Notes: game on...on the radio...Mariners and Angels...Mariners 3-0...double play on come backer...Barria on the mound...to the bottom of the 4th...esshh...games only been on an hour...Ohtani not in the lineup...scorers gave him another hit in yesterday's game...that play where the throw to first went wild and he was awarded second...error on the advance, and a hit...so he had two...another in the ninth...and he scored the final Angel run...Angels 9-3 final score...Simmons up...Boston has won nine in a row...record like 69 and something...let me check that...65-29...Rockies 19-2 in the sixth over the D'backs!...Trout with a loop hit to opposite field...Simmons was on with an infield single...two on no one out...I watched some of the Zeigeist movie...not recommended...an on and on conspiracy compilation...two out...Pujols up...retired on one pitch...to top of fifth...puts Egypt myths side by side with Christian stories...ceremonies and calendar events too...there's a word for what happens when one religion borrows from another, often a previous religion...
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Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding Shintō beliefs into Buddhism or the amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christianity during its spread into Gaul, the British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia. Indian influences are seen in the practice of Shi'i Islam in Trinidad. Others have strongly rejected it as devaluing and compromising precious and genuine distinctions; examples of this include post-Exile Second Temple Judaism, Islam, and most of Protestant Christianity.
Syncretism tends to facilitate coexistence and unity between otherwise different cultures and worldviews (intercultural competence), a factor that has recommended it to rulers of multi-ethnic realms. Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of "piety" and "orthodoxy", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense of uncompromised cultural unity in a well-defined minority or majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
hmmph...Barria strikes out the side...'diffusion' or 'convergent' in another guise...there are Mesoamerians, and Andeans, and then there are Phoenecians...umbrella names for tribes' locals with similar cultures...bottom of 5th...long fly out for Kinsler...more I read about the Phoenicians, maritime tribes from the Middle East all the way to the Atlantic shores of Africa and Spain, I wonder if they did make it to the New World...the footprint of Islam when it was at its full extent, followed along North Africa to Spain too...one of the city states of the Phoenicians was Carthage...I digress!...a loose end from yesterday's post...this post fiftyseventh in a series...see previous...another name for Hecate is Heqet...well, not another...Hecate, the Greek goddess, thought to be another version of Heqet,an Egyptian goddess...
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Heqet (Egyptian ḥqt, also ḥqtyt "Heqtit") is an Egyptian goddess of fertility, identified with Hathor, represented in the form of a frog.
It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft.
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Early frog statuettes are often thought to be depictions of her.
Heqet was considered the wife of Khnum, who formed the bodies of new children on his potter's wheel.
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"The frog appears to have been worshipped in primitive times as the symbol of generation, birth and fertility in general; the Frog-goddess Ḥeqet or Ḥeqtit was identified with Hathor, and was originally the female counterpart of Khnemu, by whom she became the mother of Heru-ur. The great antiquity of the cult of the frog is proved by the fact that each of the four primeval gods, Ḥeḥ, Kek, Nāu, and Amen is depicted with the head of a frog, while his female counterpart has the head of a serpent. The cult of the frog is one of the oldest in Egypt, and the Frog-god and the Frog-goddess were believed to have played very prominent parts in the creation of the world." E. A. Wallis Budge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heqet
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pitching change...two runners on...Bedrosan on mound...now, I'm really digressing!...but this is curious!...
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References to the Ogdoad date to the Old Kingdom of Egypt, and even at the time of composition of the Pyramid Texts towards the end of the Old Kingdom, they appear to have been antiquated and mostly forgotten by everyone except religious experts.
Depiction of the Ogdoad with serpent and frog heads (Roman-era relief at the Hathor temple in Dendera).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdoad_(Egyptian)
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curious insomuch as I've been going on and on about frogs!...see previous two or three posts...double play....
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In 3000 BC, in Early Dynastic Egypt, millions of frogs were born after the annual flooding of the Nile and it was held as a symbol of life and fertility. Consequently, in Egyptian mythology, a frog-goddess, Heqet, represented fertility and was depicted as a woman with a frog's head. A lesser known Egyptian god, Kek, was also sometimes shown in the form of a frog.
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To understand why almost every culture in the world mythologized frogs and toads we must look to their life cycles, which tell a story of transformation and transition from tadpole to a completely different adult form.
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In Japan, a similar legend involves the Gama-Sennin, also known as Kosensei, a wise old man with a hunched body and a warty face who wanders the land with his toad companion. This toad teaches him the secret powers of herbs, and like in China, the secret of immortality. Interestingly, many of these Asian myths refer to the secret of immortality as a fungus growing from the toad's forehead. Barbara Tedlock argued in The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine that this may be a link to the many shamanistic traditions of the Americas, where “hallucinogenic compounds derived from frogs and toads are used for religious rituals of communion with the spirit world and self-transcendence.”
7 February, 2018 - 13:56 ashley cowie
An Ambiguous Amphibian: The Everchanging Frog Symbol in World Myth
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religions are all syncretic, their stories derived from Nature...Sun, Moon, Stars, birth death, Natural history of fauna and flora...and they plagiarize all the time...lifting things...it's a tangle and thicket...the scholars' happy briar patch!...that rayed crown on the Greek statue of Hecate in three forms...
Angels make out...to top of 8th...esshhh...where's the game gone!...
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Everyone calls the headpiece sitting on Lady Liberty’s head her crown, but really it should be called a diadem, which is a particular kind of crown that is more like a headband. Lady Liberty’s has 7 spikes on it, which we think stand for the 7 oceans and the 7 continents because the idea of liberty is a universal concept. The spikes can also be interpreted as rays of light from the sun, like a halo or nimbus that show she is divine.
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Female symbols for liberty were very popular at the time. Sculptor Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom is very similar, which sits atop the US Capitol Building. On her head is a military helmet with stars, an eagle head and a crest of feathers. Both Crawford and and Bartholdi (Lady Liberty’s sculptor) considered putting a pileus on the heads of both women, which was the cap given to freed slaves in ancient Rome. Bartholdi instead went with the diadem while Crawford went for a crested helmet.
'pileus', or Phrygian caps, I've gone on about before...back when I was going on about Old World history...I didn't label that series...haven't labeled this one!...2014 posts about...they were the caps the Scythians wore, and if I remember right, the Romans liked the Scythians for police(Athenians not Romans), sort of like the British liked Sikhs for police in Old Shanghai...and on one day of the year in old Rome, when things were turned topsy turvey, people could mock authority freely in a festival, and wore Phrygian caps to mock...so the association with freedom/liberty...think I have that right...brb...
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Other Greek earthenware of antiquity also depict Amazons and so-called "Scythian" archers with Phrygian caps.
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Early Christian art (and continuing well into the Middle Ages) build on the same Greco-Roman perceptions of (Pseudo-)Zoroaster and his "Magi" as experts in the arts of astrology and magic, and routinely depict the "three wise men" (that follow a star) with Phrygian caps.
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Many of the anti-colonial revolutions in Latin America were heavily inspired by the imagery and slogans of the American and French Revolutions. As a result, the cap has appeared on the coats of arms of many Latin American nations. The coat of arms of Haiti includes a Phrygian cap to commemorate that country's foundation by rebellious slaves. The cap had also been displayed on certain Mexican coins (most notably the old 8-reales coin) through the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. Today, it is featured on the coats of arms or national flags of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Paraguay.
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Kinsler hit by pitch...bottom of 8th...where was I?...wanted to go on about the Nimbus and Rays...it has a similar spread over time and distance as the Phrygian caps...runner on second on pass ball/wild pitch...for sometime how three colors is emblematic of republics...red white blue and such...Angels made out...to top of 9th...
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"There is nothing that symbolizes what America is" more than the statue, Salazar said. Standing at the top "is awe-inspiring," he said. "It sends goosebumps down my shoulder blades, down to my spine."
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Spike That Fact! The seven spikes represent the seven seas and seven continents of the world, according to the Web sites of the National Park Service and the Statue of Liberty Club. "That's not true," says Barry Moreno, author of The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia and the park's official librarian. The spikes are sun rays, he says, and the circle is "simply a halo or what in art is called a nimbus, showing she is divine." He adds that the Web site needs to be changed.
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Ohtani up...bottom of 9th...K...
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"Colossal statuary," her sculpture Frederic Auguste Bartholdi said, "does not consist of merely making an enormous statue. It ought to produce an emotion in the breast of the spectator."
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two out...Trout up...Angels only with two hits...line drive out...'a disappointing night'...tomorrow I'll be at the game!...have ticket for Ohtani double bobble head night!
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