Open To Interpretation
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://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
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