Changelog

Expansion v1.0 — Phase 1 begins

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First batch of the v1.0 expansion ships, anchored on the new statistical methodology page. The expansion targets six new content pages (Maya, Aztec, Pythagorean, Norse, Sefer Yetzirah, Methodology), five interactive tools, and a consolidated bibliography. This entry covers the methodology page and the changelog/RSS infrastructure itself; subsequent entries will log each page and tool as it ships.

Added

• Statistical Methodology — the site’s credibility anchor. WRR (1994) vs. MBBK (1999) Torah-codes controversy as a peer-reviewed case study, plus the six-part toolkit (a priori vs. post hoc, multiple comparisons, Texas sharpshooter, encoding degrees of freedom, Monte Carlo, transmission survivorship) applied to two worked examples (Genesis 1:1 factoring; Dresden Codex eclipse table).
• Maya Numerics — vigesimal mathematics with the independently invented zero, the 13-b’ak’tun Long Count with the GMT 584,283 correlation, the 260/365/18,980-day Calendar Round (with all four “Why 260?” hypotheses + an explicit no-consensus statement), and the Dresden Codex Venus / Mars / Eclipse tables with exact commensurations (5×584=8×365; 780=3×260; 405 lunations = 46×260). New nav group: Mesoamerican Traditions.
• Aztec & Mexica Numerics — the tonalpohualli (260 = 13×20) and xiuhpohualli (365 = 18×20 + 5), the 52-year xiuhmolpilli (“Binding of the Years”), the New Fire Ceremony with its Pleiades-zenith astronomical anchor, the 13 heavens / 9 underworlds cosmology, and the Sun Stone credibility correction (the monument is a sacrificial cuauhxicalli, not a functioning calendar). Includes a structural comparison matrix with the Maya system.
• Pythagorean & Platonic Numerics — the tetraktys with its musical ratios (2:1, 3:2, 4:3), the arithmologies of numbers 1–10 (Aristotle Met. A5; Nicomachus; Theon), the five Platonic solids with the awkward dodecahedron, the Hippasus crisis (when a sacred-number tradition was falsified by its own mathematics — the irrationality of √2), and Plato’s nuptial number 12,960,000 = 60⁴ (Adam 1902) as a 2,000-year-old open interpretive problem.
• Norse & Germanic Numerics — nine as the dominant Germanic mythological number (Hávamál 138, Vǫluspá, Hyndluljóð, Gylfaginning), the 24-rune Elder Futhark in 3 ættir of 8 (Kylver stone, Vadstena bracteate), plus two important negative findings — (i) the Eddic sources do not enumerate a canonical list of the Nine Worlds, and (ii) there is no historical runic gematria (modern systems like the Armanen runes are 20th-century inventions).
• Sefer Yetzirah — The Book of Formation — the most mathematically self-aware text in the Western mystical canon. 32 paths (10 sefirot + 22 letters), the 22 letters in the 3 + 7 + 12 partition (mothers / doubles / simples), the 231 gates as C(22,2) = K₂₂ with the «Yisrael» gematria mnemonic (200 + 30 + 1 = 231), and the explicit factorial sequence in SY 4:16 (2! = 2, 3! = 6, 4! = 24, 5! = 120, 6! = 720, 7! = 5040) — among the earliest factorial computations in any religious text.
• Site-wide nav, RSS autodiscovery, and footer Changelog/RSS propagation. The new nav block (with all six expansion pages + Changelog) and the <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> autodiscovery tag are now present on all 33 content pages. Side-fix: completed two broken footers on sikhism.html and cross-cultural-comparisons.html which previously had an unclosed <footer> markup error.
• §10 credibility checklist: PASS (31 / 31). Every claim section on each new page carries an evidence badge; all four “Why 260?” hypotheses are presented with explicit no-consensus statement on the Maya page; Sun Stone correction (cuauhxicalli, not a functioning calendar) on the Aztec page; both negative findings on the Norse page (no canonical Nine Worlds list; no historical runic gematria); WRR + MBBK full-text links on the Methodology page; Long Count engine validated against both mandatory anchor dates (era base JDN 584,283 + era cycle JDN 2,456,283); footer note “Compiled for analytical review — June 2026” on every new page.
• Bibliography page — consolidated references grouped by source quality (peer-reviewed, academic monographs, primary texts, encyclopedic/online). Linked from every page’s nav and footer.
• Sitemap at /sitemap.xml — 36 URLs covering every public HTML page on the site; priority and changefreq hints; XML-validated.
• Number Lookup engine — enter any positive integer to see its cross-cultural attestations across the site (grouped by evidence grade) plus computed mathematical properties (prime factorization, triangular/square/cube/perfect flags, digit sum, digital root, OEIS link). Curated dataset of 71 number-tradition entries; vanilla JS; no server.
• Site search — hand-rolled client-side index (single search-index.js file, 48 KB) covering 31 pages and 251 sections (title + meta description + each H2 + first paragraph of each section). Match scorer weights title ×3, heading ×2, excerpt ×1; returns top 25 sections with matched terms highlighted. Honours ?q= URL parameter for the schema.org SearchAction.
• 231 Gates K₂₂ visualizer embedded in the Sefer Yetzirah page. SVG circle of 22 Hebrew letters with all 231 chords drawn at low opacity; hover a letter to highlight its 21 gates, click two letters to highlight the single gate between them and display the pair’s combined gematria value.
• Interactive Monte Carlo demo embedded directly in §07 of the Statistical Methodology page. Generates a 5,000-letter random text with Hebrew-like non-uniform letter frequencies; lets the reader pick a 2–6 letter target, a skip interval, and a trial count; counts equidistant-letter-sequence (ELS) matches in the original text; permutes the letters N times to build a null distribution; renders a live canvas histogram with the observed value marked and the right-tail p-value highlighted. Includes progress bar and trial counter during simulation. All vanilla JS, no external dependencies.
• Calendar Engine extension — Maya Long Count, Tzolk’in, Haab’, and Aztec tonalpohualli. The Calendar Engine now renders three additional traditions: the Maya Long Count (GMT correlation JDN 584,283; days-since-era-base 11 Aug 3114 BCE), the Tzolk’in & Haab’ combination, and the Aztec / Mexica tonalpohualli (Caso correlation, with an explicit caveat that no single accepted correlation constant exists for the Mexica count). Algorithm validated by two unit tests against the mandatory anchor dates from the expansion spec §7.1: era base (JDN 584,283 = 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk’u) and era cycle (JDN 2,456,283 = 4 Ajaw 3 K’ank’in = 21 Dec 2012). Tests run on page load and report to the browser console; both currently PASS.
• Cross-links from existing pages into the expansion content (four targeted edits):
  • Hebrew Bible — the “Kabbalah Connections: Sefer Yetzirah” subsection now links to the new Sefer Yetzirah page.
  • Ritual Calendars — Cross-Tradition Calendar Cycle Matrix — four new Mesoamerican rows added: Tzolk’in / tonalpohualli (260 days), Haab’ / xiuhpohualli (365 days), Calendar Round / xiuhmolpilli (18,980 days = 52 years), and Maya Long Count era (1,872,000 days).
  • Sacred Numbers — Introduction — a new pointers card now indexes numbers covered on other pages: 9 (Norse), 10 (Pythagorean), 13 / 20 / 52 / 260 (Mesoamerican), 22 / 231 (Sefer Yetzirah), and the Lab’s 3 / 4 / 5 / 9 / 40 profiles.
  • Numeral Systems — new Section 09 added for the Maya vigesimal positional system (with the independently invented zero); a row added to the Comparison Matrix; a tetraktys cross-link added from the Greek Isopsephy section. Renumbering: matrix → §10, calculator → §11, references → §12.
• This changelog at /changelog.html — one entry per release, evidence-graded.
• RSS feed at /rss.xml — one item per changelog entry, RSS 2.0 with autodiscovery via <link rel="alternate"> on every page.

Planned (queued)

• Five remaining content pages: Maya, Aztec, Pythagorean, Norse, Sefer Yetzirah.
• Site-wide nav propagation across all existing pages (currently only this page and the new ones carry the updated nav).
• Interactive tools: Calendar Engine extension (Long Count + Tzolk’in/Haab’ + Aztec tonalpohualli), Monte Carlo demo, 231 Gates K₂₂ visualizer, Number Lookup engine, site search.
• Consolidated bibliography page; sitemap update.
• Cross-links on Sacred Numbers, Ritual Calendars, Numeral Systems, Biblical Cryptography.

Source: internal expansion pack — TO_ADD/CODEX_NUMERICA_EXPANSION.md v1.0.

Site history before the changelog

retrospective summary

Before this changelog existed, the site was built up across several releases. The summary below is a retrospective best-effort reconstruction from the existing page corpus; it is not an authoritative release log.