
It’s worth remembering that 7.396853331 also bear a very direct relationship to one another though basic circular geometry (and also what else belongs to the very same very important 2 Pi chain, which includes the Remen, the Egyptian Royal Cubit, the Thom Mid-Clythe Quantum, and the Petrie Stonehenge Unit).
7.396853331 / (2 Pi) = 1.177245771
Lastly, relating to recent topics, I might point out that MaSP 780 days / Anomalistic Month 27.55 days = 28.31215971, which among other things is suspiciously close to data points given by Richard Bartosz (Orpbit) for the Stonehenge Station Stones Rectangle (stones 92 to 94 = 283.0917 ft), which may or may not be meaningful but may very plausibly be, all things considered.
1 / (3 x 1.177245771) = 283.146766 / (10^n).
A number that is perhaps not too dissimilar (2834.93664) can be found among the helpful pages of James Dwyer.
An interesting thing about Dwyer’s work is that despite its devotion to Biblical astronomy, we are able to find in it at least several numbers suggestive of primary forms of the Mayan Calendar Round (HVC) that I work with.
5.2684 percent of days https://design-of-time.com/fifty.htm
1 / 5.2684 = 18981.09483 / 10^n = ~HVC A
19.242 days https://design-of-time.com/sevency.htm
19.242 x (Pi^2) = 18991.09279 / 10^n = ~HVC C
I hope that time will tell us exactly what to make of the Stations Stones.
–Luke Piwalker
Luke Piwalker 