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Callanish, Part 3

I’ve probably gone and got myself into trouble by attempting to be more comprehensive metrologically in my attempts at interpretation of some of the Callanish “stone circle” sites. On the one hand, such an approach isn’t necessary, nor was it involved in many apparent interpretive successes – that includes interpreting the Great Pyramid interior, whereContinue reading “Callanish, Part 3”

Still More Mayan Miscellany

The other day I set aside a couple of hours to watch several of William Saturno’s video lectures on YouTube. I’m not only very interested in his general remarks on Mayan calendars, but also some of the discoveries he was involved in. Saturno’s views on why calendars were important to the Maya is generally veryContinue reading “Still More Mayan Miscellany”

Impressions of The Black Pyramid

Keith Hamilton has published yet another installment in his most excellent Layman’s Guide series, The Black Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Dahshur, A Layman’s Guide. I am much indebted to Keith as along with some very interesting insights and speculation, Keith’s paper also offers interior data for the pyramid attributed to Dieter Arnold’s Der PyramidenbezirkContinue reading “Impressions of The Black Pyramid”

Callanish, Part 2

Some additional Callanish sites covered by Prof. Thom in the book Megalithic Sites in Britain: Callanish III is interesting for being a novel concentric ellipse contained in a circle. I’m very tempted to try to interpret it as making a visual lunar reference but at present I’m somehow having trouble finding data on duration ofContinue reading “Callanish, Part 2”

Callanish, Part 1

As much attention as I’ve paid to Mayan sites in recent weeks, I find myself really missing studies of Megalithic sites in the UK, so I decided to touch base with Callanish, and suddenly found myself surprisingly short on data related to previous interpretive efforts. I’ve posted a little on the subject previously, but someContinue reading “Callanish, Part 1”

A Postcard from Xtampak

As ever, I struggle with the complexity of achieving an overview of ancient architecture compared with the potential difficulty of identifying certain numbers without one, and because we see many of the same measures “reused” in other structures but arranged in different groupings, an overview can ideally direct us to situations where we can obtainContinue reading “A Postcard from Xtampak”

More Mayan Miscellanous

I’ve brought up exponents and exponential use of data retrieval tools lately (please refer to preceding posts for diagram of peak exponential value of some of the most important numbers used to retrieve data). Besides knowing about them and their value as series data retrieval tools, conversion factors, building blocks and so forth, we mightContinue reading “More Mayan Miscellanous”

A Postcard from Dsecilna

Being it is near to Dzibilchaltun on the list, I happened to notice the omission of data for the Mayan site Dsecilna. It might have happened because the site is probably rather ruinous and there were more intact ones that called for attention. I don’t know if I can conjure enough for a decent blogContinue reading “A Postcard from Dsecilna”

Fanfare for the Common Math

I don’t seem to be coming up with the stupendous post on the subject that I’d hoped for, but at least a little bit really should be said about a few things nonetheless. I’m more impressed with the work of David Kenworthy and Bogna Krys (rodz) than ever, after having done some more detailed workContinue reading “Fanfare for the Common Math”

A Random Review of the Megalithic Yard(s)

In the previous post, we saw this table of the usefulness of various major constants in terms of exponential use (at higher powers). The table reminds us of the usefulness and important of the Squared Munck Megalithic Yard, even while we now have a small menagerie of other value Megalithic Yard values – the “AlternateContinue reading “A Random Review of the Megalithic Yard(s)”