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Re: Ariadne's thread
Posted:
Dec 3, 2011 4:18 AM
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Lloyd Flounsbury established a Mesoamerican Long Count
calendar correlation. To my knowledge he did not show
how the Maya and others calculated the various synodic
orbits, and the origin of the Tzolkin is still uncertain.
Here I offer new insights. The universal mathematical tool
of early times, in Egypt and Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica
alike, have been number patterns and number sequences,
the latter generating good values from bad and mediocre
ones, and excellent values from mediocre and good ones.
My claim is that the number 260 of the Tzolkin sprang
from number sequences, and from the calculation of the
circle based on the starting triple 5-12-13. These are
new aspects, unbeknownst to Flansbury, and any other math
historian, because they were discovered by me, and I make
them public here. My opinion is that ancient calculation
methods should be represented in an appropriate way,
not with modern algebra, for example.
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