[Aztlan] 819day Count

[vgray (gotsky)]

Thank you for posting this work Ivan. I am enjoying studying its many 
details. I am particularly interested in your E-cycle base date 
of -(4.13.5.9.3) which differs from my own conclusions in this important 
matter.

Cheers Cliff



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivan Van Laningham" <ivanlan9 at gmail.com>
To: "AZTLAN" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] 819day Count


> Hi All--
> I've decided to post a paper, originally written in 1999, discussing
> the 819-day
> count on my website.  I wrote it for, and it was scheduled to be in, 
> Volume
> VII of _U Mut Maya_, sadly now defunct.  I've shared this paper with a
> couple of others over the last few years, as I had intended it for 
> eventual
> publication, but this seems as good a time as any to make it public, as I
> doubt that I'll have much else to say on the subject.  In it, I discuss 
> the
> cycle that both Cliff and I refer to as the "E-Cycle", along with the
> mathematics involved, in which I am primarily interested.  Thus, you will
> find no discussion of astronomical phenomena that may or may not 
> contribute
> to our understanding of the 819-day count.  I explore only the 
> mathematics,
> and why I think that the true base date for the E cycle is 1 Kaban 0 Pohp 
> *
> -4.13.5.9.3.*
>
> The paper can be found at:
>
> http://www.pauahtun.org/Calendar/somewhere.html
>
> Note that it is as yet not tied into my Mayan calendar pages, so you must
> have the link above to reach it.
>
> Metta,
> Ivan
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:38 PM, vgray (gotsky) <vgray at gotsky.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members, the question of an 819d cycle.
>>
>> The 819d cycle is also 9*91d which makes it a most interesting solar
>> sub-cycle. It is more likely the 819d cycle was synchronized with other
>> cycles, the most important being the 18980d calendar round. The 819-day
>> cycle synchronized with the 18,980 day calendar round period yields an
>> E-cycle period of 1,195,740 days or (8.6.1.9.0) in base 20, and an 
>> E-cycle
>> zero station occurs at 1-Kaban-0-Pohp. This is a 3,276 haab year or 63
>> calendar round period, and is the combination of two sub-cycles of 63
>> tzolkin and 819 haab (i.e. ET and EH cycles respectively). A 1-Kaban
>> 5-Kumk'u station is significant only because this is also an 819d cycle
>> zero
>> station that occurs 3d prior to the Long Count's epoch beginning, 
>> however,
>> it is not an E-cycle zero station. A 1-Kaban 0-Pohp CR station occurs 
>> 365d
>> prior to the CR zero station of 2-Ik' 0-Pohp. The smallest Venus
>> calibration
>> span of (1.5.5.0) on page F24 of the Dresden Codex marks an 819d zero
>> cycle.
>> The nearest E-cycle zero station occurs at (11.18.17.8.17) or [1719897] 
>> in
>> base 10.
>>
>
> -- 
> Ivan Van Laningham
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