Tuesday, July 31, 2018

OTI:one poem, notes:7/31/18

Open To Interpretation

The Ravens, the Gulls, the Parrots
 
The Ravens, the Gulls, the Parrots,
Settled down
And it was quiet on Harbor's wharf
Beneath Volcano Never.
Everyone stood about
Thinking long thoughts.
"Have we enough,"
Petra asked Pakal, "eyes?"
Pakal looked out over the Bay
At his BlackSpace Ship,
An iridescent island on the Bay.
Kannon spoke, "Ichi?"
Blind Ichi smiled,
Pursed his lips,
Squeezed his eyelids tight
Shut,
And everyone gathered
On the wharf below Volcano Never
Held their ears,
Hearing and not hearing.
The Bats and Owls heard,
And descended from their roosts
In and around Volcano Never.
"Let's go!" said Petra.
Pakal joined Ichi in
The Long Slender Craft,
And the Black Ship crews
Mounted their Black Dragons,
Or the Black Dragons
Took on the crews,
Along with Pakal's entourage,
And they all went across the Bay
To Pakal's island BlackSpace Ship.
Thereabout was a stony beach
And an underground river
Emerging from a grand cavern.
The Dragons arrived
And waited for the Long Slender Craft
Riding a wave side by side
With the Black Dolphins
Who had heard Ichi's call too.
 
DolphinWords

Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and Rays...in Tampa Bay...Angels traded Kinsler to the Red Sox...us fans will miss his good defense at second...like Maldonado traded to the Astros, he goes to a contender...Ohtani back in the second slot of the lineup...back to back with Trout...Calhoun, Ohtani, Trout, Upton?, Pujols?...and Fletcher somewhere...someone new at short stop...Simmons off for a day...first pitch base hit for Calhoun...Ohtani up...0-1...Ohtani hits the roof...fly out...Trout up...way things are going stadiums else ware than Florida will be getting roofs and A/C!...feel like my head has been in an oven for weeks!...following on from yesterday's post...this post seventy fifth about in a series...see previous...I did find a couple sites that go on about how the ancients may have stylized sound/frequency vibrations in their artistries...Trout K...Upton up...1-2...3-2...W...Pujols up...long fly out...

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Did Ancient Humans Have Knowledge of the Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
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The electromagnetic spectrum covers electromagnetic waves with frequencies ranging from below one hertz to above 1025 hertz, corresponding to wavelengths from thousands of kilometers down to a fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus.
 
 
then there are 'waves' transmitted in air, and water, and earth...Pujols a hit off 3rd baseman's glove...Trout runs it out to score...Rays 3-1...Fletcher up...fly out...thing I've never quite understood is that heat is a wave...I think...Cower hit by pitch...two on...two out...Breseno up...Angels make out...oh...Mariner causing trouble...bottom of 4th...oh...thinking more on what the Djed pillar might be, I settled on it represents the Nile...in that image of the three icons together I posted, Djed, Ankh, WAS, there was a little image of the Egyptian god Hapi where they joined together...looked like this one:...bases loaded walk...Rays 5-1...dogged infield hit...Fletcher at short stop?...another run...Ray 6-1...another hit batter...hmmph...Rays 7-1...bases loaded one out...Ramirez in relief...base hit...Rays 8-1...
 
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Hapi had a certain mysteriousness about him. The Egyptians believed that the Nile rose out of the ground between two mountains (Qer-Hapi and Mu-Hapi) between the islands of Elephantine and Philae.
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The flood was commonly known as the "arrival of Hapi".
 
 
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two out...two run single for Gomez...Rays 10-1...K...to top of 5th...Marte up...bloop hit...Calhoun up...home run!...Rays 10-3...Ohtani up...fly out...Trout up...K...two out...found it...sheesh...went through hundreds of images...
 
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Related image
On the back of a chair from the tomb of Tutenkhamun is a depiction
 of the Spirit of the Million years, named Heh, (circa 1370-52 BC).
 
 
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oh!...a click on 'visit' goes here:
 
Comparisons between Pakal Votan tomb lid
and depictions of the ancient Egyptian god Heh
 
 
a curio...it's not an un common icon...near as I can tell, there is no icon for the Nile...searched thinking to find one...as I had the thought that the Djed pillar is the Nile...thought very hard to see how/what/stylization morphed it...runner on one away...and made a reach noting the ankh dangling from Hapi/Heh's arm...here's another Djed/Ankh/WAS with the tiny pic of Hapi...and, go figure, a fit!
 
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egyyptian-djeds
As well they referred to the DJed as a source of electrical power transmission for electrical applications and so the name of pillars within the temples . . . for the Balance of the 4 elements and cosmological worlds.
 
 
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author has it the Pillar is an antennae...that's not where I was reaching, sorta...my thought is it is the Nile stylized...but, but, as it happens, he snagged two of the pics I was going for...hmmph...
 
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DJed-Technology
 
DJed-Electricity
 
same site
 
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Angels get a run...have two on...Marte up...Rays 10-4...that lower pic is from Dendera...the famous light bulb...I need a pic of the Djed with arms holding the Ankh...K...Calhoun gets a hit...Rays 10-5...Ohtani up...meeting on the mound...they'll bring in a lefty to face Ohtani...
 
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egyptian art personified djed pillar Ramses III
 
the cryptogram reads “All dominion and life are in the grasp of stability (i.e. Ramses who has become Osiris)”.  The king’s ka (his symbolic double) is also usually granted human arms
 
 
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another take...sometimes all this all is about among the scholars is sorting through takes like baseball cards...Ohtani K...that K a missed pivot...runners stranded...
 
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The djed column and its rituals represent one of the deepest mysteries of ancient Egypt dating back to pre-dynastic times as does the Egyptian Book of the Dead which identifies it the Djed as the backbone/spine of Osiris, thus stability
 
Egypt The Nile River
 
djed-pillar-osiris
 
 
Djed Pillar here shows Osiris holding the flail and crook of pharoahic authority, topped with the sh, symbol of life, and upraised arms representing the KA, the essence/energy of being that survives death, holding the sun, RA.
 
 
 
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author goes on a lot about Mysterion things...but that Djed is a curio...note the T part of the Ankh...
 
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He was thought to live within a cavern at the supposed source of the Nile near Aswan.[3] The cult of Hapi was mainly located at the First Cataract named Elephantine. His priests were involved in rituals to ensure the steady levels of flow required from the annual flood. At Elephantine the official nilometer, a measuring device, was carefully monitored to predict the level of the flood, and his priests must have been intimately concerned with its monitoring.
 
 
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Oh...there in the last part...'measuring device'...Trout hit something...off the roof?...bounced back to the field...a home run!...that was like that one I saw, high as it was long...Rays 10-6...
 
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A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season.[1] There were three main types of nilometers, calibrated in Egyptian cubits: (1) a vertical column, (2) a corridor stairway of steps leading down to the Nile, or (3) a deep well with culvert.
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The best known example of this kind can be seen on the island of Elephantine in Aswan,[1] where a stairway of 52 steps leads down to a doorway at the Nile.[4] This location was also particularly important, since for much of Egyptian history, Elephantine marked Egypt's southern border and was therefore the first place where the onset of the annual flood was detected.
 
 
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somewhere in the mud of the Nile I imagine is the ancient Egytpian Pillar, a Djed column for measuring the rise and fall of the Nile...the 'raising of the Djed' iconography is the rising of the Nile...so my fancy!...
 
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The djed pillar was an important part of the ceremony called 'raising the djed,' which was a part of the celebrations of Heb Sed, the Egyptian pharaoh's jubilee celebrations. The act of raising the djed has been explained as representing Osiris's triumph over Set.
 
 
 
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announcers keep talking about Trout stealing bases...Cower up...Trout modus operandi...walk, steal second...I have a few modus operandi too!...Cower get on?...Hapi, I think, might even be the Djed in some of the icons, like that one where he is holding the two shafts/water falls...(they're not spears)...those four rings on top of the Djed have always been a puzzle...but, thought is now they are for measuring the level of the Nile...the Ankh and WAS scepter I still think are survey tools...after the Nile flood, the landscape was a vast mud field, and had to be surveyed each year to find where to mark out the order for growing...or some such...think I read that somewhere...
 
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Whilst the earliest Egyptians simply laboured those areas which were inundated by the floods, some 7000 years ago, they started to develop the basin irrigation method. Agricultural land was divided into large fields surrounded by dams and dykes and equipped with intake and exit canals. The basins were flooded and then closed for about 45 days to saturate the soil with moisture and allow the silt to deposit. Then the water was discharged to lower fields or back into the Nile. Immediately thereafter, sowing started, and harvesting followed some three or four months later. In the dry season thereafter, farming was not possible. Thus, all crops had to fit into this tight scheme of irrigation and timing.
 
 
sometimes, sometimes, the Ankh, and the WAS scepter--noting the notch at the bottom, look like modern 'keys' for turning on and off sprinklers, or opening sluices for irrigation canals...Egyptians would have had such things to manage the canals and trenches between plants...I dunno...somewhere a depiction of them...two away...bottom of 6th?...so, so, what about the Dendera Light Bulb?...
 
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 J. N. Lockyer's passing reference to a colleague's humorous suggestion that electric lamps would explain the absence of lampblack deposits in the tombs has sometimes been forwarded as an argument supporting this particular interpretation (another argument being made is the use of a system of reflective mirrors).[5] Proponents of this interpretation have also used a text referring to "high poles covered with copper plates" to argue this[6] but Bolko Stern has written in detail explaining why the copper covered tops of poles (which were lower than the associated pylons) do not relate to electricity or lightning, pointing out that no evidence of anything used to manipulate electricity had been found in Egypt and that this was a magical and not a technical installation.
 
 
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it is a mystery/enigma how the Egyptian saw to see the paintings they painted underground in the tombs...there doesn't seem to be any evidence of lamp soot...but then, the oil they used in lamps may have burned that clean...another thought, a fancy, is that they could see in the dark...for sometime eye care in ancient times!...anyway, the light bulb...
 
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page debunking the Mysterions goings on about the bulb...Ohtani got a hit!...two runners on for Trout...1-2...Trout out looking...hooey...Upton up two out two on...Angels make out...to bottom of 6th?...7th?...it could even be 8th...been reading...can't find a good snagable drawing of the light bulbs...on left side I think it is Hapi holding the bulb...which is said to be a lotus bulb...on the other the Djed is holding up the bulb...or raising them...as in rising of the Nile...so maybe Hapi is stylized into the Djed...as for the snake...I note the waves!...thinking of the radio waves I've been going on about...we can see faces in clouds, we can see electronic components/features in ancient artistries...
 
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Nilometer

There were many Nilometers in Egypt, but the most important ones were at Elephantine Island. The Nilometer was important as it measured the rise of the floodwaters of the Nile. If the Nile did not rise enough, the land would experience famine conditions. If the Nile rose too high, it would flood and destroy the villages. In three periods the Nilometers were restored: pharaonic, Roman, Muhammad Ali. Every temple in Egypt had a Nilometer because it was a symbol of life.
 
 
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Rays made out...Pujols with a hit...Fletcher up...sometime the meter is steps, with measuring lines on the walls going down...pic looks a bit 'step fretish'...:)...9th we were in!...hmmph...double play finishes it off...Rays 10-6...cue the Mysterions...
 
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Monday, July 30, 2018

OTI:7/30/18

Open To Interpretation



















https://youtu.be/ejoP1G7LRmw


Notes: maybe I was bored...maybe I am bored!...lol...more likely now in the heat I just divert to my bunk from activity, and so pursue these posts!...this seventythird in a series...see previous...but back in the Valley, at work, there were moments of tedium...and at the end of every work shift, it was my task to clean up the counters and such at Last Chance...so, at closing, to begin, I would fill up a five gallon bucket with hot water in the deep stainless steel sink back by the dish machine, which was usually running full blast...and, I'm standing there waiting for the bucket to fill, trying to stay out of everyone's way, and when it was full, water shut off, I got to tapping the side of the bucket to watch the patterns from the vibration when I tapped the bucket...one would think the patterns would just be circles...but, no, as the circles neared the center, they would square up!...'that's something', I thought on first seeing it happen, 'and for sometime!'...well, here now a partial sometime, as from filming the bucket today, see top pics and clips, I can see there is more to this...for sometimes!...lol...anyway, from what little I know of geometry/sacred geometry, I've read some about the mystery of 'squaring the circle'...looking into my bucket, I thought, 'well, that's it'...no mystery at all!...and would throw in some soap, and off to clean up after a day of serving the tourists...I did that, the soap and cleaning part, for like ten years, so one can understand any distraction from the routine caught my attention!...

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Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge.
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The expression "squaring the circle" is sometimes used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible.[

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

hmmph...maybe call all this to follow:...'tapping the bucket'...:)...a 'ring', a 'curio', for awhile has been the borders of mosaics...the old ones the Romans made...

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The Lod Mosaic is a mosaic floor dated to ca. 300 CE discovered in 1996 in the Israeli town of Lod.

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

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a marvel I just found browsing today...note Giraffe and Elephant!...looking about for mosaics, I found a site showing how they are made...the designs...

wave ad quadratum 1

wave ad quadratum 2
http://www.romanmosaicworkshops.co.uk/blog/read_83511/wave-pattern-using-ad-quadratum.html

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'well', I thought, 'that's how the Greek keys are made'...saying goes, 'one can't see the forest for the trees'...so, stepping back now, to get an overview!...here's google's image page from search: ad quadratum wave spiral

https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+quadratum+wave+spiral&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI-532ksjcAhVQG6wKHUf5Cb0Q_AUICigB&biw=907&bih=429

opened that up looking for mosaic I've lost...but see one just as curious!...and in keeping...

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Image result for ad quadratum wave spiral

https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+quadratum+wave+spiral&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI-532ksjcAhVQG6wKHUf5Cb0Q_AUICigB&biw=907&bih=429#imgrc=RdOk_nigaHzw8M:&spf=1532999554636

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'visit' link for that one broken, or slow to open...it's modern...but it shows what's going on...a square grid modified with a compass to make the designs...ancients were working on like graph paper...that one has the pattern of the Inca Warrior step tunic...all the Inca tunics are divided into squares, and the tocapu designs in each square...the designs themselves are square based...so, there's squares within squares...all the artistries in Old and New world are worked up from these squares...where there are smooth curves, the artists just smoothed out the 'jaggies'...computer graphics went through this...pixelated...

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Early graphical applications such as video games ran at very low resolutions with a small number of colors, resulting in easily visible pixels. The resulting sharp edges gave curved objects and diagonal lines an unnatural appearance. However, when the number of available colors increased to 256, it was possible to gainfully employ anti-aliasing to smooth the appearance of low-resolution objects, not eliminating pixelation but making it less jarring to the eye.

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

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since I've noted that Inca warrior tunic checkerboard, I note it in odd places...at a restaurant, I looked out the window at another restaurant, and its entryway looked like the tunic...watching movieInfinityWar movie, there's a scene on top of a mountain, a temple with two tall pillars, and between them at their base, the interior opposing sides are corbelled...cut away in steps like the tunic...corbelled arches are like the tunic...square blocks are being used, and stacked a little off center to make the arch...all stone arches are corbelled...the smooth ones 'anti-aliased'...oh, this is an aside...one more...when I find it!...left off to do post from looking for Peruvian Hawks...looking at my Red Tail Hawk photo on my wall, Creek Hawk, I noted the pattern Hawk's chest feathers...it's like the tunic...and I'm looking at Peru's raptors for patterns that may have been taken up in the tocapu designs...

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http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2007/09/yosemite-creek-hawk.html

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

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no Red Tails in Peru I gather...but for sometime how the Andeans stylized birds in their artistries...where was I before this aside?...oh, the mosaics...mosiacs are made from bits of glass like stones, often squares...so they have that pixellation...the ad quandratum bit shows how the designs are laid out...there's a lot of sites that go over this...

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Pentagram within Pentagrams ✮ How To Draw Fractal Art | DearingDraws  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhAELXEcCU

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clip is long...and it's a neat trick at the end when he does the Greek key...instead of like a square graph paper template underneath, oh, he doesn't use graph paper...but it is inferred that there is a square grid...instead of squares, partitions are made with concentric circles, lots of them, and radiating lines, lots of them...this is what one does when making designs inside/outside bowls, dishes, pottery and such roundish things...in the Lod Mosaic above there is a Greek key border among the other borders, and next to it, going outward, is step motif border, really tiny...next to that, I should mention too maybe, is a chevron border...now, I've been going on about the fret and the steps being together...the fret is the curl, the steps the step throne...the step fret of the Mesoamericans and Andeans...those two elements, the curl, and the steps...I can see now how the curl is anti aliased from the steps...the whole design on a square grid...and since artists in Old and New world were working from square grids, I can see how the step fret/Greek key can be arrived at convergently/independently...the Andeans are sometimes called by the scholars a 'pristine' civilization...lemmessee if I can find that again...

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The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. Andean civilization was one of five civilizations in the world deemed by scholars to be "pristine", that is indigenous and not derivative from other civilizations.[

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

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I wouldn't bet the farm on that!...but, supposing, those five could arrive at the grid, the squares, independently...curious as to what five?

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Calling West African civilization pristine is something of an exaggeration, given earlier contact with states to the north. Then again, calling some of the standard six "pristine" states pristine is a bit of a stretch. Indus script (still undeciphered) may have been inspired by Mesopotamia, which was exchanging memes with Egypt as well. And some diffusion, however thin, probably linked South America (the Inca and their cultural ancestors) and Mesoamerica (Aztecs, Maya, and others).
Still, even after granting these early and occasionally momentous contacts, we are left with three large realms of ancient civilization, quite removed from each other: China, the Near East, and the New World. The scholarly consensus is that each developed its energy and information technologies—farming and writing—indigenously. And each then underwent its early civilizational history in essential isolation from the others.

http://what-when-how.com/a-brief-history-of-humankind/civilizations-and-so-on-a-brief-history-of-humankind/

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well, hooey...consider just this one thing...the square grids...Egyptian paintings was over a square grid...the Ishtar gate is a mosaic of rectangular glazed bricks (with step thrones on top), the Mesoamericans and Andeans designed to a grid...the tocapus, the Zapotec architecture,...I'll leave Asia and squares for sometime...so, I'm about on the web having some fun with the mosaics and squares, and then, it gets worse...much worse...

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Cymatics, from Greek: κῦμα, meaning "wave", is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste or liquid.[1] Different patterns emerge in the excitatory medium depending on the geometry of the plate and the driving frequency.

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

so, so I learn my 'tapping the bucket' has a name...Cymatics...among others...

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Experiments of this kind, similar to those carried out earlier by Galileo Galilei[4] around 1630 and by Robert Hooke in 1680, were later perfected by Chladni, who introduced them systematically in 1787 in his book Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges (Discoveries on the theory of sound). This provided an important contribution to the understanding of acoustic phenomena and the functioning of musical instruments. The figures thus obtained (with the aid of a violin bow that rubbed perpendicularly along the edge of smooth plates covered with fine sand) are still designated by the name of "Chladni figures".
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According to Jenny, these structures, reminiscent of the mandala and other forms recurring in nature, would be a manifestation of an invisible force field of the vibrational energy that generated it. He was particularly impressed by an observation that imposing a vocalization in ancient Sanskrit of Om (regarded by Hindus and Buddhists as the sound of creation) the lycopodium powder formed a circle with a centre point, one of the ways in which Om had been represented. In fact, for a plate of circular shape, resting in the centre (or the border, or at least in a set of points with central symmetry), the nodal vibration modes all have central symmetry, so the observation of Jenny is entirely consistent with well known mathematical properties.[

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Composer Stuart Mitchell and his father T.J. Mitchell claimed that Rosslyn Chapel's carvings supposedly contain references to cymatics patterns. In 2005 they created a work called The Rosslyn Motet realised by attempting to match various Chladni patterns to 13 geometric symbols carved onto the faces of cubes emanating from 14 arches.

same wiki

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that last bit, which I just happened on filling things in, is my reach:...'carvings supposedly contain reference to cymatic patterns'...thought I have is the artistries of the Andeans/Mesoamericans are related to sound/frequency vibrations...there's two sorts, well, lots actually, but two main ones...the ones inside squares...and running ones...borders/friezes...like the patterns from oscilloscopes...

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Chladni's method of creating Chladni figures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni#Chladni_figures

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likely since that study of Rossyln Chaple, someones have been all over finding Chalandi figures in ancient architecture!...haven't searched that, but with this new bit I have better search words...but, this is what made me think...'this is the forest!'...a match-cut:

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Tabella rappresentante alcune figure di Chladni

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimatica

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All-T’oqapu Tunic, Inka, 1450–1540, camelid fiber and cotton, 90.2 x 77.15 cm (Dumbarton Oaks, , Washington D.C.)

https://smarthistory.org/all-toqapu-tunic/

I know, the 'chladnis' aren't on a 'tunic'...but the tocapu designs and the chladni designs are both 'in' squares...one can infer...if only for a whimsy!...oh...found this one...

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Image result for sapa inca  tocapu

https://www.google.com/search?q=sapa+inca++tocapu&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYxY3frsjcAhVBI6wKHboBDawQ_AUICigB&biw=973&bih=429#imgrc=lzRuu9P7cpVZ4M:&spf=1533006960529

'visit' goes to pinterest page...oh, and this was there:

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Cap | Arica | The Met

and that's in the Met museum...which brings to mind again four cornered hats...

Four-Cornered Hat, Camelid hair, Wari
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314624

hmmph...game on...on the radio...Dodgers and somebody...Angels night off...'settle in, may be a long night'...lol...power went out at the stadium...late start...Braves 1-0...to top of 3rd...feathers, fish scales, snake scales, rods and cones in our eyes, mosaic stones, bricks, pixels, etc. etc....oh...almost forgot the bees...

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Australian Stingless Bees Build Stunning Spiral Hives and No One's Quite Sure Why

https://interestingengineering.com/australian-stingless-bees-build-stunning-spiral-hives-and-no-ones-quite-sure-why

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while messing with the bucket of water to make the clip, I wondered what else the ancients might have happened on with just water in a bucket, if indeed they happened on what I did...and thought, 'oh, spirals'...poke a hole in the bottom of the bucket and the water will drain out spiraling like in a bath tub!...Braves scored three...Braves 4-0...

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A spiral which bunches up at the poles of a sphere

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

Dodgers get a run...rbi for Muncie...Machado scores?...Braves 4-1...

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Our interest in the measurement of air and water flow is timeless. Knowledge of the direction and velocity of air flow was essential information for all ancient navigators, and the ability to measure water flow was necessary for the fair distribution of water through the aqueducts of such early communities as the Sumerian cities of Ur, Kish, and Mari near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around 5,000 B.C. Even today, the distribution of water among the rice patties of Bali is the sacred duty of authorities designated the "Water Priests."

https://www.omega.ca/literature/transactions/volume4/T9904-06-FLOW.html

with regard to their agriculture, the Andeans were nothing if not 'water priests'...trying to imagine what they thought when they saw water spiraling down a drain!...an aside...oscilloscope patterns...match-cut:

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image0.jpg

https://www.dummies.com/programming/electronics/measure-electronic-waves-waveforms-seen-on-an-oscilloscope/

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

something about that square wave...



same wiki

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hmmph...more tomorrowmorrow...need some activity and a snack!

:)

DavidDavid














Sunday, July 29, 2018

OTI:notes:7/29/18

Open To Interpretation

Notes: a curio...needs a name...The Serendipity!...I actually came up with this on my own...my own little...not so little?...mathematical discovery...and, I've never really seen it laid out like I lay it out...and yet, it's everywhere in the ancient world, and modern...well, let me do the math first...

360/1=360
360/2=180
360/3=120
360/4=90
360/5=72
360/6=60
360/7=51.4
360/8=45
360/9=40
360/10=36
360/11=32.7272...
360/12=30
360/13=27.69

hmmph...somewhere that has to be on the web...

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A circle is divided into 360 degrees
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The divisors of 360 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 72, 90, 120, 180 and 360, making a total of 24 divisors.
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A year is very roughly calculated as 360 days; see 360-day calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_(number)

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one would think that wiki would have more to it...it's the calendar bit that's The Serendipity...our Calendar is kept more precisely than the ancients', it has 365 days with a little left over, which gets gathered together to make another day every leap year...or something...the ancients counted 360 days, and the five more days were a kind of gap at the winter solstice when for a five day bracket the sun doesn't look to be moving, the days the shortest...once it started its swing back to the summer solstice the calendar count started up again...or something...a curio is there would be a 'bracket' time at the summer solstice too, but I haven't read any doings then...the five day bracket at the winter solstice became superstitiously filled up with all kinds of things...go on about that in a sec...but, but the serendipity in all this is that the Earth just happens to go around the Sun in 365 day plus a bit, and there are 12 months that approximate 30 days each, which is 12 into 360, and 13 lunar months (orbits of the moon around the earth) that approximate 27.69 days, which is 13 into 360...seven sticks out...but then, there are seven days in a week, and fifty two weeks...and, wala, 7 times 52 equals 364...360 divided by 7 equals 51.4...lucky seven...11 I've never been able to quite figure...that dice throwing shout out, 'seven come eleven' comes to mind...I dunno what that is...brb...

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These are the words that a player says before the first roll of the dice in a game of craps.
Specifically, the player is hoping that the dice will show either seven dots or eleven dots, because either of those two displays will get him a pass on the first play. A pass is what s/he wants.

So "seven come eleven" are words used to talk to the dice, to try to influence the dice to show either seven or eleven.

https://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/topic/seven-come-eleven

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sacred geometry things, sacred things in general, are famous/infamous for having superstitions attached to them...lucky seven...unlucky thirteen/Halloween/Lunar months...if something has a taboo attached to it, or a bugaboo, likely it had some import at some time...game on...on the radio...Angels and Mariners...well, I didn't hear if lucky charm Ohtani is in the lineup...hmmph...there's other stuff in 360...five fold symmetry/pentagon...four fold/square...three fold/triangle...two fold/bi lateral/duality/amegram/...one fold/circle completeness...six fold/snowflakes...hooey...Mariners back to back hits and run scores...Mariners 1-0...Pena on mound...it gets worse if one considers things like the golden section/mean...bloop hit...another run scores...Mariners 2-0...runner on second no one out...and the picis thing...bouncing ball up the middle...four straight hits...Mariners 3-0...

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The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other.[1] In Latin, "vesica piscis" literally means "bladder of a fish", reflecting the shape's resemblance to the conjoined dual air bladders ("swim bladder") found in most fish. In Italian, the shape's name is mandorla ("almond").
This figure appears in the first proposition of Euclid's Elements, where it forms the first step in constructing an equilateral triangle using a compass and straightedge. The triangle has as its vertices the two disk centers and one of the two sharp corners of the vesica piscis

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

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"a disaster inning"...I guess...Mariners 4-0...runners on one out...five hits two walks...that bit from wiki and Euclid gets back to making the five pointed stars with compass and straightedge I went on about...this like seventy second post in a series...see previous...a hit batter, another run...another hit another run...poor Pena!...he doesn't deserve it...Mariners 7-0 one out...this is going to be a long hot afternoon for fans...endure along with them...bullpen providing a pitcher...Johnson takes the mound...this search: 360 calendar earth's orbit coincidences...brings up a lot...The Serendipity is often noted...what...did Mariners make out?...advertising on...a good sign...to bottom of 1st...the step fret Easter egg/enigma...have thougth to make some easter eggs decorated with step frets for a pic!...the step fret is like a bread crumb...and just when I think I've lost the trail...like losing sight of carrons/ducks/stacked stones to mark cross country trail route...I see/find one in my browsing, and...off thataway!...I saw this...Fletcher made out...Calhoun up...Angels make out...strand two?...oh wait...Pujols up...K...side struck out...not that, this:

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'visit' on that google images page takes one to the little book...a pdf...in Spanish...looking through it I found the 'weavers plate'...the Moche pottery plate I went on about...a rosetta stone like thing I thought...Mariners made out...Angels made out...top of 4th?...search 'iconographia moche' is turning up a lot of things!...hadn't thought to use Spanish search terms...for sometime...anyway, I searched the author's last name,  Hocquenghem, and could only turn up Spanish pages...but, but then in the browses I saw the weavers plate again, and it took me to a site in English...an astronomy site...

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Figure 14.19. A Moche pot with a fox within a recumbent crescent surrounded by eight-pointed stars and three other starburst-like symbols suggests a relationship between the Moon and stars. Drawing by Sharon Hanna.

https://www.astronomyclub.xyz/history-astronomy/info-iwa.html

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this site has so many things!...it has everything, I'd say, in one fashion or another...that pic immediately caught my eye, as it is like the pic on Hocquenghem's book...the cover pic above...I couldn't find a caption for that pic...inside her book I couldn't read the captions for the many pics, or the general text...she's all about the astronomical imports of the Moche icons...myself, with the two foxes representing Venus morning and evening star, see that second fox pic, and think, 'oh, Venus'...and there's the step thrones with the fret curl...go figure!...the little step thrones might represent days...for sometime...

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Figure 14.24. The Weavers, including Venus?, from a Moche pot. Drawing by Sharon Hanna.

One of the weavers has strikingly disheveled hair; another is distinguished by a woven cloak. Still another is seated above a fish. Hocquenghem (1987, p. 85) associates the scene with the Quechua month Uma Raymi (about October), in which there was a weaving ceremony. If this is indeed a calendrical astronomical scene, then the possible identification of one of the weavers with a planet may indicate that the other figures can be planetary, perhaps with different identities when rising and setting.

https://www.astronomyclub.xyz/history-astronomy/info-iwa.html

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Fletcher on with a hit...two gone...Trout up...

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Table 14.5 shows a list of Hocquenghem's "grand scenes" as she places them in the calendar year together with Incan parallels and the agricultural calendar. The seasons experienced by the Moche are as follows: hot and dry (Sep.-Dec.); warm and wet (Jan.-Mar.); cold and wet (Apr.-Jun.); and cold and dry (Jul.-Aug.). We will discuss here only the most striking parallels or those in which we have specific disagreements with her interpretations.

same site

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lol...I cant find the astronomy author's name...trying to source...it is a huge site...Bedford Astronomy Club...I thought it the work of many...not sure now...anyway...my link takes one into the second page...Angels are up...don't know what inning...Simmons up...two runners on...Kinsler up...another hit...bases loaded...Marte up...Arcia isn't in the lineup either...oh, it's a messed up time...analytics...hmmph...time was baseball was superstitious!...Vin Scully going on and on about coincidences and serendipities!...Arcia just had ten rbis in two games!...sheesh...K...two gone...Mariners got another run back aways...Mariners 8-0...Breseno flies out...to top of 5th...the drawing of the weavers is more complete than the pic of the bowl I posted back a few posts...bowl looked to be damaged...not sure how drawing came about...looks to be same as on the bowl...anyway, the astronomy author notes a lot of things I have...and gives astronomy imports to them...I haven't astronomical/mathematical expertise!...oh!...I was to this article before going on about the Inca/Southern Cross...

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Most of the reliable archaeoastronomical information from Tiahuanaco deals with the Akapana monument (Kolata 1993, pp. 104-129. See Figure 14.30). The basic shape is that of a step-fret (which has also been described as "half of an Andean cross"), with the "tail" to the west. Six stages rest on a large basal terrace and a sunken court on top of the pyramid is in the shape of a full "Andean cross." During the rainy season, this filled with water that was carried to ground level through an intricate series of stone-lined drains,

https://www.astronomyclub.xyz/history-astronomy/tiahuanaco-tiwanaku.html

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reading the article closer I keep finding more things!...Trout has a hit bottom of 5th...Upton hits a home run!...Mariners 8-2...well, heck, I can't copy/paste the whole thing!...anyway, up top I was reaching for the 'five days'...the 'revolt of the artifacts'...

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Figure 14.18. A Moche pot shows the Flood, indicated by large fish and sea-lions swimming past the shore, with the Revolt of the Artifacts: This myth tells how tools, weary of being abused by humans, arose against them at the time of a "five-day eclipse" of the Sun. Drawing by Sharon Hanna.

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the 'revolt' reminds me of Beauty and the Beast...for sometime those animated house hold things...

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Unlucky days: The end of each 365-day cycle in the Aztec calendar was marked by 360 named days and 5 nameless days. The Aztecs considered these last five days as unlucky days.

https://aztecsandtenochtitlan.com/aztec-calendar/aztec-calendar-facts/

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Angels on their sixth pitcher...runner on at second...oh, I'm completely lost...unluckiness is one of those 'rings' that indicate something important...something of 'import'...something sort of forgotten, or thought of in the everyday in some suspicious fashion...maybe sacred maybe profane...the import of the article I'm quoting is that everything the Moche did and made was related to Star lore...author notes that every Moche knew the night sky, and the names for all the visible stars...and this is a fit with the Andeans being named at birth with their birth day...every day had a name, every year, every age...maybe I'm thinking of the Mayans!...brb...Mariners made out...Fletcher gets another lead off single...Calhoun up...bottom of 7th...long fly out...Trout walks...Upton up...a hit...bloop grounder skips into center...Pujols up...Mariners 8-3...another 'soft chopper'...run scores...Mariners 8-4...one out...Simmons up...where did I get that about being named at birth for the day one was born on?...for goodness sake...oh...ball is caught at the top, over, the wall...thought it was going to be home run...run still scores...Mariners 8-5...well...hooey...Inca children don't get a name until their first hair cutting...four...and then another at puberty...or some such...can't find how names are derived...thought is the Andeans were an astronomical/astrological cult, and children given names much like astrologers use one's sign and birth date for horoscopes...if one was born during the nameless days in Aztec land, that had to have been bad luck!...

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Each year also had five nameless days, which were thought to be unlucky. Aztec babies unfortunate enough to be born on a nameless day remained nameless themselves until a named day came around.

https://english-with-leslie.webnode.com/_files/200000062-d1532d24c3/21.pdf

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Angels made out...top of 8th...lead off single...

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In the Aztec culture, the Nahuatl word nemontemi refers to a period of five intercalary days inserted between years of the Aztec calendar.

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

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The ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of 5 epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper.

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

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Mariners in a double play...to bottom of 8th...Mariners 8-5...Valbuena up...Ohtani on deck...count to 3-2 and...K...Ohtani up...oh...0-2...1-2...2-2...3-2...hmmph...get on!...K...sigh...where am I...almost lost entire post...trying to keep format...sometimes a format imported in a quote 'sticks'...thought to control x the quote...and control x'd the entire post...and it wouldn't paste back, until I closed page and opened another...google's editor tool saves often save me...this time just got lucky not to give up on post, thinking it lost...an 'oh well'...I dunno...it could use a redo...really sprawled...focus closer on things next post...Angels still up?...Calhoun up...this might be it...bottom of 9th...lead off walk...Trout up...was bouncing around to Calendars, ancient ones, looking for those unlucky five days...hopefully with a tale of household things running amok!...I think that might be one of those diffusion tales...shows up lots of places...astronomer noted things in the article that were common to all the FirstAmericans...not time left to pull this all together...2-2 count on Upton...K...Pujols up...0-1...K...cue the artifacts...

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DavidDavid