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Notes: Water Wizards...well, I was about to take a nap, but was doing one last search before:...moche pottery strombus...the curio pic from yesterday had my curiosity...brb...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/6b5b45/moche_sculpture_vessel_depicting_the_mythic_hero/
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the figure is emerging from a strombus shell...seeing how I'm doing cosmic seashells for the strada easel contest, thought to revisit all the things seashellish I've found with my searches!...and I found a remarkable page....oh, what was the image that took me there?...brb...it was this one...
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https://traveltoeat.com/moche-ceremonial-combat-larco-museum-lima/
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no!...wait...it wasn't that one...but that is very good page too!...brb....it was this one...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=moche+pottery+strombus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj6Je_p7TdAhUn54MKHZinAiIQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=423#imgrc=ryWpXQKHoxim5M:&spf=1536715542018
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note ears!...and I looked at that and thought, 'wth, there's the steps/frets/triangles, and, and the chacana, the Inca cross/four steps joined...hadn't noted the headdress, but went to the site, and, and...read and read and read...no nap...author has all the things Mesoamerican/Andean I've been going on about step/fret/triangle related, and the other things too...I mean just everything...all the captions I've made, I could set by side with the captions author has made...author's are better for sure, they have scholars' skills...leastwise the page, '30,000 words worth', is written up like a scholar's paper...sorta...more like a web savy scholar would do...can't find author's name...oh...the headdress, before I go on...
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Above: Moche I, c. 100 CE (from Benson, 2008; ML012790). The Twisted Gourd, chakanas, and lunar animals are associated on a priest wearing a fox headdress very early in the development of the Moche’s visual program. The Fox is a dark-cloud constellation in the Milky Way (Atoq, Fig. 2), the importance of which is preserved in Andean mythology and as a mural at the Buena Vista observatory c. 2250 BCE (Benfer et. al, 2007). The Fox has its terrestrial counterpart in the fox that occupies an important ecological position in the Moche’s visual program at the transition between dry and wet seasons.
Visual Program of the First Civilizations in the Americas
Twisted Gourd, The Symbolic Language of the Precolumbian Rainmakers
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/
the 'Buena Vista Fox' is the Menacing Disc with Foxes on either side I've gone on about...looks too like the author is familiar with that Bedford Astronomy Club author going on about Andeans and their astronomy and rituals...come to think of it, I don't know if I found that author's name either...check for sometime...anyway, author calls the step frets, which I'm now calling, which could morph again, steps/frets/triangles. author calls them 'Twisted Gords'...I saw that term at wiki's take...thought it odd...still do...author notes, as I have, that they are found in all the Americas, North, Central, South...he has some great examples from the South West, which I've been weak on--they're hard to find there!...some from Mesoamerica I hadn't seen, and the ones from the Andeans I've mostly seen, and have posted...oh...game on...on the radio...Angels at home against the Rangers...the really charming thing I found on my reading the page, for me, is that author goes on and on about 'contour rivalry'...go figure!...I thought myself way far out on a limb going on about optical illusions...author has a very peculiar take on this, and harks some to my going on about lenses...how like prisms making rainbows of white light, everything around us are 'prisms' making invisible things visible...this post one hundred first in a series...see previous...my posts show the stepping stones how I came to that notion, and all the others...during whole series, I've thought of the posts like a string cavers use to find their way back out of the cave!...I don't know how author arrives at things...what pre-suppositions took him here and there...oh...let me get caption for the figure coming out of the strombus shell...author has it too!...
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Right, bottom: Cupisnique/Chavin-Moche Aia Paec emerging from conch (200 BCE-600 CE, ML003208);
same site
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hang on to that name Aia Paec...about the 'lenses'...
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The Twisted Gourd at its time and place of origin represented in part a primordial serpent known throughout the Americas as the Cosmic Monster or Dragon, a dual-nature bicephalic serpent that in this report will be called the Milky Way water amaru, because the Moche’s bicephalic serpent, whose artwork became central to the ideas developed in this report, has two feline heads. The feline is the guardian to the doors of the inner, transformed state. Symbolically this meant that in the feline-serpent entity two worlds met, that of the nature powers of the earth and the sky-water realm of the serpent. During ritual it was necessary to transgress that boundary and establish the conditions necessary for shamanic intercession. The light-water form of the water serpent, the amaru, is the entity that can accomplish that feat through tinkuy.
Those conditions boil down to the idea of instantiating during ritual the origin of the created world as a catalytic encounter, a tinkuy, between light and water. As a result of the tinkuy the bicephalic serpent becomes an entity of light and water. The conditions necessary for that dynamic connection were represented symbolically by a causal serpent-mountain and cloud motif, i.e., the Twisted Gourd and the related outcomes it signified, which included a rainbow, thunder, and lightning. Contour rivalry was one of three design techniques invented by the ancient water wizards to artistically represent the seen and unseen nature of the light-water encounter and, in fact, the cosmos.
same site
(bold on text my doing)
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reading that my eyebrows went up like a Sumerians'...like Emilia's!...Rangers made out...Fletcher up...ground out, 5-3...two out...Trout up...from yesterday's post...
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I've noted the step frets show up with some kind of astronomy import...in one illustration there were 52 steps...weeks in a year?...this something to fill out...but it would be a fit...and, and these three pachas...are they the three emblems I'm seeing???...steps/frets/triangles???...that would be too cool!...another fly out...must be emblems for each...K...to top of 7th...hana, ukhu, kay...
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I'm going over things I've gone over before...trying to nail down just what the step fret, now triangle too, are...
yesterday's post
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hmmph...Ohtani up...Trout is on second with a stolen base...don't know how he got to first...Ohtani grounds out...Trout had a hit, maybe a double...to top of 2nd...
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ML012797. Lambayeque Valley, 200 BCE -600 CE. Moche Triadic World with Milky Way arch, the Circulatory Nature of the Andean Universe. The flat plane in the center represents the ocean that surrounds the earth-sky and integrates lower and upper water worlds with the Milky Way arch, that is, with the bicephalic serpent that encircles the world. The central circular plate also imparts a sense of the mirroring between the three realms that is integral to the relational likeness inherent in the triadic scheme that allows for interaction and communication. Notice also the checkerboard pattern in the arched handle. That is a concept involving form and function as the Milky Way arch across the sky that materializes the cosmic water cycle. (Follow the ML012797 links to get a better view of the water symbols on the central plane where ocean and sky meet to create the sky-water realm of the bicephalic serpent.)
same site
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yes, I did notice the checkerboard pattern, and I am jealous...author notes checkerboard patterns in the Americas represent the Milky Way!...and that's a fit I could have seen/gotten...'gets' are a curio...it's a term for picking out something...I hear it when I referee basketball...when a ref sees some violation/foul, something concealed by the flow of the game, or some mischief by players/coaches...just watched amazon prime's Jack Ryan, Tom Clancey's character saga, and 'get' is a term intelligence analyst use when they make a discovery...for poker players it is like seeing opponents 'tells'...anyway, that may be so, the checkerboard being the Milky Way...author limits his observations to the Americas...I'm all over the map...Rangers make out...to bottom of 2nd...'a spell has been cast over the Park'...ad refrain on the radio for Disneylands Halloween festivities...I was going on a about masks last couple posts...author really goes on about masks, quoting another author!...brb...Fernandez hits a one out home run...his first big league home run!...Angels 1-0...Cowert up...
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This is well illustrated in Moche art by the feline traits of the Moche elite’s progenitor and mountain deity, Aia Paec, and his impersonators, the Moche shamans who wear feline facepaint and, for the coca ceremonies, the same feline effigy Aia Paec wears to show the affinity between Moche ancestors and the feline master of the mountain (see Ceremonies). These circumstances are represented by the lower stepped triangle of the Twisted Gourd. This is why the water master, the bicephalic serpent as the Milky Way that overshadows Aia Paec’s sacred mountain and that he wears around his waist, requires the archetypal mountain and its deity to function as a water cycle throughout the earth.
Note: The term “impersonator” as used in this article implies the idea of a state of being somewhere between metamorphosis and a god-incarnate rather than a sense of “as-if” imitation or pretense. Concurrence of identity might be a way to put it, since the shaman does not lose his identity but rather gains the power and knowledge of his soul companion or, in a Mayan language, “waye.” According to de Castro (1998),
“It is not so much that the body is a garment as the garment is a body. We are dealing with societies that inscribe effective meanings on the skin and that use animal masks (or at least know their principle) endowed with the power to transform the identity of those who use them, if they are used in the appropriate context. Putting on a mask is not so much hiding a human essence under it, but activating the powers of a different body. The animal garments that the shaman uses to travel through the cosmos are not fantasies but instruments: they are similar to diving equipment, or space suits, and not a carnival mask. The intention when using a diving suit is to be able to operate like a fish, breathe underwater, not hide one under a strange cover. In the same way, the “garment.”
same site
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I was about to go on in a post following on going on about masks, that masks are 'devices'...quote is a step...steps ahead!...fly ball to Upton...two out...page has this:
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Regional context, above: Rainbow Arch, Rochester Creek Rock Art Panel in east-central Utah near Emery,
same site
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that, that looks a lot like the Moche Mural of the Myths...Rangers make out...to bottom of 3rd...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=moche+mural+of+the+myths&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwianJbFvLTdAhUKi6wKHWOuC1YQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=423#imgrc=aqUkrgiu6JCvNM:&spf=1536721219935
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a reach...but note the arching over rope in the Mural...it connects to a chacana...and thought is that is the Southern Cross...I've gone on about umbilical chords...something of that in this too!...I dunno...page has too many things to caption!...I've become a 'Captioneer'!...Fletcher up...ground out...123...to top of 4th...Rangers make out...to bottom of 4th..,
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When we consider the fact that the astronomer-priests who without doubt possessed the Strombus trumpets and owned the Twisted Gourd symbols in the visual program of the South American Cupisnique/Chavin-Moche sequence show up later in Mesoamerica’s visual program as Toltec rain-making Feathered Serpent priests in possession of a conch “wind jewel” and the Twisted Gourd symbols, one cannot avoid several conclusions based on the visual and historical evidence: 1) possession of a Strombus and signs of mastery of the serpent-mountain/cloud ideology as represented by the Twisted Gourd symbols, which established ancestral lineage, were important aspects of establishing a valid claim to authority, 2) notions about the blood-water cycle as the Milky Way associated with a triadic world construct had not changed, and 3) a strong visual program associated with waterworld “encounter” ceremonials, where there was rational mysticism surrounding ritual encounters with water (tinkuy), was the ideological basis of social cohesion over at least a 3,000 year period.
same site
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/
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hmmph...author there comes up with a 'Pythagorean school' like cult responsible for the diffusion of the step/fret/triangle...the Twisted Gord!...Trout up...Trout gets hit in the helmet...takes first...Ohtani up...back to this figure:
from above
the figure, Aia Paec, is holding in his hand an atlatl and darts...one end of the darts are the points, the other are open mouth serpent/dragons, or something...Atlatl throwers fit into the back end of the darts...like a bow string fits into the back of arrows...and here that end is stylized as a head...I see these serpent/dragon/animal heads all the time...like a halo of them on the Gate of the Sun figure...3-2...oh...figure has holes...maybe it is one of those water flutes...maybe all the stirrup vessels are water flutes!...Ohtani K...Trout got to second on steal...ground out...Simmons drives one to the wall...long out...to top of 5th...Aia Paec...
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Ai apaec (from the Mochica Aiapæc [a.ja.pøk] or [aiapøk]), also called degollador was the chief deity of the Mochica culture, was one of their gods punishers, the most feared and adored, is also called the headsman. Ai Apaec was worshiped as the creator god, protector of the Moche, a provider of water, food and military triumphs. Aiapaec means 'doer' in Mochica language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_apace
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hmmph...degollador...the Decaptiator...better known as the Headless Horseman in movie/cartoonSleepyHollow...a Halloween staple like It's A Wonderful Life is for Xmas!...:)...Angels made out...to top of 6th...
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca_de_la_Luna
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note the curly cue/waves around Aea's head...
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Like the curvilinear volute (hook) the rotator was also based upon the water amaru, which in the case of the rotator was a single circle for water or concentric rings for blood-water. Both are based upon the design of the Twisted Gourd as a serpent-mountain motif, which represents the encircling sky-water realm of the water serpent surrounding an archetypal mountain (the triadic cosmos), which reduces to concentric blood-water rings. The rotator was often used as a marker whenever the artist wanted to represent a scene in which the spirit of the water was stirred, which conveyed the idea that a catalytic event was in progress that ultimately resulted in the gain or loss of the vital substance, sami:
L,R: ML006264, ML012792. On the left, the content of a canchero is shown in the context of a quartered world, star-crosses, and the rotator symbol.
same site as previous
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hmmph...thought I was done with that site...but that's so, I see that 'rotator' a lot, and it is part of the Moche's 'waves'...the wave fringe around Aea's head...
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The rotator symbols below are equivalent forms because the one on the left is associated with the stepped fret (the serpent) and the one on the right is associated with the checkerboard symbol for the Milky Way (the serpent). Both are associated with concentric rings, which infers that blood-water reciprocity was the source of their generative power:
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same as above previous
the author's metaphysical reaches get to be a bit much!...but I dunno...shy away from Mystereon grand ideas my own self!...Rangers made out...to bottom of 6th...Trout walks...Ohtani up...2-0...2-1...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=moche+wave+patterns&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CW2b9WQBAg7dIjh3cZZ74gFs85dOGRGp0Mb5vI6Mi6OqrNgGCUMEmW1PxqOe5Pd4HHdHYWqEXEQXMi_1BG7jC4_1kBOyoSCXdxlnviAWzzEQg2MNBPgdhNKhIJl04ZEanQxvkRPltS5IIB6fsqEgm8joyLo6qs2BENbK98D8eN5CoSCQYJQwSZbU_1GEQZKG-ZFkRZEKhIJo57k93gcd0cRk1CQP6UM3kcqEglhaoRcRBcyLxFcgpEh2gO-OioSCcEbuMLj-QE7ET1pi8hu6zVS&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnr6mtyrTdAhUP1qwKHdrmDycQ9C96BAgBEBs&biw=1038&bih=423&dpr=1.3#imgrc=o57k93gcd0dJMM:&spf=1536724906432
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Trout steal second...3-2...ground out...not Ohtani's night...lot of images like that one of Aea, the Decapitator...now that I know he harks to spiders, this one makes sense!...to top of 7th...
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One of the most spectacular items found in the tomb of the "Old Lord of Sipan" was a necklace composed of ten gold beads, each depicting a spider in the center of its web with a body in the form of a human head.
http://agutie.homestead.com/files/sipan.htm
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Ai Apaec/Wrinkle Face/the Fanged God
https://www.doaks.org/resources/moche-iconography/the-supernatural
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the drawings from Moche pottery paintings often have wave motifs...Rangers make out...to bottom of 7th...Upton up...one run not enough!...wap one Upton!...
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https://nga.gov.au/exhibition/INCAS/Default.cfm?IRN=231301&MnuID=3&ViewID=2
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note the curly cue!...Fernandez up...Rangers make out...to top of 8th...fly ball to outfield...one out...oh...base hit...Angels bullpen relay had a no hitter going!...lost that now...hope they keep the game!...Angels themselves only have two hits against Rangers...
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The taper of the Huaca Luna comes from a design, archeologists have concluded, which is due to the fact that almost exactly every humdred years, the Moche would completely bury the entire level of the temple, then build another slightly off set layer. Seven levels, each a hundred years.
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1038&bih=423&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=85GYW7C5JYi4sQXDgJSwAg&q=moche+waves+drawings&oq=moche+waves+drawings&gs_l=img.12...17045.24328..27398...0.0..0.137.1075.0j9......1....1..gws-wiz-img.k0vjq7uieuw#imgrc=bZQTjL5ITXeMJM:&spf=1536725520663
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note 'two pylons with cleft/entry'...like the rock relief in India, and others such...fly out to Upton...runner kept to first...two outs...hit...runners first and third...pitching change...oh, wait!...illustration is pie sliced to show underneath...that's what that 'cleft' is!...lol...Cowert backhands slow grounder at third and throws out runner at first...put a star on that play!...to bottom of 8th...temple is odd looking...but I am on the look out for temples like the Egyptians...two pylons with entry between...Angels make out...to top of 9th...ground out to Simmons...'made a difficult play look easy'...0-2...1-2...have a ticket for tomorrow night's game...ground out 3-1...Beltre up...to Cowert at third for last out...Angels used eight pitchers for two hit game...Fernandez' rookie home run holds up!
:)
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