Ariadne's Thread
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Dodgers...top of second...Angels 1-0...in the first, Calhoun drove in the Angels' run with a two out double...123...to bottom of second...Dodgers made out...to top of third...
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Spiral and rosette motifs on Knossian decorative patterns. From left to lower right: painted stucco ceiling from Knossos; restoration of crystal inlays found in the Western Temple Repository of Knossos; dado from Hall of the Double Axes. After: A. Evans, The Palace of Minos, Vol. III, Plate XV; Vol. I, Fig. 344a; Vol. III, Fig. 299.
The simple spiral form represents the movement of the sun on the sky from summer solstice to winter solstice (the spiral on the left) and vice versa (the spiral on the right). The ancients believed that the sun followed a path similar to its daily path during the night in the underworld (the lower halves of the spirals in the figure). The spirals have been drawn using the rock carvings of the Knowth megalithic mound as models.
Evidence of Minoan astronomy and calendrical practices
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Angels made out...to bottom of third...123...to top of fourth...and, Calhoun waps a home run...Angels 2-0...Angels made out...to bottom of fourth...it was a big deal, to me, a long time ago!, when I figured out that the ancient spirals might represent: "The simple spiral form represents the movement of the sun on the sky from summer solstice to winter solstice..."...Turner waps a home run for Dodgers...Angels 2-1...related, the thought I've come to, are meanders, the Greek keys, the Americas' step frets...and a meander somewhat different is what I've been trying to find a name for...it looks like a twisted rope, and it is just everywhere...persistence pays off, and I found a name for it, along with the spiral curls motif above...that one has been been a curio since I found it on this larnax, and on a couple Egyptian tomb ceilings contemporary with the Mycenean/Minoan colony in Egypt...I posted up with pics about these a ways back...the twisted rope looks just like a rope...that motif, that look, has to be world wide, insomuch everyone knew how to make ropes!...twist together two strands, and there it is...now, if the ancients could view the passage of the sun, and stylize it as spirals, maybe they could look at twisted strands, rope, and extrapolate, imagine, that they represent something like the passage of the sun...thinking like this is akin to thinking a checkerboard represents day and night, because there are white and black squares...then there's the caduceus, the twisted snakes, and a modern curio, in that some see in the ancient caduceus the twisted strands of dna...match cutting ancient motifs with modern discoveries is a back and forth...in the hands of the artisans, the motifs are passed on from generation to generation...artisans can make exact replicas, but it takes an artist to explain, caption, the full meaning of a motif...or an ambitious scholar!...it's very hard to pass things on from one to another, one generation to another...Dodgers made out...to top of fifth...I stylize this as 'the seashell and its mollusk!' (see my cosmic seashells, last September posts!)...it's easy in a practical way to replicate a seashell, but to replicate what went on when the mollusk was alive near impossible...archaeologists are just left with seashell like motifs...two down, no one on...Barria, Angels pitcher, batting for himself...ground out...to bottom of fifth...fly out to Trout...Dodgers made out...to top of sixth...Fletcher with a hit, then steals second, and wild throw goes to third...Trout up...oh, they catch a gapper, but Fletch scores...sac fly for Trout..Angels 3-1...Upton pop out...Calhoun up...
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Ornamental spiral friezes have a long history in Minoan art. The version seen here with alternating up-and-down spirals and fan-shaped papyrus lotus blossoms became the favored ornate band frieze used to decorate most of the Mycenaean palaces. It has been suggested that the wide distribution of such a complicated pattern supports the idea of a traveling guild of fresco painters operating on the Mycenaean mainland. E. Gillieron, pere was hired in 1910-1912 by the Germans excavating at Tiryns to assist with the reconstruction of the many fresco fragments found at the site.
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'traveling guilds' for sometime...these would be the Homeridae/storytellers, the Pythagorians/mathematicians, those who made mosaics:
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hooey...I had the pieces of the post pre positioned, ready to fit together, but, lost where a couple were, and now in disarray!...Dodger Bellinger scores...Angels 3-2...Dodgers made out...to top of seventh...
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oh, my dog Maya's caught a possum..brb...oh, with the thought, she appears right beside me...and now back out into the dark backyard...once the possum plays possum, Maya is befuddled, and, usually the possum survives...Maya announces the circumstance by whinning and barking like as a puppy with a toy...Simmons gets a hit...Renigfo up...bunts...dives headfirst into first...but, out...that site linked, a pdf, is really good...ground out...to bottom of seventh...Dodgers have a runner...
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Decorative frame of the Theseus mosaic forming a circle and symbolising the Cretan labyrinth with the multicolored guilloche (twisted rope) representing Ariadne’s thread, House of Theseus, 3rd-4th century AD, Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus
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and there, I found two things combined...the spiral curly cues I had learned are called guilloche, but I didn't know the twisted rope motif can be called that too...which makes sense...as they are near look alikes!...Dodgers hit into a double play...to top of eighth...that link is to a flickr pic, but there are plenty of pics of the mosaic, and other Theseus mosaics...searching them up kind of put me back on my heels, once again, noting how modern the ancients were...mosaics are no less than the famous pointillist impressionists school of painting...in both, one works with little dots of color...Ohtani up in the pitching spot...Ohtani W...Fletcher up...K...Trout up...
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those two bulls with cart are, I dunno, van Goghish!...and below the twisted rope...it's everywhere...passed down through history to today...Trout W...Upton up...
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from same wiki
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that's the same wiki...the Theseus mosaic on Pylos...'on Pylos' to distinguish it from other Theseus mosaics...between the twisted ropes are a frieze of step motifs...chacanas!...messing with rope strands has a natural step to the twisted rope motifs...messing with squares, whether the tiny ones of mosaics, or mud bricks, has a natural step to making step motifs, chacanas...Angels hit into a double play...to bottom of eighth...those runners left on base, Ohtani and Trout, a miss fortune to haunt the next two innings!...time for crossed fingers and nail biting!...
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Dodgers with lead off hit...Bellinger up...hard to see the chacanas close up...and they are odd...one square, then three squares, then five squares, then six squares...a fit for the design likely...oh, Dodgers hit into a double play!...Bellinger and Ausmusus woofing at the umpire...to top of ninth...Calhoun's gotta hit another home run!...a guilloche search turns up a lot of rosettes made like by modern lathe machinery...interesting for themselves, but I wish the term would turn up the motif more...Calhoun waps a leadoff double?...yep...that might do!...Pujols up...bop one to right field, beat the shift...grounds out to short...hmmph...Calhoun stuck on second...Simmons up...
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The main square field of this multi-coloured pavement (measuring 2.60 by 2.60 m) is composed of six hexagonal panels featuring lotus flowers, framed by a circular guilloche pattern.
Overall, the design of the mosaic, additionally equipped with a transversal field in front decorated with astragals and rosettes, is typical for the triclinia – the most imposing of the dining rooms in a Roman house.
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and, and that is where this post's reach began, as story was in all the archaeological news updates, which I click on now and then...Simmons K...so, such are labyrinthine threads!...I lifted Theseus and Ariadne for the my Black Deck Tales...a wonder if everywhere one sees the 'seashell' twisted rope motif if it harks to the 'mollusk' myth...Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of yarn, a twisted rope, to find his way back out of the Minotaur's Labyrinth...oh, a twisted tale!...
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Multiple Solomon's knots in a mosaic in the Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem
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In modern science, some versions of the conventionalized sign for an atom (electrons orbiting a nucleus) are variations of Solomon's knot. The logo of the Joomla software program is a Solomon's knot.
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Angels strand two on base...to bottom of ninth...I did a search trying to find the meaning in Christianity of the twisted rope/guilloche...and wiki's take on Solomon's knot showed up, which goes uncertainly on and on...but the notion comes to mind that there was a whole lore bound up with rope, and knots, and twine, and weaving-Andean quipos, Celtic knots designs...beside the Solomon knots above are the twisted ropes...two down...eesh...can it happen?...sweep four games from the Dodgers...previous scores: 5-3, 5-3, 5-4,? and...one strike to go...come backer to pitcher...Angels 3-2...hooray!...put a halo over this one!...more motifs tomorrowmorrow...
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DavidDavid
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