Notes: I have the thought to begin the ancient history notes with the latest stepfrets I've found!...even then, I find so many, I couldn't post them all...and there would always be a backlog...like now...but, but here's one...oh!...first a game report:...was rolling out for a snack, and noted wildfire smoke behind Old Saddleback, Orange County's signature double peaked foothill...mountain really...I think it's like four to five thousand feet...and since Town is at/near sea level, it looks high enough for mountain status...in mid continent, one is a mile high, and ten thousand foot mountains don't look much different...there is a Eastern Sierra like difference at the Palm Spring's tram going up to San Jacinto...hmmph...should go there do that...I think there is public transport to Palm Springs...oh...fump...never thought of that!....years and years there is no public transport to Big Bear or Idyllwild...oh, there is, I guess, but lots and lots of transfers...and then maybe just one up and down a week or something...checked google maps...no public transport to Idyllwild or Palm Springs listed, but to Palm Springs yes...four hour and seven hour times...may as well go the Valley via Amtrak and YARTS!...that's about eight hours...or I could fly to Tahoe...there is always that!...I really miss snow...so, the Angels won last night...over Tigers...one inning...bases loaded, run scores, bases still loaded, no one out...a bullpen disaster as Tropeano had pitched fine until the sixth...then pulled--shoulder strain...relief came in and promptly made a mess, then second relief came in, K, and DP, and out of the inning, still up 4-2...that was the game...final score 6-2...Trout's birthday game today...but still injured...27th birthday for number 27 on 7th of August...oh...the smoke...diverted to game from getting a snack, thinking to get a bookend pic of smoke over the Big A to go with the one the other night when smoke from Idyllwild fire was on the horizon...smoke from nearabout Ramona...took pic...clips of Ohtani's at bats...he looks picture perfect until he swings...then he looks like a picture perfect golfer...and golfs home runs!...no home runs last night...long fly out, grounder, two walks...second one with stolen base...batting fifth...the first three batters did zip the whole game...Fletcher, lead off, drove in a run on fc grounder...it's mid morning 3 a.m.ish...napped all afternoon, so now not sleepy...a step fret:
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The available literature on ancient Peru reveals little about iconography. What is available seems neither well organized nor coherent.
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There is no comparative description of all ancient Peruvian cultures over a period of two and a half to three thousand years, the time immediately before Chavín to the time of the Incas, and ultimately to the Spanish conquest of the country.
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However many examples depict the water god and the earth goddess either singly or jointly symbolizing water or earth.
The symbolism of these two gods consisted initially of the step-shaped symbol of andenes (for the earth or soil) and the symbol of the meander or the wave (for water). The two symbols in combination form the step-wave.
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http://uwe-carlson.com/en/
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that author, Uwe Carlson, is going on there about the step fret...the one quarter Inca Cross/steps, and the curl/greek key/ocean wave...being a bit taken with the icon, I can understand his author's name on all his books has the step fret above his name!...
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https://www.rugbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?authorField=Uwe+Carlson&action=search
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funds permitting I'd buy the book...but funds aren't permitting!...which, a segue, gets me to 'being led by the nose'...in google's 'pages recommended for you' today was this:
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MINYA, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that two burial chambers dating to the Middle Kingdom period have been uncovered in Upper Egypt’s Beni Hassan necropolis by a team of Egyptian archaeologists and researchers from Maquarie University.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6842-18080-middle-kingdom-burial-chambers
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well, nothing much to cows being led by ropes attached to rings in their noses...it's what one does with cows...but I was curious about Kahn academies' take on the prisoner stylized icon on the Narmer palette...
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Vitally important, but difficult to interpret
Some artifacts are of such vital importance to our understanding of ancient cultures that they are truly unique and utterly irreplaceable. The gold mask of Tutankhamun was allowed to leave Egypt for display overseas; the Narmer Palette, on the other hand, is so valuable that it has never been permitted to leave the country.
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there are a number of formal and iconographic characteristics appearing on the Narmer palette that remain conventional in Egyptian two-dimensional art for the following three millennia.
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The White Crown is related to the dazzling brilliance of the full midday sun at its zenith as well as the luminous nocturnal light of the stars and moon.
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There are a number of Egyptian words used for these crowns (nine for the White and 11 for the Red), but the most common—deshret and hedjet—refer to the colors red and white, respectively. It is from these identifying terms that we take their modern name. Early texts make it clear that these crowns were believed to be imbued with divine power and were personified as goddesses.
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in a sec I'll hook up the Hawk's rope to the prisoner's nose, with Sumerian ropes to noses/lips...but that bit about the whiteness of the white crown has import...the Pyramids are sometimes said to have been painted...or, more likely, unpainted, and a dazzling limestone white...I imagine at night under the stars and moon a marvel!...which harks to the White Temple of Uruk, Sumeria I went on about yesterday...this eightieth post in a series...see previous...'thousands of years' for 'millennia'...scholars...hmmph...those passages quoted hark to Uwe Carlson's notions...
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there are a whole bunch of these images of captives with ropes to their noses for Mesopotamian cultures...Mysterions are scouring history of the area to fill out the history of the Bible, and the 'aliens among' us crowd as well...I didn't know Art Bell passed away...r.i.p....the lower register has the 'captives linked by ropes around their necks'...the nose rope is actually attached to a ring through the captives' lips...there's this whole sort of Hollywood like violence and torture thing going on in the ancient artistries...which is grim, as these things really took place...and still do...with Hollywood the awful circumstance of reality made into make believe made back into reality...searching out these captive motifs overlapped modern web stuff I'd rather I hadn't come across!...anyway, I don't find any other Egyptian images of the rope nose tether...but plenty of them in Sumerian artistries...how Egypt and Mesopotamian artistries blend together harks to how Andean and Mesoamerican cultures are analogous...sometime in very detailed fashion, like the step frets in the Americas, or like here, the tether ropes...just generally, stone pyramids/mud ziggurats are on both sides of the Oceans...I've noted this before, and set it side by side with two movies...The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven...same plots, with character from two different cultures...there are sites that go on about the main plots...Hollywood is said to have like just five different plots lines for all the movies...the Mythographers say much the same for myths...the 'Seven' movies lift from Jason and the Argonauts...the gathering of the heroes...Mythographers have a long list of tales based on Jason's story...same plot, different cultures...
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The word archetype, "original pattern from which copies are made", first entered into English usage in the 1540s[1] and derives from the Latin noun archetypum, latinisation of the Greek noun ἀρχέτυπον (archetupon), whose adjective form is ἀρχέτυπος (archétupos), which means "first-molded",[2] which is a compound of ἀρχή archḗ, "beginning, origin",[3] and τύπος tupos, which can mean, amongst other things, "pattern," "model," or "type."[
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thought I have is an archetype can be anything...a narrative, a motif, an icon, a ritual, and such...we live in an archetypal world...the sun, the moon, the stars, are archetypes....they don't change...and the narratives of living things don't either...so, here and there, are pyramids to the moon, with a pyramid to the sun, and a god with a consort goddess...and they become icons, and characters, in different cultures...and, well, call these cultural archetypes...archetypes we make...narratives we make...our stories, our artistries...I was always impressed how immersing the video game World of Warcraft can be...we can make make-believe worlds to rival Nature...and unfortunately, we often take made up things and impose them back into Nature/Reality...nearly every living thing on earth is reading their own stories, living their own narratives, totally oblivious to ours...we seem to think we are the only show in town...and the level of our 'volume' has gotten to the point we are drowning out all the other shows...so, taking captives is sort of what is being done...over and over...when I studied old newspapers for tales of the Yangtze Patrol and USS Panay, it got to the point I felt I was reading a current paper written up like this morning...looking at the tales of city life in Uruk brought that feeling back...Sumer city life was going on for thousands of years before the Narmer palette...all detailed in record keeping...tightly organized...now, there is something called a 'bulla'...I'm familiar with cylinder seals...these are those little cylinders with a negative image on them that when rolled out on wet clay leave a positive image...I'd read about the bulla before, but hadn't noted their import...they were the first thing...clay balls would be put in a larger hollow clay ball, and that ball sealed...this is how trade deals were conducted...the clay balls represented something, cows, grain, chickens--a count...a number of balls represented a count, and sealed in the hollow ball, the count couldn't be altered...record keeping...the balls morphed into different clays shapes representing different things...and a natural step from that was to make the cylinder seals...I'm glossing over things!...here's link to wiki's take...
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A bulla (from Latin bulla, "bubble, blob", plural bullae) is an inscribed clay or soft metal (such as lead or tin) or bitumen or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of identification and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it (or, in the historical form, contained in it). In their oldest attested form, as used in the ancient Near and Middle East of the 8th millennium BCE onwards, bullae were hollow ball-like clay envelopes that contained other smaller tokens that identified the quantity and types of goods being recorded.
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I got to looking at those clay balls, and thought, having just looked at polka dots on warrior shields and capes, 'oh, those are the 'archetype' of the polka dots'...that's a long reach I know...but those clay balls were much respected...represented on warriors regalia, they would have said that a warrior was part of the King's inventory...found the dots on a chariot too...brb...
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and thinking on the polka dots as the clay balls inside the hollow clay ball, I thought, those are things in a bag...oh, more on that in a sec...this is really cool...wiki's take on the Lady Elche linked to some self similar busts...
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The necklaces the Lady wears are each different; one is composed of seven bullae which are all the same except for the central one, which is grooved. Below it is another necklace that has larger bullae, some shaped like curved triangles and some semicircular at the bottom.
Lady of Guardamar
from the Lady Cao youtube clip...search youtube Lady Cao
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at the top are the crenellated steps...I'll just call all these steps...sometimes they are one quarter of the Inca Cross, sometimes one half. sometimes all...and in checkerboard fashion like the Inca Warrior tunics...an archetype in Old world and New...the Moche were building with adobe just like the Sumerians...
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