Grid of the Gods
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As we turn from this suggestive passage and all the previous allusions to the topological metaphor in the Popol Vuh to a consideration of the actual structures of Meso-America themselves, bear in mind that deep knowledge and the implied deep physics, for now it begins to come home to roost; and with it, we also see the beginning glimmers of the reasons for the practice in these societies of human sacrifice.
B. The Structures
1. Tikal and Chichen Itza
We will begin this technical exposition at Tikal in CentralAmerica. The first thing to be noted about Tikal is that it lies exactly120 degrees longitude west of Giza, in other words, exactly one third the distance around the world from Giza. Here there are five large Mayan pyramids, which are unusual in that they are all taller than they are wide. In this, the Mayan Pyramids — like their mythology —suggests connections to India, where similar temples are in evidence at Madurai:
The Madurai Temples in Southern India
There are five such elongated pyramids at Tikal, and like the temples of Maduari in India, they all have a temple-like structure at the top of the edifice:
Layout of Tikal21
Munck gives the heights of these temples as follows:
1) Temple I: 154.8 feet;
2) Temple II: 142.7 feet;
3) Temple III: 177.8 feet;
4) Temple IV: 228.6 feet;
5) Temple V: 188 feet.22
Additionally, each of these Temples incorporates some harmonic of the number 656, usually at the level of the platform on which the temple atop the structure rests.23
Three of the temples — II, III, and IV — face east, temple V faces north, and temple I faces west, and again, the center of the compound is 120 degrees west of the Giza prime meridian. Moreover, each of these temples, with the exception of temple II, all have ten steps or terraces, with the temple atop the tenth. Temple II has three major terraces. But most importantly, all these temples are all, per Munck’s classification, corrupted pyramids, that is, they are stepped pyramids with corners and faces, and all of them are higher than the width of their base. For the moment, we will forego the counting of corners and faces on these monuments to comment on the second fact concerning these pyramids: that they are taller than their base.
It is this fact that leads us into the deep physics that these structures were possibly designed to access, for all pyramids have one property in common: they all have some relationship of base-to-height proportional to π divided by two, that is, the basic formula of all pyramids is:
where h = height, b = base.
This point recalls remarks concerning secret Soviet research into pyramids that I wrote years ago in The Giza Death Star Deployed, which are cited at length here in order to illuminate the relationship of thethree basic types of pyramids and the deeper underlying physics possibilities that they embody:
A much more substantial research into “pyramid power” was undertaken in the former Soviet Union where several large pyramids were built and their properties investigated at great expense. The research is being continued by Dr. Volodymyr Krasnoholovets of the Institute of Physics of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kiev. Notably, Krasnoholovets has been led by his research to posit a “sub-quantum mechanics” with some peculiar properties that recall our own speculations about the tetrahedral properties of the medium
Noting that the electromagnetic, the weak, and the strong forces of current quantum mechanics intersect at a scale of 10-28 cm, Krasnoholovets then takes this measure as the size of the building blocks of space itself. Space thus has a cellular structure... where particles appear as deformations of this structure.24
These elementary perturbations of space itself, these “fundamental particles”, Krasnoholovets very suggestively calls “inertons.” Without going into the complicated argument of his paper, it is worth noting that Krasnoholovets makes mention of the “ex nihilo” characteristics:
“Of special is the approach proposed by Bounias (1990, 2000) and Bounias and Bonaly (1994, 1996, 1997). Basing on topology and set theory, they have demonstrated that the necessity of the existence of the empty set leads to topological spaces resulting in a “physical universe.” Namely, they have investigated the links between physical existence, observability, and information. The introduction of the empty hyperset has allowed a preliminary construction of a formal structure that correlates with the degenerate cell of space supporting conditions for the existence of a universe. Besides, among other results we can point to their very promising hypothesis on a non-metric topologcial distance as the symmetric difference between sets: this could be a good alternative to the conventional metric distance which so far is still treated as themajor characteristic in all concepts employed in gravitational physics, cosmology, and partly in quantum mechanics.”25
I then observed the following:
Behind the obtuse technical language lies a series of very unique insights:
1. The current mathematical “languages” used to describe the interactions of sub-atomic particles with space is inadequate;
2. It is inadequate because it is based on a form of mathematical language where measurements of distance, or more simply, vectors are the primary thing in view;
3. A more adequate way to account for the peculiarities of quantum and sub-quantum mechanics is via set theory, that is, a mathematical language that compares the properties of systems or sets wherein properties of distance and vectors are only sub- sets of a greater set of properties. Simply put, Krasnoholovets is saying that the fundamental language of physics must change from a linear mathematical language — points, lines, planes, vectors and so on — to a non-linear language inclusive of such things but not limited to them. Hence his emphasis on information. Sets of physical properties, on this view, are a much fuller description of the “information in the field.”
Note now that Krasnoholovets is thinking in the same terms as our previously discussed topological metaphor, which also employed differentiations on the empty hyper-set to model the emergence of observable entities from a primordial Nothing.
Thus...Krasnoholovets introduces the idea that the fundamental relationship between a particle and space itself is harmonic in nature, since a particle, by moving, exhibits inertia and sets up an oscillation in space itself. Or as he puts it, “It is the space substrate, which induces the harmonic potential responding to the disturbance of the space by the moving particle”26 itself that is in primary view.
Again, we must pause to note how well our topological metaphor corresponds to this idea of harmonic relationships between the various cells in space-time, for it will be recalled that by differentiating that primordial nothing we ended with two regions distinguished by a common surface: , , and . Note that each expression formally distinguishes but that the signature of remains in each expression: each of the three entities is, in other words, analogically or harmonically related to the other two; each is an oscillator of the others.
But what has all this to do with pyramids? Krasnoholovets’ answer is rather breathtaking:
“Let A be a point on the Earth’s surface from which an inerton wave is radiated. If the inerton wave travels around the globe along the West-East line, its front will pass a distance L1=2πrearth per circle. The second flow spread along the terrestrial diamater; such inerton waves radiated from A will come back passing distance L2=4πrearth. The ratio is:
L1/L2 = π/2.
If in point A we locate a material object with linear sizes (along the West-East line and perpendicular to the Earth’s surface_ such that it satisfies (the above) relation, we will receive a resonator of the Earth’s inerton waves.27
I then noted that the Great Pyramid, “because it is constructed in precisely such a fashion and geometric disposition with respect to the earth, is a coupled harmonic oscillator of the very inertial properties of the planetary space itself.”28
But the same can now be said of all pyramidal structures, for all
of them, w
ithout exception, bear some relationship to that fundamental ratio of π/2, according to that equation noted previously:
where h = height, b = base.
As I observed in The Giza Death Star Destroyed every pyramid is in relationship to this ratio, and there are thus only three types of pyramids that can result, depending on their relationship to that ratio; I reproduced the following diagram:
Relationships of Pyramid Types to the Ratio π/2
Note that the temples of Tikal(as those at Madurai in India), are of the sharp pyramidal type, while all other pyramids — with the notable exception of the Great Pyramid and the Cephren Pyramid at Giza — are of the obtuse type.
But what would the functions of these different shapes be? Here is it best to cite what I wrote in The Giza Death Star Deployed once again:
Krasnoholovets speculates that “the sharp pyramid plays the role of a radiator” and that it may also “function as an antennaabsorbing inerton radiation from outer space.”29The obtuse pyramid “to the contrary... may rather function as a radiator that emits amplified interton waves into the Earth surface.”30 And thus, the most efficient shape to combine both functions would be in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid itself, “the happy medium.”31
To put it succinctly, on this view of pyramids as resonators of the fabric of space-time, of the physical medium itself, then Tikal is an antenna array.
But it is that all-important method of Munck — the counting of faces and corners — that as we shall see in a later chapter, leads to the most astonishing confirmation of this view, and in a way that most Grid researchers never imagined. Before leaving Tikal, however, it is important to mention just a few of the significant numerical coding that Munck discovered there that confirm the view of Krasnoholovets that these structures are resonators of the Earth. In this case, the width of the “temple” atop the first pyramid at Tikal is
24.9015 feet, which is the equatorial circumference of the Earth in miles: 24,901.5 miles.32 This, plus the fact that Tikal is exactly 120 degrees west of the Giza prime meridian — plus the counting of faces and corners that we shall examine later — tends to confirm the view of Michell that we are, indeed, living inside of, or in the midst of, a vast, ruined machine.
2. Chichen Itza and Human Sacrifice
We must now journey to Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan, to briefly view the massive pyramids of the other type: the obtuse pyramids of Meso-America. The most prominent feature of Chichen Itza is the massive pyramid of Kukulcan/Quetzlcoatl, an obtuse pyramid:
Pyramid of Kukulkan, Photo Courtesy of Dr. Scott D. de Hart
The four staircases of this pyramid contain exactly 365 steps, the number of days in a year. But here, as at Tikal, the numbers conceal yet another connection to the Giza Prime Meridian.
Each of the four staircases up the pyramid are, of course, 90 degrees apart. If one divides 365 by 90, one obtains 4.055, and this is the “tangent of the surface distance of 7123.85 statute miles which separates the Kukulkan Pyramid from Giza’s Great Pyramid.”33 Like Tikal, the numbers point to a consciously conceived and deliberately constructed system anchored upon Giza. Again, we are looking at a vast machine, and notably, the “sharp pyamids” of Tikal and the obtuse Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza — and those of Teotihuacan as we shall see in a moment — are tied to the two grat Pyramids at Giza, which are in the “perfect” shape to be both antennae resonators and emitters.
There is, however, a darkness hovering over Chichen Itza, one we have mentioned before, and it is time to begin to address it more directly: human sacrifice. The Popol Vuh makes it clear that both males and females34 were sacrificed within Mayan practice, and for the usual reasons, to guarantee fertility among the population, and so on.35
One passage of the Popol Vuh records the gods’ twisted delight in the smell of the burnt offerings:
“It has turned out well, your lordships, and this is her heart. It’s in the bowl.”
“Very well. So I’ll look,” said One Death, and when he lifted it up with his fingers, its surface was soaked with gore, its surface glistened red with blood.
“Good. Sir up the fire, put it over the fire,’ said One Death.
After that they dried it over the fire, and the Xibalbans savored the aroma. They all ended up standing here, they leaned over it intently. They found the smoke of the blood to be truly sweet!36
A similar attitude to the aroma of sacrifice is recorded in the Book of Genesis:
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savor...37
But why, at least in Meso-America, would the practice of sacrifice even arise on its famous Grid sites?
There are only two clues. The first of these is that sacrifice is a kind of payment to the gods.38 This follows from the idea of the creation account in the Popol Vuh itself: life was not a gift of the gods to man, but was merely a means to an end: mankind’s perpetual service to the gods; mankind was a slave, property, a kind of collateral to perpetual debt, a concept with which we shall have much to say in the next chapter.
The second clue is provided by the quotation cited above, and by the following:
And this is the sacrifice of little Huanhpu by Xibalanque. One by one his legs, his arms were spread wide. His head came off, rolled far away outside. His heart, dug out, was smothered in a leaf, and all the Xibalbans went crazy at the site.39
Here the Xibalbans, the “gods,” are “going crazy” at the site of the sacrifice, and this is consistent with the attitude cited earlier, that the aroma of the sacrifice was pleasing to them, an attitude we find echoed — over and over again in fact — in the Old Testament.
Viewed objectively, it would appear that bloody sacrifices are understood to induce some change in the state or attitude of conciousness in the “gods.” This, plus the fact that at least in Meso- America’s case these sacrifices are being performed at Grid sites, might be a profound clue as to why the practice arose in the first place.
To summarize: the practice of sacrifice appears to be tied to two distinct conceptions, as least, in so far as the Popol Vuh is concerned:
1) To the conception of humanity in perpetual slavery, servitude, and debt; and,
2) To the idea that bloody sacrifice somehow induces a change in the state or attitude of consciousness in the “gods.”
When we add to this list the observations concerning the shapes of pyramids and their relationship to π/2, we have a very odd constellation of things indeed, for clearly the pyramidal shape, the numbers encoded in them, and the relationship of Tikal, Chichen Itza and virtually every other site on the Grid to Giza, means that we are living inside a ruined machine of planetary extent. We have furthermore seen that, insofar as the deepest physics is concerned, that machine was intended somehow to manipulate the physical medium itself.
So is there a relationship between that deep physics, consciousness, and sacrifice? And if so, what is it?
To answer that question, we need more data, and we will find it, further north, at Teotihuacan, and with the Aztecs.
1 Dennis Tedlock, trans. The Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life(Simon and Schuster, 1996), p. 139.
2 Ibid., pp. 23, 25.
3 Tedlock, Popol Vuh, p. 25.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., p. 30. See also the discussion of the possible identity of one of its authors, Christóbal Velasco, on pp. 56-57.
6 Tedlock, Popol Vuh, p. 45.
7 Popol Vuh, trans. Dennis Tedlock, pp. 64-65, emphasis added.
8 Ibid., p. 63, emphasis added.
9 Popol Vuh, trans. Dennis Tedlock, pp. 66-68.
10 Popol Vuh, trans. Dennis Tedlock, pp. 68-69.
11 See my The Cosmic War, pp. 139-150. I note in those pages the Seven Sages of Mesopotamian legend. Thus, one has yet another connection between Mesopotamia and India, where the seven Rishis fulfill the same function.
12 Popol Vuh, trans Dennis Tedlock, pp. 70-71.
13 Ibid.,p.73.
14 Ibid., p. 145.
15 Popol Vuh, trans. Dennis Tedlock, p. 146.
16 Ibid.,P.147.
17 Popol Vuh, trans. Dennis Tedlock, pp. 147-148, all emphases added.
18 Genesis 11:1-9.
19 Genesis 11: 4.
20 The final version of the Documentary Hypothesis has the second chapter of Genesis and its creation account being the oldest, but earlier versions of the theory had the first chapter being the oldest.