Establishing the Measures of Creation
'Wherefore have they taken those long ropes and gone forth? He said 'They are gone forth to measure. These measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth'

The Elements of the frame of Time.

The great mystery of Creation is how the Circle of Heaven and square plane of the Earth are to be conjoined. This is the mystery known as 'squaring the circle'. Its solution produces a model of what the myths call the 'Created World'

The markers of the Beginning

We need to answer the question God asked of Job, 'whereupon are the foundations (of the earth) fastened?

The Milky Way crosses the ecliptic path of the sun at two points, on more or less opposite sides of the sky, and offers the most immediate and practical 'plumbline' for surveying the circle of the stars. For the Maya, the Milky Way is the 'World Tree'.
The equinoctial and solsticial points offer a second way to 'fasten the sky'
How can these two systems be related?