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Notes: hmmph...day off for Angels...Dodgers too...next for Angels, White Sox in Chicago...well, I've had a long running obsession with the Andeans' step frets...obsession probably not the word...one an observer might use...to me, the step frets are a curio!...and they keep getting curiouser and curiouser!...or worser and worser as it were...so, recalling the Inca tunic steps...brb...
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The standard military tunic of the Inca civilization, c. 1400 and 1533 CE. In Inca art black represented death and red represented blood and conquest. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.)
https://www.ancient.eu/image/4620/
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that's,,,probably not so about red and black...I've gone on about lava from volcanos...and veinous blood, blue, and arterial blood, red...and checkerboard emblems are notorious for all kinds of Mystereons' goings on...don't know but in a sec I'm going to join them in a Mystereon sort of enigma!...I've collected a lot of Inca Warrior Tunic like emblems from all over, Old and New World...the pattern shows up on those rock monolith tombs out in the Saudi Arabian desert...there's steps all over Sumerian/Persian temples, notably Persepolis...which I mentioned yesterday may have been built by captive Egyptian artisans...I should source that...this post one hundred and eighth in a series...see previous...oh...a diverting curio!!!
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Because the plane of the pupil image is behind the plane of the iris image, when an observer moves, the pupil appears to move in the same direction of the observer, relative to the iris.
Enoch gives a simple way to see how this works. Close one eye. Now hold, vertically, the index finger of one hand close to the open eye. Hold the index finger of your other hand further from the eye. Now turn your head. The furthest finger will appear to move in the same direction you are turning your head, just as the pupil in the crystal eye of the Egyptian statue appears to move in your direction as you walk by it. When the pupil moves, the whole eye appears to move.
Enoch (p. 419) wrote, “The Egyptian lens designers mastered control of magnification such that the displacements perceived by the observer resulted in apparent rotation [of the pupil] equal to the rotation of the observer! When this desirable feature was achieved in both eyes, the two eyes seem to follow the observer equally.
https://atlantisrisingmagazine.com/article/the-mystery-of-ancient-lenses-and-glass/
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author is going on about ancient Egyptians and lenses--the 'eyes' they put in their statues...as it happens, it throws another aspect into my reach for this post...more on that in a sec, after the first sec, the Egyptians taken to Persepolis!...having trouble finding my source again...it was in Anthony West's article about the lenses...meanwhile, more shows up!...
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The most striking representative of such sculptures is the statue of the pharaoh Chora, made of wood. In her eyes are inserted, which are frighteningly similar to the eyes of a living person. They change the color, from blue to smoky gray, the color depends on the angle at which to look at them. And they quite accurately imitate the real architecture of the retina!
http://earth-chronicles.com/histori/crystal-eyes-of-egyptian-statues.html
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note and hang onto "And they quite accurately imitate the real architecture of the retina!"...
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Although the Persians took artists, with their styles and techniques, from all corners of their empire, they produced not simply a combination of styles, but a synthesis of a new unique Persian style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_art
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The British Museum writes that in 525 B.C. Cambyses, King of the vast Persian Empire (centered in modern day Iran, and extending across the Middle East), invaded and seized Memphis. Egypt became a province of Persia with a new official language and administrative system. Egyptians were forced to pay tax and tribute to their new King. Ancient texts told of Cambyses’ contempt for the Egyptian people and their traditions. He and successive Kings deported native Egyptian artists, and few masters were willing to work for the occupiers, resulting in a breakdown of the training required for novice students.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/rare-scenes-ancient-egyptian-coffin-persian-empire-020130
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bit like Russia and America 'deporting' German scientists at the end of WW2!...a neither here or there aside!...anyway, many sites mention the Egyptians in Persia...but just what all they did, a mystery...as Persepolis and Persian artistries have their own distinct style...artists are adaptable...back then, they kind of 'fit' the niche of modern scientists, I'd say...anyway...leaving off posting yesterday's post, I was reviewing, and looking again at the Parthenon oculus pics, and I said/thought, 'wth, there's the steps, the Inca warrior tunic emblem!!!'...
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Coffering on the ceiling of the Pantheon, Rome
A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.[1] A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons ('boxes"), or lacunaria ("spaces, openings"),[2] so that a coffered ceiling can be called a lacunar ceiling: the strength of the structure is in the framework of the coffers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffer
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large pic wont shrink down, so grabbed little one too...touch screens can zoom in...anyway, the rectangles are nested in such a way that the shadows going down into the coffers make 'steps'...this is a reach for sure...and yet, if it is by design, then it harks to the steps, it 'fits'...the Andeans' step frets were harking to astronomy...I don't know if the Persians crenelated steps on their temples hark to astronomy...might get to that when I do up a post about the Ishtar Gate...but, but there is another couple curios about the Inca warrior tunic...well, a bunch...it has triangles...it has a grid...and it is a 'pixilation'...bit by bit, I'm collecting 'emblems' of a natural sort...doing my cosmic seashell strada easel painting yesterday, see previous post, I was noting the real seashell had the circular grid, and in the post I had just wrote up, the dome of the Pantheon, looking up from inside at the coffers, has the self same 'grid'!...go figure!...now, now doing this post, and quoting that bit about, "And they quite accurately imitate the real architecture of the retina!", I'm taken with the notion that the Parthenon is a doggone great big eyeball!!!...someone somewhere must have noted that...brb...
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An oculus (plural oculi, from Latin oculus, 'eye') is a circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall. Originating in antiquity, it is a feature of Byzantine and Neoclassical architecture. It is also known as an œil de boeuf from the French, or simply a "bull's-eye".[
The oculus (center) in the dome of the Pantheon, Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus
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well, heck, it's a no brainer that the oculus is an 'eye'...what I'm getting at is the whole building is designed as an 'eyeball'...sites note the round dome continues imaginatively to make a sphere...
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The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft), so the whole interior would fit exactly within a cube (also, the interior could house a sphere 43.3 metres (142 ft) in diameter).[55] These dimensions make more sense when expressed in ancient Roman units of measurement: The dome spans 150 Roman feet; the oculus is 30 Roman feet in diameter; the doorway is 40 Roman feet high.[56] The Pantheon still holds the record for the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It is also substantially larger than earlier domes.[
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The dome features sunken panels (coffers), in five rings of 28. This evenly spaced layout was difficult to achieve and, it is presumed, had symbolic meaning, either numerical, geometric, or lunar.[60][61] In antiquity, the coffers may have contained bronze stars, rosettes, or other ornaments.
Circles and squares form the unifying theme of the interior design. The checkerboard floor pattern contrasts with the concentric circles of square coffers in the dome. Each zone of the interior, from floor to ceiling, is subdivided according to a different scheme. As a result, the interior decorative zones do not line up. The overall effect is immediate viewer orientation according to the major axis of the building, even though the cylindrical space topped by a hemispherical dome is inherently ambiguous. This discordance has not always been appreciated, and the attic level was redone according to Neoclassical taste in the 18th century.[62]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome#Interior
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the floor and dome, their squares/rectangles, are a square cris-cross grid/circular cris-cross grid...I've gone on how grids are used by artists in drawing...squares for square things...radiating lines cris-crossed with nesting circles for round things, plates/shields...Nature uses grids too...so, so, the interior has the rods and cones of an eyeball stylized in the coffers and large square mosaics of the flooring!...note the 'rosettes, or maybe stars' in wiki's take...that Triumphal Arch I posted up yesterday, has rosettes in its coffers...I've gone on about rosettes...noted those in Minoan art...how the drawing of them can be done with compass and ruler...an indication of the ancients using compass and ruler...trying to fill this out with the Andeans...an ongoing looksee...anyway, then there's this too...
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Its genius may not be immediately obvious but its statement of Roman imperium is very clear. Its intended impact includes its allusions to sacred geometry, its engineering marvel and its summation of the cosmos the Romans ruled can even be seen in its pavement under one’s feet.
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For sacred geometry, its space was marked by the volume of a sphere, since the height of the dome was exactly the same as its width (43.3 meters, 142 ft.) in the interior where a sphere would perfectly fit if the dome were to be extended downward in the cylindrical drum. Additionally, it depicts circles, squares and triangles in many of its features, for example, both in the patterning of the Pantheon floor pavement made of repeated squares and circles as well as structurally since the portico is nearly a squared rectangular and its external pediment is a triangle, 1.5 times higher than normal according to Vitruvian standards (de Architectura 3.5.12). In reality the dome measurements were intended to be perfect as 150 Roman feet of the internal sphere and the oculus width as 30 Roman feet. To date, no unreinforced concrete dome in the world exceeds the Pantheon’s interior dimensions.
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Even the depths in the recesses of the increasingly smaller coffers toward the center are graduated according to a predetermined curve, all part of the sacred geometry tending toward squares and circles with interior triangular pediments over the niches above the cylinder echoing that shape, among other triangulated elements.
http://www.electrummagazine.com/2016/05/imperium-and-genius-in-the-pantheon-of-rome/
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hmmph...
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The Romans started making concrete more than 2,000 years ago, but it wasn’t quite like today’s concrete. They had a different formula, which resulted in a substance that was not as strong as the modern product. Yet structures like the Pantheon and the Colosseum have survived for centuries, often with little to no maintenance. Geologists, archaeologists and engineers are studying the properties of ancient Roman concrete to solve the mystery of its longevity.
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following a thought if the Pantheon and Collosseum were built at the same time?...and maybe with the same sophistication...the Collosseum, and its Mesoameircan/Andean like 'blood and death' for sometime...Pantheon finished in 126 AD...Colosseum finished 80AD...see article for the story of Roman cement...how it was forgotten...and, consider the Mayans/Mesoamericans used cement...and, and for sometime a follow on about the Sapa Inca's personal guard, which I think wore the checkerboard tunics, and the Roman Emperors' Praetorian Guard...royal guards an aspect of 'where things are is what things are'!
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