Greetings, all I find my attention drawn toward ancient Egyptian architecture again, for a number of reasons that might sound tangential if I went into full detail, but today started out with the realization that the Harris-Stockdale Unifying Value could perhaps be an oversized variant of the Full Moon Cycle. The original note that expressesContinue reading “A Strange (and Wondrous) Day at Giza”
Tag Archives: Mayan Calendar
Planetary and Lunar Data
I’ve been working on a new data table. On the one hand, it’s meant to save on having solar system astronomy formulas scattered everywhere over posts to five forums and over pages and pages of written notes; on the other hand, there may be no replacing taking the time to work out those notes. OneContinue reading “Planetary and Lunar Data”
Return to Tikal, Part 1
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”
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”
Where Chephren Once Stood
I thought I’d stare a bit more at my expanded tables of ancient American “altar” data and see if any more helpful patterns appeared to coalesce. I may have spotted one, but it may bring up something of a strange and sad tale. There is a number we hear from very little these days, whichContinue reading “Where Chephren Once Stood”
Some Surprising Properties of Calendar Stone Numbers
I’m continuing to try to round up further data on ancient American “altars” – or calendar stones as I prefer to think of them. I’m perhaps a bit too busy trying to think of them as advanced calculators for intricate calendar cycles to think of them as “altars”, but obviously in spite of any mythsContinue reading “Some Surprising Properties of Calendar Stone Numbers”
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