OTI:pic,notes::4/10/2022

Open To Interpretation

Quincunx

Together, the jars form a five-lobed shape known as a quincunx, a symbol of great cosmological importance for Mesoamerican religions.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/318444

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30027958

Notes: game on..on the radio...Astros at Angels...Astros 2-1...Angels up, bottom of sixth...Trout on second, two out...the four bases, with the pitcher's mound, make a quincunx...the five on a dice side, five of a playing card, so, soh, it is a utilitarian sort of word...and, and it's a motif...gathered it in over the winter, and thought to do post, first post of the step fret dig season!...as it happens, that pot I came home with yesterday from a garage sale has the motif...four petaled flowers a fit, and four leaf clovers...word new to me, but literary sorts have made much of it-see wiki...seventh inning break...God Bless America on  Sundays, along with the usual Take Me Out To The Ball Game...maybe it's that way every game...just now, it's taken me like the whole game to remember the word, lost in my notes...thought it was cinquin, or some such...then remembered the five aspect, quinto, and typing in quin in the google search took me back to the article I'd read....search: quincunx mesoamerica...

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The scribe: writings, ink [are] his special skills. [He is] a craftsman, an artist...a painter who dissolves colors, grinds pigments, uses colors. The good scribe is honest, circumspect, far-sighted, pensive; a judge of colors, an applier of the colors...creates works of art. The bad scribe [is] dull, detestable, irritating—a fraud, a cheat. He paints without luster, ruins colors, blurs them, paints askew—acts impetuously, hastily, without reflection (Sahagún 1974-82: 1: 54, emphasis mine).

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to give one pause, that!...somewhere I have an Egyptian's scribe describing his craft...same sentiments...to top of eighth, Astros 2-1...Astros 3-1, no outs...wheels coming of for Angels...anyway, for the archaeologoists, the motif has a catalog number T585, I gather...maybe that's a glyph number...someday, I'll find this numbered catalog, along with others, like the one for tocapus...haven't searched up tocapus for awhile!...more tomorrowmorrow...time for a nap...bbk with report...

:)

DavidDavid