Recently I wrote about approximations of an oversized Mercury Synodic Period of 117 days rather than a more accurate value of 116. 117 comes from more orthodox literature on Mayan calendars and discussion of the scant few surviving Mayan codices. Th same literature advises us of a variation on the Venus Synodic Period of 585Continue reading ““585” – A New “Wonder Number””
Tag Archives: Giza
The Tomb of Queen Meresankh at Giza
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts released a series on Egyptian mastaba tombs. They are intriguing both because they are more plentiful than pyramids, and because we may be able to safely assume that the same basic concepts of design and the use of numbers in architecture used in the pyramids may have been usedContinue reading “The Tomb of Queen Meresankh at Giza”
The Full Moon Cycle
I recently mentioned the figure of 411.8202744 in regard to Giza subsidiary pyramid G1a, the northernmost of the three (actually four including G1d) small pyramids on the east side of the Great Pyramid. “The duration of one full moon cycle is: 411.78443029 days (411 days 18 hours 49 minutes 35 seconds)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year 1.067438159 / 25920 = 411.8202744Continue reading “The Full Moon Cycle”
Some Initial Impressions of Giza Pyramid G1a
I’m wanting to look closer at Giza’s lesser pyramids, the subsidiary pyramids, as time allows. I find myself looking more and more at Maragioglio and Rinaldi’s materials, trying to fill in gaps in the data from WMF Petrie. While numerous errors have been pointed out in the “M & R” texts, some of their dataContinue reading “Some Initial Impressions of Giza Pyramid G1a”
What’s New? (Petrie’s Pyramid Rectangles, Pt 1)
Happy New Year! I hope 2020 is kinder to us all than the past year has been to many of us. I’d love to start the New Year off with a bang with some new discoveries, but I think I’ve nearly bitten off more than I can chew. Probably not a smart thing to doContinue reading “What’s New? (Petrie’s Pyramid Rectangles, Pt 1)”
Some Recent Observations on the Mycerinus Pyramid at Giza
Recently Jim Wakefield on GHMB brought up Petrie’s data for distances between major pyramids at Giza and proposed there is an order to them that Petrie might not have dug deeply enough into the data to spot. In the course of looking at Petrie’s data again, I decided maybe it was time to take theContinue reading “Some Recent Observations on the Mycerinus Pyramid at Giza”
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