Balance:OTI::pics,notes:::8/21,22/21

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Linda Schele Drawings

Chincha Balance

Mayan Serpent Bar/Ceremonial Bar/Bicephalic Bar 

Jaguar Shamans

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Description:  Palace tablet (detail of figures only). the central figure is k'inich k'an joy chitam ii, flanked by his parents (on the left is k'inich janaab pakal and on the right, lady tz'akbu ajaw). the figures sit on benches associated with the three stones of creation. pakal holds a drum major headdress with a jester god diadem. lady tz'akbu ajaw, wearing a jade skirt, displays a bowl containing a personified eccentric flint and flayed face shield.

Description:  Panel from the temple of the sun. both text and image rest on a double-headed band decorated with earth symbols. the smaller person at left stands on a kneeling figure who is decorated with marks that identify supernaturals. the left-most person holds a jester god/personified flint figurine that rests on a tiny bench. the person on the right side of the panel stands atop a kneeling supernatural decorated with "k'uhul" (god) symbols. this larger person offers a k'awiil figurine. at center, god l (left) and an unidentified god hold aloft a large bench embellished with jaguar and serpent motifs. atop the bench are two crossed lances and a shield decorated with the face of g-iii. glyphs recording supernatural locations flank the shield.

http://tostaduriaantigua.blogspot.com/2015/10/lintel-24-ancient-maya-limestone.html

https://smarthistory.org/yaxchilan-lintels/

https://smarthistory.org/tiwanaku-an-introduction/

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/melting-pot-pre-columbian-weights-and-measures

She makes a convincing case that these works, especially those of the Moche, depict shamans in a trance state or else convey the perceptual experience of visions by creating deliberately chaotic and distorted conglomerations of partial, inverted, and incoherent images.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jaguar-within-rebecca-r-stone/1103465510

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Notes: Angels at Cleveland lost today, Indians 9-1, yesterday though, they came back against Detroit after being down 10-2...Angels 13-10...Dodgers kept their winning streak alive, and caught up a game on the Giants, who lost...getting near crunch time for the contenders...Angels really need a winning streak...the Chincha Balance Beams resemble the Andean Serpent Belt, and, and the Mayan Ceremonial Bars...now, in Ancient Egypt, the Balance conflated with goddess Maat, her emblem the feather, the famous feather in the weighing of the heart vignette...that, that morphs into the plinth/Maat seen under the block thrones of gods and Pharaoh...in that same Egyptian heraldry location is the reed bundle, which resembles the Mayan bundle of 52 sticks...the "benches" above are Ceremonial Bars/Stick Bundles?...I dunno...if the Ceremonial Bar is a stylized balance beam, it, it's in the same places as Maat's Plinth, and Egypt's reed bundle...and such makes a kindof sense...the Ceremonial Bar often seen carefully cradled horizontal over Lords' chests...Maat represented order and justice, along with the firmament...(Mesoamerican's "justice" for common crimes was gawdawful/draconian)...in Roman times it was the fascist...this would all be a better observation if I could find more balance beams up and down the Americas...pics of modern vegetable markets show the usual sort, and such are perishable, and so common as to have no artistic weight...but those little Chincha ones may have been used for gold, and they all had gold...which would add another nuance to the motif...anyway, Linda Schele is a find!...I've probably often copy/pasted her drawings, but tonight, yesterday now, I've overlapped!, I read more about her...oh, it was the step fret on the chest armor of warrior in Lintel 26 I saw in one of her drawings, and I close looked at the other Lintels, and found another step fret on the blood paper bowl, Lintel 24...a curio it's minor prominence in Mayan things...I would never have seen these without the line drawings...something biologists do with their line drawings-it brings out detail...I wondered if Schele did Andean drawings...but no luck...but her legacy supports other scholars, and one of them, Rebecca R. Stone, does go on about Andean things and how they correspond to Mesoamerican things-specifically the Jaguar Shamans...next up...note the Jaguar head presentation above...one series of Lintels is about the transformation...not for the squemish!...oh, the academics do have 'step  fret  triangle' conventions...figuratively speaking...but like their books, papers, and whatnot, woefully expensive...Stone now number nine on my list of pre-columbian America diffusionists...one very big thing argues against Old World contacts, they had no immunity to Old World diseases..."deliberately chaotic"...that kindof rings the current events bell!...the Old Shamans still at it?

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DavidDavid  

more Balance Beams:OTI::pics,notes:::8/18/21

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Chincha Balance Beam

Mayan Merchant with Pack

Mayan Colors for Compass Directions

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https://www.amnh.org/research/anthropology/news-events/las-huacas-outreach-video

Balance-Beam Scale, Chimu-Inca, 1470-1540 CE. 

Credit: © Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC

Weighing Balance, Lambayeque, 900-1100 CE.

Credit: © Dumbarton Oaks, Pre-Columbian Collection, Washington, DC

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/melting-pot-pre-columbian-weights-and-measures

Pic 9: God L with merchant’s pack and cacao tree. Mural detail. Late Classic period. Red Temple, Cacaxtla, Mexico; drawing by Simon Martin (Click on image to enlarge)

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/maya/chocolate/cacao-in-ancient-maya-religion

Pic 3: Pages 75-76 of the Madrid Codex, showing the 260-day ritual/divinatory calendar (Click on image to enlarge)

Man Ik, Chuen, Men, Cauac, Akbal.
The 20 days of the uinal are grouped in the border around the central scene on pages 75-76 of the Madrid Codex (see pic 3).
It is assumed, incidentally, since there are 18 of them, that the bold ‘L’ shaped ‘footprint’ items represent the 18 x 20-day months that, together with 5 ‘nameless’ days at the end, make up the 365-day haab’ solar calendar of the Maya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkhet

Notes: listened to Angels at Detroit,,,dozed off in third, awoke in seventh to Ohtani holding a 2-1 lead, and, and then he waps #40 home run...the sports pundits are ecstatic,but you know, this is what young players through like high school do all the time-pitch hit...Ohtani is a "pan" as in Peter Pan...he has just never grown up!...thank goodness for the NeverNever Land of baseball!...from previous post: the Chincha balance beams do indeed look to be scales...for Cacao leaves?....I dunno...was working on a post to connect them with astronomy...and the Maya Cermonial Bar...for sometime, soon...the little cartoon story is a marvel...note all the step frets!...note the step frets, steps, on the Merchant (Quitzelcoatle?)...and, and note the middle step fret in the Calendar...and the Ls...these Ls like abreviated quarter chacana/steps...before, back in the potes, I noted the quarter steps represent months, days, something-a measure of time (Trutman covers this)...the Egyptian Merkhet, used, it's said, to measure time, has like features of the balance beam, or some such...correspondences can be dug up by looking at the 'weights and measures" of the ancients...still digging for New World astronomy/time tools/instruments...correspondences can be dug up just looking at the Natural World's motifs, and how people mythologized them...North American Indians all the time making up stories about faces and figures seen in mountains, rock outcroppings...big long post in works about that too!...too much...Angels 3-1...put a halo over that one!...stuck in a font without a comma!

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DavidDavid

Balance Beam:OTI::pics,notes:::8/17/21

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Chincha Balance Beam

Step Spiral Triangle:

The Sacred Language of the Stars

Peter Trutman

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https://www.artic.edu/artworks/126423/balance-beam-scale

https://www.amazon.com/SACRED-LANGUAGE-STARS-Stairs-Triangle-ebook/dp/B083M686SV/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+sacred+language+of+the+stars&qid=1629260787&sr=8-1

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Notes:  listened to Angels at Detroit...tied up, 2-2, in top of ninth, and the Angles' Jo Adell wapped a grand slam, with two out no less...and the Angels added on two more...Angels 8-2...go figure...put a halo over this one...so, soh, I'm doing google search: "peru step triangle motif", and, and at the top, in the 'images to view', is a Chincha "balance beam"...luck!...I had just read the Chincha had such, a hark to famous Egyptian balance-actually, this a motif likely all over, as measuring with balance all over...I think...I dunno...now, now I'm thinking it might be some kind of astronomical device...balanced, it would give level horizon...and each of those circles has a little drilled hole through it-to sight stars and planets through?...I thought maybe the balance pans would hang from these, but no, one beam has the balance pans, and they are strung from the ends....and, and triple and!, there is the motif I've been going on about last two previous posts on the second one down...and easily seen the quarter steps...one with half a chacana...and, quadruple and!!!!, on that same google log line page is that book!...which I ordered and skip read on Kindle...a disappointment...author too keen on being grand and rub shoulders with the academic professionals...but from the skip read, I noted some motif instances not in my notes, really tiny ones...so, soh, I have to close read the whole book, which is an on and on how the step  fret  triangle motif hooks to star lore, and hence a "Rosetta stone" for all the Americas...I dunno...but noting that lead to noting the balance beams, and there are lots of them, all tiny, from a proscribed time period, as being star gazing tools (the top one, and bottom one, have circle holes where would be the solstices and equinoxes?)...in my mind's eye, I'm seeing an illustration of Ancient Egypt-star gazers with their tools...and it would make sense of the motifs on the beams being identical to the temple motifs...the beams lifted the motifs from the temples, or visa versa...as the temples are star gazing tools...it's a short step from star gazing to timing the passage of the seasons to when to best plant and harvest, and celebrate those dates with horrific sacrifices!...that, that's just how it is in Old and New World...Truttman number eight on my list of those who note the distribution of step fret triangle throughout the Americas, and hints at it being in the Old World too...he disses a lot of academics, not by name...I suspect the academics know of the distribution, always have, but it is 'too much"...Dodgers 4-3 over the Pirates...a curio is how this day's search up began...I thought maybe the triangle could be a sail...the first Chincha balsa raft boat the Spanish sighted had a lateen sail-right triangle shape...the Chincha traded up and down the coast, likely as far as Mexico...much to tell...and maybe that trade spread the motif-a sail...a kindof corporate logo...(the front of the boats, the balsa logs, staggered "like fingers"-add curling wave)...so was searching up the triangle any way I could think of...creative searches essential!...more for sometime, soon!...Props to Trutman for giving equal weight to the Triangle...but I doubt his book satisfies the Quest Giver!

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DavidDavid

Enclosed Gable:OTI::pics,notes:::8/16/21

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Moche Architecture:

Enclosed Gable

Open Gable

Canopy Roof

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Huaca Cao Viejo (Flicker)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/zug55/16316673102

Double step motif along northern perimeter wall of the Decorated Patio, Huaca Cao Viejo

Figure 3: Moche architectural vessel of the Architectural Complex Type, Moche I-II, Eugenio Nicolini Collection (12836), Lima, 14 centimeters high.

Figure 1: Moche architectural vessel of the Enclosed Gabled Type (EGT), Moche IV, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arqueología, e Historia del Perú (C-54620), Lima, 24.4 centimeters high.

Figure 9: Open Gabled Type, Moche IV, Eugenio Nicolini Collection (12808), Lima, 22.5 centimeters hig

https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past/vol10/iss1/7/

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2019/04/otinotes4119.html

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/stories/new-fire-ceremony

https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhmolp%C4%ABlli

see previous post

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/

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Notes: listened to Angels at Yankees...close game..Yankees 2-1...and after like an all night browse, I found that motif on the oar, that is on the temple grounds, that too is on that house model...motifs that were on temples show up on pottery...textiles...and oars!...this is helpful, as the temples were adobe, and nearly all gone...I was looking for Aztec roofs with the motif...no luck...just that one-see previous post...but I found that one with the bundled sticks lighting a fire under a kiosk, the fire contained by steps!...I've gone on about the bundled sticks, pieces of wood for Mayan incense burners tied in bundles-pine-and a story where the pine comes from!...every fifty two years they did this ritual-fifty two sticks, or some such, in the bundle...and I related the bundle to the ceremonial bar of the Maya...and further, to the Egyptians bundled reeds/Roman facist...too much...all over, I see the tilted steps on top like on the pot...did side by side with an era when Persian kings wore such...the row of guys on the second oar are wearing tunics of the steps...oh, Dodgers won over the Pirates...Dodgers 2-1...

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DavidDavid

Paddling About:OTI::pics,notes:::8/15/21

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Chincha "Paddles"

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Six three-dimensional figures holding beakers and wearing crescent headdresses surmount the top of the board, 

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313222

http://southamericancultures.blogspot.com/2015/07/chincha-culture.html

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/722194490243747757/

300 BC - 100 AD

An exceedingly rare wooden house post dating to the early Proto-Nazca Period of ancient Peru. A seldom seen example of carved wood from this period. Although uncommon, some large wooden examples of this type have survived due to the very dry climate of the region. This architectural support post is carved from a single piece of very dense and heavy hardwood. The bottom of the post would have been buried in the ground. The top utilizes a natural fork in the tree to form the V-shape used to support the roof of the structure. The lower section had stepped notches. The mid-section shows a serpent (snake) carved in high relief. In good condition for an artifact of this type. The head of the snake is partially missing along with other minor losses, scrapes and dings. Moderate insect damage; small bore holes are present over most of the outer surface. Overall it is solid, stable and intact. Displays dramatically on a custom metal base that is included. An impressive piece!

Ex. Jerry Bock collection of Hawaii. Ex. C. Diaz collection of Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Just under 60" (5 feet) tall.

$2500

https://www.ancientartifax.com/precol.htm

https://www.handicraftperuvian.com/product/cuchimilcos/

https://www.mushroomstone.com/

Notes: welp, I better ship my paddle, or go on and on all night!...started browsing google ancient motif images while  listening to the 1pm game, Astros at Angels...Angels won!...Angels 3-1...a total team effort..."one of their best games"-Roger Lodge...put a halo over this one...thought to look for the Chincha, that Andean seafaring bunch who used money...much to tell...the second oar, top-I've seen that third motif down...and noted it in the blog...one of the Moche/Chimu/ChanChan adobe friezes...I went nuts over it because it was a stepped triangle with a little triangle inside...that brought my attention to the triangle of step fret triangle!...I cant recall if that adobe motif had the little curly antennae,  like on the oar, like on rooftop of the bottom pic!...see very top left corner bottom pic...the pic just above, the two figurines, happened on during the search...it's a modern replica...looked and looked for the originals...if the quarter step is a stylized wing...back to back two wings...the bats...I dunno...quarter steps, half steps, are all over the places...in fact, there in the bottom pic, with the little something/triangle in the middle...those two figures are way to kind looking having been modernized...the mushroom site notes figures are often seen growling, mouth open showing teeth, the Olmec growl, indicating the Jaguar/hallucinating state...I'd add figures with wide wide eyes, the pupils surrounded by whites, do too...and that expression common in old figures world wide...the mushroom site does with mushrooms, and fleur de les, what I've done with the step fret triangle...sorta...author hasn't arrived at "peltas", yet...oh, the house post!...found that days back, but lost, now found...that, that's the canopy support on the Narmer Pallet, and the Moche Ritual Offering Scene...it's said Romulus and Remus lived under such a simple canopy...Mohammad made it a central feature of temple courtyards...under such he had gathered with his first followers...back away, posts about this, the Egyptian Naos...the canopy on the reed boat vignettes...the first pic site casts doubt on the paddle being a paddle...but there are Moche pics of fishermen with such in their hands...that pic I found, fellow paddling, may not be pre Columbian...looks like a scrimshaw a whaler would make...I dunno...Angels in NY tomorrow for one make up game...I'd put Ohtani on the mound...just for fun...but he hasn't had enough days off from pitching...

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DavidDavid

Xicalcoliuhqui:OTI::notes:::8/14/21

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Stories from Peru and South America

John Haigh

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Twisted Gourd (xicalcoliuhqui): The Symbolic Language of the Pre-Columbian Rainmakers, a Cosmovision of Divine Rule of a Triadic Universe

MAY 22, 2020 ~ KATHRYN DEVEREAUX, PHD

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 The people of Chincha were very bold and smart, we are told “because only they in the kingdom trade with money.”

http://lookatsouthamerica.com/16b-metalworking-in-the-mala-valley-2/

“Actually it is reflected. Such transformations arise naturally in weaving, and figures with double meanings are common – a feline that is also a fish. I wonder if it parallels the step and wave motif. Highlands and coast, llamas and sea birds.”

http://lookatsouthamerica.com/18b-the-huarochiri-manuscript-2/

I tell her briefly about the stones and the engravings at Cochineros, which seem quite insignificant compared to the elegant complex of giant stone pyramids around us. 

“I am particularly interested in the continuity of this site, from the Teotihuacanos, to the Toltec and the Aztec. I believe, though I can’t yet prove it, that the first drawings were made on the stones in Peru at the time when these temples were being built, and the last were shortly after the coming of the spanish and the destruction that they brought.”

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“In simple terms, I could describe this as a flat topped pyramid,” I observe. “In coastal Peru, we call them platform mounds. And there is a staircase up the front of it. In Peru, at Pachacamac and elsewhere, they are called pyramids with ramps. They are very similar structures.”

“The architectural style here is seen at Mayan sites in Yucatan and Honduras, and Mayan inscriptions refer to a ruler of Teotihuacan taking control of city-states such as Tikal in Guatemala, a thousand kilometres away. But from here to Pachacamac is more than four thousand kilometres.”

“I am just thinking aloud. I am not suggesting people from Teotihuacan travelled to Pachacamac and built ramped pyramids. But ideas travel faster than people, faster even than trade goods. This architectural form has spawned imitations.”

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I am particularly intrigued by the conch shell held by the jaguar god. 

“I have seen that before,” I tell Thelma. “The drawing of the conch has a spiral and steps. In Peru this was a symbol for many cultures, over thousands of years. It is said to represent the sea and the mountains.”

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“It is well know here in Mexico too. The step-fret motif dominates Maya buildings at Mitla. It even has a name. It is called Xicalcoliuhqui.” (Thelma)

http://lookatsouthamerica.com/24b-mexico-2/

But to me, it brings to mind the sacred dance of the Yanesha. “After one turn around the dance area the undulating row of dancers reproduces the X-patterned movement of the Milky Way in a twenty-four hour period.”

http://lookatsouthamerica.com/and-yet-they-dance/

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Notes:  listened to Astros at Angels...again with the grand slam-Astros 8-2...Ohtani with #39...so, soh, I was searching "wari step fret" and happened on David Haigh's wordpress site...this needs to go together with Devereaux's site...Haigh added to my list of those noting the correspondences of motifs, specifically the step fret triangle, up and down the pre-Columbian Americas...he's like number seven I've collected that says as much...I've been skip reading his posts...needs more illustrations!...anyway, that Milky Way X note is special...I've been adding to my collection of Xs!...for sometime...soon...he lives in Peru, and travels to Mesoamerica/Mexico, for his job as professional journalist, a big help for his motif interest...he writes "journalism", and it's curious to see his thinking as he comes across the real life motifs, and the conversations with locals...I've wondered myself what I would say traveling about, trying to prompt mention of the step fret triangle...the seven I've collected don't seem to know or reference one another...someday, step fret triangle conventions!...too much...

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DavidDavid

 

Greek Key:OTI::pic,notes:::8/13/21

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Greek Key

Step Fret

facebook   Slawa Lowskya  artist

Notes: game on...on the radio...Astros at Angels...Ohtani up...bottom of third...a high fly ball??...fly out to the rim of the track...almost...Fletcher flys out...to top of fourth...no score...Slawa does these contemporary, this to say, scenes from today, of street life, well, thug life...faceless folk engaged in bad things...small paintings made with palette knife and almost impasto acrylic paint...well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to show one...brb...not all of them have a violent conceit...though even that one has an 'in your face' attitude!...when I started sketching street scenes my own self-the traffic lights motif-the algo bot brought Slawa's art, and I thought to follow...anyway, she posted a new profile pic, and I thought, and commented, "Oh, Greek keys..."...the frieze on the railing...now, today, I thought to post some of the unusual step frets I've found on the web, and looking again at the pic, I noticed the 'sign' she's making with her hands and arms...I'm not street wise, so don't know the meaning...this relates to the ancients' pied motifs!...meanings hidden...ohoh...Astros with bases loaded...Astros the bad boys of baseball for cheating-booed in all the stadiums they go to, especially Dodgers'...fump...a grand slam...Astros 4-0...dejavu...I just tuned in couple days back to grand slam by Blue Jays...so, soh, her arms make frets of the step fret...her face in the step location...crow step/half of chacana...the new work done on 5 freeway, about Buena Park, has gifted commuters with a long retaining wall decorated with crow steps/half chacana...go figure...and the step fret and chacana, popular as they are in Mesoamerica/SouthAmerica, have been picked up by the street gangs for tattoos and such...Slawa has a distinctive way with color, and stylizing, and knows figure...her paintings read as well as any of the great impressionists...my thought is she's taken traditional lessons, and did them very well...I could be wrong...I thought a photographer on facebook (David McChesney) painted, his photos having all the elements painters familiar with from their lessons, but no-he has like just a natural knack...doesn't paint at all...but his photos from Joshua Tree a marvel...both David and Slawa offer their work for sale...been poleaxed by heat and mosquitoes...my housekeeping efforts continually diverted...one of the cats left a dead half eaten black rabbit in the hallway...a trophy...rabbit I think escaped from the far away corner house...that, that stuff just puts me in a funk...for days...thug life indeed...back with game report...Angels lost that Blue Jay game Wednesday, 10-2...I was at game yesterday...Angels 6-2, a win for Ohtani!...put a halo over that one...roll out for snack, bbk...bk...Astros 4-1...the talk box broke at Jack in the Box...order taker was outside under an umbrella...

:)

DavidDavid

 

 

more Wing:OTI::pics,notes:::8/11/21

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more Wing

Condor, Puma, Snake

https://www.clevelandart.org/exhibitions/wari-lords-ancient-andes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxOrPA2Bgs 

Notes:  game on...on the radio...the game was Blue Jays  3-2..I was away...came back to: grand slam for Blue Jays...Blue Jays 7-2.....hmmph...Ohtani up...K...Ohtani earlier hit a home run...scored the two runs...K...Fletcher ground out...to top of sixth...the figurine has a four corner hat, with step triangle on the corners...and on the stylized tunic is a step with what looks like Kahn Academy's "wing"...see previous post...the hands on the figurine have three fingers, the fingernails indicated...those look a lot like the wings on the Kahn's reach that said the three fingers were bird wings on the hat they examine...see previous post...I've seen feet with three toes with toenails too...so maybe that motif has multiple uses!...I dunno...I liked the wing notion...the step fret triangle has three elements...the step said to be mountains, caves, rain clouds, and such...the fret waves and such...the triangle no one speaks up about...as a wing I could make a reach and make a fit...the wing represent the Condor, the fret the Puma(curled tail), the steps of the step, a snake...from Mesoamerica I have an author that goes on that the step and fret represent the diamond back rattlesnake...I don't know if there are Diamond Backs in Peru...diamonds, lozenges, a common snake skin design/motif...but the Condor, Puma, Snake, and the Eagle, Jaguar, Snake, were the three things...said to represent Sky, Earth, Underworld....so, soh, the "wing" gives Eagle/Condor...tomorrowmorrow, a collection of step frets from really odd places!...time to roll out for a snack...bbk with game report...oh, Kahn deleted a comment I made, so I made another...

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wait...what look like three fingers, are three fingers...and they are holding the heads of the birds on top of the staffs the Staff God holds...two hands two staff heads...the birds in the other squares do relate to the Gate of the Sun Staff God...looks like the whole hat does...the back to back steps are the platform the Staff God stands on...

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Fletch up...missed Ohtani's at bat...he's on first...W...Walsh makes out...to top of eighth...bbk...

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DavidDavid

Wing:OTI::pics,notes:::8/9/21

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Wing Triangle

Step Fret Triangle

Quatrain Challenge

Battle of the Trees

Language of the Flowers

Nocturnal Interlude-Anne Finch

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To quote Robert Graves  ...

   'The subject is very difficult, and the Irish ollaves had no interest in making it plain to outsiders.'

.... from 'The White Goddess'  Chapter 11 The Tree Alphabet (2)

http://www.ecoenchantments.co.uk/myogham_treebattlepage.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxOrPA2Bgs

http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2020/08/butterflyconch-step-fretnotes81420.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=pKBBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=ollave+quatrain&source=bl&ots=lENo-GYblt&sig=ACfU3U25WLbJIzEApYhZM-T0pMobyalfVA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinwJbdoqXyAhUFQjABHUzEA6UQ6AF6BAgXEAM#v=onepage&q=ollave%20quatrain&f=false

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-a58Wt2tk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5k5e9RW8Og

Graves argued that the original poet had concealed druidic secrets about an older matriarchal Celtic religion for fear of censure from Christian authorities. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cad_Goddeu

Interest in floriography soared in Victorian England and in the United States during the 19th century. Gifts of blooms, plants, and specific floral arrangements were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian society.^[4][5] Armed with floral dictionaries, Victorians often exchanged small "talking bouquets", called nosegays or tussie-mussies, which could be worn or carried as a fashion accessory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_flowers

Art for the initiated

The artistic style seen in stone sculpture and architectural decoration at the temple site of Chavín de Huántar, in the Andean highlands of Peru, is deliberately complex, confusing, and esoteric. It is a way of depicting not only the spiritual beliefs of the religious cult at Chavín, but of keeping outsiders “out” while letting believers “in.” Only those with a spiritual understanding would be able to decipher the artwork.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/south-america-early/chavin/a/complexity-and-vision-the-staff-god-at-chavn-de-huntar-and-beyond

A Nocturnal Reverie

In such a night, when every louder wind
Is to its distant cavern safe confined;
And only gentle Zephyr fans his wings,
And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings;
Or from some tree, famed for the owl’s delight,
She, hollowing clear, directs the wand’rer right:
In such a night, when passing clouds give place,
Or thinly veil the heav’ns’ mysterious face;
When in some river, overhung with green,
The waving moon and the trembling leaves are seen;
When freshened grass now bears itself upright,
And makes cool banks to pleasing rest invite,
Whence springs the woodbind, and the bramble-rose,
And where the sleepy cowslip sheltered grows;
Whilst now a paler hue the foxglove takes,
Yet checkers still with red the dusky brakes
When scatter’d glow-worms, but in twilight fine,
Shew trivial beauties, watch their hour to shine;
Whilst Salisb’ry stands the test of every light,
In perfect charms, and perfect virtue bright:
When odors, which declined repelling day,
Through temp’rate air uninterrupted stray;
When darkened groves their softest shadows wear,
And falling waters we distinctly hear;
When through the gloom more venerable shows
Some ancient fabric, awful in repose,
While sunburnt hills their swarthy looks conceal,
And swelling haycocks thicken up the vale:
When the loosed horse now, as his pasture leads,
Comes slowly grazing through th’ adjoining meads,
Whose stealing pace, and lengthened shade we fear,
Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear:
When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food,
And unmolested kine rechew the cud;
When curlews cry beneath the village walls,
And to her straggling brood the partridge calls;
Their shortlived jubilee the creatures keep,
Which but endures, whilst tyrant man does sleep;
When a sedate content the spirit feels,
And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals;
But silent musings urge the mind to seek
Something, too high for syllables to speak;
Till the free soul to a composedness charmed,
Finding the elements of rage disarmed,
O’er all below a solemn quiet grown,
Joys in th’ inferior world, and thinks it like her own:
In such a night let me abroad remain,
Till morning breaks, and all’s confused again;
Our cares, our toils, our clamors are renewed,
Or pleasures, seldom reached, again pursued.

-Anne Finch 1661-1720

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jul/12/poem-of-the-week-a-nocturnal-reverie-by-anne-finch

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Notes: So, soh, Students of History, the way to begin is to sort, and those things that resemble one another, get gathered together...or some such...anyway, Angels off today...Dodgers too...Dodgers won two out of three against the Angels past three days...Angels in Toronto tomorrow...Ohtani and Valdy Jr. will square off for most home runs...O 37 V 35 at present...

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