Chupa Checkerboard
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Rangers...under threat of impending rain..."Pan American distribution of the Twisted Gourd Motif"...that might suggest what Kathryn Devereux is going on about...I found with the android tablet a readable wordpress presentation...lemesee if I can find it here on the windows 7 laptop...I suspect it wont open all the way like on the android...brb...Angels 2-0...to bottom of second...I think..
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Kathryn Devereaux, PhD
http://www.thetinkuy.wordpress.com
thetinkuy@gmail.com
It was only recently when I saw that mid-career publications I had developed for the University of California-Davis nearly 25 years ago were cited in a way that newly characterized them as examples of “empowering the citizen scientist.” It hit me like a thunderbolt: yes, that is what I’ve always done from the beginning of my working life. I had always struggled with what to call myself– writer, editor, researcher, analyst, teacher. But those were labels and titles mainly associated with pay grades dictated by the university that appeared on my resume. What the purpose of all of it had been was to provide accurate, state-of-the-art information to the public so that they could be citizen scientists and take charge of their lives and neighborhoods.
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I’m a science writer who retired from the University of California-Davis, and archaeology is my second career. While studying the ancestral (Anasazi) Puebloans in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest I came across the Twisted Gourd, and thus began a journey of discovery. I discovered the symbol had an origin in Peru and an association with the oldest known religion of a complex society in the Americas, Caral-Supe, north of Lima, Peru. It also has an association with a symbol called the chakana, a Quechua word for “stair, bridge, cross, cross-over,” and the astronomical connections are with the Milky Way and the ecliptic. It will take a concerted effort of linguists, archaeologists, symbolists, and ethnographers to get to the bottom of an ancient story that is now 5,000 years old and preserved among the modern-day Puebloans of the American Southwest.
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/contact-2/
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hmmmph...my own effort isn't quite so August...but author is covering a lot the same ground I've gone over...and much fun to read, as I find a lot of, 'oh, that's that, and that's that!'...Rangers made out...to be complete a game only has to go five innings...so if rain brings it to a stop after five, and Angels are ahead, Angels win!...a wait and see...Cozart up...hard hit out to outfield...
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https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/figure-2-andean-dark-cloud-constellations/
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here's the beginning of the wordpress blog...
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/twisted-gourd-xicalcoliuhqui-chaco-canyon-moche-monte-alban-chichen-itza-precolumbian-rainmakers-symbolism/
I think...it's a long scroll, so hard to source...to compare, my blog is broken up into daily posts, so if ever the flattery of someone copy pasting from my blog, that effort is more succinct!...anyway, I'm beginning to use nickel words too, borrowing from the scholars' jargon!...anyway...Rangers with runners, bottom of third?...K...Angels 2-1...to top of fifth...games going fast...no threat of rain delay?...that bit about the Milky Way making a cross for sometime...notion is checkerboards, the step motif/chacana, represents the Milky Way...the sense of this is the Milky Way has positive and negative spaces...like the Greek's noted the stars making constellations/figures...the Andeans/Americans noted the dark places in the Milky Ways making constellations/figures...Trout with a lead off hit...is he still DHing?...Bour up...then there's night and day checkerboard...anyway, reading along, I happened on bit about the bags the moche warriors are carrying in the pottery paintings/replica drawings...brb...DP...to bottom of fifth...
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By the end of the Formative period in Peru the checkerboard pattern had been strongly associated with the Twisted Gourd symbol set and remains as an important icon of Andean ancestral roots. The meaning of the checkerboard will be investigated in great detail later in this report, but one way to start thinking about it as a cosmogram is that sky and water were synonymous and constituted the realm of the master connector and transformer, the sky-water bicephalic serpent. The Andeans saw both light- and dark-cloud constellations in the night sky, and the Milky Way river of life was filled with deities and a canoe that ferried ancestors.
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eesh...scroll is really long and really needs numbering, pages/lines...still reaching...Angels 2-2...Rangers with runners first and second...no outs...rain to Rangers advantage now!...sac bunt...one out...
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Right: Stirrup spout with the checkerboard Milky Way at Zuni Village of the Great Kivas, a Chaco outlier (Roberts, 1932:fig.21), c. 928-1204 CE (Damp, 2013:80). The stirrup-spout pot was iconic for Andean water-world ideology. It was integrally tied to water wizardry in the Formative Period’s Cupisnique/Chavin-Moche sequence of northern Peru, where the handle often was decorated with the checkerboard to indicate it was the overarching Milky Way and by design suggested a tinkuy, “connecting the waters” where two streams met to become one.
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scrolling to a pic is one way to navigate the long scroll!...brb...
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The Mountain/cave Centerplace amidst four mountain peaks was where an enthroned ancestral patron such as Aia Paec, the serpent-jaguar Mountain/cave patron of the Moche, embodied the Tinkuy, the centerpoint of encounter between the triadic cosmos, trinity of animals, and sacred directions based on the sun-water cycle. Image: VA 47919, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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hmmph...that little pottery has things...the sacrifice mountains, the step motif ears on the little house roof, the figure seated in the house, the double headed fox eared serpent--the tinkuy/Milky Way...here it is...scroll to this:
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(note the checkerboard handle on the bag--my note)
(I posted this one before...last season...it represents the three realms...sky, earth, underworld...and here I note the checkerboard stirrup like the bag's handle--my note)
Rangers 5-2...to bottom of sixth...
(this pic I went over last season...the edge of the diamonds with dots might be steps, or curly cues...can't tell...a diamond motif with curly cue edges and the decapitator in center is on the Moche pyramid friezes...Sun or Moon pyramid--my note)
lead off single for Angels...
(oh...this is the combined step fret right angle triangle with the equilateral triangle I went over in previous post...a curio for again sometime!--my note)
well..hooey...top of 7th...author has multiple wordpress pages or something...and is updating them...a kind of hodgepodge!...here's another pic I had snagged:
at different page:
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/the-chakana/
I'm trying to find the 'checkerboard' page...this one is really cool...
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/the-bicephalic-serpent-as-the-milky-way/
I think that's link to the checkerboard page...and that figure has the equilateral triangle, with a caption:
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ML001062, Moche priest-astronomer in the context of the stepped Mountain/cave with the innerTinkuy, and coca chewing. The priest wears the upraised “hand-paw” headdress, 200 BCE-600 CE. Notice the Tinkuy within the triangle mountain cave within the stepped mountain motif under the dark priest (recall that the context for this priest includes the checkerboard priest with body art of the Moche’s sacred mountain ML001285 and ML002883). This is an idea very similar to the Maya’s K’awiil with the Serpent stone throne within the center of the witz Mountain, which is the navel of the cosmos.
unquoteI've gone on to long without getting to my reach!...it's this: on the coca bag's handle is the checkerboard...these bags are called 'chupas'...and I want to grab some checkerboard on and on to go with that pic way up top...these little bags are all over the bean warrior pots/replica drawings...to reiterate:
from above, and the author, on one of the pages, has a caption to it...and I have it on the android tablet...so, I'll do what I did yesterday...email the caption to myself and post it here...brb...in a bit...
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SentCoca-chewing Ceremony – Visual Program of the First Civilizations in the Americas
https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/figure-3/
Coca Chewing Ceremony. The two-headed Fox bicephalic serpent was the Moche’s iconic representation of the rainbow amaru, probably because of the important role the dark-cloud Fox constellation in the Milky Way played in the rain cycle and the timing of solstice events (Kelley et. al, 2011:448; Benfer et. al, 2007). Notice that the fox head on the left appears to be eating the hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus. Notice also the Tinkuy on the priest’s chest in the center and the golden snake ropes around the necks of the ancestral effigies, which indicate this ceremony invoked a deified feline ancestor. The black-and-white bar pattern as handles on the coca bags and the checkerboard pattern on the priest’s robe signify the sky as represented by the Milky Way at night and as it passes through the underworld with the sun (see Checkerboard).
hmmph...too loose a gathering of things...all those quotes and pics from that fragmentary wordpage blog...it may have a table of contents...but pages as long scrolls, the links hard to make...wordscroll blog...hmmph...but the reach for the bag found another Andean bag...and it is really cool...for tomorrowmorrow!!!...Angels got a run...Rangers 5-3?...bottom of eighth...to top of 9th...Fletcher with lead off double...oh, I need to go get snack before Angelo's closes...a report due on game...3-1 to Calhoun...wait...3-2...W...Trout up...lol...it is a consideration to walk Trout, even with two on!...0-1...0-2...1-2...Ranger's pitcher throws fastballs...2-2...hit by pitch...bases loaded...Bour up...1-0...Buor has power, but, like Calhoun, is always in a slump...had a double earlier...0-2...K...yep...and Bour tossed...weak pitch to a weak batter...Simmons up...grounder to third...one run scores...Goodwin up...0-1...0-2...1-2...96, 97 mph pitches...K on checked swing...Rangers 5-4...sigh....
:)
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