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”
Tag Archives: Michael Morton
Seahenge
A thread on the Megalithic Portal started some 4 or 5 years ago by Geoff Bath was recently booted to the top of the board, and it managed to spark my curiosity. For some reason, I haven’t been terribly interested in Seahenge or Woodhenge – although Thom provided data on the later, I’ve generally foundContinue reading “Seahenge”
Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)
Working on Callanish again, I find myself wanting another look at more Megalithic monument sites, even if nothing definitive emerges yet. In Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany (page 164), Thom describes the geometry of The Giant’s Stones (OSGB Grid ref HU243805) as part of a circle of radius 28 Megalithic Yards joined to aContinue reading “Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)”
Callanish, Part 3
I’ve probably gone and got myself into trouble by attempting to be more comprehensive metrologically in my attempts at interpretation of some of the Callanish “stone circle” sites. On the one hand, such an approach isn’t necessary, nor was it involved in many apparent interpretive successes – that includes interpreting the Great Pyramid interior, whereContinue reading “Callanish, Part 3”
Still More Mayan Miscellany
The other day I set aside a couple of hours to watch several of William Saturno’s video lectures on YouTube. I’m not only very interested in his general remarks on Mayan calendars, but also some of the discoveries he was involved in. Saturno’s views on why calendars were important to the Maya is generally veryContinue reading “Still More Mayan Miscellany”
Impressions of The Black Pyramid
Keith Hamilton has published yet another installment in his most excellent Layman’s Guide series, The Black Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Dahshur, A Layman’s Guide. I am much indebted to Keith as along with some very interesting insights and speculation, Keith’s paper also offers interior data for the pyramid attributed to Dieter Arnold’s Der PyramidenbezirkContinue reading “Impressions of The Black Pyramid”
Callanish, Part 2
Some additional Callanish sites covered by Prof. Thom in the book Megalithic Sites in Britain: Callanish III is interesting for being a novel concentric ellipse contained in a circle. I’m very tempted to try to interpret it as making a visual lunar reference but at present I’m somehow having trouble finding data on duration ofContinue reading “Callanish, Part 2”
Callanish, Part 1
As much attention as I’ve paid to Mayan sites in recent weeks, I find myself really missing studies of Megalithic sites in the UK, so I decided to touch base with Callanish, and suddenly found myself surprisingly short on data related to previous interpretive efforts. I’ve posted a little on the subject previously, but someContinue reading “Callanish, Part 1”
A Postcard from Xtampak
As ever, I struggle with the complexity of achieving an overview of ancient architecture compared with the potential difficulty of identifying certain numbers without one, and because we see many of the same measures “reused” in other structures but arranged in different groupings, an overview can ideally direct us to situations where we can obtainContinue reading “A Postcard from Xtampak”
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”
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