Category: Sacred Geometry in Ancient Goddess Cultures

Knossos and Malia: Minoan Secrets of the Nodal Cycle and its Geometry

This highlights the Minoan civilization’s understanding of sacred geometry, through measuring the distances and dimensions of two significant sites in Crete, the temples of Knossos and Malia. Calculations then connect the temples to the lunar nodal cycle, the English mile, and the diameter of Stonehenge in the architecture and dimensions of these palaces.

Figure 1 On the left: The Knossos Monolithic Basement, the oldest part of the Palace.
On the right: The 34-holed Kournos built into the floor of the Malia Palace Courtyard.

In Sacred Geometry and the Goddess I wrote about the Minoan New Palace period (on Crete), where I found that the distance between the primary temple at Knossos, and coastal temple Malia directly east of Knossos, were 18.618 miles apart. This implying the periodicity of the Lunar Maximum (currently just concluding) as taking 18.618 solar years, was known to he Minoans and that if the Minoans were interested in this Nodal cycle, and chose to signify that cycle between these monuments, then they also used the mile and probably the foot to do it and familiar with it as 5280 feet (this being just one of the many miles used within historical and earlier settings).

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Goddess of Time in the Sky

Explores the relationship between ancient astronomical practices and megalithic cultures, highlighting how early societies understood time through celestial cycles. It contrasts matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies with later patriarchal agricultural ones, suggesting that megalithic structures reflect deep, sacred knowledge of the cosmos and have influenced subsequent architectural designs across civilizations.

Above: (center) The form of the Minoan “horns of consecration”, on the island of Crete, followed (outside) the form of the manifestations of Venus in her synodic period.

Time appears to march on at what seems a constant rate. In this way time has two opposite directions, the somewhat known past and the largely unknown future. However, events in the sky repeat and so they can be predicted as seasons within a year or lunar phases within a month. Even before modern calendars, stone age humans counted the days in a month to understand recurrence of the menstrual period and know when moonlight would be strong again at night.

Figure 1 (above) L’Abri Blanchard Tally Bone 30,000 BP with (below) Alexander Marshack’s interpretation, showing marks as days shaped to express the moon’s phase, over 59 whole days or two lunar months.

Two months happen to equal 59 whole days: a lunar month is 29.53 days long, just over twenty-nine and a half, which is half of 59. In the artifact shown on the top of figure 1, each day was carved upon a flat bone, each mark appearing varied in shape and depth to show the moon’s changed phase on a given day. The flat bone enabled a cyclic shape to be used, of 59 marks, which “ate its own tail”: showing there were always the same number of days in two “moons”. This sameness emerges from dividing the recurring time of the solar day into the time of the month’s phases over two months, to give the recurring whole number of 59, then forever useful as a knowledge object.

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Is Sacred Geometry A Message From God?

Just after Summer Solstice, Michael Quu and I recorded a conversation for his “Learn Something New” podcast and this is available, as below.

The conversation was balanced between ancient and modern, numbers and metaphysics in a way that seems necessary to make sacred geometry more relevant to the modern situation while revealing what the ancients discovered in the world of astronomical time.

The Martian Moon Resonance

As with the other outer planets, Mars has a resonant relationship with the Lunar Year. UPDATED.

When I wrote Matrix of Creation in 2001, many planetary resonances were revealed and most of these involved small whole-number relationships between both sidereal and synodic periods in the solar system. At that time, only the Jupiter and Saturn synods (of the two visible outer planets) had been identified, as 9/8 and 16/15 of the lunar year (see chapter 9). The implied units of these ratios were 1.5 and 0.8 lunar months (respectively).

Mars is closer to the Earth and Moon than these giant planets and, since all the giants have numerical ratios to the lunar year, what of Mars whose synodic period is effectively 780 days: This is over 2 solar years (2.14) and 2.2 lunar years, a fractional relationship of 11/5 lunar years. That the moon has such a simple fractional relationship with all of the outer planets implies a previously unknown (at least in recent times) principle, in which the moon is gravitationally affected by the “loops of proximity”, seen when such planets approach, at a frequency defined by their synodic period. In the case of Mars this is very long, proximity happening every 780 days.

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Interview with Jim Harold

This is one hour interview around my new book on Ancient Goddess Cultures use of sacred geometry and other skills the ancients had, which our present culture dutifully ignore. below: Interviewer Jim Harold at Stonehenge vis Facebook.

Please click on this link to listen to our interview: https://content.blubrry.com/paranormalplus/Sacred_Geometry_in_Ancient_Goddess_Cultures-Ancient_Mysteries_On_The_Air_109.mp3

Metrology of a Bronze Age Dodecahedron

The Norton Disney Archaeology Group found an example of a “Gallo Roman Dodecahedron”. One of archaeology’s great enigmas,
there are now about 33 known examples in what was Roman occupied Britain.

An Interpretation of its Height

The opposed flat pentagons of a regular duodecagon gives us its height, in this case measured to be 70 mm. Dividing 0.070 meters by 0.3048 gives 0.22965 feet and, times 4, gives a possible type of foot as 0.91864 or 11/12 feet**.

** Where possible, one should seek the rational fraction of the foot, here 11/12, over the decimal measurement which assumed base-10 arithmetic and loses the integer factors at work within the system of ancient foot-based metrology.

The Simplest Likelihood

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