¿SE PUEDE JUSTIFICAR EL CICLO DE 11,952 K’INO’OB DE LA TABLA DE ECLIPSES?
CAN THE 11,952 K’INO’OB CYCLE OF THE ECLIPSE TABLE BE JUSTIFIED?
Author(s): Geraldine A. Patrick Encina
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Eclipse Table; sidereal Moon revolutions; synodic Moon revolutions; Venus-Moon correlation
Summary/Abstract: The argument that says that the Eclipse Almanac on Dresden 52-58 is two-ways redundant is revised. Base dates and those derived from periods in L.C. notation (60 of 177 and nine of 148 k’ino’ob –which sum 11,952 k’ino’ob–) and from periods in tzolk’in day notation (52 of 177, eight of 178, and nine of 148, which sum 11,960 k’ino’ob) are calculated with the GMT Correlation (JD 584283) and with the recently proposed correlation (Patrick 2013). The latter has Creation on July 27, 3117 b.c.e. (proleptic), and for the three base dates starting with 9.16.4.10.8 12 Lamat 1 Muwan, it produces May 21, June 5 June 20 c.e. 755 (proleptic). A three-day window where the third day is the date obtained with each correlation produces that, out of 70 registrations, there is a 100% match with NASA dates using the second correlation and a 0% match using the first one. Moreover, following the second correlation, 11,952 k’ino’ob commensurate 11,959.93 days, which entails 405.00 lunations (29.530588 days each) and 69 eclipse seasons. The tzolkin-day-based record of 11,960 k’ino’ob on the same almanac ascends to 11,967.9395 days, reaching 438.03 sidereal Moon revolutions (27.32166 days/rev.; both lunar numbers are mean values in 4,000 years, from Espenak and Meeus 2009).
Book: La vida bajo el cielo estrellado: la arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Latinoamérica
- Page Range: 215-229
- Page Count: 15
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Spanish, Portuguese
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