Thank you Ernest, for this brave attempt. But as you say, it is not an easy subject, and seems to defy clarification. I take your point that the 60 base has...
Pete, You are getting it, but the usage is ambiguous. Originally base 60 employed counters of 1-10-60-600-3600-36000 as Ifrah displays clearly, and in which...
Dear Pete and the Gang: We'd all do a lot better by cease speaking of "base 60" in reference to ancient Sumer. It didn't really become that in a modern sense...
Dear Pete: I believe that you and others may find this of some interest. Zeus is neutral at Troy, happy to see both sides decimating each other. Agamemnon and...
MANY THANKS, Ernest! Let me take this one to bed (it's nearly midnight over here, and life has been variously hectic of late). My visceral feeling is that...
Thank you David. But the consequences of this story require special talents like yours, difficult to find on this side of the unholy waters. Ernest ... From:...
Ernest, I have read that base-60 systems originated through the merging of base-10 and base-12; or at least most believe this. The Mesopotamian system wasn't...
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Jun 2, 2009 10:49 am
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Petur, I had been rereading your book. 6 operates (in Biblical allegory) as the number for mankind; but specifically, 5 is the male human number. What does ...
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Jun 2, 2009 10:59 am
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John, Ernest calls him rightly a fiver. 5 was Osiris number, the life expendancy of his image, the Hapis bull, was 5x5 years, then came his death which was an...
Petur and John: I wonder if Plato doesn't help by distinguishing between divine and human births, the latter being "fivers" and the former "3's" arriving in...
Dear Friends: John Bremer immediately pointed out that my labels in the table make no sense as they stand. I'm preparing a whole new treatment; here I simply...
Thanks, Ernest, and take your time! The version of your December BM talk seems to have been greatly compressed by Richard: am I seeing the whole thing? David...
No David, because of so many flaws that need correction. I couldn't send him all 50 to publish, and so abstracted a shorter paper. And now I think I sent you...
Dear bibal friends. I. A collection of the works of Ben Jonson, Francis Baconâs literary collaborator and Stratfordian Will Shakespeareâs rival, was...
John, This sounds knowledgeable and may be, indeed. For ten years I have been sucked periodically ever more deeply into Homer's orbit, until I finally both...
Here, Dear friends, I'm trying to convince you that modern technology is no particular advantage in the fossil science of musicology as "simplest ratio...
Richard, I'm trying to figure out a format for ARANE. What are the limitations on graphics. This would look more handsome if I reduced it (from the PP...
So, I forgot again. Ernest ... From: Ernest McClain To: Richard - ICONEA ; Bibal@yahoogroups.com ; JAY KAPPRAFF ; JB Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:44 PM ...
Rudi, is that Rupert Brooke's 'Smet-Smet the Hippopotamus-Goddess' right of the centre-line? Gozzi wrote The Love of Three Oranges, but what we have here is...
Dear BIBAL Group, Some of you may have heard of the Temple Studies Group chaired by Dr. Margaret Barker, who (with her fellow Group members) is exploring ...
Hi Rudi, it does very much look Egyptian, but I haven't come across it before, and am unsure how early/late it might be. I can have a look around if you like. ...
Petur, A naive observation: Your Cosmic Image seems to strongly resemble Orion or at least, this constellation's partial volumization, e.g., "cubing the ...
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Jun 5, 2009 6:35 am
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Hi John, I cannibalize your sentences excessively because you allways make sense to me. When the big, outer, cycle was marked, it seems to have been aligned by...
Thanks, Petur. 1. A hunch just hit me concerning the "pre-history" of the USA: Many of the Founding Fathers had been surveyors, the most prominent being...
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Jun 6, 2009 4:00 am
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Hi Richard Thanks,.... I noticed the twelve circles and immediately thought of a twelve month calendar, but then I noticed that the circles themselves are...
Rudi, I'm following this failed effort to identify your graphic with considerable interest, thinking Richard Abbott would surely save us. I'm guessing it may...
MessageJay, Brunes is likely right. Because astronomy studies proportional movements of the planets, sun and moon against a map of the fixed stars the entire...
Dear Antonio: In 1976 when you suggested as a subtitle for THE MYTH OF INVARIANCE that outrageous phrase--The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from...
Hi John, thank you, this is very interesting. Yes they were surveyors and freemasons. In freemason lodges ancient science was kept alive for centuries....
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