Notes: game on...on the radio...soon...Angels and Dodgers...continuing from whereabout I was yesterday...this post fiftyninth in a series...see previous...thought is that everything about the event of giving birth was morphed into symbolic elements...the mother giving birth match-cut to the tree of life, the birth stool/bricks match cut to the Pharaoh's/King's throne, the midwife helping from behind the mother, match-cut to Egypt's hippopotamus with crocodile on its back..."DavidDavid, are you tripping!?"...Nooo, and never would I encourage such...but artistries, and the way they morph everyday things into aritistic expression, are the purview of artists, and such that would be artists!...dream makers...Kershaw on the mound for Dodgers...dreams are odd...Dorothy gets knocked out by the swirl of the tornado and is transported to Oz, where all her family and friends and such are transformed into characters inhabiting Oz...when she recovers, and wakes up surrounded by family and friends, she recognizes each as characters in her dream...dreams are like that...in one of mine, I was talking to someone, and excused myself, crouched, and began to cough...Fletcher with a lead off double!...and I woke up coughing...another time I dreamt I was in the outfield of a baseball field, minding my business on the grass, which suddenly turned into like a rug being pulled out from under me, and I was falling...woke up to find myself on the floor beside my bunk--I'd fallen out of bed!...Trout up...2-2...this kind of thing looks to be happening all through sleep/dreams...things from the everyday turning into dream things...more on this in a bit...back to birth things...in particular the placenta...I have for years tried to nail down the colors red and black...they keep showing up...kind of like the number 108, or 23...Trout and Upton make out...two outs...hmmph...that Syth villain in Star Wars is red and black...Tiger Woods wears red and black on the final round of a tournament...the Volcano in Hawaii is spewing red and black lava...seeing that, I thought I had 'red and black' nailed down...thinking lava would have made a big impression...and find its way as a paired color element in mythology...W...bases loaded...
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Colors are imbued with great symbolic power. Even in the modern English-speaking world, where superstitious beliefs have largely faded in the light of scientific knowledge, many colors have retained their ancient associations. Most people know that brides should wear white, that "seeing red" means being angry, and that one can feel "green with envy." But learning why these connotations exist requires a look back to the beliefs and practices of the ancients.
https://www.livescience.com/33523-color-symbolism-meanings.html
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that's a good comment...colors become stylized elements of superstition...things normally innocuous, un-note worthy, become transformed by superstition...3-2...swing and miss...ah...bases left loaded...to bottom of 1st...this about superstition just occurred to me!...but it's a fit...cultures have all kinds of superstitions surrounding birth...most prominent is that men aren't permitted to be present...bad luck...well, I'll come back to superstition!...red and black...well, it's kind of obvious...red is blood, black is night, death, oblivion...combine them and they are the colors of Halloween...actually, Halloween is more orange and black...is it?...I dunno...
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Halloween is celebrated at night so naturally it’s associated with the color black. There are many black creatures and items associated with All Hallow’s Eve as well: black cats, spiders, bats, witches, the Grim Reaper, a vampire’s cape and cauldrons to name a few.
Orange is the polar opposite of black. It is a lively color that celebrates life and the bounty of the Autumn harvest.
Red blood is seen dripping from vampire lips and the victim’s throat. Or it could be a bottle of True Blood.
Blood is a key ingredient in witch’s potions and voodoo magic. A Devil’s contract is typically sealed with blood.
Read More http://isleofhalloween.com/halloween-colors-and-their-meaning/
Blood is a key ingredient in witch’s potions and voodoo magic. A Devil’s contract is typically sealed with blood.
Read More http://isleofhalloween.com/halloween-colors-and-their-meaning/
http://isleofhalloween.com/halloween-colors-and-their-meaning/
Red and Orange are the colors of Fall--leaves changing...hmmph...site goes on about other colors too...strike'm out throw'm out...double play...Kemp up...fly out to Upton...to top of 2nd...Halloween is full of superstitions...pagan beliefs...like all of that has gotten compressed into one night!...though Hollywood makes it a year round business...horror movies abound...anyway, I noted the Mayans/Aztecs painted their sacrificial victims blue...Egyptians had some regard for blue too...hadn't thought to be snared by colors!...
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The ancient Egyptians used six basic colors in varying shades of white, black, red, yellow, blue and green. All of the colors had specific meaning and significance and the color meanings were accompanied by the numerous symbols that were also used by the ancient Egyptians conveying ideas and elements for ancient Egyptian mythology and legends. The following links provide comprehensive facts and information about the meaning of each of the colors and their symbolism and significance to the ancient Egyptians.
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Dodgers make out...well, that doesn't fit, site's take on Egyptian's blue...and I might not be able to find a fit for a notion I have about the placenta...the veins on a placenta sack are very prominent...
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This Image of a Human Placenta Looks Like the Tree of Life
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for pic see link...or search: placenta tree of life...Grandal hits a home run...Dodgers 1-0...that search will turn up a lot of sites...and pics...and the thing I noted on first seeing these pics of placenta, aside from it being so tree of life like!, is that the veins are dark blue, or black...and I thought, of course, we have blue veins...oxygenated blood is bright red, oxygen depleted blood turns blue...we learn this in grade school!...but ho hum school lessons were marvels to the ancients...and the blue/black veins are on the reddish placenta sack...it even looks a bit like the Hawaii lava flows...so, placenta sack match-cut to tree of life, pregnant mother giving birth match-cut to tree of life...or world tree...or tree of immortality...in a movie, elements can be match-cut...shown in sequence, and make a statement, tell a tale, without words...two dimensional art combines elements too, and can tell stories...and that's what artists do, dream makers...it's what dreams do!...and in dreams, the silliness of superstitions become real...magic ruby slippers, magic faerie wands...sac fly for Dodgers...Dodgers 2-0...still bottom of 2nd...well, I'm diverting...let me set all this to the side...I found something more about the birth pole...sorta...maybe...a far reach/whimsy...hmmph...Kershaw gets an rbi hit...Dodgers 3-0...an E1 on play on runner going to second?...I dunno...Angels behind in the early innings again...oh...a curio to consider...vienous blood immediately turns red when exposed to air/oxygen...and a thought is that black and blue got conflated...well, they do when we're bruised!...so, there is red and black sort of nailed down!...hmmph...I can see colors are going to be for a 'sometime'...Dodgers made out...top of 3rd...Fletcher makes out...ball pounded in the dirt in front of home plate...Simmons out with out making a move...
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A Hellenistic Greek mosaic depicting the god Dionysos as a winged daimon riding on a tiger,[1][2] from the House of Dionysos at Delos in the South Aegean region of Greece, late 2nd century BC, Archaeological Museum of Delos
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hmmph...that's not the Delos mosaic I usually see...a favorite...one of the first watercolors I painted...a copy...I obsess on Delos!...let me see if I can find the other one...
Dionysus Riding a Leopard, Mosaic, House of Masks in Delos, Greece, 475 AD
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it was a popular motif/scene...Dionysus shown holding that staff/pole, which caught my eye as I've been going on about birth poles/Asherah poles...it's called a thyrsus...Grandal two out walk...makes out...to top of 4th...
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The thyrsus, associated with Dionysus (or Bacchus) and his followers, the Satyrs and Maenads, is a symbol of prosperity, fertility, hedonism, and pleasure/enjoyment in general.[2] It has been suggested that this was specifically a fertility phallus, with the fennel representing the shaft of the penis and the pine cone representing the "seed" issuing forth. The thyrsus was tossed in the Bacchic dance
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oh, an opportunity to have some fun with the Mysterions!...the Mysterions are going on and on about the pine cone...myself, I hadn't noted it on this staff before, and was mystified by the pine cone too...brb...Angels have a runner...Upton lead off infield single...base hit Kinsler...runners first and second...Marte up...Marte hits a three rbi Home Run!...Angels 3-3...this Angel Dodger series has been really good, really close...Calhoun up...0-2...
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Bucket and Cone refer to twin attributes that are frequently held in the hands of winged genies depicted in Neo-Assyrian art and especially Assyrian palace reliefs - sometimes, however, only the bucket is held, and the other hand is held up in what may be a blessing gesture. These objects are often displayed in association with a stylised tree, before floral decorations, guardian figures, the king and / or his attendants and open doorways or portals.[1] The cone was apparently held up in the right hand, the bucket held hanging downwards in the left
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what's a penis without its 'sack'?...lol...Angels' pitcher McGuire hits into double play, fielders choice?...but the tableau becomes more complete...the tree of life being impregnated by the pine cone...I've gone on and on about this:...the bag might be full of pollen, the cone a distributer...the tree a date palm...to cultivate date palms, I learned, they have to be pollenated by farmers, or some such....
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Date palms develop as either a male or female of the species. The males produce pollen from massive flowers, which are then used to pollinate the fruit buds on the female trees that will then produce the fruit. Unfortunately, pollination doesn’t happen reliably enough on its own, so we need to help it along by hand.
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For years I have marvelled at the evocative reliefs of Assyrian kings and their peculiar-looking protective gods, and contemplated what is in the bag they so proudly clutch in their hands. On a recent visit to the British Museum a friend and I tested a hypothesis that the answer to the mystery involved bees.
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‘But what about the other hand – the one gripping the pine cone?’ I feared I was now tempting fate, but fortunately the guide was unfazed by my persistence. The tour group, on the other hand, was clearly becoming restless. ‘It’s not a pinecone,’ he said tauntingly, pausing for dramatic effect, ‘it’s a date palm.’ I nodded, while patiently awaiting his full explanation.
‘The King, or Spirit Guide, is dipping the sacred date palm into the bag of pollen and symbolically pollinating his kingdom,’ he said.
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the Myterions bring up that the Tula warriors are holding sacks, and that in front of the Vatican is a famous pagan giant bronze pine cone...the Inca's had sacks too...these held their drug kits!...for sometime the snuff trays of the Incas....that floating winged emblem is everywhere in the Middle Eastern reliefs...and has that look of the Mesoamerican shield with skirt, darts bundled horizontally behind it...that for sometime!...Simmons with a double...must be top of 4th, or 5th...Angels made out...to bottom of 5th...
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In c.800BC, the model of Osiris, and his thyrsus, was imported into Greece, via either migration and or Greeks studying abroad, into the guise of Dionysus and his thyrsus; in 200BC the Greek model of Dionysus and his thyrsus was imported into Rome into the guise of Bacchus and his thyrsus; in 200AD to 1000AD this general Osiris turned Dionysus-Bacchus model, according to the so-called Vossius-Huet conjecture (c.1680), was monotheized into the mold of Moses and his "magical staff" that parts the Red Sea and smites water from rocks, such as shown below right:
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I could have used 'monotheized' in yesterday's post!...that's a movie like sequence of match-cuts...Osiris to Dionysus to Bacchus...and Moses thrown in...writing is movie like...and in dreams, that might be the greatest of mysteries!...how they are so movie like...explaining how we see geometric patterns in hallucinations is one thing...how narrations are seen in dreams another thing all together!...I have this long reach thought that ancient artistries were all prompts, devices, to create narrations in altered states...well, in normal states too...dreams are so susceptible to prompts...things going on while we sleep...we're unconscious, but still aware of our surroundings...Calhoun up...fly out...Marte is on first...two outs...and the things in our day to day prompt dreams...their stories...oh...how these 'devices' might be characterized!...on the radio I heard this:...'do your brakes sound like an eagle screaming?'...sound of Eagle screaming...'do they sound like a cinder block being dragged across asphalt?'...sound of cinder block being dragged across asphalt...Disney used to do these charming clips about how animated movies are made, part of such the sound effect guys...
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DISNEY VOICES & SOUND EFX - PART 1 - JIM MCDONALD-BEHIND THE SCENES-HISTORY-WAYNE ALLWINE-STUDIOS
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that's what dreams do...take a sound, or prompt, and turn it into a fantasy...Angels made out...bottom of 5th...bloop hit...and misplay to get runner off base at second...two on?...and now they pick him off!!!...one out...how calculated are the ancients prompts/devices?...I happened on a site that goes on about how spirals were used by shamans to enter the altered states...and this the reason spirals are all over the world in rock petroglyphs...seems a reach...that just looking at a spiral would have an effect...but then I thought to google: hypnotic devices, and first up in images is a spiral...along with a dangling pocket watch swinging, ticking, mesmerists use spinning spirals...to make this worse, drug user accounts, which are now numerous on web, report spinning whirling spiral tunnels--tornados to Oz...Baum, like Lewis Carol, had special insight into dreamlands!...M.C. Escher too...oh..top of 7th!...shamans, I learn, are depicted with spiral eyes...that Mixtec kneeling warrior has candy stripe eyes...lead off W for Valbuena...the reports from the altered states have a kind of sameness...I see nothing that suggests the consistent imageries of the ancients...oh, the geometric images sure...but nothing like the myth stories being brought back...the ancients may have had techniques, methods passed down from masters to apprentices, of high sophistication, like professional musicians...to be an accomplished flamenco player one begins as a child...flamenco is a tableau, with a pole, come to think of it...Trout up...poles in the oldest form were pounded on the ground for rhythm...now and then I puzzle over the reports...it's a sad business...Trout walks...Kershaw, demonstrative, protests umpire calls...and gets lifted...chortle...two on...no one out?...one report was from a marathon runner...after nearly a hundred miles running across the desert, they began to hallucinate...this is the kind of thing shamans would do...work themselves into a state of exhaustion...hit by pitch...Upton on first...bases loaded...altered states can be reached without drugs...point is what is the point!?...recreational amusement doesn't seem to be what the ancients were about...shamans had a purpose which looks to have been to benefit the community...they didn't get stoned just to get stoned...Ohtani in the on deck circle...K...to bottom of 6th...hmmph...
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Think drug-induced hallucinations, and the whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns of psychedelic imagery immediately spring to mind. But it's not just hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, cannabis or mescaline that conjure up these geometric structures. People have reported seeing them in near-death experiences, as a result of disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia, following sensory deprivation, or even just after applying pressure to the eyeballs. So common are these geometric hallucinations, that in the last century scientists began asking themselves if they couldn't tell us something fundamental about how our brains are wired up. And it seems that they can.
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About 28 hours into my 39 hour run, it was dark in the desert and running on pavement. All the shrubs, rocks, geological features started to turn to bears, bison, people, motor homes, boats, etc.
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another hour or two of running the pavement turned into millions of numbers, formulas, Indian symbols, chemistry elements, graffiti, etc.
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This pattern/hallucination ran from horizon to horizon. I hoped when the sun rose, it would reset my brain, but these "faux patterns" continued until sleep at the end of the race (2:00pm).
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some of these things I happen on are unhinging!...seeing 'mathematical symbols' was in another comment report, and reporter said they knew little math...there are now scholarly schools that are looking into hallucinations/altered states...I dunno...the ancients may have had a mastery of our altered state world on a scale comparable to our technological command of the real world...what we see in the ruins and artifacts are the devices that took them wherever they went...Dodger make out but get a run...Dodgers 4-3...top of 8th...oh...another comment report had it that we are seeing things backwards...that the altered states are reality, and our everyday the hallucination...that was met with much derision!...logic was the drug suppresses whatever is keeping us in our hallucination...K for Calhoun...there's that famous medieval drawing...
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In this woodcut, a medieval missionary recounts that he has found the spot where the sky and the Earth touch. The illustration, by Camille Flammarion (1842-1945), a French astronomer and popular science writer, was used to illustrate the notion that mediaeval man believed the Earth was flat
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They might believe, for example, that the Earth up in space is round, but obviously the one we walk around on is flat. Or they might say the Earth is round, but also that it's possible to fall off the edge. These contradictory beliefs were common in kids up to age 10 or so, according to a 1985 study. By 13, most kids had grasped the concept of a spherical Earth, the study found, though some were still a little flummoxed by how gravity worked.
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hmmph...he's got a stick...Angels made out...to bottom of 8th...Drake on mound...one out....runner on...Scaggs on mound...Grandal with another hit...been on base all four times...runners first and third two out...rbi hit...Dodgers 5-3...
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"With great commercial success he blended scientific speculation with science fiction to propagate modern myths such as the notion that “superior” extraterrestrial species reside on numerous planets, and that the human soul evolves through cosmic reincarnation. Flammarion’s influence was great, not just on the popular thought of his day, but also on later writers with similar interests and convictions."
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hmmph...can't recall if I read any of Flammarion's science fiction...back in the day, there was an anthology of poems...
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Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania is a book of spiritual writings and poetry collected from around the world. Compiled by Jerome Rothenberg 1969. ISBN 978-0-520-04912-3.
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the title conflated making poems with like making machines...it's been said Buddhism is a 'technology'...
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Buddhism and science have increasingly been discussed as compatible, and Buddhism has entered into the science and religion dialogue.[
Oh, Ohtani up...0-1...0-2...dread Jansen on mound...a real deal finisher...K...Fletcher up...0-1...hard drive to outfield caught...grounder to third...'aaaannnd, that will do it'...Dodgers 5-3...a break...few days now to the all star game, which I'll find a sports bar to watch...and after the break Angels home against Astros, I think...
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