ADDENDA

ADDENDA

1. In order to catch further ideas of mine I decided to create an additional apartment for such. I was motivated by re-reading the text quoted below, from a page in my description of the Phaistos Disc (in Level 1):

... We will not go any further in this technical discussion. But another piece of observation: There are 45 different signs on the Phaistos Disc. (I do not count the two special signs, the 'strings with knots' and a sign looking like /.)

Should we divide 360 by 2, 3 or 4 we will reach the whole numbers 180, 120 and 90. And we can also divide by 5 and 6 in order to reach 72 and 60.

7, though, does not work. But with 8 we will get 45. I think the Polynesians had reasons to divide the horizon into 8 parts. With 16 - the next natural division - you get 22.5 which is unacceptable. Only whole numbers are natural and understandable.

45 degrees therefore ought to be important enough to be seen somewhere in the rongorongo texts. Which means we should look for 45 days (glyphs) in the calendar for the year. Days and degrees are equivalent if you disregard periods shorter than what corresponds to a division by 8 ...

For later I had been prompted by a TV program which stated that there were 46 different types of signs on the Phaistos Disc. After a careful examination I decided the number was neither 45 nor 46 but rather 37.

37 happens to be the difference between 257 (= 241 + 16) and 220 (= 236 - 16), where I suggest 241 is the correct number of signs on the Phaistos Disc - not 242 as was stated in the TV program:

PHAISTOS DISC
side a		side b
118	5	83	0	34
118 + 5 = 123		84 + 34 = 118
236 + 5 = 241 → 257 - 16

Furthermore, my early statement above that number 22.5 should be unacceptable because it is not a whole nunmber, is probably false. In the ancient world view they managed quite well without any decimal points (or zero signs).

So number 225 (= 360 / 16) could have been used for instance to indicate August 13 = day 225 in the Gregorian calendar.

The dates in a Sun calendar will not be changed over time due to the precession, instead the right ascension positions of the fixed stars will be changed:

... In three magnificent texts at the site of Koba, scribes recorded it as one of the largest finite numbers we humans have ever written. According to these inscriptions, our world was created on the day 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. On this day all the cycles of the Maya calendar above twenty years were set at thirteen - that is to say, the cycles of 400 years, 8,000 years, 160,000 years, 32,000,000 years, and so on, all the way up to a cycle number extending to twenty places (20₂₁ * 1360-day year).

In our calendar, this day fell on August 13, 3114 BC. To understand what this means, we need a little scale. The thirteens in this huge number act like the twelve in our cycles - the next hour after twelve is one. Thirteen changed to one as each of these cycles in the Maya calendar was completed, therefore, we have the following sequence:

*13.*	*13.*	*13.*	0.	0.	0.	1.	*5 Imix*	*9 Kumk'u*	*(Aug. 14, 3114 B.C.)*
*13.*	*13.*	*13.*	0.	0.	1.	0.	*11 Ahaw*	*3 Pop*	*(Sept. 2, 3114 B.C.)*
*13.*	*13.*	*13.*	0.	1.	0.	0.	*13 Ahaw*	*3 Kumk'u*	*(Aug.7, 3113 B.C.)*
*13.*	*13.*	*13.*	1.	0.	0.	0.	*2 Ahaw*	*8 Mak*	*(May 1, 3094 B.C.)*
*13.*	*13.*	1.	0.	0.	0.	0.	*3 Ahaw*	*13 Ch'en*	*(Nov. 15, 2720 B.C.)*
*13.*	*13.*	*13.*	0.	0.	0.	0.	*4 Ahaw*	*3 K'ank'in*	*(Dec. 23, A.D. 2012)*
*13.*	1.	0.	0.	0.	0.	0.	*10 Ahaw*	*13 Yaxk'in*	*(Oct. 15, A.D. 4772)*
1.	0.	0.	0.	0.	0.	0.	*7 Ahaw*	*3 Zotz'*	*(Nov. 22, A.D. 154587)*

... This pot depicts one of the Hero Twins (One-Ahaw in the Classic texts and One-Hunaphu in the K'iche' Popol Vuh) and a great bird who is trying to land in a huge ceiba tree heavy with fruit. This mythical bird is Itzam-Yeh, Classic prototype of Wuqub-Kaqix, 'Seven-Macaw', of Popol Vuh fame. In that story, in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun. This pot shows One-Ahaw aiming at the bird as he swoops down to land in his tree. As Itzam-Yeh lands on his perch, the text tells us he is 'entering or becoming the sky'.

This particular 'sky-entering' is not the one mentioned in the Palenque text. It is the final event that occurred in the previous creation before the universe was remade. Before the sky could be raised and the real sun revealed in all its splendor, the Hero Twins had to put the false sun, Itzam-Yeh, in his place. If the date on this pot corresponds to that pre-Columbian event, as we believe it does, then Itzam-Yeh was defeated on 12.18.4.5.0.1 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in (May 28, 3149 B.C.). After the new universe was finally brought into existence, First Father also entered the sky by landing in the tree, just as Itzam-Yeh did ...