Open To Interpretation
Milky Way
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Athletics and Angels...two out two run home run for the As gives them the lead...top of first...As 2-0...K...to bottom of first...Lastella with a hit...Trout up...blasts the ball, but caught...gezzz...Terry was in excited, it's gone, mode, but no...Ohtani up...1-1 the count...heck...another long out...Calhoun up...
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Topless dancer in a back bend,
ostrakon, 13th Century B.C., New Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_ancient_Egypt
I happened upon this artifact while taking an art class and looking for an Egyptian painting for a source...ended up using a Falcon...posted that painting a ways back...and I found the acrobat a ways back, like 1969...which was about that time that bars...anyway, what charmed me about the pic is the caption suggested like an artist on break, picked up a piece of pottery, and did a quick and personal painting...not so!...over time, I learned the figure is a motif, one from the canon of Egyptian icons...I don't know if any artist back then could do something original of their own...which is why I consider ancient artists 'artisans'--they did what they were told to do, and followed conventions...everyone did...I don't know when originality in art kicks in in the way it is familiar today...the Greeks certainly did original things, kinda...kinda because it all looks like it too is from a canon...I dunno...this mystery for sometime!...to bottom of second...and Pujols sends the ball for a ride, but caught...four outfield long outs!...the clip I reference yesterday, makes the claim the figure of the dancing acrobat is a lookalike for the icon of Hathor/Nut standing on her hands and feet making an arch...I went on about this back a ways, that the pose represented the Night sky, and too the Milky Way...Lucroy with a hit...the As pitcher is hitable...that's what he does, serves up pitches that get hit to defenders...Fletcher is on first base...I thought Lucroy got the hit, no...Terry must have miss announced...!...Regnifo up...maybe Lucroy made out...anyway, the dancer's pose is a lookalike with Hathor's pose...so, something to look for, like the other things I've gathered...one, the number seven relates to the Plaeides; the number three relates to Orion; the arch, or arch pose, relates to the Sky, day or night, and the Milky Way...sometimes I see a circle with a crescent in it's lower section, and have read said this is the Sun and Moon, or even the eclipse, the crescent moon over the sun...the sun is a circle, and rayed star...the Earth, I dunno...the Navajo's I trust, they say the plus sign emblem, the cross with equal arms, surely the simplest of symbols, represents the cardinal directions, and so, the Earth...the World Tree, the Pillars and such, flanked by figures, represent the Earths axis...anything tilted at 23 degrees represents the tilt of the Earth's axis...the St Andrews cross looking things represent the solstices, the x pattern they scribe as the seasons change, and the sun and moon and the Milky Ways position in the sky...the clip with the take about the dancer, captions this movement of the Milky Way in relation to Orion's Belt as like a dance, which was acted out by dancers...a possibility!...ancient dances were performed at the solstices...brb...As hit another, Olsen with his second home run...3 rbi...As 5-0...oh, was doing search: spiral dance, and there's a book titled so...
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The book was revised for 10th- and 20th-anniversary editions in 1989 and 1999, respectively. The original text of the book was left largely untouched. The revisions consist for the most part of introductions and notes reflecting on the origins of the book and the rituals it describes, and changes to the author's beliefs and practices since writing the book.
Although commonly read as a book on Wicca,
The Spiral Dance is distinguished by its visionary mysticism and ecstatic experience, and by its emphasis on women and the Goddess (although it also brings in the God, similar to most forms of Wicca). Starhawk trained with
Victor Anderson, founder of the
Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with
Zsuzsanna Budapest, a feminist separatist involved in
Dianic Wicca.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiral_Dance
a grim wiki take as it recounts how women, thought witches, were persecuted...
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The Labyrinth may be the most well-known and widespread symbol to come out of ancient Minoan spirituality, but it is a static image. What if it were to come alive, to move, to dance? It did so on ancient Crete, and it still does today in Greek folk dances. And the motions of this sinuous dance have many layers of meaning. Let’s explore some of them. Maybe we’ll be inspired to set our own feet moving.
The Labyrinth-in-motion I’m talking about is known as the Crane Dance or Geranos Dance (the word geranos is Greek for ‘crane’ – the bird, not the construction equipment). The Greeks immortalized it in their version of the Theseus myth.
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Some versions of the story describe the dancers imitating the motions of the crane, which is so large and ungainly that it supposedly has to take eight running steps before it can lift off in flight. So the dancers would take eight steps, then leap on the ninth. The dance is often described as snaking back and forth, or spiraling in and out, or both.
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So we can say with confidence that the Minoans were like many other ancient societies, watching the movements of the stars and planets and timing their religious events to those motions. We’re also pretty sure that they used these astronomical events to construct calendars – a solar year, a lunar calendar and an eight-year cycle that neatly combines the movements of the Sun, the Moon and Venus. This eight-year cycle may be the source of the legend about the king being sacrificed every ninth year, and it looks to me like it’s echoed in the eight-step-then-leap portion of the Crane Dance. Also, I find it interesting that the ‘tribute’ Athens paid to King Minos came in the form of fourteen young people, a number equal to half a moon cycle. Numbers are never neutral in mythology.
https://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/the-minoan-path/the-crane-dance-walking-the-worlds.html
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well, there it is, "Numbers are never neutral in mythology.
"...that much is solid ground...everyone agrees on that...'neutral' doesn't seem to be an ancient thing...nothing is decorative, whimsical, or a personal sketch at break time!...lol...Angels are up, but Trout flew out again...oh, Angels made out...As up...batter walks...it's the top of fourth...baseball players are artisans, by the time a player reaches the majors, the game has shaped them...sports writers call them artists in relating their performance, 'he's an aritist on the mound', but that's not quite it...anyway...runner caught stealing, and As make out...to bottom of fourth....artists work in garrets and go to their graves never having made a penny--think Van Gough...lol...actually, for every major leaguer there's thousands and thousands that never make it...same goes for the performing arts...Ohtani with a lead off single...Calhoun up...how baseball is played in Japan is very different than in US...players don't have agents, and are mum about how much money they make...to brag, show off, hurts the team's spirit...teams are owned by companies, and players hired for life...when they finish with baseball, the company finds a position for them...the fans are different too... the fans in the cheap seats, high in the bleachers, beyond the outfield fences, are duty bound to keep up a racket with horns and drums and whistles and cheering every time their team is batting...girl softball players on the benches keep up this keening in the US...Soccer fans do this sort of thing too, including singing entire popular songs...this all in contrast to golf fans where applause after the ball is hit is the only acceptable noise...Angels make out and strand Ohtani, again...that's become a refrain...to top of fifth...fly out to Trout...I have it that meanders, the greek key friezes, represent passing time...a lot of the friezes might be this...generally, this the movement of the sun and moon and planets and stars...opposite colors, day and night, the famous duality gone on and on about...some cultures have just three seasons, some just two...four colors for the four directions...As made out...Fletcher up...Fletch, Ohtani, Trout, notable as team players...well, that's unfair...today, before the game, all the players were in the outfield playing wiffle ball, having long ball contests with practice golf balls...a ploy to engender team spirit...oh, that was another thing, Japanese players sleep in barracks, get one month off, work most days of the week all day...'work ball' they call baseball!...Lucroy up...Regnifo... reached base...Lucroy fly out...Lastella up...ground up...to top of sixth...one down...W...W...
The deity Nut, the Milky Way Galaxy. Ancient Egyptian tombs, and papyri above, have many depictions of the deities traveling Nut's starry body on stellar
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Milky Way and the Great pyramids Mehr
Navajo sand painting of the Great God revolving around the Earth celestial north pole. The different positions around the cross center gives origin to the cultural mytheme of the dying and rising god -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_god - :
http://www.native-science.net/MilkyWay.GreatestGod.htm
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to bottom of sixth...Trout up...K...Ohtani up...hustle hit...Pujols up...
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The Sun Icon
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/symbolism.html
The same symbol represents the Earth in
astronomical symbols, while the
Sun is represented by a circle with a center point
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Before the recognition of the
spherical shape of the Earth in the
Hellenistic period, the main attribute of the Earth was its being
flat. The
Egyptian hieroglyph for "earth, land" depicts a stretch of flat alluvial land with grains of sand (
Gardiner N16
Similarly, the Sumerian
cuneiform sign for "earth"
KI (
𒆠 U+121A0) originates as a picture of a "threshing floor".
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In the medieval period, the
known world was also represented by the
T-and-O figure, representing an extremely simplified
world map of the three classical continents of the
Old World, viz.
Asia, Europe and
Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_symbol
Albert picks up Shoei with a hit...As 5-1...Angels make out...to top of seventh...casting about with web searched to see if can catch something...something is that King David bought a threshing floor, later to be Solomon's Temple...'KI' related to En
ki. the Sumerian god...a T is the Tau looking thing, sometime upside down...something to do with wind and seen in Mayan temples (previous posts)...
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Map centred on
Delos according to Greek tradition, from a French manuscript of
Henry of Huntingdon, late 13th century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map
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Delos high on my suspects list...As wap a home run...As 7-1...
all the As runs coming with two out...another dismal Angels' refrain..."suspects list, DavidDavid?"...there's no great secret to this effort--I'm in the hunt!...lol...
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The concept of the Wild Hunt was first documented by the German folklorist
Jacob Grimm, who first published it in his 1835 book
Deutsche Mythologie. It was in this work that he popularised the term
Wilde Jagd ("Wild Hunt") for the phenomenon. Grimm's methodological approach was rooted in the idea – common in nineteenth-century Europe – that modern folklore represented a fossilized survival of the beliefs of the distant past. In developing his idea of the Wild Hunt, he mixed together recent folkloric sources with textual evidence dating to the Medieval and Early Modern periods. This approach came to be criticized within the field of
folkloristics during the 20th century, as more emphasis was placed on the "dynamic and evolving nature of folklore".
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Another legend recounted how King Herla, having visited the
Fairy King, was warned not to step down from his horse until the greyhound he carried jumped down; he found that three centuries had passed during his visit, and those of his men who dismounted crumbled to dust; he and his men are still riding, because the greyhound has yet to jump down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt
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As make out...to bottom of seventh...that last bit related to the story of Seven Sleepers, a Rip van Winkle like tale...time travel...
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In
Welsh mythology and folklore,
Cŵn Annwn (
Welsh pronunciation: [kuːn ˈanʊn], "hounds of
Annwn") were the spectral hounds of Annwn, the
otherworld of Welsh myth. They were associated with a form of the
Wild Hunt, presided over by either
Arawn, king of Annwn in the
First Branch of the Mabinogi and alluded to in the Fourth, or by
Gwyn ap Nudd as the underworld king and king of the fair(y) folk is named in later medieval lore.
In
Wales, they were associated with
migrating geese, supposedly because their honking in the night is reminiscent of barking dogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C5%B5n_Annwn
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Canadian Geese around here look to have green cards, and stay put...Lastella up...base hit...Regnifo made it to second...missed how he got on...Trout coming up...As pitching change...
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Some writers, notably
Robert Graves, have written of an incident in which
Amaethon steals a dog,
lapwing and a white
roebuck from Arawn, leading to the
Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), which Arawn lost to Amaethon and his brother,
Gwydion. The standard text of 'Cad Goddeu' in the
Book of Taliesin makes no mention of this, but the
Welsh Triads records the Battle of Goddeu as one of the "Three Futile Battles of the Island of Britain...it was brought about by the cause of the bitch, together with the roebuck and the plover",
[3] while Lady Charlotte Guest notes in her
Mabinogion an account in the
Myvyrian Archaeology[4] that the battle "was on account of a white roebuck and a whelp; and they came from Hell, and Amathaon ab Don brought them. And therefore Amathaon ab Don, and Arawn, King of Annwn (Hell), fought. And there was a man in that battle, unless his name were known he could not be overcome; and there was on the other side a woman called Achren, and unless her name were known her party could not be overcome. And Gwydion ab Don guessed the name of the man".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawn
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it's complicated!...Angels made out...one out...runner on base...
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Cassiopeia, in
astronomy, a
constellation of the northern sky easily recognized by a group of five bright
stars forming a slightly irregular W. It lies at 1 hour
right ascension and 60° north
declination. Its brightest
star,
Shedar (Arabic for “breast”), has a
magnitude of 2.2.
Tycho’s Nova, one of the few recorded
supernovas in the
Milky Way Galaxy, appeared in Cassiopeia in 1572. This constellation also contains the prominent
radio source Cassiopeia A, a
supernova remnant, and the nearby
galaxies Maffei I and II. In
Greek mythology, Cassiopeia was the queen of Ethiopia whose daughter
Andromeda was saved by the hero
Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea monster.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Cassiopeia-astronomy
the Greeks didn't fool around...they put their heroes in the night sky as constellations...and ever after, all the myths have an understory of astronomical import...poets, authors, could double up on meanings...tell a story of the movement of the stars, planets, sun and moon, beneath the 'cover' story of adventures...As made out...to bottom of seventh...Ohtani up...some Mystereons go so far as to say the story's describe the creation of the solar system, and events on other planets around other stars...Ohtani with a hit...batting 301, and now leading the Angels in hitting average!...Calhoun up...Calhoun lines out...oh, Ohtani at second...hit a double...Pujols up...the stories are certainly strange enough to warrant imaginative speculations!...consider, the twelve labors of Hercules...there's twelve months...twelve one of those numbers!...some antiquarian somewhere sometime has related the labors to the months/seasons...Angels make out...to top of eighth...
Hercules and his Labors...hmmph...I cant find a clue that the Labours are astronomical...a lot of them have creatures from constellations...Bull, Lion, Boar...Hercules too becomes a constellation...oh, that clip I referenced that goes on about the Milky Way and Orion, had a little bit about the Southern Cross too...As make out...to bottom of ninth...the precession of the equinox moved the Southern Cross out of view, and it was a big deal when it was in the sky, it marked the planting or harvest time...brb...
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The Star of Bethlehem could have been Acrux from the Southern Cross. Consider this star and everything will fall into place, like finding the correct piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
https://maas.museum/observations/2013/12/18/astronomers-and-the-star-of-bethlehem/
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that quote is from the comment section of that page
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A
tetramorph is a symbolic arrangement of four differing elements, or the combination of four disparate elements in one unit. The term is derived from the Greek
tetra, meaning four, and
morph, shape.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramorph
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tetramophs for tomorrowmorrow!...oh, the fans have brought back the coyote howling...probably Oakland fans...Fetcher got on and scores on sac fly by Lucroy...As 7-2...Lastella up...two are down...fly out...As win, 7-2...
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