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Tools for sighting stars:
Tlachieloni
Yin Yang
Step Fret Triangle
Crow Step
Chacana
Temple of the Sun
Variant of the Taijitu ("supreme ultimate diagram"). A number of similar such diagrams are known from the Ming-era Daoist canon. The origin of this particular design is unknown (but it likely predates the 18th century) Literature: Joseph A. Adler, Reconstructing the Confucian Dao: Zhu Xi's Appropriation of Zhou Dunyi, SUNY Press, 2014, p. 154 Robinet, Isabelle (2008), "Taiji tu. Diagram of the Great Ultimate", in Pregadio, Fabrizio, The Encyclopedia of Taoism A−Z, Abingdon: Routledge, p. 935
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu
The conventionalized figure of a butterfly, with a star on its body and four balls, painted with the colors of the quarters, was a sacred symbol which is minutely described by Sahagun and is figured on a manta in the B. N. MS. A glance at its reproduction (fig. 21, no. 13) shows how the form of the insect has been conventionalized so as to resemble the ollin (no. 12) and other Mexican cross-symbols (nos. 2, 4, 11,]
etc.). The eye or star in its centre, like that in the ollin, and circle (no. 4), signify Polaris; the conventionalized head and antennæ are obviously made to convey the idea of “two in one,” of the Above and Below united in the Centre.
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What is more, Bernal Diaz relates that the image of Tezcatlipoca, which he saw beside the idol of Huitzilopochtli in the hall of the great temple of Mexico, had shining eyes which were made of the native mirrors=tezcatl. “In connection with the shining eyes” of the god it is interesting to note that when, as Duran states, he was represented under another form, his idol “carried in its hand a sort of fan made of precious feathers. These surmounted a circular gold disc which was very brilliant and polished like a mirror. This meant that, in this mirror, he saw all that went on in the world. In the native language they named it ‘itlachiayan,’ which means, that in which he looks or sees” (Duran, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 99).
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Sahagun mentions an analogous sceptre which consisted of “a gold disc pierced in the centre, and surmounted by two balls, the upper and smaller of which supported a pointed object. This sceptre was called tlachieloni, which means ‘that through which one looks or observes;’ because with it one covered or hid one's face and looked through the hole in the middle of the gold plate.” This kind of sceptre is not exclusively associated with Tezcatlipoca in the native picture writings, for it figures in the hand of Chalchiuhtlycue “the sister” of Tlaloc and of Omacatl whose attributes, the reeds and chalchiuite or jade beads, prove him to be also associated with the water. On the other hand the same sceptre is also assigned by Sahagun to the god of fire.
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I venture to suggest that the dragon-fly was employed as a cross-symbol in an analogous manner, on the Algonquin garment preserved at the Riksmuseum, Stockholm, and described by Dr. Hjalmar Stolpe in his admirable study on American art (Amerikansk Ornamentik, Stockholm, 1896, p. 30). As I shall revert to it later on, I now draw special attention to the circumstance that instead of the cross, on a spider-gorget from Tennessee, there is a round hole which, when the shell-disc is held aloft, lets a ray of light shine through and furnishes an apt presentation of a star. This and the cross furnish analogies to the Mexican and Maya symbols of Polaris which are too obvious to need to be emphasized. Nor do these gorgets alone furnish an undeniable indication that an identical symbolism extended from Yucatan to Illinois. Other gorgets, also figured in Mr. Wm. H. Holmes' monograph “Art in Shell,” several of which are in the Peabody Museum, from the stone graves in Tennessee, exhibit variously carved representations of a serpent. In all specimens the identical idea is carried out: the eye of the serpent forms the centre of the design on the disc and
four circles on the body of the reptile, or four solid bars, interrupting a hollow line encircling the central motif, emphasized a division of the disc into four equal parts. The idea of the Serpent in repose, the Centre and the Four Quarters is thoroughly carried out and the true meaning of the design is only appreciated by the light of the Maya and Mexican symbolism which has already been so fully discussed.
(my note: these quotes are out of order...Nuttall has a take on the black and white bars, and a lot of connects...the one with the famous center of the Aztec Calendar Stone a treasure!)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32066/32066-h/32066-h.html
https://tlacuilolli.com/2021/12/22/mixtec-glyphs-in-codex-borgia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Zouche-Nuttall
https://cordis.europa.eu/docs/projects/cnect/3/283783/080/deliverables/001-D210lunareclipseactivity2v02A.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakana#References
https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chavin/tello-obelisk-2.jpg
The chakana (Andean cross, "stepped cross" or "step motif" or "stepped motif") is a stepped cross motif used by the Inca and pre-incan Andean societies. The most commonly used variation of this symbol used today is made up of an equal-armed cross indicating the cardinal points of the compass and a superimposed square. Chakana means 'bridge', and means 'to cross over' in Quechua.[1] The Andean cross motif appears in pre-contact artifacts such as textiles and ceramics from such cultures as the Chavín, Wari, Ica, and Tiwanaku, but with no particular emphasis and no key or guide to a means of interpretation.[2] The anthropologist Alan Kolata calls the Andean cross the "one of the most ubiquitous, if least understood elements in Tiwanaku iconography".[3] The Andean cross symbol has long cultural tradition spanning 4,000 years up to the Inca empire.[4]
https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chavin/tello-obelisk-2.jpg
Notes: Game on...on the radio....bottom of ninth....two runners on...Angels at Rangers...Angels are ahead...Esteves on the mound...full count...line drive-foul...I was napping, just turned game on...and I had post to do...K...one down...a really neat post...oh, I can do it with the game over, tho that's my limit...the "Power of Limits"...long fly out to the warning track...two outs...that book, a favorite...sacred geometry stuff...K..."and the ball game is over"...Angels 2-Texas 0...I'm thinking to try and write a fiction story, limiting my writing to the time listening to a game on the radio, or somesuch...writing is a tic(?) that needs to be initiated...somehow...oh, it's 7:37 pdt...I can segue to the Dodgers?....oh, listened to the recap of Angels...what a great game!...Detmers went eight innings, gave up a double in the eighth...Ohtani hit a home run in the first, and that was it for runs, for both teams, until top of ninth when Thais hit a bookend homerun, and the Angels bullpen delivered the win to Detmers...thought to do paintings during games too...it would just be a time limit...with writing, painting, beginning is a bear, and once begun, leaving off is a bear...readsaid writers have routines, limit the time they spend writing...and all this has little to do with anything!...anyway, onward...Game on...on the radio...Brewers at the Dodgers...after two and one half, Dodgers 2-Brewers 1...lol...I can't stand the Dodger announcer, Monday...he tries to be like Scully...I listened to Scully as kid...Dodgers for years my team to follow...Monday is the color...the other guy, play by play, is okay...Dodgers running away with their division...not much drama left to the regular season for them...anyway...the post is about that "post", the Aztec tlachieloni...bottom of fourth...Betts, Mookie the Menace, up...line drive single...when he was with Boston, he destroyed the Angels...see old posts!...Aztec Tlachieloni...oh, need to feed the cats and Maya, my dog...bbk...that's done-critters fed...when I first saw the tlachieloni, it was an "Oh, Wait!"...as I had seen that somewhere before, recently...wiki's take about the Taijitu, Yin Yang...so, I searched up to see if this observation in someone's take on things...and it took me to Zilia Nuttal's paper in 1901!...I've been to Nuttall before, she's a famous archaeologist, and back then, she did, in her paper, what all archaeologists would like to do,,.what I'm doing...she searched up connects, and speculated about them!...a no no the speculations, sorta, nowadays...the collection of data, noting of patterns, the scientific credo, nowadays...Coe wanted to, I think, speculate that the Americas were influence by the Old World...and I have some of his hints at that...for sometime...Dodgers 6-Brewers 1...like bottom of fourth...Nuttall had to travel to museums all over the world...finding forgotten things in Museums storage became like her thing...the Nuttall Codex named after her...Devereaux can use the web for search ups...everyone can...and, Devereaux's wordpress blog, and Nuttall's 19901 paper, are a side by side-both connect Mesoamerica with the Andeans...in art class we would listen to music...between inning, stadiums play music...pre-game too...construction workers always have a boombox playing pop songs..."In the yellow truck, when I turn the radio on...."...the radio playing initiates something...Mayan musicians, readsaid, would lead out in battle...see movie Zulu...oh, a divert!...so searching tlacheiloni and yin yang dropped me in Nuttall's 1901 paper...and there I was much of the night!...again, like Devereaux's blog, I can only close read a little while, then I skip around...the paper is famous for posing that the Phoenicians sailed to the Americas...that idea is still in play...recently, a replica Phoenicia ship was made in an attempt to sail across the Atlantic-the way Thor Heyerdahl sailed about to prove a point-Kon Tiki, Ra...my own take on that isn't the Phoenicians, but the Phaeacians, who appear in Homer's Odyssey...they had "intelligent" ships, "fast as a falcon, fast as a thought" that would go anywhere you ask them...they knew all the locations of every town in the world...the Phaeacians lived on a island, were fabulously rich, and were traders who worshipped Hermes, god of traders...looking for God L connects, I landed on Hermes...go figure...the Phaeacians ships are kinda like my Black Ships in my Black Deck Tales...one tale has Odysseus visiting them...Mookie up...a search: tlachieloni nuttall, confirms there is no end of books, papers!...the log line list that comes up has Devereaux and Nuttall near one another in the list...once one know what it looks like, one finds it all over-another ubiquitous motif...what is it?...I dunno....common thought is one looks thru the center, but no one explains the alternating bands, 'cept to say maybe it is another nod to dualities...nonono...it's a navigation tool for a ship, a Black Ship....and I've lifted it for the Black Deck Tales!...all these Aztec characters carry things, and, readsaid, adopted from the atlatl...remeniscent of weapons one acquires in WOW video games...each staff like Aztec thing has its attributes...a complexity for sometime!...and they are all carrying staffs and such of one sort or another, from North to South...Dodgers 7-Brewers 1...games seems to have ended without me!...are the dots in the Yin Yang, and the triangle in the Step Fret Triangle, holes?...did one look thru these things!???...if so, then the steps are for observation, and the fret....and the crow step-two steps....and the chacana-four steps...chacana has a hole in the center too!...too much!...for next post!..."all that went on in the world"...that, would be a cell phone...lol!
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