“If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whaleship alone to whom the credit will be due, for already she is on the threshold.” -- Herman Melville Moby Dick
Notes: 9th post in a series...see previous...game about to get underway...Angels and Orioles...don't know if but an ethnobioligist might have an interest in sports' animal mascot names!...brb...
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Through much of the history of ethnobiology, its practitioners were primarily from dominant cultures, and the benefit of their work often accrued to the dominant culture, with little control or benefit invested in the indigenous peoples whose practice and knowledge they recorded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnobiology
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early on when Europeans came to the New World they were like the invading aliens, the bad ones, in the movies...now, a few centuries on, they are like looking at the ancient New World culture as 'aliens' to figure it out!...it's a bit like two alien cultures collided...Bergamini says that in the epigraph to his book, Japan's Imperial Conspiracy...a 'clash of cultures' between America and Japan...brb...
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Bergamini describes the Institute as a secret indoctrination center (protected by extensive security measures) for select younger sons, of politicians, Japanese nobility and militarist supporters, who desired to participate in fulfilling the dreams of Imperial conquest harbored among elements of Japan's aristocracy. The first draft of Japanese conquest plans for world domination were traced by Bergamini to the Institute.
According to Bergamini's theory, graduates of this ultrasecret 'political' think tank, recruited only by special invitation from rightwing circles, continued its 'political' and 'military' practice in the occupation zones in Manchuria. From this 'school' began the political and strategic debate between the Strike North Group (the Army group, pro-war against Soviet Siberia) and the Strike South Group (the Navy group concerned with the Chinese lands and especially Southeast Asia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%27s_Imperial_Conspiracy
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3up3down...Angels coming up...when I was studying the Panay Incident, I went through the indexes of books looking for Panay, and if Panay was there I brought it home...this about the time the web was starting up, and there I would do the same, on ebay of all places!...I have a small collection from ebay of Panay things...Bergamini's was a big book...and I caught errors in it in my Panay blog...but...he has a sentimental and romantic way of phrasing things...one American general had it that America was fighting a medieval society bound with senses of honor like Knights of the Round Table...to Japan, America was the 'bad aliens'...now, having savaged one another, we get along fine!...though still mystified by our respective alienness!...no score, top of second...if someone had asked me if I wanted to be an 'ethnobiolgist' in school, after asking what is that?, I would have said, 'sure'...hmmph...Tropiano pitching...'exobioligist' related?...brb...
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The goal of NASA’s Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology program is to understand the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the Universe.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/research/astrobiology-at-nasa/exobiology/
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good luck with that!...Ohtani at DH...well, there, I got to use one of my new words, 'epigraph'...took note of the Mayan epigraphists...headed to bottom of second, no score...an epigraph is like the little quotes authors put at the beginning, or chapter heads...they often allude to or are a quote from something...kind of like a sonnet's envoy...and an epigraphist studies the allusion of icons and such...I think...brb...Pujols up...
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A person using the methods of epigraphy is called an epigrapher or epigraphist. For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native rock at a location in Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphy
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Ohtani ground out to short...two out...the Achaemenid empire ended when Alexander and his girl burned down Persepolis...revenge for Persians burning down the Parthenon...I just watched a restoration clip of the Persepolis on youtube made by the Iranians...it doesn't mention Persia's invasion of Greece...brb...
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It is believed that the fire which destroyed Persepolis started from Hadish Palace, which was the living quarters of Xerxes I, and spread to the rest of the city.[11] It is not clear if the fire was an accident or a deliberate act of revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the second Persian invasion of Greece. Many historians argue that, while Alexander's army celebrated with a symposium, they decided to take revenge against the Persians.[12] In that case, it would be a combination of the two.[clarification needed]
The Book of Arda Wiraz, a Zoroastrian work composed in the 3rd or 4th century, describes Persepolis' archives as containing "all the Avesta and Zend, written upon prepared cow-skins, and with gold ink", which were destroyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis
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hmmph...ironic that later on the Islamic empire would preserve much of ancient Greek literature...brb...
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Though these works were originally written in Greek, for centuries the language of scholarship in the Mediterranean region, many were translated into Syriac, Arabic, and Persian during the Middle Ages and the original Greek versions were often lost. As the Arab caliphates absorbed Greek/Roman knowledge, the medieval Islamic world gradually became the dominant intellectual center in the Mediterranean region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Classics
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oh, Maldanado did the impossible...got a hit...had been 0-for34!...two men on...Kinsler up...epigraph reminds me of epigram, and just a bit back I did some of those...brb...
"a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending."
and there is an ancient Greek anthology of poems...brb...
"A major source for Greek literary epigram is the Greek Anthology,"
...Kinsler made out...runners moved up...Trout intentionally walked...Upton up!...Justin Upton has an alliterative name!...Panick for the Giants another!...poets are like flowers...I mean, after you become familiar with them, get a sense of them, you can recognize a poem by them without seeing their name...its 'scent'...or when they are being mimicked...see Kipling, then Eliot's Prufrock!...anyway, the Greek Anthology starts out with a poem that relates all the poets in the anthologies to flowers...an epigrammatic list for epigraphic ethnobotanists!...ground out to pitcher...to the top of 3rd...brb...
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In his preface to his collection, Meleager describes his arrangement of poems as if it were a head-band or garland of flowers woven together in a tour de force that made the word "Anthology" a synonym for a collection of literary works for future generations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Anthology
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now, where the Egyptians fixated on dung beetles, the Mayans go on about Water Lilies...both epigrammatically alluding to the movement of the sun...Sun worship...and, it's true, as with Coe's mention of astronomy, the Mayans were way more sophisticated than the Egyptians!...their iconography of the water lily is really elaborate...brb...
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The water lily is pictured so often in Mayan art that it is clearly one of the top two or three most frequently rendered flowers during the Classic period of Peten.
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This web page is not the place to question what part was eaten, smoked, ingested, or administered in an enema...
https://www.maya-archaeology.org/pre-Columbian_Mesoamerican_Mayan_ethnobotany_Mayan_iconography_archaeology_anthropology_research/book_sacred_water_lily_flowers_root_pad_nymphaea_alba_food_smoke_chemicals.php
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Ohtani double!!!...author of quote wants to focus on the Mayan water lilies as a food!...and avoid the rest...echoing my own desire!...studying ancient cultures can be like an anatomy class...too much information!...the curious are welcome to google the 'water lily jaguar'...I was reading a journal's technical article about the Mayans and their water lilies, really good, and in the ink drawings was one of the Water Lily Jaguar, and my eyes opened, 'that's really good!"...heck...runner left, they've stranded four...top of five...and I thought really obscure, like the article, but it's all over google images, with modern interpretations...brb...
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The water lily was often portrayed in an iconographic context in the art of the classic Mayan period. One may interpret these appearances of the water lily in a variety of ways. In essence, there are three motifs: Water lilies sprouting from the backs of crocodiles, powerful jaws grazing the surface while swimming in the water; the head of the “earth monster,” around which water lilies are entwined; and jaguars (the animal symbol of the shaman), either wearing the stalks and buds of water lilies as head ornaments, or dancing with water lilies. The association between the water lily and the jaguar is especially common during the Mayan period (Rands 1953).
http://entheology.com/plants/white-lily-nymphaea-ampla/
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oh, it's a marvel one has to explore for themselves, the Mayan's water lilies, the Egyptian's lilies and lotuses, India's, just all over the world...
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A very famous glyph from the classic Mayan period depicts a jaguar, apparently inebriated, swimming in a lake alongside Mayan symbolic text which reads: “Water Lily – Jaguar – His Naugal – Seibel – Alau”; loosely translated this means “The lord of the city of Seibel has the water lily as his nagual.” “Naugal” in Mayan refers to a shaman’s animal transformation, “alau” means lord and “uay” means magic and transformation (Coe 1973).
same as previous
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This is the link to the article I read...all of it!...though vocabularily lost at times! It's a pdf...
https://www.utrgv.edu/biology/_files/documents/publications/amcd5.pdf
on the ends of the bar petrograph...oh...Kinsler a double...Trout up...are the three 'fingers'...a thought is they might represent the profile of water lilies...three petals...thought too that the Tula Warriors' headdress 'feathers' are water lily petals...and, a thought that the feathered serpent feathers are water lily petals...that those authors' thought!...feathers/petals...a 'confluence'...the ethnobiolgists have the lore!...don't know what happened...Angels didn't score...more sometime about the Water Lily Serpent and the Water Lily Monster...bottom of six...no score...I wanted to see if the Incas had somewhere someplace places like Tula, Chichen Itza, and Persepolis...and they did...brb...oh!...Simmons hits a double...and Orioles outfield misplays the ball to the infield, and ball goes in stands...awarded home for Simmons!...a run for the Angels...Ohtani had grounded out...brb...hungry...need to get a snack before everything closes!...bk...hooey!...again the Angels lose their lead in the top of 9th...just like the Yankee game I went too...2-2 and runner on second, one out...more alien collisions: the Japanese sealed themselves off from the Europeans, and then Commodore Perry arrived with his Black Ships...on to bottom of 9th...brb...
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The Black Ships (in Japanese: 黒船, kurofune, Edo-period term) was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ships
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The Japanese wanted to copy the technology of the Black Ships...sent artists aboard them to copy everything...and then when they made their own ships, put patches in the sails...they had copied the patches on the American ships', not knowing what they were!...
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same wiki
The sight of the four ships entering Edo Bay, roaring black smoke into the air and capable of moving under their own power, deeply frightened the Japanese.
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Awoken from sleep
of a peaceful quiet world
by Jokisen tea;
with only four cups of it
one can't sleep even at night.
There is an alternative translation, based on the pivot words. Taihei can refer to the "Pacific Ocean" (太平); jōkisen also means "steam-powered ships" (蒸気船); and shihai also means "four vessels". The poem, therefore, has a hidden meaning:
The steam-powered ships
break the halcyon slumber
of the Pacific;
a mere four boats are enough
to make us lose sleep at night.
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walk Trout for the fourth time?...back to back hits, runners on 1st and 2nd...Trout already was walked three times because of runners on!...full count...he wont see a strike...ball four...loaded bases...Upton, 0-4, up...a walk off game winner!...a halo over this one!...lol...
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As happens in secluded societies everywhere, moreover, there existed a subculture of fabulous stories about peoples inhabiting far-away places.
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On the Japanese side, there was no comparable official visual record of these encounters, although we know from accounts of the time that boatloads of Japanese artists and illustrators rushed out to draw the “black ships” from virtually the moment they appeared off Uraga.
a must see site!
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/black_ships_and_samurai/bss_essay01.html
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where was I...oh!...the Inca palace that was like Persepolis, Tula, Chichen Itza...for tomorrow morrow!
:)
DavidDavid
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