Open To Interpretation
Notes: have ticket for Angels game tonight...7:07...so, this an in-between games post...there's a clip on youtube called 'Rome reconstructed'...or some such...brb...
Ancient Rome reconstructed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfwoX3vYJUA
It has scenes of Rome's ancient buildings superimposed over the modern ruins in the city today...there will be a city scene, with the ruins, and then the ruins are restored in a graphic, but the modern city, with people and tourists, are still partially seen...it gives a sense of scale in two ways--one, the huge scale of the buildings...I never knew that ancient Rome was such a big city full of public tall buildings!... and two, the ancient side by side with modern gives a sense of scale in time...it's a long clip, and one comes away with a real sense of ancient Rome and its populace...anyway, it reminds me a bit of my 'frame'...including the play by play of the Angels/Dodgers baseball games on the radio...I hadn't thought this would give the notes a sense of 'scale', but, in a way it does...I'm thinking!...hmmph...I dunno...anyway, to continue from yesterday!...three stones...see previous posts...this thirty eighth in a series...I thought it would be difficult to re-find what I read about Mesoamerican three stones...thought to compare them to the Inca three stone story I found...but, but, I found the Mesoamericans' right away!...
Maya Creation-Anticipating 2012-The Planting of the Three Stones
Mark Van Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARf0pCy72k
neat clip...clips!...Stone has a group of Mayan clips...all six years ago during the interest in the Mayan calendar...that doomsday in 2012...the Mayan stones are thought to be stylized hearth stones...the Mayan would make a fire hearth in their homes with three stones, and set a large plate on top of them, on top of the flames...'the first thing to do when you build a house is make a hearth...the placing of the three stones'...while he is saying this he is pointing to a large tall stela with Mayan hieroglyphs...it's at the Museum of Man in San Diego Balboa Park...Stone is like a curator there...then...maybe now too...I have to make a trip down there to see the Mayan exhibit...remember once seeing the Museum of Man, and really didn't like it!...someones must have made the comparison of the Inca three stones with the Mesoamericans...brb...oh...here's a take on Stone's take...
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Quiriguá: The Maya Creation Stones
Early research showed that stelae A and C at Quiriguá are twins; this is quite clear, as they are virtually identical (see figures W0968T and W0960T). However, when Mayan glyphic writing started to be deciphered, it became evident that they were central to a Maya creation myth. The lengthy text on the side of Stela C describes that time began with the “planting” of three stones. On the other side, it gives the date of this event as 13.0.0.0.0, which equates to 3114BC.
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The text begins by describing how the first stone was planted by Jaguar Paddler and his brother, Stingray Spine Paddler. They are known to be responsible for paddling the canoe which carries the dead across the rivers of the underworld. They planted a stone called the Jaguar Throne in the House of Five Sky.
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page has Stone's video dialog almost word for word...but that reference might be a site on web of Stone's tale written up...brb...well, no, it references the video...can't find a side by side of the Mayan and Inca stones...brb...well, I'm using this search: inca mayan creation myths stones three...and, nothing!...hmmph...have tried to hook them up with the Omphalos stone...Omphalos stones are found all over in ancient Old World cultures...the benben stone in Ancient Egypt was thought to represent the primeval mound, or island, that rose out of the primeval sea, or some such...it was atop the pyramids and obelisks...I've thought the pyramids represent the mounds of cow dung made for campfires by the tribes in upper reaches of the Nile...the Sud...that in earlier post...cow dung...the dry patties, were their fire wood...and for hearth fires I imagine...and the remains of a campfire is a mound of ash...stylize that, and you get a white pyramid...death in life...transformation by fire...and this had to go way back...to like when we first made campfires...as an emblem, a tocapu!, it would have been common to everyone...Stone makes the off hand remark in another of his clips, which goes on about the four directions of the compass, and their corresponding colors, that depicting the four cardinal points as colors, is common in ancient colors world wide...and was carried to the New World from the old by the tribes migrating over the Bearing Straight...that over 10,000 years ago...he adds, that the Mayans colors, red. white, yellow, black, are derived from Indian Corn cobs, which have these color kernels alternating...a fifth color, green, representing the zenith, came from the green leaves around a cob...he gets into this trying to debunk the urban legend like thing that the Mesoamericans, and Incas too for that matter, were waiting for the return of a bearded 'white' man, because one of their gods was 'white'...as it was, the four gods of the compass points were red, black, white, yellow, and green...oddly, I just noticed...the common colors of races are red, black, yellow white!...green maybe for 'little green men' from the zenith...I dunno...Stone diverts into things...here's clip about the corn...
White Men With Beards Mayan Prophecy
Mark Van Stone
Stone co-authored a book with Michael Coe...
Reading the Maya Glyphs
and, and on youtube, he is in an interview about the 2012 thing sitting beside another archaeologist, who is really the real deal when it comes to archaeologist...he unearthed an entire Mayan complex...brb...
Caracol with Dr. Awe
for the most part on youtube, one sees the tourists' clips of ancient ruins, or clips by tour guides trying to lure tourist, or Mysterions...doing same!...this clip is genuine...and really really good...a must see!...time to be off to see Angels game...more tomorrowmorrow...note the Saba(sp) Trees in clip!...
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