Washington D.C. and Delphi

 It is possible that the location of Washington DC, and that of the District of Columbia, were chosen to have a geodetic relationship with Delphi, the oracular centre of ancient Greece

Washington DC is at latitude 38o53'N and sits about 24 minutes further north than Delphi at 38o29'N. However, we know that the location of Washington was problematic given the topography of land in this region.

The difference in longitude is 22.5E (Delphi) plus 77.036W (Washington DC) = 99.536.Dividing this into 360 degrees, the ratio to the whole parallel of latitude at 38o29”N degrees is 1 / 3.61678.

There is a close approximation in the fractional part to 0.618 and the golden mean. Indeed the ratio of the longer and the shorter distance between these two places, along the parallel, is 1 to 2.618 which is the golden mean (or "phi") squared.

 Parallel of Latitude for Delphi

Interestingly the Great Seal pyramid is a phi squared slope angle and it is often the case that monument builders in the ancient style would leave a “key”, iconic of the location or containing the basic unit of length upon which it was built.

Sacramento is on the same latitude as Washington D.C. and in longitude to Delphi  is 1/2.5 of the parallel,

which is the 2:3 point forming the second point of a five pointed star with respect to Delphi

The meaning of these relations is to surmise that such an accurate co-location is extremely unlikely and that Washington DC's connection to the Greek Mysteries is perhaps more significant than could otherwise be expected. I have referred to the phi-squared pyramid and eye symbol in a previous post.

Delphi was on a series of sacred latitudes of which three are known, each dividing the angle between the pole and equator by seven.

1. Thebes (Karnak) has a very accurate latitude of 90 times 2/7 degrees and
2. Delphi was perhaps not so perfect, assuming the place of its Foundation is known, and is 90 times 3/7 degrees.
3. Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, England is very accurately sited at 4/7 times 90 degrees.

This corresponded to the idea of the seven tiered "hill of heaven". Delphi was called the omphallos or navel of the Earth and was the leading oracular site for the Greeks, inherited from pre-Olympian times when the Titans ruled and Python, an enormous snake dominated the oracular centre. Python was killed by Apollo, an Olympian, and the female oracular authorities were called pythonesses.

It is interesting to reflect that every day, every place on a given latitude is, relative to the zenithal stars, in the same place.

Jupiter's Great Time

Jupiter's claim to being the king of the gods is more than just a story. From my books, some of the numerical synchronicities that place Jupiter as controlling time in some way are summarised and extended.

For instance Jupiter is synchronous with the lunar year and hence with the Moon itself, forming a 9/8 whole tone to the lunar year. We also know that Jupiter and Saturn interact to generate a near 60 year cycle that defines the 12 sign Zodiac and also generate between them an accurate golden mean ratio.

Here I will discuss the relation that then ensues to the Metonic period of nineteen years in which the Moon, Sun and stars accurately recur in configuration. Nineteen is an important prime number that some even call the "signature of the creator".

The synodic period of Jupiter is 398.88 days whilst the solar year is 365.242 days. The ratio is then 1.0920978 and this, times 19, equals 82.9994 years, 83 year to one part in nearly 150,000. This means that there are 4 times 19 Jupiter synods in 83 solar years.

4 Metonic periods of 19 years were called the Callippic period, important in the past as the main way to synchronise a lunar calendar with the solar year. There are 235 lunar months in the Metonic, 940 therefore in the Callippic.

The ratio 83/76 is 1.0921052 which is an integer way of expressing 1.0920978 (Jupiter's synodic period) to this accuracy of one part in 150,000.

The 83/76 ratio can then be reduced to the ratio 35/32 by multiplication by 665/664 which is an adjacency of numbers involving 19 and 83. The relationship is mediated by the difference between the lunar and solar year but cannot be stated clearly enough to write this here yet.

One has to remember that all of the relations between celestial bodies are inter-related but achieve different, quite simple results. This displays some kind of causation that prefers simple numbers and certainly lies behind much of the traditional concerns that became known as sacred number.

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.