• (6/9/01) thanks to Mav who put the final peice of this puzzle together. Tungsten is the 74th element. Its symbol is "W".

• (6/6/01) We have confirmation from Claude that the symbol in the 7th glyph is in fact a Mayan 74. While all guesses (especially "pi") were good shots, we now know for sure what this glyph is. So the question is, what does 74 mean?

• (6/03/01) Glyph 7 Solved?! well Miguel Chavez (yeah the bs guy) did some investigating and reports this:

Folks have interpreted it to be the Mayan symbol for the number 74.
However, Hippie had been told that it might actually represent the Mayan
symbols for 3 and 14, which is also interesting because those two numbers
could equal= 3.14 or pi.

I went to google and searched for "mayan 74" hoping that somewhere in the
internet someone had perhaps put up a table of numbers both roman and mayan.
Guess what I found instead?

http://www.indians.org/welker/maya.htm

Search for 74 there. You'll see that recently 74 'relic-filled tombs' have
been discovered. Also note elsewhere on that page that Maya and Yucatan
Peninsula are very much linked together. More PiD associations, eh?


So, what I'm asking is: can we definitively state that the inner symbol in
the 7th Glyph stands for the number 74?

And can someone read that page linked above and see if it leads to some
other goodies? :)

• (6/2/01) Myan for 3.14 or 74? Elbert D Wall and Trevor "Joe Mahma" Smith both write about the Mayan format for numbers. Mayans stacked numbers atop each other much as we place them to the left (ie. in the number 157, the 5 has the value of 50, due to is position, while the 7 has a value of 7). But I do have to admit there is a very big space between the "3" and the rest of the number. You can go here to brush up on your Mayan numbering.

• (5/30/01) The sum of this glyph's numbers add up to 291.

• (5/30/01) It has been said that the number in the center is Mayan for "74".

• (5/30/01) Everyone says this is Mayan for "74" however it was pointed out to me on hl.b.o that the symbol is not the correct form for a "74" and is in fact a "3" followed by a "14" this is pretty significant, as a popular estimation of pi is "3.14" which is a very significant number, especially being we are dealing with circles.