[Aztlan] 819day Count

[Sid Hollander]

Please help me out Mr.Georges, I am missing something here.  You say in your
last post,

"I know that Eric Thompson has taken 1 Kaban 5 Kumk'u as the base date for
this "counting". That was 12.19.19.17.17, Red East, 3days before 4 Ahaw 8
Kumk'u, 13.0.0.0.0, but that was Station 3. I think it is a very logical
conclusion, that if it was Station 3, than there must have been 3 Stations
before."


I see the part where Thompson says (and I do know that all that he said is
not so) said "1 Kaban 5 Kumk'u" was the base date. Then there is the part
"but that was Station 3."  Obviously Thompson was not aware of that 'fact'
or he would never have said that 1 Kaban 5 Kumk'u was the base date. So my
confusion is where did the "but that was Station 3" come from? The words you
use to introduce the concept come with such finality (Do you have a
reference for it?) it struck me strangely that the next words you write draw
a logical conclusion from it ".."if it was true...".
I say that if it was the fifth station then the 4 or 5 before it (depending
on if you use a start of 1 or 0) would NOT be 1 Ahau.

I also have a problem with your statement "that if it was Station 3, than
there must have been 3 Stations before." Doesn't that force the reader into
using a base of zero in counting stations? I wasn't aware that the Maya
counted or numbered 819 Stations based upon elapsed stations. Do you have a
reference for this?

Your statement:

"The main structure however was based upon a cycle going from 1 Ahaw to 1
Ahaw, or 16380 k'in."

reads so factual.

If you stated it as:

If 1 Kaban 5 Kumk'u

Any Tzolkin portion of any 819 day station will repeat every 20 stations
i.e. 20 x 819 = 16,380

would be sufficient but if you wanted to add starting points to it I think
you need to say something like:

If 12.19.19.17.17 1 Kaban 5 Kumk'u

1.  was not the base date as stated by Thompson  and
2.  was the 3 rd station as stated by ____________  and
3.  we assume 819 stations are numbered from 0

then

The main structure however was based upon a cycle going from 1 Ahaw to 1
Ahaw, or 16380 k'in.

If that was the case I'd still have a problem with the words "main
structure" because it sounds so structured.  After all, it's a cycle just
like the days of the week!

-- 
Sid Hollander
Merida, Yucatan