Part Two: Dumbarton Oaks Chimú Disk enigma 

 

Solving the enigma Chimú Disk of the Cleveland Museum of Art  was particularly satisfying because, differing from previous solutions to northern-hemisphere old-world artifacts, for the first time, the TLVIV Phenotype Analysis was attempted at a Mesoamerican artifact, different not only in its geographical distance from the old world but more importantly in its visual language. Once the basics of the Chimú Disk’s visual language were understood, solving the Dumbarton Oaks Chimú Disk enigma was soon to follow and proposed here.

 

Preface

Israeli teachers often give birth 26 weeks before the summer vacation, allowing them to adjunct maternity leave to the two-month long summer vacation, and with a few more days of leave of absence around the autumn holidays, to spend paid time with their newborn from birth till 6 month old. Of course, enjoying this streak of vacations – maternity leave–summer vacation–holidays vacation requires some planning. Otherwise, maternity leave might be wasted on anyhow paid vacation time.

Farming, fishing, and other traditional occupations tend to be seasonal. Hence pregnancy and childbirth should be planned long before. Maternity leave is best-taken off-season.

This interpretation suggests that the Dumbarton Oak’s Chimú Disk does precisely this planning -288 days based, this Chimú Disk is an analog childbirth planner, calculator, and predictor.

 

 Illustration A.

 

 

Band I – Ovulation Dates

 

Reading the signs as 288 Days arranged in 18 groups of 10 days, and 18 groups of 6 days leads to interpreting the first band tracks and calculating ovulation dates.

 

 

Illustration 1.0 

 

Each rectangular of the first band has 10 “shells” (or “eggs shells” or “half Shell”) shapes attached to it as depicted.
Each bird icon in this band is surrounded by 3 “Shells, 6 days in total.
All together (18X10)+(18X6) = 288 days.
Each “shell” shape represents one day.
This arithmetic was made simple thanks to previous TLVIV Phenotype Method understanding of the Cleveland Museum of Art type of Chimú disk.

 

Band II – From Ovulation Until Childbirth.

 

The Second band tracks days from ovulation to delivery. As is later clarified, see 4th band paragraph, between delivery and completing the circle back to the beginning of the pregnancy – there is a sequence of a “snake” (3 days), a “figure” (13 days), and a “snake” (3 days), 19 days altogether. Subtracting 19 from 288 days gives 269 days, within the expected usual duration from ovulation until childbirth.  

 

 

 

 Illustration 2.0

 

 

Band III: The act and the Moon.

 

Illustration 3.0

The third band depicts eleven pairs of “lovebirds”, in a circular series of a standing figure, pair of birds, and a standing figure. The pair of birds are decorated with two heads, one upright and one upside down. 

 

 

Illustration 3.1

 

The standing figures mark the appearance of a full moon. The upright heads represent the waxing moon, and the upside-down heads symbolize the waning moon.
As is further elaborated, see 4th band paragraph, typical childbirth correlates with nine full moons. By the position of the pairs of birds relative to the standing figure, it could be speculated that full moon time had been forbidden days.

 

 

Band IV: The Pregnancy