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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and Rangers in Texas...one out, Fernandez on 3rd...Marte on second...Ward up...shallow fly out...two outs...Bersino up...top of 2nd...0-2...K...Angels with another runners left on base...carry over from yesterday's 12...to bottom of 2nd...Simmons with a saving play...one out...fly out to right...oh, Shoemaker is on the mound for Angels!...back from season long rehab...1-1...long fly out to Trout...10 pitch inning...to top of 3rd...Fletcher up...grounds into 3rd out...to bottom of 3rd...ground to Simmons for inning ending double play...just 12 pitches...to top of 4th
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There is a myriad of beliefs concerning the rainbow. The complex diversity of rainbow myths are far-reaching, as are their inherent similarities.
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The notion that the rainbow bridge to heaven is attainable by only the good or virtuous, such as warriors and royalty, is a theme repeated often in world myths.
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In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the rainbow snake is the Creator (Kurreah, Andrenjinyi, Yingarna, Ngalyod and others) in the Dreaming, which is the infinite period of time that "began with the world's creation and that has no end. People, animals, and Eternal Beings like the Rainbow Serpent are all part of the Dreaming, and everyday life is affected by the Dreaming's immortals," in almost every Australian Aborigine tribe. In these tribes, of which there are over 50, actual rainbows are gigantic, often malevolent, serpents who inhabit the sky or ground. This snake has different names in different tribes, and has both different and similar traits from tribe to tribe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_in_mythology
well, heck, there's just too many wiki captions for ancient rainbows...but the Australian one is a fit for a reach to the Andeans rainbow serpent...Trout up...base hit up the middle, lead off single...Simmons up...long fly out to center...the Andeans rainbow serpent a 'sometime' from way back in the posts...this post like one hundred and fifth in a series...see previous...a wonder if any of the ancients just saw rainbows as beautiful...Trout steals second...oh...batter interference...and, a double play!...lol...Angels all messed up...to bottom of 4th...two fly outs to Trout and inning is over...to top of 5th...Marte makes out...
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The earliest forms of art around the world depict little that could really be called landscape, although ground-lines and sometimes indications of mountains, trees or other natural features are included. The earliest "pure landscapes" with no human figures are frescos from Minoan Greece of around 1500 BCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_painting
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Ward up...2-2...a thought is that an appreciation of beauty in Nature is kind of a new thing...and not all that wide spread...for some a sunset or rainbow, is a 'ho hum'...wiki's take on the history of landscape painting has it just something the ancient Greeks/Minoans and Chinese pursued...not telling what all the Greeks did...all their paintings gone...those Minoan paintings have the look of beauty for beauty's sake...the ancient Chinese were all mixed up with religions...landscape features taking on the same purpose as emblems...maybe the Greeks' were emblematic too...the pre-Columbian Americas have nothing I know of like a landscape painting...comes to mind a little clay diorama of sacrificial victims being tossed off mountains...the mountains well done!...and there is a boulder fashioned into the self same shape as a mountain behind it in the distance at Machu Pichu...so, the Andeans were seeing landscape...everyone was revering mountains...Andeans so much so they put children sacrifice victims on top of each...reaching here for 'nature moments'!...don't know if such ever got really going until the Romantic poets...Astros make out...to top of 6th...ball to the warning track...one out...
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In the 18th century, watercolour painting, mostly of landscapes, became an English speciality, with both a buoyant market for professional works, and a large number of amateur painters, many following the popular systems found in the books of Alexander Cozens and others. By the beginning of the 19th century the English artists with the highest modern reputations were mostly dedicated landscapists, showing the wide range of Romantic interpretations of the English landscape found in the works of John Constable, J.M.W. Turner and Samuel Palmer. However all these had difficulty establishing themselves in the contemporary art market, which still preferred history paintings and portraits.[27
Watercolour in the English tradition, John Robert Cozens, Lake of Vico Between Rome and Florence, c. 1783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_painting
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a wonder is if our appreciation of beauty in Nature has been taught to us by artists...it may not be an 'innate' thing...here I've gone and used a word again I'm not sure of!...
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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means that different people possess different standards of beauty and that not everyone agrees on who is beautiful and who is not. This is the first stereotype or aphorism that evolutionary psychology has overturned. It turns out that the standards of beauty are not only the same across individuals and cultures, they are also innate. We are born with the notion of who’s beautiful and who’s not.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200804/all-stereotypes-are-true-except-ii-beauty-is-in-the-eye
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three fly outs to center...to bottom of 6th...well, that's a no brainer...every species has sex appeal...that's how they find one another to mate...and for sometime how that all relates to tocapu/emblems!...thought is what makes us stop in our tracks and say 'wow' when looking at Nature?...
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Environmental psychologists have for a while now used the Connectedness to Nature scale to measure people’s cognitive connection to nature. The scale assesses one’s belief that connection to the natural world is an important part of one’s sense of self. Several environmental psychology research studies have shown that people who score high on this scale also report greater concern for the environment as well as greater happiness and social acceptance.
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My big question at the end of reading this study is: could people be prompted to perceive and appreciate natural beauty more? Is appreciation for nature’s beauty learned? Or do we all have a certain awe for natural beauty that some of us forget or lose at some point?
http://www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab-bench-science-blog/do-you-see-beauty-in-nature-you-may-be-more-satisfied-with-life
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Astros make out...to top of 7th...Fernandez with lead off hit...hmmph...author articulates my reach!...wild pitch, runner to second...I dunno...for sometime to sort out if like the bicameral mind theory, there's been a shift in our perception of Nature...third strike wild pitch and Bresino takes first base with one out...pitching change for Rangers...
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The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,[1] wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Mediterranean bronze age.
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The bicameral mind would thus lack metaconsciousness, autobiographical memory, and the capacity for executive "ego functions" such as deliberate mind-wandering and conscious introspection of mental content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
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Ward hits a home run!...two runs score...Angels 2-0...
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Though a cinematic sunset may have little impact on our survival today, there is an evolutionary benefit to us evaluating and appreciating 'beauty'.
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The philosopher Dennis Dutton has suggested that the open rolling plains with occasional trees, that are so often represented in landscape art, are beautiful to us because they resemble the savanna of the Pleistocene epoch, when Homo erectus was first developing an aesthetic sense.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/what-evolutionary-advantage-is-there-in-finding-a-sunset-beautiful/
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hmmph...go see what Dutton has to say about things...brb...
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In his book The Art Instinct (2010)[13] Dutton opposes the view that art appreciation is culturally learned, claiming instead that art appreciation stems from evolutionary adaptions made during the Pleistocene.[14] He set out abbreviated versions of his theory in a 2009 Google Talk lecture[15] and a 2010 TED talk.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dutton
hmmph...Dutton founded Dutton bookstore...thought to roll over to B.Dalton Bookstore at Chapman and Main about for tea and a pastry and perusal of books, I seldom go to bookstores anymore, none being close by, and found to my dismay it had gone out of business...add to that the day I rolled to Michaels to have my Carah Faye poster framed in Costa Mesa...Aaron Brothers art store nearby there was my first choice, but it had gone out of business...Fletcher with a hit...Bresino scores on a double by Fletch...Angels 3-0...so, I gather there is a back and forth about if we have an 'art' instinct, or 'art' is something we learn...we do have cultural things we learn...kind of our 'bee hive'...see yesterday's post for bees!...bees build hives by instinct...I think!...how in the world to check that!?...maybe we build our 'art' world by instinct too!...actually, I have the thought that pyramid building is instinctual...a consideration...if so, then all the other artistries would follow on as instinctual...Angels make out...to bottom of 7th...runner on for Rangers...
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As editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, Dutton ran the Bad Writing Contest, which aimed to "expose 'pretentious, swaggering gibberish' passed off as scholarship at leading universities".[3] In 1995, the contest was won by Homi K. Bhabha and Fredric Jameson.[18] In 1998, the contest awarded first place to philosopher and University of California-Berkeley Professor Judith Butler, for a sentence which appeared in the journal diacritics.[19] Butler defended her work against the charges of academic pedantry and obscurantism in the pages of The New York Times.[20] Dutton then ended the contest.
same wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Dutton
Dutton enjoyed poking the hive...Alverez coming in to replace Cole...two on one out...well, for review his youtube talks, and a comeback for sometime...the Andeans rainbow serpent-...oh!...a diversion...this morning watched a Mystereon youtube about the 'second longest relief' in the world...in India...that in a sec...a hit and run scores and another pitcher coming in...Angels 3-1...
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The altar where Jory Goddess is worshipped. The photo is taken at the main temple in Belur Karnataka, India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_worship
figure is a Naga...part human part cobra...reward for quest in WOW was being able to turn your tune into a big Naga--a favorite to romp around in in the battlegrounds...when I see a snake in a dream, I wake right up...no way I want to mess with snakes in dreamland!...
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The seven-headed nagas often depicted as guardian statues, carved as balustrades on causeways leading to main Cambodian temples, such as those found in Angkor Wat.[22] Apparently they represent the seven races within naga society, which has a mythological, or symbolic, association with "the seven colors of the rainbow".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga
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K for third out...Rangers leave bases loaded....to top of 8th...
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The relief is more of a canvas of Indian rock cut sculpture at its best not seen anywhere in India.[
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The boulders measure 15 by 30 metres (49 ft × 98 ft). Many of the figures carved are in life size. The natural cleft, a very large perpendicular fissure, is skilfully sculptured. It is in between the two boulders and is integral to the mythical narratives carved on the entire relief. A water tank was once located at the top of the rock to release water denoting the Ganges River.
Carvings of the divine nagas shown swimming in the river, as Ganga descends from the heavens, are also in anthropomorphic form of a serpent and human, which has been a traditional style from ancient times in Indic art. They are believed to denote fertility and protective forces of nature. They are seen not only in the middle of the panel facing the cleft, which represents the river, but also at the top of the panel at the entry of water over the channel, marking the prevalence of naga worship in Hindu religious beliefs.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_the_Ganges_(Mahabalipuram)#/media/File:Sculpts_from_History.jpg
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hard to see, but thete are two Naga's in the cleft...Angels made out...to bottom of 8th...two out single...
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Indian Sculpture Shows Shapeshifting Reptilians & Ancient Astronauts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jopxrJPGMM
there's a comment in the comments to that clip that is a great caption!...Rangers make out...to top of 9th...
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