Lo and behold… I’ve known of Jose Arguelles, but I hadn’t looked as deeply into his work. I had started with Terence McKenna and branched out from his immediate social network with people like John Major Jenkins for the Mayan stuff.
But Arguelles work had been done extensively on the specific mathematics of the Mayan Calendar. And he even had a plasma cosmology with vortex dynamics and a selection of time/configuration glyphs that work in a similar way to Tarot Cards or I Ching hexagrams…
Here I am doing it the hard way just looking at the math… It would have been easier to just pick up his system… but, like so many things, it looks like most of it is out of print these days: