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- pdf: Counting lunar eclipses using the Phaistos Disk
This paper* concerns itself with a unique fired-clay disk, found by Luigi Pernier in 1908 within the Minoan “palace” of Phaistos (aka Faistos), on the Greek island of Crete. Called the Phaistos Disk, its purpose or meaning has been interpreted many times, largely seen as either (a) a double-sided text in the repeated form of … Continue reading “pdf: Counting lunar eclipses using the Phaistos Disk” - pdf: Musicological Narrative Structures in Biblical Genesis
This paper attempts to interpret the first two books of the Bible, according to Ernest McClain’s methods. It is contended that the compositions of ancient texts, as Plato insinuated, were both inspired and used for the science of numerical harmonics. The invariant properties of harmonic numbers, and their evolution through limiting whole numbers, offer a … Continue reading “pdf: Musicological Narrative Structures in Biblical Genesis” - Cretan Calendar Disks
I have interpreted two objects from Phaistos (Faistos), both in the Heraklion Museum. Both would work well as calendar objects. One would allow the prediction of eclipses: The other for tracking eclipse seasons using the 16/15 relationship of the synod of Saturn (Chronos) and the Lunar Year: - paper: Lunar Simulation at Le Manio
Our survey at Le Manio revealed a coherent arc of radial stones, at least five of which were equally long, equally separated and set to a radius of curvature that suggested a common centre. It appears the astronomers at Le Manio understood that, following three lunar sidereal orbits (after 82 days) the moon would appear again at … Continue reading “paper: Lunar Simulation at Le Manio” - paper: The Origins of Day-Inch Counting
ABSTRACTThis paper presents the theory that in the Megalithic period, around 4500-4000 BCE, astronomical time periods were counted as one day to one inch to form primitive metrological lengths that could then be compared, to reveal the fundamental ratios between the solar year, lunar year, and lunar month and hence define a solar-lunar calendar. The … Continue reading “paper: The Origins of Day-Inch Counting”