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”
Tag Archives: Mayan Calendars
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)”
“Not Venus”?
I was browsing through some notes on Chacmultun – to my tastes, it’s a rather fascinating Mayan city, and we have the great fortune that George Andrews gathered some data on it and that it is available to us, although I admit to not yet having the firmest grasp on whether or not Andrew’s dataContinue reading ““Not Venus”?”
A Note on the “Mayan Meter”
In the last post, I pointed out how Maler’s data for the El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza gives a horizontal distance of 2000 cm from the edge of the temple platform to the edge of the base on any side, and recounted how, as pointed out by Munck, a recurring figure of 200 cmContinue reading “A Note on the “Mayan Meter””
Chichen Itza’s El Castillo Pyramid
Recently someone inquired at GHMB about the El Castillo pyramid’s expression of the Solar Year, one of things that El Castillo is well known for. What exactly the pyramid was doing, if anything, about the difference between the 365 “calendar” year and the ~365.25 day Solar Year, seems difficult to say, although I’ve often wonderedContinue reading “Chichen Itza’s El Castillo Pyramid”
A Postcard from Palenque #4
How about another look the Temple of the Count at Palenque? In the first post in this series, it was noted that In the Temple of the Count, we find recurrence of the measure of 2.71 m = 8.891076115 ft, looking very much like one of the rather popular simple “backhanded” forms of the VenusContinue reading “A Postcard from Palenque #4”
A Postcard from Palenque #3
Regrettably, for the work I’ve done on Palenque so far, I don’t think I really have anything I’d consider a finished model of any structure there, and it might be good to have such a thing to help clarify the spirit of Palenque’s architectural and astronomical mathematics. The Casa de Leon (House of the Lion,Continue reading “A Postcard from Palenque #3”
A Postcard from Palenque #2
On the road toward – hopefully – a deeper understanding of the mathematics of Palenque, I think I might have a few more minor observations to cobble together. At House G of the Palace, the South Room measures according to George Andrews 13.12 m long, 2.50 m wide, and 2.13 m high. In feet that’sContinue reading “A Postcard from Palenque #2”
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”
A Postcard from Aktun-Chen
I don’t have a picture handy – if I Google Aktun-Chen, I get dozens or even hundreds of pictures of caves with tourists swimming in them – but Aktun-Chen managed to catch my attention recently as I was working on some of my reference materials and looking for omissions. The site is somewhat inland, nearContinue reading “A Postcard from Aktun-Chen”
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