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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and Astros in Houston...Calhoun K, Fernandez fly out to left...Trout up...0-1...Trout and Marte had home runs yesterday in Oakland, and, that was about it...tough to forget a 21 run game...most runs Angels ever gave up...catcher Arcia pitched the last two innings...gave up two home runs...one A's players first ever in the majors...Arcia was tossing batting practice...like Angels have gone into Spring training mode, while their opponents are fighting to get into the playoffs...Trout K...to bottom of 2nd...everyone scoffed at Texas doing 'bullpen' games at the beginning of the series...first time was against the Angels...brought in a closer to pitch the first inning...and so on with other relievers...now other teams are trying it...Altuve with a one out single...my google news feed algo dropped me a few things to think on:...the oldest animal fossil...another hit...Heaney on mound for Angels...bases loaded...'and it is a grand slam'...gloom...Astros 4-0...
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A strange fossil that looks a bit like a giant leaf, or a fingerprint the size of a coffee table, has intrigued scientists for decades.
https://guardian.ng/news/fat-traces-confirm-weird-fossils-were-earliest-animals/
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and it has an oval shape...a look alike to the cowry shell I posted...this back two posts, I think...this post one hundred seventeenth, I think, in a series...see previous...I'm on the look out for 'ovals'...oval shapes...like the Egyptian's scarabs, like turtles, like cowry shells!...and I'm going to call the 'splay' motif I went on about...Egyptian lotus paintings...Astros make out to top of 2nd...Ohtani up...0-1...1-1...right side shift...2-1...I'm going to call the splay a fan...as in a catenary arc, or a fleur de lis, or a scallop shell...K...Upton up...or a collar...in my news feed was Scythian gold...3-2...K...Simmons flies out to center...to bottom of 2nd...lead off hit...
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Gold Scythian pectoral, or neckpiece, from a royal kurgan in Tolstaya Mogila, Pokrov, Ukraine, dated to the second half of the 4th century BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_art
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one out walk...two on...Altuve up again...fc, runner going to second out...runners at the corners...looking at the pectoral, I tried to apply my where things are is what things are...there's three registers...caption has it the lowest one is the underworld--griffins eating horses...Scythians loved their horses...that is shown in the upper register...Astros make out...to top of 3rd...and the middle one, I dunno...it has the rosette, and frets/spirals, and, a fan/fleur de lis!...and that is in the center...so, is it the vignette, of earth with two hemispheres/star tracks on either side of equator, or some such!?...the whole thing:
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Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Pectoral_from_Tovsta_Mohyla
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one out...Cowert up...
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The middle section is believed to represent Scythian connection to nature. Being that there are so many delicate details in this section the artisan(s) chose to solder all of the individual elements to a solid gold plate which serves as a backing for structural support.[4] The third section is thought to represent Scythian belief in the cosmos and their mythology.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Pectoral_from_Tovsta_Mohyla
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hmmph...us, earth, sky/stars/milky way...the three worlds...Ward gets a two out single...in the mythologies, the underworld, and sky overhead, are probably the same things...sort of: one, our conscious everyday; two, our everyday surroundings, Nature; and three, everything beyond, where there be dragons--dreams, stories, fictions, star lore...and with the story of the gold was this:
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Analysis on a sticky black residue in the golden cups revealed the objects were used to hold a concoction of opium and cannabis, which mirror the writings of Greek historian Herodotus, who said: “Scythians used a plant to produce smoke that no Grecian vapour-bath can surpass which made them shout aloud.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/us
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which would be 's***t howdy!'...and so following on reading that story, was this one: Mayans wore heavy jade when dancing...Angels made out...and to bottom of 3rd...another home run with runners on...
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The jade head pendant is more than just a piece of jewelry. It’s a fascinating new insight into the grueling and brutal rituals of Maya dances. It’s a sign of just how mercilessly Maya elites would weigh themselves down before dancing, and it’s opened up a new insight into the significance of Maya jewelry.
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The Maya would dance in masks and costumes, dressing themselves up as birds, jaguars, or strange monsters. Their dances, they believed, had the power to transform into these creatures, which they called their “ wayibs” or “spirit companions”.
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Dancing was a way for them to become more than just men. It was a way for mortals to enter into the spirit realm. When the Maya danced, a whole crowd of people would leave their bodies behind and enter the domain of the gods.
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Maya writings and images make it clear that drugs and alcohol were a major part of their ritual dances. Some, inscribed with dedications to the god of alcohol, show the Maya priests ending a long ritual of drink and dance by kneeling over and vomiting.
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The dance itself, though, was still a major part of their spiritual experiences. They were working together in a combined, physically exhausting ritual, all building toward the same purpose and – as a result – the same hallucination.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/maya-jade-jewelry-0010727
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well, that's a reach by the authors....but a fit...stories of early Americans dancing to exhaustion are numerous...
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The outbreak began in July 1518 when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg.[1] This lasted somewhere between four and six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers, predominantly female. Some of these people would die from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion.[1] One report indicates that for a period, the plague killed around fifteen people per day.[2] However, the sources of the city of Strasbourg at the time of the events did not mention the number of deaths, even if there were fatalities.[
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Modern theories include food-poisoning caused by the toxic and psychoactive chemical products of ergot fungi, which grows commonly on grains in the wheat family (such as rye). Ergotamine is the main psychoactive product of ergot fungi; it is structurally related to the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), and is the substance from which LSD-25 was originally synthesized. The same fungus has also been implicated in other major historical anomalies, including the Salem witch trials.
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Waller speculates that the dancing was "stress-induced psychosis" on a mass level, since the region where the people danced was riddled with starvation and disease, and the inhabitants tended to be superstitious. Seven other cases of dancing plague were reported in the same region during the medieval era.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
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Trout flies out...Ohtani up...ball to the warning track...but caught...123...to bottom of 4th...that is just weird about the dancing plague...reminds me of movieTheyShootHorsesDon'tThey...was looking for American Indian Dancing...Astros make out...to top of 5th...Upton K...Simmons up...hit up the middle...Arcia up...
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The basis for the Ghost Dance is the circle dance, a traditional dance done by many Native Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance
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Astros 6-0...Angels leave a runner...to bottom of 6th...Ghost Dancing for sometime...went to the link for circle dance...
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Circle dancing is probably the oldest known dance formation and was part of community life from when people first started to dance.
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Unlike line dancing, circle dancers are in physical contact with each other; the connection is made by hand-to-hand, finger-to-finger or hands-on-shoulders. It is a type of dance where anyone can join in without the need of partners.
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for awhile there was disco dancing simultaneously with country western dancing, both had night clubs, and their own styles...it was when I was in high school that couples left off from traditional ball room dancing for rock and roll--still couples, but often dancing apart...a requirement of frenetic music!...now, I dunno...kids at the Indie rock band shows just listen and stand...lots of cheers and woops, but everyone crowded together shoulder to shoulder...I don't know if circle dancing has been in America since the Indians left off...oh...and Trout maybe makes his first error of the season...lost ball in the lights...scored a single...next up, looped single...Astros 7-0...Guriel with all seven runs...two home runs five rbis...and all in five innings...well, wait...group dancing by drill teams, dancers at basketball/football games, there's that...dancing as entertainment for an audience...old 30's/40's movies always showed like night clubs with bands...Ricks, Casablanca...
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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)
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I don't know if those clubs were ever for real, really, or just something made up for the movies...
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However, the first rock and roll generation preferred rough and tumble bars and taverns to nightclubs, and the nightclub did not attain mainstream popularity until the 1970s disco era. Sybil Burton opened the "Arthur" discothèque in 1965 on East 54th Street in Manhattan on the site of the old El Morocco nightclub and it became the first, foremost and hottest disco in New York City through 1969.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub#Early_history
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Trout hits a two run homer...Astros 7-2...Ohtani up...Trout like a lone voice in the wilderness of the Angels' offense!...fly out...to bottom of 6th...come to think of it, dancing is kind of problematic...a kind of rowdiness sets in that straight laced authority can't quite deal with!...no surprise the Spanish killed the Mayan musicians first...fly out to Trout...Astros make out...to top of 7th...took a break from sanding and scraping the old House's woodwork when game started...now too dark to continue...Fall's shorter days...still beat from yesterday's clean up...and the cosmic shell to do...leave off...Angels with only a slim chance to come back...update when I have the shell done!
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