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Seashell Tocapus; Notes

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Notes: hmmph...had in mind to lay out the seashells like the Inca Warrior Tunic...that is an eleven by eleven grid, or some such...and it has the steps...well, easier to see...brb...



https://www.ancient.eu/image/4620/inca-military-tunic/

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was going to make the red part all black...which would hark to the black lower borders in the originals...and I have twenty eight seashells...two short of the full month...one is an abstraction of the pattern on a seashell...and I got a piece of grid paper, and tried to figure how to arrange them...thought I had it...kind of like looking at a map, and thinking I know where I'm going!...but no, soon as I started cropping copying pasting in photo elements, things got all sideways...began with a six by six inch canvas...turned grid on..then opened each file, cropped each file, pasted each crop into the six by six...after a couple rows, realized I wasn't any where near where I wanted to go!...so, just made five rows across, and six vertically...two blanks left over...for my name and title...and, those rows on the left side, will have to do for a hark to the black borders...shells aren't so cosmic without the borders...those were a play with contour rivalry...the new toy I found in the enigmas...was looking at the fauvist, the impressionist...they loaded up their brushes like I was...though different...then I looked at Van Gough...he should have done tiny canvases...then the loaded brushes don't get trapped into 'house painting'...just filling in the big spaces...he does that a lot...but on a big canvas, everyone does...oh, and Van Gogh is just like gone crazy with contour rivalry!...much fun doing the shells...diverted now from inktober by prepping and painting the Old House...put paint on the shutters today...the worst of the prep over...and I've bought half the paint I need...kind of downhill from here...seeing how I see how the paint is going on...I have enough...and all the gear I need...in the morning when it is hot tomorrow, I'll try to catch up with the inktobers...it's five days into it!...

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DavidDavid

Cosmic Seashell; Notes

 

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Notes: Angels won!...Ward waped a two run walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth...Angels went into the inning trailing 4-2...Ohtani wapped a lead off single, next up, Marte wapped a grounder into the left field corner, which brought everyone to their feet to see Ohtani round the bases and reach home...score now A's 4-3...and, with everyone still standing, Marte on second, Ward stepped up and wapped the walk off home run just out of the reach of the A's left fielder!...pretty cool way to end the last game of the Angels' season, I'd say!!!...

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DavidDavid

 

Seastar pic with notes...

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Notes: the routine with the stradaeasel September plein air contest has been to use as reference the basket of seashells I came home with, and one giant conch shell...sometimes I just glance at one...sometimes having already done one, I know the details, and can just wing it...I'm looking forward to scanning them all in, putting them all together like an Inca tocapu tunic...that'll take a bit...been awhile since I've manipulated photos/scans into a collage...I haven't been using the scanner for the daily posts...paint is always wet...a couple pastels I could have done that way...so, my photos aren't like the paintings...some darker, some brighter...I've taken the pics inside in artificial light, and outside in sunlight and shade...this part has something I noticed from last year, when I did the paintings at the beach...there I photographed under different light...and, and what I'm leading up to here, is that the pics I post to the web are a combination of photography and painting...the paintings are all very small, and I've come to regard them like a photo negative, or nowadays, a digital file, that can be manipulated...came to this just kind of accidentally, as I began to notice the pics in the odd lightings, and odd focuses too!, looked better often than the paintings...paintings in real life are kind of locked into whatever light is shining on them...usually soft indoor lighting...or unusually, over head lights like in a show or museum...paintings, I'm finding, can really be changed a lot by the light shining on them and taken in a photo...and, if I had the funds, I'd love to blow some of these little photo/paintings up and have them printed on canvas...that will lose the texture, and I suppose, the reality, of the paintings...but gain what the different lightings can do...one painting could have many moods...these last few I've done where taken in bright enough light, but with a long lens...so come out to dark...my usual camera for pics has a low battery...got to using the other one, and kept with it, curious to see these long lens dark pics indoors...oh, I'll think on this and add some more for tomorrow's last cosmic seashell...actually, I'm two behind...and might make those up...Oh!...back from game and did shell...A's 5-2...Angels lost...couldn't get off the deck...like just five hits...left like nine on base...bases loaded once with two out...Trout skied one giving everyone hope for grand slam...but caught at the warning track...

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DavidDavid

OTI:one pic,notes:9/28/18

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Open To Interpretation

Notes: this post one hundred twentieth in a series...see previous...and, and it's the last in the series with the streaming game...game on in a bit, like forty five minutes...have tickets for game tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon...last two games of the season...I have three strada easel contest cosmic shells to do, so three more shells to go with three more games...so I'll post up re-caps of those last two with the last two shells...but, but that's it....I'm done...for a bit...like until next baseball season again before I take up again with the Mystereons and their ancient enigmas...oh...I learned that that old movie I watched on youtube last night, movieTreasureOfTheIncas1953, was lifted for movieRaidersOfTheLostArc...I had mistaken it for movieKingsOfTheSun1963...that might be on youtube now too...couldn't find full screen version of Kings when I looked before...Indiana Jones was a scholar/archaeologist/tomb raider...Harry, in Treasure, played by Carlton Heston, is a tour guide in Peru, and a tomb raider...a more selfish sort, (a more Han Solo sort!) who has a change of heart when at the end he returns the Sun Disk to the Peruvians...Treasure is spot on with historical accuracy...even accurate that tour guides are probably tomb raiders, some of them...they are an interface between native folk and very wealth tourists eager to pocket artifacts!...Treasure is an obscure movie, locked away for like thirty years until someone snuck it onto the internet...thought is someone didn't want the similarity between it and Raiders to be noted...film buffs have now noted it...search Treasure of the Incas Raiders of the Lost Arc...the Inca Sun Disc in the movie is part of a real legend...

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The Golden Sun Disk was used to control 41 ceke lines (energy lines) which emanated from the Temple across the entire Inca territory which were believed to control the spiritual climate of the Inca people, who made ritual offerings at alters and shrines located upon these ceke lines.

http://blog.world-mysteries.com/mystic-places/quest-incas-golden-sun-disk/

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close read that page last night...fact better than a Clyde Cussler fiction!...put that Inca book of his down unfinished...and today a go figure in the news feed...

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"Thus someone viewing the sunset from these lines during the winter solstice would have seen the sun setting directly behind, or sinking into, the adobe pyramid," they write. "Thus the pyramid and the linear geoglyph constitute part of a single architectural complex, with potential cosmological significance, that ritualized the entire pampa landscape." (The word "pampa" stands for plain.)

https://www.livescience.com/29335-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid.html

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the Andeans took sundials to a new level...in Treasure is the Hitching Post of the Sun at Machu Pichu...there's another somewhat like it at:

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White Rock (Yurak Rumi  in Quechua) the legendary home of the great Yurak Rumi Inca Oracle. Looking south.

The Incas reshaped massive natural rocks so that they best suited the state ideology and their mystical solar religion, and they became ‘huacas’ (sacred sites located on ceke lines).



The White Rock Oracle is like nothing I had ever seen before. I’m from Scotland and I know all about standing stones, but this boulder is around 400 tonnes in weight and it has been carved so intricately that it almost looks mechanical in nature. In many ways the rocks function was mechanical, in that it was essentially a great big sun and moon dial.

http://blog.world-mysteries.com/mystic-places/quest-incas-golden-sun-disk/

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author is a real deal kind of Indiana Jones...scholar/archaeologist/adventurer...that there still are such!...oh!...game on...on the radio...Angels and A's at home in Anaheim....A's have qualified for wild card spot...one game against Yankees in Yankee stadium...Boston, Cleveland, Houston, won their divisions...need a fourth team, so they came up with the wild card slot...two best records after the division winners...I'll root for the A's!...I'm not going to get to bees in the New World...wait...just one bit...ground out to Simmons...

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Ah-Muzen-Cab^{[pronunciation?]} is one of the Maya gods of bees and honey. He is possibly the same figure as "the Descending God" or "the Diving God" and is consistently depicted upside-down. The Temple of the Descending God is located in Tulum. The bees used by the ancient Maya were Melipona beecheii and Melipona yucatanica, species of stingless bee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah-Muzen-Cab

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https://andrewgough.co.uk/mesoamerican-bee-god-quest/

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author has extensive takes on ancients and bees!...I had the take that the bees' proboscis was the curly cue on the Egyptians Eye of Horus, and Red Crown...123...to bottom of 1st...Calhoun up...I didn't think!...bees have short pointy tongues...I was thinking of butterflies, and moths...they have the long curly cue proboscis....bees have a kind of well known face...one out...Trout up...pop out...to top of 2nd...

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For starters, they look like aliens,

http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/566221/Furry-Eyeballs-And-Probing-Proboscii-A-Study-In-Bee-Faces

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pop out two out...I thought I had it nailed down that the ancient rosettes harked to opium buds...posted this pic, a kind of treasure, as I found it in wikis take on the history of jewelry, and I don't think any of the many going on about rosettes and opium had found it!...I travel well traveled footpaths!...

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Pendant with naked woman, made from electrum, Rhodes, around 630-620 BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewellery

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Barria on mound...only Angel pitcher in double figures for wins...and that just ten...123...to bottom of 2nd...seeing that necklace, I noted the rosettes together with what look like opium buds...and noted too the kind of Egyptian headdress look on the two faces at top...this all tiny tiny...need to finger zoom in with touch screens...thought that harked to Phoenician artistry...and it being said to be from Rhodes...Ohtani up...ripped just foul...after reading about the bees and bulls, I did a double take...there's a strange connection in the myths with bees and bulls...bees emerging from bull carcasses...there are carrion bees...flare drops in for hit...Ohtaini on leading off...oh, carrion bees are just a new world species...hmmph...a curio...I don't follow the import of the bull/bee myths...there's a lion/bee myth too...a motif in heraldry...a dead lion with bees...from the Bible...anyway, I got to looking at the necklace closely, at the middle 'face', and with my new thought that rosettes relate to bees, thought, is that little alien looking face a bee's face!...need to zoom in close study to see this!...and, and I went off and did bees ancient greek search... and, and right there in the middle of the images page....wala!!!...double steal...Ohtani and Upton to second and third...missed how Upton got on...tenth steal for Ohtani...fc brings in Ohtani...Angels 1-0...ball driven deep into left field...Ward waps a home run...Angels 3-0...that's cool...Wards a good player...

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Gold plaques embossed with winged bee goddesses, perhaps the Thriai, found at Camiros Rhodes, dated to 7th century BCE (British Museum)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology)

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and, that's just like the best enigma I've figured out!!!...the headdress is the same as on the two little faces on the necklace...the Egyptian banded headdress...but not in Egypt...and there are the rosettes...and more, the wings...that in a sec...Angels made out...to top of 3rd...ground out...123...to bottom of 3rd...

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There has been some scholarly debate about whether these are really breasts… and in fact it may be a “play on words” or a mix of symbolism. The breasts may also represent bee eggs or pomegranates (likely, as amber pendants in the shape of pomegranates have been discovered – these were draped on the Goddess as offerings).

http://floweringmoon.com/2015/08/goddess-as-queen-bee-artemis-of-ephesus/

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Ohtani owns a new major league uniqueness...ten steals, ten home runs, ten games pitched...that author has a great page with a lot of things...reading that, I note what I thought to be opium buds on the necklace, could be pomegranates...Fernandez waps a one out double...and I'm pretty sure the necklace is from Ephesus...Trout waps a home run!...Angels 5-0...Ohtani waps a double down the line...TroutTimeShoeiTime...author has this remarkable pic which looks to be from Ephesus, but source not clear...line out for second out...Simmons up...

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http://floweringmoon.com/2015/08/goddess-as-queen-bee-artemis-of-ephesus/

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almost too much of a fit to be real...rosettes inside hexagons...a wonder if it is a modern replica...or some such...and on the left is a staff with two bee hives on each end...and they look like pine cones...which goes back to Dionysius and his Thrysus...

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In Greek religion, the staff was carried by the votaries of Dionysus. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the Bacchic maenads carried.^[5] The thyrsus was a sacred instrument at religious rituals and fêtes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrsus

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the reason I question where that stone relief is from, is that there is next to nothing left of the Temple to Artemis at Ephesus...ephesus artemis bees...A's with two out runner...

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Coin from Ephesus. 4th Century B.C.E.

http://hearthmoonblog.com/lions-and-bees-whats-the-connection/

page has the story of Lions and Bees...note the angle of the bee's wings...

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 She was associated with the planet Venus and her most prominent symbols included the lion and the eight-pointed star.

hook-shaped knot of reeds, eight-pointed star, lion, rosette, dove



Terracotta relief of Ishtar with wings from Larsa (second millennium BC)


The "Burney Relief," which is believed to represent either Ishtar or her older sister Ereshkigal (c. 19th or 18th century BC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna

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However, whether it represents Lilitu, Inanna/Ishtar, or Ereshkigal is under debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief

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wikis takes are mercurial...I'm settled it is Innana...the others follow ons...Angels made out...to top of 5th...

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Winged gods, other mythological creatures, and birds are frequently depicted on cylinder seals and steles from the 3rd millennium all the way to the Assyrians. Both two-winged and four-winged figures are known and the wings are most often extended to the side. Spread wings are part of one type of representation for Ishtar.^[28] However, the specific depiction of the hanging wings of the nude goddess may have evolved from what was originally a cape.

same wiki

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ah, no...Innana's wings are bees wings...that's the hark of the angles...too, see her feet!, wings in general...Inanna is a bee goddess too like Artemis...

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The pollen bag © Andrew Gough

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author has it...the mystery of the wrist watch...and doesn't see it...instead focused on the Mystereons' pollen bag...the Mystereons' wrist watch is the rosette!...two out walk...and it is all a fit...the pollen bag, the pine cone bee hive, the rosette/flower...there figures on either side of Trees of Life...come back to this for images...have been to this page in past posts...come to it this time looking for Innana as bee goddess...Barria doesn't get the victory...too many pitches pitched, and now with two walks, a reliever comes in...need to go five full inning for win...that rule should change...pitchers not put in to go long distances any more...as it will happen, a relief pitcher who is on the mound when winning run scores becomes eligible for the win...oh...worse...he had a no hitter going...eeesh...Scoscia not being old school at all...and he's from old school!...

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Intriguingly, there is a tradition that bees selected Ethiopian kings, and perhaps the best-known source for this legend is the famous ruler of the Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, King Lalibela, who reigned from 1167 to 1207. According to legend, a swarm of bees surrounded the Prince at his birth, which his mother interpreted as soldiers who would later serve her son, prompting her to choose for him the name Lalibela, meaning ‘the bees recognise his sovereignty’.

same site

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hmmph...learned up above in bit about 'they look like aliens', that bees can recognize individual human faces!...K...to bottom of 5th...hits off base of wall for a double for Calhoun...what ever is the opposite of star crossed, that's what the Angels are so far tonight!...

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Another account of the bee in Mesopotamian mythology relates to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war, who appears as early as 4000 BCE. Inanna was the goddess of Venus, the morning and evening star, and as a result she is associated with dualities such as love and war and fertility and lust. Interestingly, the Mayans considered Venus to be a bee, due to the fact that both the bee (waggle dance) and Venus (seven-year, pentagonal-shaped orbit) exhibited intelligent movements.

same site

https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_pollen/

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Trout up...0-1...base hit...to third Calhoun...Trout on first...Ohtani up...

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Curiously, Inanna is portrayed in the Adda Seal, which the British Museum describes as:

The Akkadian greenstone seal (height 3.9cm) shown here, dating to about 2300 BC, is shown alongside its modern impression. Gods and goddesses are depicted, identified by their horned head-dresses and attributes as a hunting god, the goddess Ishtar, the sun god Shamash and the water god Enki followed by his vizier.

The description is benign and fails to mention that Ishtar, which is another name of Inanna, is depicted with what appears to be bee wings and, according to scholars, she is holding a date fruit from a palm tree. Furthermore, she is standing on a platform of beehives that spans the length of the seal.



same site

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a curio!...sac fly to the warning track...Angels 6-0...

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I feel it is important to not think of kings portrayed as bee-gods as being a speculative notion, for the honey bee and its many life-affirming by-products were vital to flourishing civilisations in antiquity. So, why should the King not revere them? Take for instance Ancient Egypt, where the King’s titles included ‘He of the Sedge and the Bee’ and ‘Beekeeper’, and where the King included a picture of the bee in his cartouche and was buried in a yellow and black, horizontally striped death mask that clearly appears to have been inspired by the bee.



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well, that's where I went too with the headdress banding...banding on bees abdomen...but, but I too mixed it up with the checkerboard/diagonal checkerboard/network/goddessNut/stars/milky way...bees have the starry sky on their bottoms...the starry crown...

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Was the White Crown of Egypt a symbolic beehive, a symbol of wisdom and leadership?

same site

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I dunno...but looking at this image, where before I've noted the angle of the forearms, I now note the angle of the upper arms--the bee wing angle of Innanna/bees...a reach to be sure...A's get their first hit...top of 7th I think...

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It is also interesting that the Red Crown of Egypt was called ‘dsrt’, and that E.A. Wallis Budge transcribed the Red Crown as ‘Deshret’, which is very similar to the Jaredite word for bee: ‘deseret’. Could both words refer to the honey bee? If so, then this would mean that both the Egyptian Crown (Wisdom of the King) and Red Crown (leadership over the worker bees) were inspired by bees.

same site

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I dunno...author tying in the Mormons...he rolls right through history...bit about Napoleon and bees is telling...and from that same conspiratorial time...

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George Washington’s Masonic Apron, with a Beehive located top centre

https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee3/

same author at another page...I can follow on on that with what I've gone on about before...there is the checkerboard...where things are is what things are...it has the same heraldry locations as the stele/shields...at top is the rosette stylized, eight sided, stylized around the bee hive...the four pillars are the four djed pillars...the arc over thing is goddessNut/rainbow serpent of the Andeans...the beams coming down from the eye, eye of horus, are the lotus flower beams...there's the fan/splay/two hemsipheres...a reach: even a bit of the scarab pushing the sun about it all...worse, it has a modern version of contour rivalry...Ward and Cowert make out...to top of 7th...overall, I imagine, the apron represents planet earth, an odd kind of plaque like the one on Explorer space probe...page has the Napoleon bit too, which is even more fantastic...oh, author has the fleur de lis too...not a rock unturned, I'd say!

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As an aside, the researcher Robert Lawlor studied the design of the Bee and Fleur-de-lys in his book; ‘Sacred Geometry’ and concluded that the 1:√ proportion of the Fleur-de-lys is also found in the design of the Islamic Mosque. Intriguingly, the mystical dimension of Islam known as Sufism maintained a secret brotherhood called Sarmoung, or Sarman, meaning Bee. Members of the organization viewed their role as collecting the precious ‘honey’ of wisdom and preserving it for future generations.

same site

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hmmmph...A's make out...to bottom of 7th...to be continued next Spring...bees, after all, need to hibernate...

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Many insects hibernate, especially in the larval or pupal stages, and a few hibernate in the adult stage. Queen bumble bees, for example, hibernate all by themselves in the ground for approximately five months.
However, honey bees remain “awake” all winter, during which time they eat and keep the hive warm. The winter activities—especially heating the hive—require vast amounts of food energy and are the reason that honey bees store so much nectar.
https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-honey-bees-hibernate/

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Calhoun up...that, that would have been a wonder not to be missed/incorporated into a myth...brb...Calhoun waps another lead off double!...Marte fc moves Calhoun to second...Trout up...or Ohtani...???...

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He demonstrated that bees can recognize a desired compass direction in three different ways: by the sun, by the polarization pattern of the blue sky, and by the earth's magnetic field. He showed that the sun is the preferred or main compass; the other mechanisms are used under cloudy skies or inside a dark beehive.^[59] Bees navigate using spatial memory with a "rich, map-like organization".^[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee

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a curio!...Ohtani a nubber by the pitcher for infield hit and drives in Calhoun...Angels 7-0...wait...it's proving hard to nail down what bees do in winter...each species may have a different take...somewhere in that wiki take, where I can't find, the general populations lives for one season...and the queen hibernates...Simmons up...A's I think 123...and it is bottom of 7th...oh..a long inning...Simmons bases loaded W...Angels 8-0...Trout scores...don't know how he got on...Arcia up...shot to mound and a 123 double play...to top of 8th...

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In D'Arcy Thompson's translation: "At early dawn they make no noise, until some one particular bee makes a buzzing noise two or three times and thereby awakes the rest; hereupon they all fly in a body to work. By and by they return and at first are noisy; ... until at last some one bee flies round about, making a buzzing noise, and apparently calling on the others to go to sleep".

same wiki

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Scientists are investigating the growing phenomenon of bumblebees remaining active throughout the winter months.
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Traditionally, the queens go into hibernation in protected places such in soil or under moss, from late July or August. They then emerge in March, as the weather warms, with each queen starting up her own colony, where she lays eggs.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6521434/Scientists-investigate-phenomenon-of-the-winter-bees.html

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A's get a run...and a runner on third...error on a throw...

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But honeybees are different.
They’ve evolved a strategy for winter survival that is unique, one that relies heavily on frenzied visitation to flowers throughout the summer and a Herculean group effort in the months beyond. Believe it or not, their success in this endeavor depends on choices that you make for your yard and garden.... ... ...
As temperatures drop, honeybees cluster together within their hive to share the warmth that their “shivering” generates (picture a ball of bees a foot in diameter and sliced through by sheets of honeycomb). At the core of this cluster, worker bees keep themselves and their queen at a temperature that is only a few degrees lower than that of a healthy human. The cluster’s outer layer consists of tightly packed, slightly cooler workers that insulate the core as effectively as bird feathers or mammalian fur—don’t worry, everyone gets to rotate.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/help-honey-bees-survive-t_b_1835883.html

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that, that I've seen before else ware!...

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To prevent themselves freezing to death, they huddle together in tightly-packed groups to conserve heat and shelter themselves from the intense winds.
Now it seems these huddles can actually be too good at keeping the emperor penguins warm.In the time-lapse below, you can see that penguin huddles constantly rotate. The most obvious behaviour is that penguins on the outskirts regularly muscle their way inside the huddle.



http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151107-how-penguins-avoid-overheating

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where things are is what things are...lots of runners on...9 walks given up by the Angels...'not one has scored'...new reliever on mound for Angels...and now a wild pitch...runners to second and third...runner scores on bobbled grounder scored a hit...another hit...three runs score with a double...Angels 8-5...Angels are playing a play off team...

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"If one penguin starts a wave," perhaps shuffling too close to its neighbor, "it travels in both directions, like a Mexican wave in a football stadium," said Daniel Zitterbart, a physicist at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany who filmed and then analyzed the movements of the penguin herds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/emperor-penguins-do-wave-keep-warm-2D11744233

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the 'midnight ceremony'...hmmph...Simmons stops the A's assault...to bottom of 8th...Ward makes out...Cowert up...ground out...Hermesillio up...pop out...to top of 9th...well, they are likely there, somewhere, in the ancients' myths...the story of wintering bees made into a story...Angels have a farm team called The Bees...from Utah, of course...K...Robles on mound...K...100 mile an hour pitch...base hit to right...Blash gets it back in...

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https://www.google.com/search?q=salt+lake+bees&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGiNulvN_dAhVO5awKHW_CDMIQ_AUIDigB&biw=1038&bih=402#imgrc=7FfCiyM2Ru1KBM:&spf=1538198592758

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one strike to go...K...Angels 8-5...'put a halo over this one'...pohono...


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DavidDavid

OTI:one pic,notes:9/27/18

#stradaeasel

Open To Interpretation

Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels night off...Rams and Vikings...Rams 38-28...'bout fourteen minutes left...football is frenetic...Rams playing in the Old LA Coliseum...over the radio, it sounds like the Old Roman Coliseum...Dodgers with night off too...thought they were on...human sacrifice, however dressed up with rituals and sacred notions, was likely entertainment for the Mesoamericans and Andeans...in the Old World, it was entertainment in the guise of punishments being meted out--criminal executions, war prisoner executions, religious persecutions, staged wars, fabricated wars...for the Romans, a kind of what the hell, let's indulge, kind of attitude took hold with both the fans and the participants...kind of like that scene in movieOnTheBeach...

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Sawfish and its crew return to Australia to enjoy what pleasures remain to them before the end. Osborn wins the Australian Grand Prix in which many racers, with nothing left to lose, die in various accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

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In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace^[1] — by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).
Juvenal, who originated the phrase, used it to decry the selfishness of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.^[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.^[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

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actually, I'd say, Juvenal, an erosion of hope by common people for basics of life/pursuit of happiness...from that circumstance a few turn to excesses...crime, violence, staged shows with no rules...Road Warrior movie stuff...moviesRoadWarrior likely stem from movieOnTheBeach Grand Prix scene...a thought...Mad Max creators had another thought...

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Yet there were further signs of the desperate measures individuals would take to ensure mobility. A couple of oil strikes that hit many pumps revealed the ferocity with which Australians would defend their right to fill a tank. Long queues formed at the stations with petrol—and anyone who tried to sneak ahead in the queue met raw violence. ... George and I wrote the [Mad Max] script based on the thesis that people would do almost anything to keep vehicles moving and the assumption that nations would not consider the huge costs of providing infrastructure for alternative energy until it was too late.

— James McCausland, writing on peak oil in The Courier-Mail, 2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max

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48. Years later, Gibson would say The Road Warrior was his favorite of the three films. “It still holds up because it’s so basic,” he told Playboy. “It’s about energy — it didn’t spare anyone: people flying under wheels, a girl gets it, a dog gets it, everybody gets it. It was the first Mad Max, but done better. The third one didn’t work at all.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/60-mad-facts-about-the-original-mad-max-trilogy-118809744717.html

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Gibson went on to produce

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto

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having produced a film about the torments of Jesus on the cross, he went on to the Mayans and their ritual sacrifices...portrayed as an indulgence by elites...Charlton Heston starred in a movie about the Incas...

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Secret of the Incas was filmed on location in Peru at Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the first time that a major Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site. A sixteen person unit including Heston, producer Mel Epstein and director Jerry Hopper spent a month filming footage in Peru in 1953.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas

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both films have sacrifice scenes...in Gibson's the crowd is delirious, dancing around, cheering on the bloodletting...in Epstein's the crowd stands stock still quiet....maybe that had something to do with it being filmed in Peru...Rams win...'sweep September'...Update:  Wait!...Was thinking of Yul Brenner Kings of the Sun...watched Treasure...report for tomorr...later today...:)


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Open To Interpretation

Notes: when I first read Herodotus it was the first ancient Greek author I read...aside from Homer, and some scattered poets...and it was well on in my reading of books...came to it late...time was students came upon classic authors early in school, along with learning Latin and Greek...times change...anyway, got to thinking about political trash talking...some call it gas lighting...send up...digs...back and forth...it relates to why golf courses are so quiet when golfers are preparing to putt...different on a basketball court...Larry Bird of the Celtics most famous for trash talk...he reveled in it...trash talking Michael Jordan just pumped him up...he'd light you up for thirty points in an eye blink...see what wiki has on trash talking...

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Trash-talk is a form of insult usually found in sports events, although it is not exclusive to just sports or similarly characterized events.^[1] It is often used to intimidate the opposition, but can also be used in a humorous spirit. Trash-talk is often characterized by use of hyperbole or figurative language, such as, "Your team can't run! You run like honey on ice!" Puns and other wordplay are commonly used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash-talk

hmmph...and that wiki take is like vaseline with sand...anyway, reading along in Herodotus, I happened on the passages about the conflict between the Persians and the Scythians...the Scyths are like the best trash talkers, which is saying some, as it was a cultivated art back in those days...object was to be brief and succinct...

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But after sending the gifts to Darius, the Scythians who had remained there came out with foot and horse and offered battle to the Persians. But when the Scythian ranks were set in order, a rabbit ran out between the armies; and every Scythian that saw it gave chase. So there was confusion and shouting among the Scythians; Darius asked about the clamor among the enemy; and when he heard that they were chasing a rabbit, he said to those with whom he was accustomed to speak, 4.134.2 “These men hold us in deep contempt; and I think now that Gobryas' opinion of the Scythian gifts was true. Since, then, my own judgment agrees with his, we need to consider carefully how we shall return safely.” To this Gobryas said : “O King, I understood almost by reason alone how difficult it would be to deal with these Scythians; but when I came here, I understood even better, watching them toying with us. 

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekFeb2011&query=Hdt.%204.131.2&getid=1

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vignette loses some taken from its context...see page...I've been a fan of the Scyths ever since reading that...must be some kind of name for the ancients and their come backs...come backs as in 'Nuts'...Scythian Repartee...something to read:

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Going To Pieces In Scythia

By: Phineas Redux

Xena accompanies Gabrielle, Amazon Queen, on the blonde's expedition to bring justice to a renegade hiding in the warlord haunted wastes of Scythia.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13059407/1/Going-To-Pieces-In-Scythia

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battle on Xena...greek battlefield repartee...

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Flyting is a ritual, poetic exchange of insults practised mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. The root is the Old English word flītan meaning quarrel. Examples of flyting are found throughout Norse, Celtic,^[2] Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature involving both historical and mythological figures. The exchanges would become extremely provocative, often involving accusations of cowardice or sexual perversion.
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The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie records a contest between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the word shit as a personal insult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting

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game on...on the radio...Heaney on the mound for the Angels...Angels and Rangers...top of 1st...bobbled by Ward at third...missed out on double play...one out...Rangers make out...to bottom of 1st...Calhoun up...fly out to the wall in center...Trout up...'only six home runs against leftys...and only 9 rbis'...and, that a problem for the Angels' offense all season...leftys...2-1...oh..Trout walked...whose up?...Upton...in Ohtani's slot...K...Ohtani up...0-1...1-1...1-2...K...to top of 2nd...Beltre waps a home run...Rangers 1-0...K...two out hit...bloop hit, runners at corners...break dancing is a kind of 'flyting', in that two sides compete...and there's banter...was watching a youtube shuffle dance...clip I thought, but it kept going on and on...and noted the comments scrolling along, and, realized I was watching a kind of streaming clip...some new youtube thing...new to me anyway...brb...K...to bottom of 2nd...clip is still running...49 viewers current...this is an odd thing...live streaming clips...news, like a hurricane, I can understand...but this one is just dance clips...and it loops, sorta...it's not live...but the comments are like in a live stream...and live, I'm supposing...reminds me of the old Rocky Horror Picture Show fad...midnight showings every Friday...fans dress up, and shout out imprecations, get out of their seats...

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im·pre·ca·tion

ˌimprəˈkāSH(ə)n/

noun

formal

noun: imprecation; plural noun: imprecations

1. a spoken curse.

   "she hurled her imprecations at anyone who might be listening"

   
   

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hmmph...kind of like the memes floating about with their kite tail comment strings...Angels make out...to top of 3rd...the shuffle dancing is cool...kind of a minimalized break dancing...tap dancing like I guess, in both being compact...

 

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The shuffle dance, also known as the Melbourne shuffle or simply the shuffle (and locally by other terms like rocking or stomping) is a rave and club dance that developed in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1990s.^[1] Many of the movements used in shuffling are typical jazz dance steps but with a contemporary twist.^[1] The style is also influenced by a Chicago based ghetto house dance called footwork and a style called the crip walk that originates in Compton LA.

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle_dance}

 

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Angels turn a 1-6-3 DP...then Rangers get another hit...pop out to right...to bottom of 3rd...Trout K for third out...to top of 4th...123...bottom of 4th...Upton waps a double...Ohtani up...rips a foul ball down the line...0-1...single into right...Angels 1-1...Simmons up...5-4-3 double play...

 

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One of the Buner reliefs showing Scythian soldiers dancing. Cleveland Museum of Art.

 

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Indo-Scythians

 

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top of 5th...lead off home run...Rangers 2-1...wiki's take there mentions the Scythians picked up things from India...like mudras/hand gestures...a Buddhism thing...have always found the hand gestures of modern street gangs suspect...like a reversion...ancient cultures used them...Rangers make out...to bottom of 5th...Ward waps a home run...Angels 2-2...Cowert fly out...Calhoun up...Scythian caps...

 

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 Herodotus mentioned that Sakas had "high caps and … wore trousers."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians

 

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Trout on base...Upton up...

 

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Textile analysis of the Tarim Mummies has shown some similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to tartans from Northern Europe. One unusual find was a distinctively pointed hat:

Yet another female – her skeleton found beside the remains of a man – still wore a terrifically tall, conical hat just like those we depict on witches riding broomsticks at Halloween or on medieval wizards intent at their magical spells. ^[3]:200

Pointed hats were also worn in ancient times by Saka (Scythians), and are shown on Hindu temples (as helmets and metal crowns) and in Hittite reliefs. As described by Herodotus, the name of the Scythian tribe of the tigrakhauda (Orthocorybantians) is a bahuvrihi compound literally translating to "people with pointed hats".^[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointed_hat

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Trout walks...got ahead somehow!...or...what?...two on...Upton up...don't know how Calhoun got on...DP...third DP in game...to top of 6th...123...to bottom of 6th...Ohtani up...lefty reliever on mound for Rangers...ground out...Simmons up....W...

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As of the Victorian era, fairy tales began depicting black-colored conical hats and crones as symbols of wickedness in their illustrations.^[1] Another possibility is that in Luna, a town of the Etruscan civilization, there were coins on one side depicting a goddess commonly associated with witches, named Diana, wearing a brimless, cone-shaped hat.^[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_hat

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Diana is Artemis...Artemis cone hat...K...Breseno up...two out single...runners on first and third...Ward up...fly out to center...to top of 7th...

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By the 4th century BC (early Hellenistic period) the Phrygian cap was associated with Phrygian Attis, the consort of Cybele,



Head of Attis wearing a Phrygian cap (Parian marble, 2nd century AD).

 Other Greek earthenware of antiquity also depict Amazons and so-called "Scythian" archers with Phrygian caps. Although these are military depictions, the headgear is distinguished from "Phrygian helmets" by long ear flaps, and the figures are also identified as "barbarians" by their trousers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap

123...to bottom of 7th....it's a cold weather hat, I imagine...like a ski cap one could pull it down over one's face...I don't think Greek Artemis is noted for a headdress...one note has it a moon decorated headdress...Hermesillo pinch hitting for Cowert...K...Calhoun up...0 for 2 with a walk...ground out...Trout up...

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Bees were venerated in prehistory and revered in ancient cultures far and wide, especially Egypt. So how did the veneration of the Bee evolve from there? In The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford reflect on the importance of the Bee in one region in particular – the Mediterranean; “Bees have an ancient reputation as the bringers of order, and their hives served as models for organizing temples in many Mediterranean cultures.”
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Honey was also regarded as an elixir in Mediterranean societies; a magic potion that ensured a long and healthy life.
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Like the Minoans, the Greeks held the Bee sacred and featured it prominently in their mythology. Not only did the Greeks believe that honey was ‘the food of the gods’ and that Bees were born of bulls, they believed that Bees were intricately entwined in the everyday lives of their gods.

https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/

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Trout K for third out...to top of 8th...

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The ancient Olive Tree near the entrance to the sacred Bee cave on Ithaca

same site

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for sometime a close look at that cave!...for the cave collection...and more from that page!

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At Delphi, site of the most important oracle in the ancient world, legend asserts that the second temple was constructed entirely by Bees. In fact, the Oracle itself – the Omphalos Stone, resembles a Beehive and is designed with crisscrossing rows of Bee-like symbols, reminiscent of the ‘Net dress’ worn by Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky and keeper of the title She Who Holds a Thousand Souls.



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that's a fit!...and one I forgot to fit into my going on about diagonal checkerboards...a honey comb is a hexagonal checkerboard (just thought of that!)...the Tula warriors have a hexagonal band around their headdresses...for sometime bees in the ancient New World...123...to bottom of 8th...Ohtani up...wait...Upton up...not sure who has more senior moments--me or the Angels' announcers...K...now Ohtani us up...

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Hermes steals Apollo’s cattle

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note rosettes with the bulls...went on in previous post about rosettes...this post one hundred nineteenth in a series...see previous...rosettes related to opium buds...but, but rosettes could hark to flowers/pollen/bees/honey...and that puzzling spiral curly cue on the eye of Horus and the Egyptian red crown!...oh...that's a fit, I'd say...Ohtani hits one off the top of the fence for a home run off an old teammate pitching from Japan, now reliever for Rangers...Angels 3-2...the curly cue is a bee proboscis...

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Further, evidence suggests that Artemis was in fact the most renowned patron of the Bee in all of Greece. As the daughter of Zeus and twin sister to Apollo, Artemis was the goddess of nature, particularly forests, hills, rocky outcroppings and rivers; all natural habitats of Bees. Artemis’s Roman equivalent was the goddess Diana, and statues of Artemis | Diana from the Anatolian city of Ephesus portray her covered in eggs, which some have identified as Bee eggs given that a typical Queen Bee will lay tens of thousands of eggs in her short lifetime.

https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/

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lol...I've been reaching for that...the mystery/enigma of the Artemis statue at Ephesus...

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Statues of Artemis | Diana from Ephesus (‘the Bee’) showing Bee eggs or bull testicles, Bees and a Beehive styled headdress

same site

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kind of no brainer!...Angels make out...to top of 9th...and to hang on to one run lead!...

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One of Osiris’s symbols was a Beehive, and like the head of Osiris, the Beehive is said to represent the collective wisdom of mankind. Similarly, many stone houses across the ancient world were designed in the shape of Beehives, including some notable Bronze Age huts in southwest Ireland, called Clochán’s. Not surprisingly, Ireland’s Beehive inspired huts recalls the thalamus tombs in ancient Mycenae.

same site

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Phrygian cap/bee hive....Gallo strikes out for the fourth time...he has over forty home runs...but a very low batting average...'down to their final strike of the ball game'...'grounder to Ward...long throw...game over...put a halo over this one!'...hmmmmmmmmmmmm...more on bees tomorrowmorrow...

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