Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and Orioles...advertisement on...I found the kneeling bat god...see yesterday's post...this post forty seventh in a series...see previous...as a gettyimages I can't snag it...sorta...brb...oh...first these two:
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https://goo.gl/images/FEc4hy
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I figured out how to save favorite sites on my Samsung tab....click on the three prong icon...click on memo...title it...save...from memo now I have a nice list of web addresses of favorites!...line up being read...Calhoun lead off, Trout up second...
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https://goo.gl/images/hKej2a
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I thought he was on one knee...that aside, note the small shield, and the double pointed weapon in his hand...not sure what that is...and the headdress...compared to the Mixtec...pic from yesterday, and previous on and ons!
on his chest he has what one of these guys has....Angels made out...Skaggs on the mound...two runners on, first and third bottom of 1st...
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mixtec pottery vessels...google search...
https://www.google.com/search?q=mixtec+pottery+vessels&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG4YDNmvzbAhUEWqwKHYxRC2kQ_AUICygC&biw=1038&bih=398#imgrc=mtqTheRhg5tvpM:&spf=1530389886464
Date: 1200–1500
Geography: Mexico, El Chanal area
Culture: Nayarit
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: H. 9 5/8 x W. 8 1/4 in. (24.4 x 21 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Containers
Credit Line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, 1993
Accession Number: 1993.16.1, .2
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1993.16.1,2/
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the 'Mixtec' is captioned as being possibly Nayarit...hooey...changed radio batteries and come back to game on 'two runs for B'mor'...hmmph...the similar chest symbol says the Mixtec is from Mixtec Mexico, not Moche Peru...which is weird as it looks so much like the Moche kneeling warriors...well, not so weird if one pre-supposes contact between Peru and Mexico...extensive contact...but gathering Easter eggs, evidence, one shouldn't pre-suppose...y'know, there is a real back and forth among the scholars about diffusion and convergence...like a plot in a law and order drama, both sides promote evidence for their narratives!...Orioles made out...Orioles 2-0...top of 2nd...one out...Nayarit figures have the wizards cone hats...
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Some scholars believe the figurines depict gods, while Christopher Beekman of the University of Colorado Denver suspects that they may in fact represent the people with whom they were buried. Certainly the designs were intended to communicate identity and status, particularly considering that the figurines appear to have been used in ceremonial contexts, and also set up in residential areas to be seen and visited. According to Beekman, it is notable that the tattooing occurs prominently around the mouth, which may refer, as it does in Classic Maya society, to the breath of life or the capacity of polished speech of these individuals.
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/107-features/tattoos/1357-mexico-jalisco-nayarit-Colima
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the Nayarit figures look to have the symbols of the Mixtec kneeling warrior...thought is they are from the same 'school'...all these cultures had schools, teams of artists that worked together, and each had particular styles...nowadays artists are kind of off on their own, though their works often fall into categories begun by some school...for sometime the import of this!...the girls in the palace that wove the Inca kings' tunics were a 'school'...a captive one of sorts...Orioles made out...to top of 3rd...Kinsler up...1-2...browsing Nayarit figurine images...Kinsler with lead off hit...two out...Kinsler on second...here's like the best model house I've seen...showing the geometric designs on the roof....
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https://hiveminer.com/Tags/museum%2Cnayarit/Timeline
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Calhoun makes out...to bottom of 3rd...the Nayarit make models...note the spectators sitting arm in arm...I look at this and feel like I'm out at the stadium!...
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Artist: Unknown
Model of a Ballgame with Spectators
100 B.C.–A.D. 250
Ceramic with pigment
15 x 26 x 45.1 cm (5 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
1973.88.26
Culture:
Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlán del R’o Style
Period:
Protoclassic Period
Classification:
Sculpture
Status:
On view
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/10950
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now, back to the Temple of Columns, Zapotec, and the Temple of the Moon, Cao's temple, Moche...I've noted their square, boxy look...see yesterday's post...and I was looking again at Mexican temple tops...Mayan Aztec and such...on the pyramid tops there is a house with a roof which looks to have once been thatched, or stylized...I was wondering if they had designs...likely so...reproductions of Tiahuanaco show them on the platform pyramids...and then, and then I noticed that the little houses on top of the pyramids have the self same look of the Column and Moon temples...Trout leads things off top of 4th...
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This photo of Chichen Itza is courtesy of TripAdvisor
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Pujols up...one out...note the step frets...and banded friezes...and the boxy look..."Simmons bounces one through the left side"...rbi...Orioles 2-1...two out...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza
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note the 'box' on top...likely the steps had friezes...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Castillo,_Chichen_Itza
the famous feathered snake shadow on the solstice...Angels made out...Orioles made out...top of 5th?
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http://xfrog.com/gallery/architecture/tmple_jag_colortest18_comp_small.jpg.php
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Kinsler up...hard to find close ups of the temples!...but this reproduction shows what I'm noting...these running friezes are stylistically much like the Zapotec Temple of the Columns...Kinsler got on and moved on to third from Fletcher's bloop single...two on one out...Calhoun up...note how the frieze with the three dots alternates...interlocked...this just like the Temple of Columns...using search...mayan temple friezes...two out..."unproductive at bat"...hmmph...Trout up...Trout walks...bases loaded...from 3-0 to 3-2 swing at bad pitch, low...hmmph..to bottom of 5th...Orioles 2-1...there...I found one...with the step fret no less...
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uxmal,_Governor%27s_Palace.jpg
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I, I got to wondering if the cultures, the artists, were getting their frieze designs, the step fret in particular, from snakes...the patterns snakes have on their skin...the Aztec's stylized the rattle snake into their pyramid friezes...
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Detail of the pyramid, showing the alternating "Tlaloc" (left) and feathered serpent (right) heads. Note the long undulating feathered serpents in profile under the heads.
The Feathered Serpent Pyramid is a six-level step pyramid built in the talud-tablero style. The outside edges of each level are decorated with feathered serpent heads alternating with those of another snake-like creature, often identified as Tlaloc. Nevertheless, Mary Ellen Miller and Karl Taube claim that these heads may represent a "war serpent",[5] while Michael D. Coe claims, somewhat similarly, that they probably represent the "fire serpent" wearing a headdress with the Teotihuacan symbol for war.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_the_Feathered_Serpent,_Teotihuacan
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The term Teotihuacan (or Teotihuacano) is also used for the whole civilization and cultural complex associated with the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan
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top of 6th two out...hmmph...Teotihuacan has the Aztec frieze too...let me see if I can get the Aztec one...hmmph...computer locked up by the virus program thing...click on this to get this and one can't click away from it!...had to restart...top of 7th...well, no, it was on this pyramid that I saw the rattlesnake frieze...its distinctive tail...cool...found reproduction...
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pir%C3%A1mide_de_la_Serpiente_Emplumada#/media/File:Facade_of_the_Temple_of_the_Feathered_Serpent_(Teotihuac%C3%A1n).jpg
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top frieze has the rattle...Angels made out...Orioles up bottom of 7th...have runners...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templo_Mayor
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Temple Mayor--Aztec...note the base relief of the warriors...in squares...wont post it up...too grim...but the base relief of the Aztec skull racks has each skull in a square box...and Aztec iconography is full of rattlesnakes...hang on to the little warriors...Orioles make out...to top of 8th...oh!...wait...look what I found just trying to get to the sun gate at Lake Titicaca!
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Iñaq Uyu dates back to around 1000 C.E. to 1500 C.E.[4] Like the other archaeological sites, Chinkana and Pillkukayna, Iñaq Uyu is located on an island of Lake Titicaca; however, Iñaq Uyu is situated on the Isla de la Luna, rather than the larger Isla Del Sol where Chinkana and Pillkukayna are situated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B1aq_Uyu
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Calhoun makes out...0-8 in lead off spot last two games...Trout up...that's the Inca Warrior tunic checkerboard, albeit upside down...hmmph...Trout walks...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_of_the_Sun#Figures_on_Gate_of_the_Sun
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the ruins at Lake Titicaca are all boxy...lots of tocapu square designs...beneath the staff god's feet is the two headed dragon/snake...the lower frieze is a two headed stylized snake/dragon too...I don't know if the Aztec warriors are a motif lifted from the winged warriors...a maybe!...anyway, it was too much to think that the step fret would show up on a Peruvian snake skin design...Pujols waps one off the wall...Trout scores...Angels 2-2...and, and it almost does...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachesis_(genus)
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Young up...bases loaded...1-1...Bushmaster...makes me woozy just looking at the pic!...snake scales like in basket weaving lend themselves to that jaggedy step design...almost a double play...a tailor made double play ball dogged by the third baseman...fc rbi for Young...Angels 3-2...infield hit...bases loaded again...Maldonado hit by pitch...three walks, hit batter, dogged play...Orioles fall apart...Angels 4-2...and a 2 rbi hit...Maldonado out going to third...Angles 6-2...
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"The Incas equated the amaru to a huge anaconda"
"The rainbow is still described as a two headed amaro(u)"
"Lake Titicaca was thought to be surrounded, or guarded, by a giant snake."
Handbook of Inca Mythology
By Paul Richard Steele, Catherine J. Allenhttps://books.google.com/books?id=6Wa9RwqdqEkC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=inca+rainbow+boa&source=bl&ots=hKYB1-APPf&sig=0rkKuKmZmsVnz0O2C38oS2_JkkQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsx7_8vPzbAhUFZawKHQgDApkQ6AEISTAI#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Incas imported the anacondas from the Amazon, kept them as pets, fed prisoners to them...which accounts for all those icons of figures being swallowed, or disgorged, by snakes...but, those are Mayan too?...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)
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Orioles made out...to top of 9th...the Greeks didn't know of man swallowing snakes...though a natural step from seeing how snakes dislocate their lower jaws to swallow animals much larger than themselves leads to imagining such...thinking of famous pic on pottery of Jason in Golden Fleece Dragon's mouth...one out Trout up...so, looking at boa skin design, I happened on the Inca Rainbow Boa...available from pet stores...
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Epicrates cenchria is a boa species endemic to Central and South America. Common names include the rainbow boa,[2] and slender boa. A terrestrial species, it is known for its attractive iridescent sheen caused by structural coloration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_boa
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it, it has the 'eye' motif of the olin glyph...and art style of many of the culture's schools!...patches of color outlined in black...I mean, just going through google images of the rainbow boa, I can 'see' the Mayan's art...that it has a rainbow iridecents had to make it special...Angels made out...Parker on mound...one out...one out base runner...
from Cao's temple...Moche...and here's Nasca, killer whale?
https://www.google.com/search?q=nasca+art+pottery&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwmpnjwvzbAhVMmK0KHXF5DdQQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=416#imgrc=qoVse1n-o789vM:&spf=1530400673111
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Orioles make out...Angles 4-2...not a pleasant game to win...Orioles, and Baltimore, are really struggling...the big round eyes are like snake's eyes...always open...a reach...but there is something to the patches of color with black outlines...for tomorrowmorrow!...oh wait...have ticket to see Carah Faye in Los Angeles tomorrow (check that, ticket is for July 1st)...maybe time before that for game and post...thought to combine show with trip to LACMA...they have Mesoamerican things!...
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