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”
Tag Archives: Mayan Mathematics
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)”
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”
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal Encouraged by what I believe may be major successes in the interpretation and understanding of the Bat Palace at Tikal, I decided to take another look at “The Palace With the Vertical Grooves” at Tikal, also known as the “Palace of the Facades With Vertical Grooves” and StructureContinue reading “The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword”
Bat Palace, Tikal: Further Explorations
For convenient reference, Andrews’ plan of the Bat Palace again. Room 3: I was looking more carefully at Room 3 of the Bat Palace last night. I’m intrigued with it because it of its raw ratio between total height (room ht 258 cm + vault height 1.67 m = 4.25 m) and length of 6.76Continue reading “Bat Palace, Tikal: Further Explorations”
A Postcard from Quirigua (and Giza)
I may end up taking that this back at some later point – I seem to be in unfamiliar territory with this, both geographically and mathematically – but I thought I might share with readers some of the last puzzle to get on my radar, since whatever the answers may be, parts of the discussionContinue reading “A Postcard from Quirigua (and Giza)”
More Mayan Miscellanous
I’ve brought up exponents and exponential use of data retrieval tools lately (please refer to preceding posts for diagram of peak exponential value of some of the most important numbers used to retrieve data). Besides knowing about them and their value as series data retrieval tools, conversion factors, building blocks and so forth, we mightContinue reading “More Mayan Miscellanous”
A Postcard from Yaxchilan
George Andrews and others recorded data from the Mayan site of Yaxchilan, which is quite fortunate as it’s an interesting site. I have not done recent work on it, which is unfortunate, because it means that most of the work I have done on it may need to be reconsidered in the light of whatContinue reading “A Postcard from Yaxchilan”
What is the “RMA” Really?
The “RMA” or “Real Mayan Annoyance” is something I’ve written about often. I should compile a list of some of its aliases, because I often mention that it’s “important to astronomy” only to have it elude me how to adequately demonstrate this. The name originally came from the fact that it started showing up atContinue reading “What is the “RMA” Really?”
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