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Open To Interpretation
Notes: when I first read Herodotus it was the first ancient Greek author I read...aside from Homer, and some scattered poets...and it was well on in my reading of books...came to it late...time was students came upon classic authors early in school, along with learning Latin and Greek...times change...anyway, got to thinking about political trash talking...some call it gas lighting...send up...digs...back and forth...it relates to why golf courses are so quiet when golfers are preparing to putt...different on a basketball court...Larry Bird of the Celtics most famous for trash talk...he reveled in it...trash talking Michael Jordan just pumped him up...he'd light you up for thirty points in an eye blink...see what wiki has on trash talking...
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Trash-talk is a form of insult usually found in sports events, although it is not exclusive to just sports or similarly characterized events.[1] It is often used to intimidate the opposition, but can also be used in a humorous spirit. Trash-talk is often characterized by use of hyperbole or figurative language, such as, "Your team can't run! You run like honey on ice!" Puns and other wordplay are commonly used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash-talk
hmmph...and that wiki take is like vaseline with sand...anyway, reading along in Herodotus, I happened on the passages about the conflict between the Persians and the Scythians...the Scyths are like the best trash talkers, which is saying some, as it was a cultivated art back in those days...object was to be brief and succinct...
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But after sending the gifts to
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekFeb2011&query=Hdt.%204.131.2&getid=1
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vignette loses some taken from its context...see page...I've been a fan of the Scyths ever since reading that...must be some kind of name for the ancients and their come backs...come backs as in 'Nuts'...Scythian Repartee...something to read:
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Going To Pieces In Scythia
Xena accompanies Gabrielle, Amazon Queen, on the blonde's expedition to bring justice to a renegade hiding in the warlord haunted wastes of Scythia.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13059407/1/Going-To-Pieces-In-Scythia
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battle on Xena...greek battlefield repartee...
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Flyting is a ritual, poetic exchange of insults practised mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. The root is the Old English word flītan meaning quarrel. Examples of flyting are found throughout Norse, Celtic,[2] Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature involving both historical and mythological figures. The exchanges would become extremely provocative, often involving accusations of cowardice or sexual perversion.
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The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie records a contest between William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy in front of James IV, which includes the earliest recorded use of the word shit as a personal insult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting
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game on...on the radio...Heaney on the mound for the Angels...Angels and Rangers...top of 1st...bobbled by Ward at third...missed out on double play...one out...Rangers make out...to bottom of 1st...Calhoun up...fly out to the wall in center...Trout up...'only six home runs against leftys...and only 9 rbis'...and, that a problem for the Angels' offense all season...leftys...2-1...oh..Trout walked...whose up?...Upton...in Ohtani's slot...K...Ohtani up...0-1...1-1...1-2...K...to top of 2nd...Beltre waps a home run...Rangers 1-0...K...two out hit...bloop hit, runners at corners...break dancing is a kind of 'flyting', in that two sides compete...and there's banter...was watching a youtube shuffle dance...clip I thought, but it kept going on and on...and noted the comments scrolling along, and, realized I was watching a kind of streaming clip...some new youtube thing...new to me anyway...brb...K...to bottom of 2nd...clip is still running...49 viewers current...this is an odd thing...live streaming clips...news, like a hurricane, I can understand...but this one is just dance clips...and it loops, sorta...it's not live...but the comments are like in a live stream...and live, I'm supposing...reminds me of the old Rocky Horror Picture Show fad...midnight showings every Friday...fans dress up, and shout out imprecations, get out of their seats...
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im·pre·ca·tion
ˌimprəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
formal
- a spoken curse."she hurled her imprecations at anyone who might be listening"
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hmmph...kind of like the memes floating about with their kite tail comment strings...Angels make out...to top of 3rd...the shuffle dancing is cool...kind of a minimalized break dancing...tap dancing like I guess, in both being compact...
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The shuffle dance, also known as the Melbourne shuffle or simply the shuffle (and locally by other terms like rocking or stomping) is a rave and club dance that developed in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1990s.[1] Many of the movements used in shuffling are typical jazz dance steps but with a contemporary twist.[1] The style is also influenced by a Chicago based ghetto house dance called footwork and a style called the crip walk that originates in Compton LA.
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Angels turn a 1-6-3 DP...then Rangers get another hit...pop out to right...to bottom of 3rd...Trout K for third out...to top of 4th...123...bottom of 4th...Upton waps a double...Ohtani up...rips a foul ball down the line...0-1...single into right...Angels 1-1...Simmons up...5-4-3 double play...
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One of the Buner reliefs showing Scythian soldiers dancing. Cleveland Museum of Art.
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top of 5th...lead off home run...Rangers 2-1...wiki's take there mentions the Scythians picked up things from India...like mudras/hand gestures...a Buddhism thing...have always found the hand gestures of modern street gangs suspect...like a reversion...ancient cultures used them...Rangers make out...to bottom of 5th...Ward waps a home run...Angels 2-2...Cowert fly out...Calhoun up...Scythian caps...
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Herodotus mentioned that Sakas had "high caps and … wore trousers."
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Trout on base...Upton up...
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Textile analysis of the Tarim Mummies has shown some similarities to the Iron Age civilizations of Europe dating from 800 BC, including woven twill and tartan patterns strikingly similar to tartans from Northern Europe. One unusual find was a distinctively pointed hat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointed_hat
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Trout walks...got ahead somehow!...or...what?...two on...Upton up...don't know how Calhoun got on...DP...third DP in game...to top of 6th...123...to bottom of 6th...Ohtani up...lefty reliever on mound for Rangers...ground out...Simmons up....W...
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As of the Victorian era, fairy tales began depicting black-colored conical hats and crones as symbols of wickedness in their illustrations.[1] Another possibility is that in Luna, a town of the Etruscan civilization, there were coins on one side depicting a goddess commonly associated with witches, named Diana, wearing a brimless, cone-shaped hat.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_hat
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Diana is Artemis...Artemis cone hat...K...Breseno up...two out single...runners on first and third...Ward up...fly out to center...to top of 7th...
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By the 4th century BC (early Hellenistic period) the Phrygian cap was associated with Phrygian Attis, the consort of Cybele,
Head of Attis wearing a Phrygian cap (Parian marble, 2nd century AD).
Other Greek earthenware of antiquity also depict Amazons and so-called "Scythian" archers with Phrygian caps. Although these are military depictions, the headgear is distinguished from "Phrygian helmets" by long ear flaps, and the figures are also identified as "barbarians" by their trousers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
123...to bottom of 7th....it's a cold weather hat, I imagine...like a ski cap one could pull it down over one's face...I don't think Greek Artemis is noted for a headdress...one note has it a moon decorated headdress...Hermesillo pinch hitting for Cowert...K...Calhoun up...0 for 2 with a walk...ground out...Trout up...
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Bees were venerated in prehistory and revered in ancient cultures far and wide, especially Egypt. So how did the veneration of the Bee evolve from there? In The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford reflect on the importance of the Bee in one region in particular – the Mediterranean; “Bees have an ancient reputation as the bringers of order, and their hives served as models for organizing temples in many Mediterranean cultures.”
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Honey was also regarded as an elixir in Mediterranean societies; a magic potion that ensured a long and healthy life.
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Like the Minoans, the Greeks held the Bee sacred and featured it prominently in their mythology. Not only did the Greeks believe that honey was ‘the food of the gods’ and that Bees were born of bulls, they believed that Bees were intricately entwined in the everyday lives of their gods.
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/
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Trout K for third out...to top of 8th...
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The ancient Olive Tree near the entrance to the sacred Bee cave on Ithaca
same site
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for sometime a close look at that cave!...for the cave collection...and more from that page!
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At Delphi, site of the most important oracle in the ancient world, legend asserts that the second temple was constructed entirely by Bees. In fact, the Oracle itself – the Omphalos Stone, resembles a Beehive and is designed with crisscrossing rows of Bee-like symbols, reminiscent of the ‘Net dress’ worn by Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky and keeper of the title She Who Holds a Thousand Souls.
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that's a fit!...and one I forgot to fit into my going on about diagonal checkerboards...a honey comb is a hexagonal checkerboard (just thought of that!)...the Tula warriors have a hexagonal band around their headdresses...for sometime bees in the ancient New World...123...to bottom of 8th...Ohtani up...wait...Upton up...not sure who has more senior moments--me or the Angels' announcers...K...now Ohtani us up...
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Hermes steals Apollo’s cattle
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note rosettes with the bulls...went on in previous post about rosettes...this post one hundred nineteenth in a series...see previous...rosettes related to opium buds...but, but rosettes could hark to flowers/pollen/bees/honey...and that puzzling spiral curly cue on the eye of Horus and the Egyptian red crown!...oh...that's a fit, I'd say...Ohtani hits one off the top of the fence for a home run off an old teammate pitching from Japan, now reliever for Rangers...Angels 3-2...the curly cue is a bee proboscis...
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Further, evidence suggests that Artemis was in fact the most renowned patron of the Bee in all of Greece. As the daughter of Zeus and twin sister to Apollo, Artemis was the goddess of nature, particularly forests, hills, rocky outcroppings and rivers; all natural habitats of Bees. Artemis’s Roman equivalent was the goddess Diana, and statues of Artemis | Diana from the Anatolian city of Ephesus portray her covered in eggs, which some have identified as Bee eggs given that a typical Queen Bee will lay tens of thousands of eggs in her short lifetime.
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/
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lol...I've been reaching for that...the mystery/enigma of the Artemis statue at Ephesus...
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Statues of Artemis | Diana from Ephesus (‘the Bee’) showing Bee eggs or bull testicles, Bees and a Beehive styled headdress
same site
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kind of no brainer!...Angels make out...to top of 9th...and to hang on to one run lead!...
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One of Osiris’s symbols was a Beehive, and like the head of Osiris, the Beehive is said to represent the collective wisdom of mankind. Similarly, many stone houses across the ancient world were designed in the shape of Beehives, including some notable Bronze Age huts in southwest Ireland, called Clochán’s. Not surprisingly, Ireland’s Beehive inspired huts recalls the thalamus tombs in ancient Mycenae.
same site
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Phrygian cap/bee hive....Gallo strikes out for the fourth time...he has over forty home runs...but a very low batting average...'down to their final strike of the ball game'...'grounder to Ward...long throw...game over...put a halo over this one!'...hmmmmmmmmmmmm...more on bees tomorrowmorrow...
:)
DavidDavid
- Yet another female – her skeleton found beside the remains of a man – still wore a terrifically tall, conical hat just like those we depict on witches riding broomsticks at Halloween or on medieval wizards intent at their magical spells. [3]:200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointed_hat
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Trout walks...got ahead somehow!...or...what?...two on...Upton up...don't know how Calhoun got on...DP...third DP in game...to top of 6th...123...to bottom of 6th...Ohtani up...lefty reliever on mound for Rangers...ground out...Simmons up....W...
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As of the Victorian era, fairy tales began depicting black-colored conical hats and crones as symbols of wickedness in their illustrations.[1] Another possibility is that in Luna, a town of the Etruscan civilization, there were coins on one side depicting a goddess commonly associated with witches, named Diana, wearing a brimless, cone-shaped hat.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_hat
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Diana is Artemis...Artemis cone hat...K...Breseno up...two out single...runners on first and third...Ward up...fly out to center...to top of 7th...
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By the 4th century BC (early Hellenistic period) the Phrygian cap was associated with Phrygian Attis, the consort of Cybele,
Head of Attis wearing a Phrygian cap (Parian marble, 2nd century AD).
Other Greek earthenware of antiquity also depict Amazons and so-called "Scythian" archers with Phrygian caps. Although these are military depictions, the headgear is distinguished from "Phrygian helmets" by long ear flaps, and the figures are also identified as "barbarians" by their trousers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
123...to bottom of 7th....it's a cold weather hat, I imagine...like a ski cap one could pull it down over one's face...I don't think Greek Artemis is noted for a headdress...one note has it a moon decorated headdress...Hermesillo pinch hitting for Cowert...K...Calhoun up...0 for 2 with a walk...ground out...Trout up...
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Bees were venerated in prehistory and revered in ancient cultures far and wide, especially Egypt. So how did the veneration of the Bee evolve from there? In The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford reflect on the importance of the Bee in one region in particular – the Mediterranean; “Bees have an ancient reputation as the bringers of order, and their hives served as models for organizing temples in many Mediterranean cultures.”
... ... ...
Honey was also regarded as an elixir in Mediterranean societies; a magic potion that ensured a long and healthy life.
... ... ...
Like the Minoans, the Greeks held the Bee sacred and featured it prominently in their mythology. Not only did the Greeks believe that honey was ‘the food of the gods’ and that Bees were born of bulls, they believed that Bees were intricately entwined in the everyday lives of their gods.
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/
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Trout K for third out...to top of 8th...
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The ancient Olive Tree near the entrance to the sacred Bee cave on Ithaca
same site
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for sometime a close look at that cave!...for the cave collection...and more from that page!
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At Delphi, site of the most important oracle in the ancient world, legend asserts that the second temple was constructed entirely by Bees. In fact, the Oracle itself – the Omphalos Stone, resembles a Beehive and is designed with crisscrossing rows of Bee-like symbols, reminiscent of the ‘Net dress’ worn by Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky and keeper of the title She Who Holds a Thousand Souls.
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that's a fit!...and one I forgot to fit into my going on about diagonal checkerboards...a honey comb is a hexagonal checkerboard (just thought of that!)...the Tula warriors have a hexagonal band around their headdresses...for sometime bees in the ancient New World...123...to bottom of 8th...Ohtani up...wait...Upton up...not sure who has more senior moments--me or the Angels' announcers...K...now Ohtani us up...
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Hermes steals Apollo’s cattle
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note rosettes with the bulls...went on in previous post about rosettes...this post one hundred nineteenth in a series...see previous...rosettes related to opium buds...but, but rosettes could hark to flowers/pollen/bees/honey...and that puzzling spiral curly cue on the eye of Horus and the Egyptian red crown!...oh...that's a fit, I'd say...Ohtani hits one off the top of the fence for a home run off an old teammate pitching from Japan, now reliever for Rangers...Angels 3-2...the curly cue is a bee proboscis...
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Further, evidence suggests that Artemis was in fact the most renowned patron of the Bee in all of Greece. As the daughter of Zeus and twin sister to Apollo, Artemis was the goddess of nature, particularly forests, hills, rocky outcroppings and rivers; all natural habitats of Bees. Artemis’s Roman equivalent was the goddess Diana, and statues of Artemis | Diana from the Anatolian city of Ephesus portray her covered in eggs, which some have identified as Bee eggs given that a typical Queen Bee will lay tens of thousands of eggs in her short lifetime.
https://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_bee2/
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lol...I've been reaching for that...the mystery/enigma of the Artemis statue at Ephesus...
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Statues of Artemis | Diana from Ephesus (‘the Bee’) showing Bee eggs or bull testicles, Bees and a Beehive styled headdress
same site
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kind of no brainer!...Angels make out...to top of 9th...and to hang on to one run lead!...
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One of Osiris’s symbols was a Beehive, and like the head of Osiris, the Beehive is said to represent the collective wisdom of mankind. Similarly, many stone houses across the ancient world were designed in the shape of Beehives, including some notable Bronze Age huts in southwest Ireland, called Clochán’s. Not surprisingly, Ireland’s Beehive inspired huts recalls the thalamus tombs in ancient Mycenae.
same site
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Phrygian cap/bee hive....Gallo strikes out for the fourth time...he has over forty home runs...but a very low batting average...'down to their final strike of the ball game'...'grounder to Ward...long throw...game over...put a halo over this one!'...hmmmmmmmmmmmm...more on bees tomorrowmorrow...
:)
DavidDavid
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