Notes: game on...on the radio...Happy Fourth!...bottom of 4th!...Angels 3-2...one out...back to back Ks for Richards...to top of 5th...Trout up...lead off double...Upton up...hit...first and third...Pujols up...rbi hit...Angels 4-2...
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Between the years 1546 to 1568, a Jesuit historian and translator, Bishop Juan de Avila, recorded many mythical accounts of early Peruvian cultures.
While attempting to convert the Chachapoyan to Christianity, he was told four different stories about a great treasure...
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Inca Gold
Clive Cussler
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lol...here I finished off going on and on in yesterday's post about the Cloud People, and returned to reading Inca Gold, and I find myself reading about the self same Cachapoya...Marines change pitchers...Ohtani up...1-1...and one for one, and on with catchers interference...don't know what kind of hit he had...3-1...3-2...pop out to left...Albert thrown out trying to advance...hmmph...intentional walk...Maldonado up...why did they do that?...runners first and third...I think...go figure!...Cussler does an exposition in Chapter 17 about the golden chain, the Cloud People, and the mystery where they take a horde of treasure...so Valbuena steals second...where I am now in my reading Inca Gold...does Cussler wiki source his plots!?...lol...fly out third out...to bottom of 5th...Angels 4-2...bottom of 5th...
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The shadowy guide of those who have tried is Valverde, a Spaniard who some 50 years after Atahualpa's death is said to have become rich after being led to the gold by his Incan bride's family. When he died, he left written directions to its location, the so-called Derrotero de Valverde.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/lost-inca-gold/
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lead off double for Fletcher...Calhoun up...
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The treasure is assumed to had been hidden in a cave, or dumped into a lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_of_the_Llanganatis
...Calhoun hits a home run...Angels 6-2...Cussler's an odd bird to lift like that...hmmph...there is treasure in the bottom of a lake in the Cloud People's territory that drove many crazy...El Dorado...Trout up...fly out...two out...Angels make out...to bottom of 6th...but then, that's Cussler's modus operandi!...mixing up historical things with treasure hunting adventures...
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El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado
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The lake is circular and has a surface area of 19.8 hectares. The earlier theories of the crater's origin being a meteorite impact, volcanic cinder, or limestone sinkhole are now discredited. The most likely explanation is that it resulted from the dissolution of underground salt deposits from an anticline,[3] resulting in a kind of sinkhole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Guatavita
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likely where Cussler got the sinkhole in the tale...another sinkhole with a treacherous current like in his Maya book!....treasure hunters tried to drain the lake multiple times...finally, with a steam machine pump, managed it, but when the muddy bottom dried up, it was rock hard, so frustrated another attempt that failed when funds ran out...K...Bedrosan coming in, in relief...a lot of Inca gold has been found, and other cultures'...residing now in gold museums in Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica...some of the iconography in the pottery and textiles I can see in the gold pieces...but a lot of it looks different...for sometime these golden treasures!...K...two out...rbi hit...Angels 6-3...lead off hit...Valbuena tried to bare hand a grounder...
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Pre-Columbian Inca Tunic. Interlocking tapestry woven in alpaca. South Coast of Peru. Circa 1400 - 1532A.D. The Tocapu square designs contain the symbol for the Quecha word kapak which means noble or august sovereign. Provenance: Private Japanese family collection. Measurements: 30ins x 35ins , 77cms x 89cms. Similar piece published in Textile Master Pieces of Ancient Peru, by James Reid, Dover Publishers, New York, 1984. Plate 38.
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Pujols up...Cussler has it right that there is a thriving trade in ancient antiquities!...I happen on many sites that are selling things...sometimes museums sell off things...one out...Ohtani up...but most things found are found by grave robbers...double for Ohtani!...Valbuena up...caption is a curio in that it notes meaning to the inca key..."Quecha word kapak which means noble or august sovereign"...fly out...Maldonado up...Angels made out...bottom of 6th?...lead off single...tried to source that caption...no luck...kapak-means wise?...W...two runners on no one out...bottom of 7th...anyway...that tunic has the inca key repeated, but in just two versions...and the bottom is banded in just two colors...note the meticulous zig zag lower border...weavers made that as a finishing touch...always...looks to be even a tinier border all around...haven't seen mention of that...maybe product of weaving the threads into the tunic...so, sometimes exceptions to the asymmetry symmetry...bases loaded no one out...gloom...this post fifty first in a series...see previous...2-2...K...oh!...but search "quechua tocapus" turns up a lot...K...two out...Fletcher snags a broken bat bloop going over his head...put a star on that one!...to top of 8th...
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T101-1 Knobloch 1983; Knobloch 1977:Tocapu 101 from Huari ..... mentions that the "tocapu square designs contain the symbol for the Quechua word kapak,
google's log line for site
Because the Inca used rectangular motifs known as 'tocapus' as symbols to identify ethnic groups, I suggest that these banded-rectangles are antecedent forms of 'tocapus' (see also Clados 2012). Understanding Wari tocapus may provide an insight into societal relationships and the tracking of agency during the Middle Horizon.
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T101 doesn't look like inca key...and caption doesn't have that log line...bloop single for Calhoun!...I have to read through all of them...this will take a bit!...another hit...Trout up...intentional W...Upton up bases loaded...time was I knew how to word search a site...brb...CtlF...
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One further observation is the curious possibility that this tocapu eventually influenced an Inca tocapu on tunics known as "key checkerboard" tunics (John Rowe 1979:248-251, Figs.4-6) with a diagonal band and small squares in the corners. Of the eight described in Rowe's article, six have the following proveniences: Ica Valley (3), Los Majuelos in Río Grande de Nasca, Armatambo in the Lima Valley, and Poroma in Nasca drainage. Reid (1986:Pl.38, Fig.56) mentions that the "tocapu square designs contain the symbol for the Quechua word kapak, which means noble, lord or august sovereign."
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well, there I did source the antique site's caption!...Angels make out, come away with one run...Angels 7-3...bottom of 8th...hard to follow author, but in that caption he mentions step fret...
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Remarkably, several Tiwanaku style vessels also display rectangular or tocapu-like motifs including one with step frets and embedded triangles symmetrically placed to either side of a diagonal band; and outlined in white and the diagonal band is painted from the upper left corner to the lower right (T107-4).
same site
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wild pitch runner to third...one out?...Anderson on mound...it would make sense that the step fret would be associated with the key, and the key meaning something about sovereign/king...hmmph...a tangle...that site goes right after each tocapu it displays...but it looks to be a work in progress...that maybe didn't progress beyond what it is on web...wait..no one was out...now there is one out...
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HOW TO MAKE A FOUR-CORNERED HAT WITH PILE THREADS - MIDDLE HORIZON STYLE
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site has different topics...one, how to make a four cornered hat!!!...a dogear for sure...and a sometime effort...one site noted that it was a father's task to make his son(s) first four cornered hat...if he knew how...otherwise mothers would make them!...rbi hit...Angels 7-4...that is really a neat site...has icons for insects, plants...K...Mariners made out...to top of 9th...Ohtani leading off...2-0...ground out...one out...Valbuena up...two out...three out...to bottom of 9th...lead off single...1-1...2-1...Parker pitching...rbi double...Angels 7-5...fly out to Trout...runners hold...0-2...ground to Pujos throws to home runner tagged out...Parker didn't cover first...so Pujols went home!...two out...grounder to Valbuena throws to Pujols..."Angels win it today 7-4"...cue the fireworks!...
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