I think my big adventure following in Susan Milbrath’s footsteps may have about run out of steam. I’m not sure where the data exists to carry on the inquiry further. Some of it may be in Jean Meeus’ publications but not necessarily because there are clear indications that even his data doesn’t go far enoughContinue reading “Return to Tikal, Part 1”
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Mayan Telescopes?
In my recent attempt at a paper posted to academia.edu, I audaciously suggest that ancient Americans were aware of Saturn’s rings and capitalized on this knowledge in making symbolic representations of what the stars, planets, moon and sun were up to at a given point in time. I deliberately tried to avoid getting into theContinue reading “Mayan Telescopes?”
Short Reports 6
The Great Turtle In high school, my best friend used to occasionally refer to the “Great Turtle” with a gleam in his eye. I never found out where he got this concept, but I always took it be something like a refinement of the idea of the “Flying Spaghetti Monster” – if you’re going toContinue reading “Short Reports 6”
What Is Stonehenge?
I continue to wrestle with some of the details involved in exploring my questions about ancient American iconography and planetary/stellar symbolism, such as a considerable amount of rather time-consuming manual data entry and searching for scattered images and drawings of monumental artifacts like stelae and altars. Ideally, this may help provide the opportunity to betterContinue reading “What Is Stonehenge?”
In the Footsteps of the Noble Ancient Astronomer
My apologies to patrons of this blog for the major slowdown in news and new posts. I’d been making the effort this year to try to post daily on average as there are still many new things that can be pointed out even for as much as we seem to have been catching up withContinue reading “In the Footsteps of the Noble Ancient Astronomer”
Return to the Pyramid of Niches
I have posted my partial model of the base dimensions of the Pyramid of Niches at El Tajin in Mexico frequently enough, because in many ways it serves as a very good example, and it is quite remarkable that we have anything like it with there being so seemingly few reliable data sets for ancientContinue reading “Return to the Pyramid of Niches”
Dressing Down the Dresden Codex?
As I pour over the odd orthodox academic work on Mayan calendar numbers, some number or other often leaps out at me. The other day I was looking at Venus and the Dresden Codex Eclipse Table (1995) by Frederick Martin and one caught my eye. It is in my notes that it is in theContinue reading “Dressing Down the Dresden Codex?”
Short Reports 5
The Second Register of the Planetary Tables I don’t actually have anything to report on this, per se – no conclusions yet – but I’ve started the painstaking process of revising my astronomical cycles tables so that they have room to record an increasing number suggestions for “second register” figures. I do not know how wellContinue reading “Short Reports 5”
Short Reports 4
The Current State of Ancient Metrology Several more probable ancient units of length measure, thought to have been used to express astronomical / calendar related values, have been discovered since last posting. At present, the all-inclusive series (which seems to find the proposed Egyptian Sacred Cubit in the middle) looks like this, after the realizationContinue reading “Short Reports 4”
Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars…
I should figure that more weird Star Wars irony might come along. It was bad enough to have one “Luke Piwalker” fixated on Tikal after Tikal having made cameo appearances in Star Wars films, but my latest round of inquiry into ancient calendars actually brings us to the term “Star Wars” as used by MayanContinue reading “Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars…”
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