Notes: game on...on the radio...starting line ups...Fletcher leading off...no Ohtani again...Heaney on the mound...
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This book is a recording of some of the soapstone quarries used by the American Indian in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, along with their bowls and other implements made of soapstone.
http://pecksplacepublishing.com/bk_eastern_perspective_on_archaic_soapstone_bowls.html
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hmmph...when I was going on about the Catalina Indians making soapstone bowls, I found a pic not unlike that one, and then lost it...try again, at least find one that shows that trick of 'relieving' the bowls from boulders in a quarry...
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One of their most important trade items was the olla, a heat resistant cooking pot made from soapstone, an impure form of steatite. The Tongva used quartz to carve bowls from soapstone deposits and would work them into desired shapes and sizes. A fine-grained type of soapstone was worked into beads, pendants and pipes. One of these soapstone quarry's is visible yet today and is a short walk from the airport.
https://www.catalinaconservancy.org/index.php?s=news&p=article_324
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back to back to back hits...one a double by Simmons...and Angels have a run over...make out...Angels 1-0...to bottom of 1st, Dodger's up...found a pdf about Catalina soap stones, but site froze up the computer...had to restart, and found another site listing references to the quarrying...History of Quarrying in California...
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(“Fig. 2. “Mines and Quarries of the Indians of California,” by Robert F. Heizer and Adan E. Treganza, Vol. 40, No. 3,
July 1944, pp. 325)
https://quarriesandbeyond.org/articles_and_books/pdf/a-ca_indians_prior_to_missions-slides.pdf
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hmmph...another PDF...can't copy/paste the pic, a drawing that looks like the other one...Calhoun lead off double...Dodgers made out...top of 2nd...I'd have to study this out to see if a notion I have works...Maldonado K...that a guild formed, the soapstone makers' guild...infield hit off the pitcher...rookie, Heaney, at the plate...American lead pitchers don't bat...but Heaney gets his second big league hit...Calhoun on third...fly out by Fletcher...a sac...Calhoun scores...Angels 2-0...a natural step from making the bowls would be making reliefs...Nat Geo does a good show about Gobekli Tepe...Trout up...
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Gobekli Tepe National Geographic - The Best Documentary Ever!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Ybp9nQJaA&t=2679s
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3-2 to Trout...there's a demo...ball four...bases loaded...a demo in the movie how the reliefs at Tepi were made...demonstrator begins patiently chipping away at a prepared slab, and six hours later, wala, a relief...from bowls to Tepe reliefs to the walls at Persepolis!...Upton up...3-2...W...another run...Angels 3-0...Kinsler up...Angels make out...to bottom of 2nd...
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Pillar with the sculpture of a fox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
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A bas-relief from the Apadana depicting Armenians bringing their famous wine to the king.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis
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Dodgers with double, then infield hit...runners at corners...well...here's a really a long reach!...the scene is the wise men bringing gifts to newborn Jesus in the manger...the barn where Joseph and Mary have taken refuge in, for her to give birth in, harks to the Temple, where God's followers bring gifts...everything is topsy turvey with the story of Jesus...his humble bearing and life...and the two ceremonial scenes, of his birth, and death on the cross, have an import, a something...Easter and Christmas...again at the cross, Mary appears...how's that go...
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Along with Gabriel's Annunciation to Mary (Luke 1:26-38), her Visitation to Elizabeth (1:39-56), and Jesus' birth and infancy (2:7,16; Matthew 2:11), one other biblical scene depicting the mother of Jesus is especially prominent in the history of Christian art: Jesus' death on the cross (John 19:25-27).
https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-83/mary-at-cross.html
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Taylor hit by pitch...things have gone south...Angels 3-2 now...bases loaded?...where ever women gave birth, and when, it was an event...if it was a special spot, place, a tent, a hut, and such, a cave...it would have acquired reverence...sacredness...to everyone, but especially to whoever was born!...the reach is that all this lead to birth temples/sacred places...graves are certainly sacred, why not birth places!...I dunno...by the looks of things, places of human sacrifice became special...the temples of the Mesoamerican and Andeans...what's being dug up by the archaeologists, and encountered by the Spanish, in the New World, were cultures that resemble the cultures that pre dated, well, before the Israelis...what the Israeli's began with the suppression of false gods, the Christians continued, and the Spanish brought to the New World...Dodger's made out...and Angels make out...to bottom of 3rd...the Bible goes on and on about the Phoenicians and child sacrifice...and even the Israelites were tangled up with such...Abraham being tested by being told by God to sacrifice his son, but then stopped at the last moment...how did that go...
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Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+22&version=NIV
this refrain of sacrifice is world wide...just watched a cool clip...a Himalaya tribe going after honey...along the way, they stop for lunch, say some prayers, and sacrifice the rooster they brought along, and then cook it up...a big curry rice plate for everyone...
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Hallucinogen Honey Hunters - Hunting mad honey - documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_b2i_FvYPw
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really well made clip...some of the Hunters have on four cornered hats!...Dodgers make out...to top of 4th...well, I've clambered up to where it is difficult to go up or down...and bees swarming...thought is that patriarchy usurped the sacred birth temple of the matriarchy, turned it into a human sacrifice ceremonial place, and thus exerted a powerful ordering force on the populace...that's not my idea!...it's lifted...the matriarchal birth temples in the Old World all got destroyed...this long before stonework temples were invented...I would turn to Robert Graves for supporting quotes here, but, hmmph...but he is a bit of a Mysterion...he pretty much shoe horns everything mythological into his pre-suppositions...Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is a bookend to the Abraham story...there are a lot of hark backs to earlier stories in the Bible in Jesus' narrative...anyway, Dodgers made out...top of 5th, I think...
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The Civilization of the Goddess articulated what Gimbutas saw as the differences between the Old European system, which she considered goddess- and woman-centered (gynocentric), and the Bronze Age Indo-European patriarchal ("androcratic") culture which supplanted it. According to her interpretations, gynocentric (or matristic) societies were peaceful, honored women, and espoused economic equality.
The androcratic, or male-dominated, Kurgan peoples, on the other hand, invaded Europe and imposed upon its natives the hierarchical rule of male warriors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas
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Gimbutas is easier to fathom than Graves...but that's basically it...in the New World the warriors were in their glory...but there was still a large contingent of goddesses...the tribes in the New World were, it appears, very much like the tribes that surrounded the Israelis...and the New World tribes met the same fate of those that encountered the Israelis, the Christians, the Islamists...Gimbutas had a picture book about all this...and showed how the Bull Head motif, and the Double Ax motif, were in their origin, motifs of women's reproductive organs...these are images in ancient Greek lore...maybe I can find those...going on long ago memories!...well, there is a youtube movie: The Age of the Great Goddess...things have progressed since I hauled Robert Graves, The White Goddess about with me wherever I went...it was like the only book going on and on about goddesses back then...hmmph...take some moments to watch clip...well...the narration is a bit breathless...overly dramatic...an open mic poetry bit...lol...for sometime I'll find Gumbatis' picture books...don't jump out on the web...wait...
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google's image page for
The Language of the Goddess
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Language+of+the+Goddess&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijq4jL9Z_cAhUKyoMKHcjWCRoQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1038&bih=429
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bottom of 5th...Angels 3-3...when I was going through the posture women might take when giving birth, laying down, crouching, standing, kneeling on one leg (curiously the posture of the Mixtec warrior, and the easiest to take if one is un assisted), and such...and one I noted was standing, leaning on a pole...my thought being that everything related to birth became sacred/special, I've cast about for sacred poles...and, as it happens, found one that fits right in with the back and forth between God, and gods and goddesses...
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An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, consort of El.[1] The relation of the literary references to an asherah and archaeological finds of Judaean pillar-figurines has engendered a literature of debate.
The asherim were also cult objects related to the worship of the fertility goddess Asherah, the consort of either Ba'al or, as inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom attest, Yahweh,[3] and thus objects of contention among competing cults. In translations that render the Hebrew asherim into English as "Asherah poles," the insertion of "pole" begs the question by setting up unwarranted expectations for such a wooden object: "we are never told exactly what it was", observes John Day. Though there was certainly a movement against goddess-worship at the Jerusalem Temple in the time of King Josiah, (2 Chronicles 34:3) it did not long survive his reign, as the following four kings "did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh" (2 Kings 23:32, 37; 24:9, 19).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah_pole
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Upton with home run...Angels 4-3...apparently, there was pole dancing way back then!...lol...I dunno...but there's a story with clip on web of pregnant woman pole dancer...recreational...pole is in her house...she's pole dancing while having contractions... then off to birth in a swimming pool...had one eye on this, and another on the news--Stormy arrested for pole dancing--getting too close to patrons...lol...go figure...but this is serious stuff!...and I can't find support for thought: while crouched in that quadripartite frog pose giving birth sitting on a stool/birth bricks, a woman with her up reaching arms would be hanging on to two poles...the whole inner sanctum of a matriarchal birth temple would have the stool/bricks, which correspond to a kind of throne, and two poles, which correspond to pillars...the Israeli Temple is famous for two pillars...the Egyptian gods always seen with staffs...Moses had a staff...Gandalf had a staff...such my whimsy!...
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Most ancient Egyptian women labored and delivered their babies on the �cool roof of the house or in an arbor or confinement pavilion, which was a structure of papyrus-stalk columns decorated with vines� (Parsons p. 2). In Ptolemaic times, women from the noble class gave birth in birth houses that were attached to temples. The positions that these women took when they delivered their babies were standing, kneeling, squatting, or sitting on their heels on birthing bricks, or sitting on a birthing chair. The midwife would then be positioned in front of the mother to help the delivery and catch the baby. Two other women or midwives would be placed on either side of the mother to hold her hands and arms while she was pushing and to give encouragement. Sometimes the midwife would place a dish of hot water under the birthing chair so that steam could help ease delivery. The birthing bricks that ancient Egyptian women used were 14 by 7 inches long and decorated with colorful painted scenes and figures of the birth process. Birthing chairs were made of brick and had a hole in the center. They were decorated with hieroglyphic inscriptions of the owner and painted scenes of the mother, baby, and goddesses.
https://www.midwiferysupplies.ca/blogs/ancient-midwifery-blog/295322-ancient-egyptian-midwifery-and-childbirth
https://www.google.com/search?q=egyptian+birth&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS7fCw-5_cAhXHqlkKHclWBTwQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=429#imgrc=TF5MY9gLmMJB9M:&spf=1531618462603
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to top of 8th...this post fiftyeighth in a series...see previous...Angels 4-3...well, the two standing mid wives behind might be stand ins for my poles!...one out...Ohtani pinch hitting...1-1...Calhoun on base with walk before...2-1...2-2...3-2...W...two out...bases loaded?...Fletcher up...long fly out to warning track...to bottom of 8th...
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In this woodcut illustration of the birthing practices of the Comanche tribe, a series of poles were driven into the ground, outside a circular temporary shelter. The woman in labor would walk back and forth along this line of poles, kneeling and leaning forward onto a pole during contractions. Her labor support person would massage or give quick shaking motions to her belly during contractions (this is rumored to help encourage babies into more optimal positions for birth).
https://wellroundedmama.blogspot.com/2015/03/historical-and-traditional-birthing.html
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Kemp with hit, and to second on wild pitch, and Angels self destruct...there are other birth room/time/event/things...there's the navel and the umbilical cord...
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The omphalos at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, represents, in Christian mediaeval tradition, the navel of the world (the spiritual and cosmological centre of the world).[5] Jewish tradition held that God revealed himself to His people through the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple in Jerusalem, which rested on the Foundation stone marking the centre of the world.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos#Jerusalem
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one out...W...two on...2-2...gotta wonder if the Ark is a stylized Cradle...it is a hark back to Noah's Ark...and the Egyptians had similar looking things in their inner sanctums...Noah's Ark match-cut to Moses in his basket...
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In other cultures,[which?] snakes symbolized the umbilical cord, joining all humans to Mother Earth. The Great Goddess often had snakes as her familiars—sometimes twining around her sacred staff, as in ancient Crete—and they were worshiped as guardians of her mysteries of birth and regeneration.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)
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fly out and Angels escape the eighth...to top of 9th...'her sacred staff'...is that
"An Asherah pole is a sacred tree or pole"...I imagine...Trout up...I imagine the birthing mother, with her attendants, is the 'sacred tree', the 'world tree'...so often this icon has attendants on either side...two out...Upton K...to bottom of 9th...lead off single...game tied...ball off the wall by Grandall in left field over Upton's glove...Angels 4-4...'tree of immortality'...well, that's a no brainer...how the Mysterions have garbled things!...sigh...
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Etz Chaim, Hebrew for "tree of life," is a common term used in Judaism. The expression, found in the Book of Proverbs, is figuratively applied to the Torah itself. Etz Chaim is also a common name for yeshivas and synagogues as well as for works of Rabbinic literature. It is also used to describe each of the wooden poles to which the parchment of a Sefer Torah is attached.
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The concept of world trees is a prevalent motif in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmologies and iconography. World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which represented also the fourfold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi connecting the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial world.[
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The tree of life motif is present in the traditional Ojibway cosmology and traditions. It is sometimes described as Grandmother Cedar, or Nookomis Giizhig in Anishinaabemowin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
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two out?...pitching change...
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White-cedar is a tree with important uses in traditional Ojibwe culture. Honored with the name Nookomis Giizhik ("Grandmother Cedar"), the tree is the subject of sacred legends and is considered a gift to humanity for its myriad uses, among them crafts, construction, and medicine.[8] It is one of the four plants of the Ojibwe medicine wheel, associated with the north.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_occidentalis
bases loaded...1-0...2-0...North...that would be the circumpolar stars...Trout catches up to one at the wall...to top of 10th...I need to get up and stretch and get a snack...report on who wins tomorrowmorrow!..well...wait...Calhoun hits a two out home run!...I'll do my spell check and editing...fly out...to bottom of 10th...Upton dogged it...missed a catchable fly...runner on second...put Ohtani in left...or right...wth...a passed ball...should have gone for snack...don't want to hear this!...2-0...2-1...shallow fly out to Upton...Grandal up again...same circumstance...wanting to tie up the game...0-1...keep climbing, and don't look down!...0-2...Alverez pitching...fouled off..."waved at and missed!"....lol...
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