Open To Interpretation
Multivalent
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The word xicalcoliuhqui (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ʃikaɬkoˈliʍki]) means "twisted gourd" (xical- "gourdbowl" and coliuhqui "twisted") in Nahuatl.[1][2][10] The motif is associated with many ideas, and is variously thought to depict water, waves, clouds, lightning, a serpent or serpent-deity like the mythological fire or feathered serpents, as well as more philosophical ideas like cyclical movement, or the life-giving connection between the light of the sun and the earth, and it may have been a protection against death, but no single meaning is universally accepted.[2][6][9] It is also possible that the motif represents the cut conch shell which is an emblem of Ehecatl, the wind god, an aspect of Quetzalcoatl.[6][11] It seems likely that the multivalent nature of the symbol gave rise to its potency and longevity.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
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Notes: game on...Angels at Mariners...bottom of sixth...Mariners 2-0...hmmph...this was a long post, but in editing, I hit the delete in the wrong place, and lost everything...it was an on and on about "multivalence" in ancient motifs...I'll try to re-work it...for sometime...and bbk with game report...bk...Mariners 2-0...
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