The Little House Of Horrors
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Rangers and Angels...Fletcher blooped a hit with bases loaded for go ahead run...Angels 3-2...now its 4-2...and a liner caught saves Texas from disaster...Trout pitched around, another walk...anyway, one more house...actually, all these little Moche house models are curios...more I browse them in google images, the more familiar I become with the motifs...the Moche artists are very true to the story the houses tell...they are part of the sacrifice ritual story...the little canopies too...as I go from one to the next, I anticipate the next one will somehow explain it all...but it is all an enigma!...and it spans the 800 years or so of Moche culture...and versions of it are in cultures before and after...and throughout the Americas....so, what, like three thousand years of a singular enigma?...fuzzy captions on where it begins...watched a clip about the connection between the Maya and Toltecs...begins by pointing out that Teotihuacan is due West of Copan, and around 400 BC the Mayans at Copan began revering a ruler from the West...this clip for sometime!...lemmee go get the Little House of Horror, if I can find it again...it's gawdawful...maybe google took it down!...brb...Rangers made out...Pujols slaps a single to right...he's the only batter who hits to opposite field...on the ground...oh...this one is almost as good...
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Moche architectural vessel of the Architectural Complex Type, Moche ...
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the little dots represent blood...so, some of these house have minimal motifs...some dots...blood...a shape like those chisels...those chisels...brb...
pic sourced a couple posts back...even the two bands, the two colors, are motifs...along with the crescent, the steps, the spout...even, if I remember right, that with water in them, these vessels whistle when tipped...
on this one, sourced before, the steps, now seen as offerings to the figure in the house, Figure A?, make 'sense'...in the sense the play with the motifs made sense to the Moche!...the steps, in one sense, must represent a food plant...they are everywhere together with other repeating motifs like the jars with the rope, and the maces...in general, an offering; in detail, a particular food; in theme, the naked prisoners with ropes around their necks, hands tied behind their backs...
here's one with the rope and jars...and the fox eared dragon/snake...
here's one with the maces where I thought chisels were...
come back to this one...the feline motif goes with the prisoner motif...often the two together...don't know but the gables then become puma ears!...and on que in my browse...
here's one with the ears and 'fan'. Sipan's top knot, which resembles the crescent knife in the sacrifice scene...oh...note the intertwined spirals on this one!...that's seen often on the kneeling warriors...
https://www.google.com/search?q=moche+architectural+vessels+small&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEq5WI877hAhWlna0KHe1cBTEQ_AUIDigB&biw=972&bih=418#imgrc=sGdc5m55281YNM:&spf=1554672104221
oh, the top of the jars has a plug...the mace head...I cant find the Little House of Horror one...between the gable/ears was a stretched out victim, and his blood was pouring down the roof...brb...one author captioned it...game is progressing...Angles 4-2...
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This illustration,
together with the examples from the Moche
architectural vessel corpus, suggests that step
motifs in series (when associated with
architectonic settings) served to cordon off
sacred space associated with propitiatory
activities. This idea is also communicated by
another vessel, housed in the Museo Larco in
Lima. In this image (Figure 19), two sculpted
step motifs flank a nude figure bound to a rack,
placing him within sacred architectural space.
Our understanding of the sculpted figure above
is aided by the fineline illustration on the vessel
chamber, which depicts four females with short
hair and long tunics who gaze upwards toward
the sculpted figure. Their open palms receive
the drops of blood (a metaphor for rain?) which
fall from the bound figure’s severed neck. These
examples from the Moche artistic record make
intriguing and undeniable, connections between
step motifs, sacred space, and ritual activity.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Moche-architectural-vessel-of-the-Enclosed-Gabled-Type-EGT-Moche-IV-Museo-Nacional-de_fig1_308321958
In a museum, every artifact has an id number...ascension number?...often, they are annoying, some wonder has a number scribbled across it...I tried to google that id number at the Larco Museum, but no luck...a pic of the house is at Wiersema's paper...a pdf file...
got it!...used the snipping tool...the only woman, I think, in the ritual scene, is Figure C...but then I'm guessing...those could be anything...that bit about the step motif being a fence could be wrong...rather the steps, jars, fans, maces, in sequence, represent the parade of offerings to the figure in the house/canopy...fill that out for sometime!...oh, I can only take sitting on the upside down bucket looking at the screen so long!...Angels have a runner!...look in on the game...then leave off for today...the unsourced images were all taken from a goggle images page....search: moche architectural vessels...or some such...Angels made out...have stranded seven...Angels 4-2...oh...they walked the batter before Trout...La Stella?...and so, Texas chose to pitch to Trout, who had been walked twice...and, he wapped a home run!...Angels 6-2!...
:)
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