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?”
Tag Archives: Carl Munck
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…”
Progress in Metrology: The Eclipse Year Unit Classified
It almost tried to get past me, but thankfully it kept bothering me until I went back and took another look. A study inspired by DUNE at GHMB resulted in identifying a chain of numbers linked by 2 Pi that included both the Lunar Year AND the Eclipse Year, and today I went back andContinue reading “Progress in Metrology: The Eclipse Year Unit Classified”
A Little More About Mayan Calendar Stones: Ucanal
To be honest, recent work has already uncovered so much that is new, it may take some time for all of it to really sink in. I’m really only still starting to learn why the ancient Maya combined some of the numbers in their altars that they did. In my most recent notes there isContinue reading “A Little More About Mayan Calendar Stones: Ucanal”
I Survived Mayan Altars (I Think)
I’ve been revisiting some of the original passages from Teobert Maler and Sylvanus Morley giving dimensions for Mayan circular “altars”, or as I prefer to think of them, calendar stones or calendar calculators. The Aztec Sun Stone came along early in my newly found devotion to applying Munck’s numbers to the mystery of ancient monumentContinue reading “I Survived Mayan Altars (I Think)”
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