Progress on the Mayan Calendar of 260 days

William Sullivan sent me the following link to what appears to be an explanation as to why the Mayan time system used 260 days as a baseline, counting 13 and 20 day periods that divide into this, to characterise days.

http://www.spiderorchid.com/mesoamerica/mesoamerica.htm

There Robert D. Peden points out that

"The Mayan Ritual year of 260 days was successful for one major reason - after a cycle lasting 59 Ritual years, the tropical year and the Ritual year lock together in step. A period of 59 by 260 days equals a period of 42 tropical years, of 365.242 days. ", he also finds that,

42 Solar years [365.242] = 59 x 260 (accurate to 4 minutes)

405 Lunar Months [29.53059] = 46 x 260 (accurate to 3.5 minutes)

61 Venus Synods [583.92] = 137 x 260 (accurate to 9.25 minutes)

1 Mars Synod [779.94] = 3 x 260 (accurate to 28.8 minutes)

88 Jupiter Synods [398.88] = 135 x 260 (accurate to 15.36 minutes)

"It is proposed that these factual astronomical derivations [and some others] are ipso facto sufficient to prove the astronomical base for the Mesoamerican calendrical system."

This extends the work I did in Matrix of Creation. It should give a whole new impetus to the Mayan calendar, believers and academics alike. The main inference here is the uncanny way in which time is organised on Earth and how the uncanny ancestors tuned into it through their sacred structures including their calendars. The 260 is an original cultural work and some say [e.g. Jose Arguelles] it is a form of time that comes from higher levels of order within the galaxy.