Ukrainian Eggs
Notes:..Game on...on the radio...Mariners and Angels...hmmph...Fletcher's not in the lineup...one out...top of first...fly out to Trout for third out...to bottom of first
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Photographs © Justin Kerr K1490
https://mayamushroomstone.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/mushroom-rituals-and-decapitation-depicted-in-maya-vase-paintings/
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site author goes on and on with a caption of many of the motifs/activities, which are grim, but doesn't mention the outermost border...hard to see, and not sure if I'm seeing right, but those elements look to be the Four Toltec Warriors' butterfly pectorals...Mayan vases look to be numbered like Egyptian tombs...Lastella makes out...Trout up...for the butterfly pectoral collection...Trout makes out...Ohtani up...Mariners pitcher on mound is Japanese...this confrontation a big thing in Japan!...1-1...infield hit...just...Othani so fast running beat throw...Pujols up...Pujols waps a double...Ohtani held up at third...
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https://mayaarchaeologist.co.uk/2016/12/16/pok-ta-pok/
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and, I find the two sides of the ballgame court look to be stylized as a step motif...often it looks stylized like an 'H' too...Smith flares a hit...two runs score...Angels 2-0...Smith had been out with a concussion...back and behind the plate tonight...but as that step motif, I'm wondering if it morphs into the 'platform' element...Calhoun with misplayed ground ball gets on...error...Mariners are a last place team...Gueo hit...Angels 3-0...Kikuchi the Mariner pitcher...Tovar grounds out...Tovar, a veteran, but like only 11 major league games, just brought up from minors--playing shortstop...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixtec_writing
on middle left is the rectangular box with the step motif...I did a bit about this as a 'platform'...read said that that's what it is...and put it side by side with Andean step motifs that look to be platforms...notably the Sun Gate at Lake Titicaca...the ballcourt, way back last season, I thought, or read said, a gateway to the underworld...something to do with wind, and a pectoral that looks like a tube, and I cant recall all what!...Mayans and windy caves...go figure...anyway...that for the step motif collection...Angels made out...to top of second...one out...not knowing what the motifs mean lends them a mystery...above, a guess:...figures paying tribute to the tree of life with its roots in the underworld/lake populated with the usual denizens...the figures names above them, those dots and icons, rabbit, skull, deer, all calendar stuff...they hold atlatl gear, common in Andean iconography...the half step frieze by their feet is Andean too above the lake--waves?...had to look close to see those!...the other three sides, the border design, of the box, are, I dunno...surprisingly simple...alternating colors?...split colors often a thing...Regnifo gets a single with error for a double...Lastella K...Trout up...the post thing on the left is holding up like a beam...the canopy shrine stylized/temple?...Trout W...Ohtani up...and on that beam are 'T' motifs ...ground out...runners move up...Albert up...and on the beam are things, like a creature's face...it looks like in the water, are an open clam, far right, and a spiral shell, far left...left monster a turtle...I dunno...an on and on!...my take, wiki's take:
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An example of the pictorial representations the Mixtecs used for non-verbal communication through writing. Here, in this picture, which is a reproduction of a work from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, a village is being sacked by some warriors.
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well, we agree about the canopy thing, that's an icon for a Town...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Zouche-Nuttall#/media/File:Ballcourt_in_the_Coddex_Nuttall._Drawing_by_Lacambalam..jpg
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that, that's the ball court 'H', and it has the rectangle box with the step motif...would like to find another caption of the first icon...following googles yellow brick road...wiki's caption:
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Ballcourt in the Codex Nuttall. Drawing by Lacambalam.
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oh, it has four colors...the four direction colors?...the shields in the atlatl gear become suspects as ballcourt balls...a reach...Smith waps a double leading off bottom of third...Mariners scored a run in second, then another in third...Angels 3-2...Calhoun up...both Mesoamericans and Andeans have these small shields--round and square...worn on the left forearm...right handedness a most telling motif!...
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Verbal processing in right-handed individuals takes place mostly in the left hemisphere, whereas visuospatial processing is mostly done in the opposite hemisphere. Left-handed individuals have a heterogeneous brain organization in which their brain hemispheres are either organized in the same way as right-handers (but with the hemispheres reversed) or even such that both hemispheres are used for verbal processing. When the average is taken across all types of left-handedness, it shows that left-handers are less lateralized.[10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness
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bilateralism is famous art motif, ancient and modern...common in Nature...sometimes a wonder the ancient motifs are about our bilateral brains...stories of Twins everywhere suspect!...more Mesoamerican icon takes for sometime!...I was going to go on about Ukrainan eggs, last post's tail...brb...Smith out at home...fc...Regnifo up...makes out...to top of fourth...
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Pysanky is a traditional craft in Ukraine and Poland. The method is similar to batik - patterns are drawn on the egg with wax, which then protects the covered areas from the dye that is applied. By repeating this process with different colors of dye, a multi-colored pattern is built up. Finally, the wax is removed to reveal the colors that were covered up at each stage
https://www.instructables.com/id/Pysanky-Ukrainian-Egg-Dying/
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I don't know how far back 'batik' goes...the Andeans dyed some of their textiles, I think...Mesoamericans had clay stamps for textiles...tattoos too...batik is the 'lost wax' trick, but not with metals, with eggs and cloth...DP, two out...
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Wax resist dyeing of fabric is an ancient art form. It already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BC, where it was used to wrap mummies; linen was soaked in wax, and scratched using a stylus. In Asia, the technique was practised in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), and in India and Japan during the Nara Period (645-794 AD). In Africa it was originally practised by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Soninke and Wolof in Senegal.[10] These African version however, uses cassava starch or rice paste, or mud as a resist instead of beeswax.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik#History
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Mariners make out...to bottom of fourth...
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A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: писанки) is a Slavic egg , decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, "to write" or "to in scribe", as the designs are not painted on, but written (inscribed) with beeswax.
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According to many scholars, the art of wax-resist (batik) egg decoration in Slavic cultures probably dates back to the pre-Christian era. They base this on the widespread nature of the practice, and pre-Christian nature of the symbols used.[1] No ancient examples of intact pysanky exist, as the eggshells of domesticated fowl are fragile, but fragments of colored shells with wax-resist decoration on them were unearthed during the archaeological excavations in Ostrówek, Poland, (near the city of Opole), where remnants of a Slavic settlement from the early Piast Era were found.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanka#History
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Lastella waps a first pitch home run leading off...and, Troutahere!...Trout waps a first pitch home run...Kikuchi might be done...Ohtani coming up...Angels 5-2...lol,,,Shoetime!...Othani waps first pitch home run!...Japan is delirious...game televised to Japan...Angels 6-3...Albert up...ball one...W...
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The most popular pysanka designs are geometric figures. The egg itself is most often divided by straight lines into squares, triangles and other shapes. These shapes are then filled with other forms and designs. These are also among the most ancient symbols, with the решето (resheto, sieve) motif dating back to Paleolithic times. Other ancient geometric symbols are agricultural in nature: triangles, which symbolized clouds or rain; quadrilaterals, especially those with a resheto design in them, symbolized a ploughed field; dots stood for seeds.
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Among the oldest and most important symbols of pysanky is the sun, and the simplest rendering of the sun is a closed circle with or without rays. Pysanky from all regions of Ukraine depict an eight-sided star, the most common depiction of the sun; this symbol is also called a "ruzha." Six- or seven-sided stars can also be seen, but much less commonly.
The sun can also appear as a flower or a трилист (three leaf). The swastika, called in Ukrainian a "svarha," is sometimes referred to as a "broken cross" or "ducks’ necks." It represented the sun in pagan times: the movement of the arms around the cross represented the movement of the sun across the sky. The Slavic pagans also believed that the sun did not rise on its own, but was carried across the sky by a stag (or, in some versions, a horse). The deer and horses often found on Hutsul pysanky are solar symbols.
A meander motif on a traditional pysanka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pysanka#Symbolism_in_pysanky
fc one out...Calhoun W...Angels 6-2...Mariners bring in relief pitcher...Cueo up...rbi hit...Angels 7-2...Tovar makes out...Regnifo up...ground out...to top of fifth...
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https://ethnotek.com/blogs/artisan-culture/copper-wood-wax-cotton
blog author with take on Indonesian batik...search 'batik Mayan, Inca, Moche, etc. not turning up much...I've seen the block Mesoamerican stamps...hmmph...brb...
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According to the information written below, “the raised and decorated areas could be pressed onto cloth, paper, or even human skin.”
http://nydamprintsblackandwhite.blogspot.com/2015/01/maya-block-printing.html
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Mariners make out...to bottom of fifth...the Mayan glyphs have this look...most all the wood is gone from Maya ancient land...Lastella with a hit...Trout up...brush back pitch...and, then hit by pitch to much booing for the Mariner pitcher...Ohtani up...maybe, maybe Mayans had wood print type!...Ohtani with double...one run scores...Trout coulda, but held up...Angels 8-2...Pujols up...bloop hit...two more runs...Angels 10-2...time to foray for a snack before everything closes...feed Maya my dog too...update: Angels 12-3...put a halo over this one...
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