Great Horned Owl's Head
From the neck up,
Owl's head kind of looks like a tapered box...
A tapered box with tufts...
Kind of like the Andeans' four cornered hats,
With tufts.
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Notes: I'm a bit puzzled why ancient art isn't more influenced by the designs in Nature...there's some of it, for sure...but it's never like they went about just drawing from nature...both literally, and in the sense of getting inspiration...this to say, the whole notion that like hunter gatherers were 'closer' to Nature than we are, may be a croc...there are designs on thousands and thousands of creatures that never get into their artistries...and behaviors too...from the coastal Peruvians I see a few seabirds stylized, and fish, and sea mammals, crabs, starfish, and such...and from all of them a few of the insects, and mammals, and birds...Inca revered the Condor, a feline, and another I forget, a serpent?...reminds me of the Egyptians with their vultures and cobras...Egyptians too had like a small set of designs and notions from Nature, which got repeated for thousands of years...the Mesoamericans and Andeans were hell on wheels to the birds...birds were just a source for feathers, and food...lots of feathers...a curio I picked up once doing a project for a school class...I did a report framed as a sailing trip along the west coast of the Americas from North to South, a curio is that the up-wellings in Ocean off the coast of Peru, the proliferation of fish, attracted birds, an aside of El Nino...there were so many that they would darken the sky for days passing over the coastline...
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Inca Archaeological Sites, Andean Culture, Relict Woodlands,
Andean Birds and Machu Picchu
PRIVATE TOURS LEAVING ANY DATE
This trip is designed for partners and friends who are a mix of birders and non-birders.
Day 3:Early morning flight to Cusco and we head out south of town to Huacarpay lakes. The Lake is surrounded by Inca and pre-Inca ruins. Here we will see a variety of high Andean waterfowl including Puna, Yellow-billed and Cinnamon Teal, Yellow-billed Pintail, Andean Duck and other wetland associated birds. White-tufted Grebe and Andean Coot will be here too.
https://www.birding-in-peru.com/birds-history-and-culture-peru.html
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this to say, the ancients don't seem to have had 'tourists', or special interest hobbyists...Emperor Hirohito was a marine biologist on the side...accomplished enough to have named species I think...
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In 1975, Emperor Hirohito visited Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. According to the Oceanus article, he talked with scientists there about a topic of marine biology that particularly interested him - marine hydrozoans. Some 40 species of the primitive animals are common in the Woods Hole area.
https://www.the-scientist.com/profession/hirohito-the-late-japanese-emperor-was-a-dedicated-marine-biologist-62277
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the ancient Greeks had a few scholars that studied Nature closely...but it is almost like the attentiveness to things we have now didn't really develop until now...over the centuries there's a general gain in acuity, but, then, boom, every video game has its own cryptozoology!...the ancients were strong on finding 'intimations of immortality' in Nature...like snakes shedding their skins, butterflies emerging from cacoons...and myths were made up to explain behaviors in Nature...game on...on the radio...Angels and Dodgers...E3, lead off runner on...108 degrees at game time!!!...passed ball...runner to second...Pena on mound...the ambegram/palindrome bilateral symmetry in the tocapus reminds me of Nature...Nature is like that...'Calhoun with a terrific catch'...robs Muncie of a hit...one out...I don't know if the Andeans used ambegramness because they saw it in Nature, or because the self same thing that makes it happen in Nature, percolated into their artistries...and not just theirs...bilateral symmetry is world wide in ancient cultures...and continues today...K...two out...K..to bottom of 1st...this post fiftythird in a series...see previous...patches of color with black outlines is a common feature of New World art...old World too...I noted that this shows up on the skin design of the Inca Rainbow Boa...Calhoun makes out...Simmons up...so, all the while I'm considering, I'm wondering how the ancients saw Nature...were they closer to Nature than we are?, and such...did they draw 'lessons' from Nature?...Angels made out...to top of 2nd...I dunno...but I took two things, the patches of color with black outlines, and the bilateral symmetry, in the tocapus (tocapus as in the designs on pottery and figurines), and thought to look at Peruvian critters...beginning with butterflies, and moths...moths are about as far as I need reach for this notion!...
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Its hindwings have 3 long tails, and have a large area of iridescent scales that reflect orange, red and blue-green hues according to the angle of view.
There are 2 Urania species commonly seen in the Amazonian region - leilus and fulgens.
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hmmph...I wasn't looking for that one...found it looking now for one from this morning...but, but it has the step!!!...and a rainbow like iridiscents...Dodgers made out...to bottom of 2nd...and that is like what I'm looking for, Andeans borrowing motifs from Nature...
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The moths of South America are true wonders of nature, exhibiting an incredible diversity of shapes, patterns and strange resting postures. Many are wonderfully disguised and are virtually indiscernible from dead leaves or broken twigs. Others look like scary wasps, or have evolved threatening false eye markings to startle birds. The thumbnails below link to full size images and descriptions.
same site
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two out...Ohtani up...K...to top of 3rd...lost a bit looking at moths...Dodgers made out...to bottom of 3rd...Angels make out...what?...like one hit by both teams?...to top of 4th...one out double...and a hit...a gift run...double could have been caught by Upton in left...Dodgers 1-0...hmmph...species is world wide of the moth above...genus that is...I guess...have to recollect all that about genus, species...Dodgers made out...to bottom of 4th...
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this one was native to Jamaica...now extinct due to habitat loss to agriculture and deforestation...Simmons with double?...looks to be out in review...safe!...Moths eat cotton...Inca cotton I imagine...Inca clothes?...Trout up...K...Ancients had to deal with the self same things we do...how to keep mice/squirrels/rodents away from grains...moths away from cotton/wool clothing...pests in their gardens too I imagine...foul pop flub...no challenge...glove might have been in fair ground when ball fell out of glove...K...to top of 5th...fast game!...
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Rothschildia erycina male from Loreto, Peru
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Dodgers made out...sometimes, sometimes butterflies/moths bilateral symmetry is asymmetrical...Pujols up...Gyandomorphs...
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This bird might look like a holiday ornament, but it is actually a rare half-female, half-male northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis, pictured with female plumage on the left and male plumage on the right) spotted a few years ago in Rock Island, Illinois.
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A pair of ornithologists from Western Illinois University spent 15 months observing a rare northern cardinal with gynandromorphism -- exhibiting both male and female characteristics.
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It turns out life may be a bit lonely, and devoid of music, for such birds. The researchers noted that their subject, observed primarily near a bird feeder, never paired up with another cardinal and it was never observed singing. On the plus side, perhaps, the unusual cardinal was not subjected to any unduly combative behavior from other cardinals.
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hmmph...what happens is like in the fourth to eighth cell division, like one in a million, for one side a gene drops out, male or female, or some such, and you get one side male and one side female...1.2.3.inning for Angels...top of 6th...happens to butterflies/moths...
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On 7 May 1752, a Mr M Fisher of Newgate presented the Royal Society of England with a lobster of unique appearance, with "all the parts of generation double". Since then, scientists have added crabs, silk worms, butterflies, bees, snakes and various species of bird to the list of animals that can develop into bilateral gynandromorphs.
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There is one more possible explanation for gynandromorphs – or at least, for a few of them. In a few places, humans may have accidentally made these creatures more common.
In April 2015, Jahner reported a peculiar coincidence. He studies American butterflies called Lycaeides, and had never seen a single gyandomorph before the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan – only to come across six in the 16 months afterwards. "And I've never found any since," he says.http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150916-these-animals-are-male-on-one-side-and-female-on-the-other
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Dodgers have runners...Alverez on mound?...in relief...
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http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/243168/gynandromorphism
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a mess...run scores...Dodgers overrun bases...throw'm out at third...oh...two runner touched one another...that's an out...rbi hit...Dodgers 2-0...gyandomorph could happen in mammals/humans, but hormones for either sex identity over ride any error in the cell divison...the whole thing is odd...to say the least...but it is an example of 'above and below'...what is above is like what is below...one can infer from the macro world, the micro world...apples falling, planets spinning...and such...the Greeks did that kind of thinking...they may have started it...the Mayans saw intimations in the blooming of water lilies...worked it into their myths...jaguar lily god...and Mesoamerican had their Black Butterfly...Aztecs I guess in particular...I'm leaning to the thought Mesoamericans were all thinking alike in their myths...
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In Aztec mythology, Ītzpāpālōtl [iːt͡spaːˈpaːlot͡ɬ] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess who ruled over the paradise world of Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created.[
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She could appear in the form of a beautiful, seductive woman or terrible goddess with a skeletal head and butterfly wings supplied with stone blades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzpapalotl
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Angels up...bottom of 6th...98 at 9 p-clock...lead off hit for Kinsler...Brasenenillio up...
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Although the identity remains inconclusive, the Zapotec deity named Goddess 2J by Alfonso Caso and Ignacio Bernal may be a Classic Zapotec form of Itzpapalotl. In many instances Goddess 2J, whose image is found on ceramic urns, is identified with bats. "In folklore, bats are sometimes called "black butterflies"".[4]
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same wiki
a role for Jennifer Lawrence!, et al....
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The ceiba's fruits contain large quantities of cottony kapok fibers which entangle the small seeds and transport them through wind and water. During its flowering period, the ceiba attracts bats and moths to its nectar, with nectar production in excess of 10 liters (2 gallons) per tree per night and an estimated 200 L (45 GAL) per flowing season.
https://www.thoughtco.com/ceiba-pentandra-sacred-tree-maya-171615
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hmmph...a curio...Calhoun up...one out...oh...wrong...Bersinillio singled too...two on no out...K...the Ceiba was the Mayan's sacred tree/world tree...Trout up...intentional walk for Trout...Upton up...why isn't Ohtani behind Trout!...Upton's been an easy out...anyway...basesloaded...balk...as Kinsler was breaking for home...Dodgers messed up...Pitcher was in wind up...Dodgers 2-1...runners advance...2-1 to Upton...W...bases loaded...pitching change...Pujols up...K...too often stranded runners...in April they collected them routinely...
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She is the mother of Mixcoatl and is particularly associated with the moth Rothschildia orizaba from the family Saturniidae.
https://youtu.be/7stiiGgAzF8 (video link...this a video game site comment!)
http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Itzpapalotl
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the moth crafted...a must see...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tzunun/5420598664
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Rothschildia Orizaba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschildia_Orizaba
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Ohtani up...1-1...1-2...K...an ofer for Ohtani...ofer3...Fletcher up...bottom of 7th?...Camozotz, bat god, Itzpapalotl, moth goddess...see what Owl is intimidated as!...
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Sculptural gold beads representing important animals and birds were strung together to form necklaces. Frogs represented a perfect link between earth and water and were venerated by the desert-dwelling Moche, who relied on irrigation. The Owl Warrior was a key god in the Moche pantheon. Along with the capture of prisoners for sacrifice, he conducted the dead to the afterlife. Ornaments showing owls were reserved for the military or priestly elite.
https://nga.gov.au/EXHIBITION/Incas/Default.cfm?IRN=231300&ViewID=2
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Beyond their economic importance, birds inspired craftsmen creating colorful textiles, elegant metal adornments, and ceramic vessels. Pelicans, cormorants, waders, owls, condors, vultures, ducks, and hummingbirds were sometimes depicted with great realism and beauty, other times portrayed as supernatural winged creatures.
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raptorial birds were portrayed as warriors and sacrificers (
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Stylized, profile heads of raptorial birds are also privileged motifs on high-status garments such as four-cornered hats
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bird/hd_bird.htm
top of 8th...one out...dogear for that three finger motif...for sometime...Dodgers made out...to bottom of 8th...tufts...Angels need to toughen up...
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Flocks of Birds
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I was at tocapu.org like half the nite...lots of stuff...for sometime...Calhoun up...third base catched line grounder over the mound behind second base...shift was on...Simmons up...Angels have only one hit?...K...Trout up...
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like ten thousand Moche ceramics have been found...like numbers I imagine for the nearby cultures...they found like a pottery factory...and they did use molds...a lot...Trout makes out...to top of 9th...and lots of owls...see search: moche owls pottery...
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now, when ever I just want to browse these old things, I look up moche things...they are like the best!...Dodgers out in a 'quick clean inning for Parker'...'best' in disregard for the Decapitator and such...hmmph...every age is the 'best of times the worst of times'...
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Margot Guerrera saved to archetypes of polychrome
Moche anthropomorphic moth or fly decapitator
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the mushroom folk might say those are mushroom wings!...I dunno...Pujols up...K...
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Moche culture of Peru, Mastiff Bat Vessel, 200-850
The vessel illustrates two principles of the Moche style: keen interest in realism and in capturing
activity at its peak. The bat’s head is depicted with great fidelity, and the animal may be portrayed
dropping from its roost, just before it opens its wings and takes flight.
activity at its peak. The bat’s head is depicted with great fidelity, and the animal may be portrayed
dropping from its roost, just before it opens its wings and takes flight.
Ohtani up...two out...0-1...0-2...1-2...2-2...3-2...W!...Fletcher up...for goodness sake...Ohtani stole second...wild throw into outfield...Ohtani went to third...Fletcher bops the second pitch past ss...Angels 2-2...Kinsler up...so, I gather from that caption the ancients had observant eyes...and ball falls in...throw to plate...ball gets away...E9Puig...Fletcher comes in from first base...Angels 3-2...a miracle...more tomorrow...'an improbable win'...some kind of classic game I'd say!
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