S. Dehaene, The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.
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- cказал Эрик Томпсон о числовой нотации в кодексе Гролье.( >>> )

Mesoweb has made available a short, but thorough report on Yucatec Maya rituals by Bruce Love Maya Shamanism Today.
It is amazing  how resilient certain aspects of mythologically embedded numbers are.


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After David Stuart’s post on Zacpeten altar 1 I reread " The Turquoise Hearth: Fire, Self-Sacrifice, and the Central Mexican Cult of War" by Karl Taube and once again was driven by his observations in quite an unforeseen direction. The paper didn’t supply any new ideas for what I had sensed beneath the unusual inscription analyzed by DS. The altar ( Read more... )

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According to Nicholas Carter’s analysis and reconstruction Seibal stela 19 (Carter 2014, 130, 256-258, 265):

1. Commemorates 10.3.0.0.0 1 Ajaw 3 Yak'in   k'atun ending.
2. Refers to PE indirectly by:
a) showing a ruler in ceremonial attire engaged in a scattering ritual;
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https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/preliminary-notes-on-two-recently-discovered-inscriptions-from-la-corona-guatemala/

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