The Ins and Outs of timing gestation.
A few assumptions:
* the average human gestation period is approximately 260 days
* the physical universe has holographic properties of self-similarity across orders of magnitude
The period of 260-days, as measured by one of the Mayan calendars, is divided into several shorter lapses of time.
13–day and 20-day periods, combining for the total of 260 days, are used as the basis of the smaller periods, 4- and 5-days typically.
In the Mayan system, the 13-day periods (hereafter “fortnights”) are represented by the numbers 1 to 13; the 20-day periods are represented by 20 sequential glyphs, or images, or symbols.
In terms of human gestation, the embryo finishes developing by week 8, equivalent to days 50 – 56, which falls somewhere between the end of fortnight 4 (52 days) and fortnight 5 (up to 65 days).
For more detail on the in utero development, see also
gestation time & health
definition of health for the masses
space time and health
and
260-Day Calendar
Mayan Sacred Calendar
260-days measures the time of a human developing from a zygote to a baby.
The number 260 can also be used to measure other lapses of time, reflecting self-similarity across scale.
using the 13-month calendar structure (13 months of 28 days with 1 day observed as an intercalary day), the following patterns can be observed:
13 x 20 days = 260 days – human gestation
260 weeks = 5 years – human infancy
260 months = 20 years – human maturation
52 days
52 weeks = 1 year
52 months = 4 years
Numerically speaking, it would suit to use 52-days as the measure of embryonic development.
Thus 260-day calendar measures the period in utero, the 13-month calendar measures ex utero. Somewhere in all that, the lunar cycles weave everything together in sinewy spirals.
To be continued…
