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: Tikal
Ancient Astronomical Symbolism: Movies Versus Snapshots
Hopefully a little more of a brief note for once, but back in Short Reports 8 I announced a paper uploaded to Academia.edu, A Forest of Stars, wherein I attempt to ask some challenging questions about the state of affairs with Mesoamerican archaeology and the possibility that our current rather incomplete understanding of things hasn’tContinue reading “Ancient Astronomical Symbolism: Movies Versus Snapshots”
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”
Planets in Captivity? Of Jupiter and Saturn
Kind of a strange story, but having been smitten with the idea that a particular number ((10 Megalithic Feet / Pi) x 10^n = 3.747289674) might have appeared in the original measures of the Stonehenge ditch because it also seems to appear in some of both Aztec and Mayan calendar stones like the Sun StoneContinue reading “Planets in Captivity? Of Jupiter and Saturn”
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”
The Bat Palace, Room 10
In the previous post, we looked at the layout and basic data for the rooms of the Bat Palace at Tikal, and explored the question of this Mayan structure’s mysteriously recurring width measurement of 1.73 m. In my experience, such redundancy in Mayan designs is rare, suggesting the measure recurs because the architect has anContinue reading “The Bat Palace, Room 10”
A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?
Talking about some of the wondrous mathematical discoveries made at Tikal (that is, working with data from Tikal) tends to make me wistful for the site. One should hope to find more of their splendid “Wonder Numbers” lying about in the architecture. I’m skeptical that we’ve found all of them. From the data that IContinue reading “A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?”
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