Mayan Architecture – Luke Piwalker

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”

More Musings on the Palace of Vertical Grooves (PVG Pt 5)

Here again is the present data table with the basic data for the Palace of Vertical Grooves at Tikal (Tikal structure 5E-58, Group SE-11), collected from George Andrews’ report. I haven’t any further findings prepared but sharing some more of the ongoing exploration process might be informative for readers. In the case of Room 1,Continue reading “More Musings on the Palace of Vertical Grooves (PVG Pt 5)”

A Few Further Comments on Tikal’s Palace of Vertical Grooves

Some of these comments might not have lasting value – the difference is interesting between the first version I wrote of the previous post, and the second version I wrote the next day after some new possibilities were realized – but it seems possible for some progress to be made and more observations to beContinue reading “A Few Further Comments on Tikal’s Palace of Vertical Grooves”

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”

15552

Other independent researchers into ancient mathematics seem to have reached the same conclusion as I have about this number – that it’s an important one. What first put it on my radar as an important number is that I stumbled across it while trying to work out the meaning of Mayan “Monster Mouths” or “MonsterContinue reading “15552”

More Notes on Mayan Arches…

…Or “portal vaults” as they are known in George Andrews’ texts. A number of them are referred to therein although the data can be sparse. In the past I’ve mentioned that it seems easy enough to find approximations of Phi in them (the Labna arch being a particularly good example), but not necessarily explored themContinue reading “More Notes on Mayan Arches…”