Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Remember the Panay

Open To Interpretation

Conservation of Apophenia

Noun Verb 

Matter Energy

12/12/37


I left off at last post with Pereidolia, which morphed into Apophenia, and I haven't left it at all...part of it, is that Incidents, like the Panay Incident, are surreal, like a face seen in the clouds...pattern recognition...much of the blogs from the first, which was my Panay Blog on Geocities, has been about that, but I didn't have the vocabulary: apophenia, paradelia...those words have connected up to all manner of things...my double words, touch touch, and such, express, and this way way back, like 1972 for me...I took note that nouns and verbs interchange in double words, hear hear, and if one dwells on them, slows slow perception until the feel and sense of a word shows, the face in the clouds...well, it's the knack of reading writing poems...prose can't grasp it...almost like a poem isn't even words read, but the stuff of words felt...there's a whole bunch of stuff I've been gathering around this, and for sometime arrangement...meanwhile, Ohtani has become a Dodger...dodger dodger... 

:)

DavidDavid

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Hunger is a Hormone:OTI::notes:::9/26/2023

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Pareidolia


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The word derives from the Greek words pará (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead [of]") and the noun eídōlon (εἴδωλον, "image, form, shape").[5]

The German word Pareidolie was used in articles by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum—for example in his 1866 paper "Die Sinnesdelierien"[6] ("On Delusion of the Senses"). When Kahlbaum's paper was reviewed the following year (1867) in The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 13, Pareidolie was translated into English as "pareidolia", and noted to be synonymous with the terms "...changing hallucination, partial hallucination, [and] perception of secondary images."[7]

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

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A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-role-pareidolia-early-human-cave.html


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Given that oxytocin has been found to be involved in the perception of faces and facial expressions, her team hypothesized that people going through stages of life where oxytocin levels are elevated, such as during pregnancy or postpartum, may be more susceptible to experiencing pareidolia.


https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/new-mothers-more-likely-to-experience-pareidolia-when-your-brain-thinks-it-see-faces-in-inanimate-objects#:~:text=Given%20that%20oxytocin%20has%20been,more%20susceptible%20to%20experiencing%20pareidolia.

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hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.[1

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

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Certain individuals are born with special sensitivity to flashing lights or contrasting visual patterns, such as stripes, grids and checkerboards. Because of this condition, their brain will produce seizure-like discharges when exposed to this type of visual stimulation.

https://www.epilepsy.com/stories/shedding-light-photosensitivity-one-epilepsys-most-complex-conditions-0

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https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116001/1/Novella_thesis.pdf

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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Live Science reports that a collection of 15 stone figurines carved in the Mezcala style has been discovered in a stone chest at Templo Mayor, the temple complex at the site of the city of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire. The sculptures vary in size, with the largest standing about 12 inches tall.

The chest also contained two rattlesnake-shaped earrings, more than 180 green stone beads, snails, shells, and marine corals. López Luján suggests that temple priests stored these valuable symbols in the stone case for safekeeping.

https://www.archaeology.org/news/11718-230831-templo-mayor-case


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Notes:   Game on...on the radio...Rangers at Angels...top of first...first pitch, double off the base of the wall for Texas...Detmers on mound for Angels...aand an infield single...runners on first and third...oh, Angels then get a double play, but run scores...Rangers 1-Angels 0...one thing get put aside for another, then that for another, pretty soon then batches of things set aside for another batches of things...until, I take a nap, which trumps everything, and things set aside...weak excuse for lack of recent posts...hmmph...Angels could have traded Ohtani, given up on the season, but as it is they set aside those riches...it would have been a blockbuster trade for young players from a contender desperate for Ohtani like player...but nope, kept Ohtani until a tendon tear in his elbow, again, benched him...what with Trout still benched with a tiny bone repair in his wrist, and the other injuries to other Angels, that was it, for Angels' playoff hopes...oh, Drury hits a home run...Angels 3-Rangers 1...games are still major league games, sorta...albeit Angels' roster full of minor league call ups...I have two tickets left, for Friday and Saturday...this is last week of regular season...as for my web archaeological digging, too, but I have a  bunch of things, batches, enough to lap over into next season...Agatha Christie was an archaeological buff (too, a neighbor and friend of  Robert Graves during WW2-suspect the conversations they must have had!)...aaand this afternoon  I saw movie A Haunting in Venice...and awhile back I saw movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter...and during both I was considering that word I keep bumping into, Pareidolia...the seeing faces in clouds thing...I've tried to find synonyms for Pareidolia, and can't find them...there should be a popular word, a slang term even...welp, let me look about again...hallucination?...tripping, flash back...I dunno...the archaeologists, readsaid, have arrived at the thought that the ancients were playing with pareidolia in their art...five days ago news story, and another, and a search up of 'hormones" before...and now the wonder: does art evoke hormones?...of course it does...the "art guild" that made the likes of Moche pottery, and Inca textiles hooks up with the Mesoamericans, the "Americas continuum" of pre-Columbian art up and down the Americas...the cave researchers are trying to recreate the underground theater, the important feature, flickering torchlight...stock and trade of horror movies...flickering light is a problem for epileptics...brb...and epileptics see visions...like, they define the shaman journey, or some such...some hormone?...lol...thinking of snake cult zealots who go into seizures handling snakes, I find that snakes are prone to having seizures-if yours is so see your vet, readsaid...well, I only have a few snake stories, one that frightened me, and another...well, I'll relate that...it was a small colorful banded snake on an Eastern Sierra hike...it isn't that I hate snakes, but I perfectly understand Indiana Jones' phobia...the snake startled me, went its way, and I mine, but for awhile on the trail ahead, every root was moving like a snake!...so , so, I guess fear threw a hormone, or some such, into my visual equilibrium...another thing that does this is lack of sleep while driving...once, the back of an eighteen wheeler became a tunnel-no I didn't crash, but found it curious!...drawing conclusions from insufficient data, is a detective's bane, Agatha often says...and archaeologists' too...collect data, collect data, collect data...and if patterns emerge...is that a something?...I dunno...Agatha in the movie explores just this-Poirot's data collection keeps getting skewed by his own hallucinations...a Pareidolia state brought on by his experiences in combat, along with the horrors of his detective adventures...the characters in the story have the like dilemma, and "triggers", flashing light, sudden noise, just the general atmosphere of a haunted house on Halloween night, enthrall them...the Demeter film is a Dracula tale...the movie, Sign of Dracula, scared me a bunch...still feel most comfortable with blankets around my neck...in movie Haunted, an hallucinogenic honey from a singular flower is a key...that, that's Graves and his hippie toads...and toads gets me to Charlie Chaplin feet!...back in the posts noted...the Chavin/Andean decapitator has his feet turned outwards, like Charlie Chaplin...also like a frog, or toad...pics of Hopi vases I found with frogs, butterflies, and pollywogs...sometime, figures with frog feet...Angels with a home run...Angels 6-Texas 1...trying to nail down Charlie Chaplin feet, I found Charlie Chaplin and Aztec seashells!...and just in the news, found some of those Jade figures...the seashells show up on the sides of Mexican pyramids...for sometime, a workup of the seashells...more runs...Angels 9-Texas 1...bottom of fifth...top of sixth...time to feed the critters...brbk...and a snack for me...hunger is a hormone...satisfaction an illusion...top of ninth...one out...K...Detmers gets a win...oh wait...Texas not done...a home run...down to their final strike...K...and the ball game is over...Angels 9-Rangers 3...put a halo over this one!

:)

DavidDavid

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Xolotl:OTI::pics,notes:::8/30/2023

 Open To Interpretation













https://mayadecipherment.com/








https://smarthistory.org/palenque/











The figure on this example wears a mask and headdress representing the depicted ancestors’ potent supernatural force. The chest ornament features a glyph or sculpted symbol of a day in the 260-day Zapotec ritual calendar.

https://smarthistory.org/ancestor-figure-zapotec/

Olmec Toads

https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/c534ft68f











https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xolotl_1.jpg



Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Angels at Phillies...top of first...Shaonel up...K...just back from dentist-tooth pulled...biting down on the cotton, waiting for it to stop bleeding...Regnifo made out...Ohtani up...browsing, I happened on a Mixtec/Aztec figure with Charlie Chaplin feet, and a cross on its back....K...to bottom of first...and I have seen Moche figure like that...and I've been all over trying to find them again...cotton popped out...brbk...a gory little hole, but bleeding in check...anyway, so I'm looking hither and yon, for splayed/charlie chaplin/frog/toad feet, a cross on figure's back, aaand that motif I call a corn field...it is a prominent motif on Pakal's sarcophagus lid, just to the left and up of his knee...read said it is a blossom, the Sun, a date...makes sense it is a date...it has the cross...and I found a plate with it that's really neat...brbk...the flowers around the rim were printed with a real flower!...see link...top of third...Angels 2-Phillies 2...oh, back aways, I had several posts about Charlie Chaplin feet, frog/toad feet, splayed feet, birthing pose with feet out sideways...it all kind of fits with frogs being prolific, and being noisy in the Springtime!...plus there is the one toad that is hallucinegenic...it's an Xolotl figure I saw with the splayed feet and cross on back, I think...update when I find it!...Angels 3-Phillies 2...time for a rest, and snack...bbk with report...oh, wait...Shoei up...2 rbi hit...Angels 5-Phillies 2...top of fifth...


:)

DavidDavid

Monday, August 28, 2023

Step Fret X and Triangle:OTI::pics,notes:::8/28/2023

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https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/what-sort-of-gadgets-did-the-aztecs-have







https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-uxmal-carved-wall-yucatan-mexico-image25845660









https://oaxacaculture.com/2020/01/inside-the-tomb-san-pablo-villa-de-mitla-archeological-site/













The design on this kero recalls the extreme abstraction that typifies Wari-style textiles from the southern coast. The step-fret/curl is a frequent Wari decorative motif, perhaps alluding to an undulating ground line/architectural feature like that seen at the base of the carved narrative on the Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku.


https://art.thewalters.org/detail/80246/drinking-vessel-qero/













https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Sip%C3%A1n



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Many theories for the skill of Tiwanaku's architectural construction have been proposed. One is that they used a luk’ a, which is a standard measurement of about sixty centimeters. Another argument is for the Pythagorean Ratio. This idea calls for right triangles at a ratio of five to four to three used in the gateways to measure all parts. Lastly, Protzen and Nair argue that Tiwanaku had a system set for individual elements dependent on context and composition. This is shown in the construction of similar gateways ranging from diminutive to monumental size, proving that scaling factors did not affect proportion. With each added element, the individual pieces were shifted to fit together.[23]

  1.  Protzen, J.-P., and S. E. Nair, 2000, "On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture": The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 59, no., 3, pp. 358-371.


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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels at Phillies...top of seventh...runner on...one down...maybe I've found the Triangle, of the Step Fret Triangle...see wiki's take above about the builders of Tiwanaku...but I dunno...reach is the step fret triangle, the chacana, the one quarter steps, half steps, even the X and T motifs, represent astronomical/surveying instruments...Aztecs used two staffs with Xs on top of them...oh, the Wari beaker a find!...the triangle I'm pointing to, is the little one seen, but the triangle is in the shape of the step too, and in that beaker in the outline design...and the step fret X a find too...and a match for the Cross Staffs...what seems to be doing is a celebration of the astronomy instruments, but that's such a reach!...that the step fret triangle celebrates the cosmology of all the pre-Columbian Americas becomes a no brainer, as one finds it everywhere!...Angels down to their last out...ground out 6-3....Phillies 6-4...


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DavidDavid 

Monday, August 21, 2023

Chimali (step fret) Ear Rings:OTI::pics, notes:::8/21/2023:

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Iglesias Tolteca












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https://blog.dma.org/tag/mythology/











Maya artists incorporated an exotic material into this intricate mosaic: turquoise. The sparkling blue-green mineral sets off four pyrite serpents, symbols of royal power. A pyrite mirror, now lost, once graced the center, obscuring the two perforations used to attach the disk to a garment. This is one of two disks found in an offering in one of the substructures of the Castillo, the central pyramid platform at Chichen Itza, which was built over a cenote.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/722249






https://carmencreations.com/products/chimali-earrings



Notes:  The page from Iglesia Tolteca's facebook page belongs to yesterday's post...he's the second of these two authors I just found...their pages link to a whole bunch of others...chacana, wind jewel, ?, quincunx, step fret triangle, ?, ?, checkerboard rainbow flag...back in the blog here I've posted much about these...the pin wheel one I can show an example on a kneeling Moche warrior...but it is just line work...the cross with the colors of the four directions is common too...props for Iglesias including the Wiphalia, one of my favorite search ups...I have examples of all of these, with notes...problem with blog on line is one can't just flip thru the pages like a book...tho if I could tile the pages, that would work...like one can do with photos and images...so much of my blog is lifted, copy pasted, I can't really move it into paper format...I should just to back it up...at least make the pdf? Google blogger offers...just a sec...backing up google blogger...it makes an xml file...that's like the codes, the program, what one does writing code, and a computer will read the xml file-click on view as document I imagine, or some such to see it...simple enough...for sometime...Marin (yesterday's post) has a google blog that ran from 2007-2022...and he has a bunch of others that are current...Tolteca has a youtube vlog that daily shows the date in a Maya calendar animation-those big wheel little wheel images...just wanted to add this from yesterday, but while I'm here, I haven't searched up that Disc of Chichen Itza yet...it is a fit with the others!...brbk...oh, that landed me on a museum with a blog-the Dallas Museum...and there are other discs in that search!...discs, plates, vessel rims, are like gold!...on the Dallas disc I couldn't make out the feathered serpent, but in the Met disc, there it is!...and a marvel to see how the artists stylized!...both had pyrite mirrors in the center?...oh, shields too-gold...chimallis...not many survived, but they appear in the Codexes...again, the Codexes are a written record of not just the Mesoamericans, but all the Americas, North, South, Central...readsaid, globalization isn't a new thing, it was known to the Amerindians...which has been the reach of these posts!...enough that the Americas were connected...connects with the old world don't seem that urgent...leave that to the Mormons...lol...not to say the Mormons don't have stuff, they do...if I remember right, they're the ones helping recover the charred scrolls of Herculaneum...for sometime, what the Mormons are up to...too...now watch, the algo will have two knocking at my door!...lol...aaand, chimali search turns up step fret ear rings, with a globalist conceit...go figure...

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DavidDavid

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Marin Hanub Ku:OTI::pics,notes:::8/20/2023

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Guillermo Marín Ruiz (30 April 1952) is an independent writer, cultural promoter, and researcher of multiple works,[1] mainly related to Toltecayotl which refers to the cultural and philosophical roots of Indigenous civilization[2] and history in what is now known as Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Mar%C3%ADn_Ruiz


The symbol known as Hunab Ku, is located in the 16th century Magliabecchiano Codex and in the reproduction made by Zelia Nuttall. It is painted in a cloth and has an inscription which says "sand and water". It was later associated with the milky way and the "God Hunab Ku" by Jose Arguelles in 1987 in his book The Maya Factor, who changed the symbol to a circle.

 

However, the symbol in question belongs to all Cem Anahuac cultures and not only the Mayans. It is composed of four butterflies that point to the four existence directions in "complementing opposite pairs", black with white and white with black, that is, material and immaterial, iconographic concept that presents to us clearly the dialectic principle of the pair of complementing opposites.

http://toltecayotl.org/tolteca/?id=1773









https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aJqlS0goFUM












https://www.rockngem.com/the-minerals-of-pre-columbian-america/



Notes:...No baseball in SoCal today, a football game though-Rams?...brbk...Saints 22 - Chargers 17, and it's only pre-season...hmmph...and Hurricane to Tropical Storm Hillary was a nothingburger hereabout, but in other places looks to be living up to expectations...I forgot to turn the wheel barrow over, but, it's empty...my tarp canopy over the sailboat split...cats all fine...went to the movies, saw Voyage of the Demeter...another take on "black dragons", but curious to watch with Aztec myths in mind, and that "optic sculpting" notion-see yesterday's post...found some stuff for "candy stripe-sometime post" yesterday's carry over...led to obsidian mirrors....and, I discovered two, not one, blogger/vloggers, authors, who have been searching up the Hanub Ku, that step fret looking thing that looks like a yin yang...that comparison made by both!, and I thought my linking it kind of a discovery...always footprints in places I thought untrodden!...I might have a take on the triangle of the step fret triangles...readsaid the triangle represents a sun ray, which is a fit with the thought I had that a right triangle is a sun dial feature...a up pointing triangle is in the center of the famous calendar stone...and one of the Aztec gods has it for a motif (Xipe Totec?) ...anyway, Marin is all over social media, for a long while, with takes on the motifs, like the Hanub Ku, and surrounds them with his cosmology takes, or some such...Nuttall's take was there was old world contact, aaand, she goes the route of the swastika, tracing the self similarities thru history, including the Hanub Ku, and the Step Fret...this in 1901...apparently I am a very very late comer to the "step frets all over the place" notion!...Marin writes in Spanish, that youtube clip I just found by another vlogger is in Spanish...thru Marin I've hit ore...maybe because I don't speak Spanish my browses haven't happened on Marin, and untold others...it was an odd search that found his blog...xipe totec mixtec kneeling warrior...or some such...if I remember right, Xipe Totec holds the red white striped staff...these stripes too on the Mixtec warrior...especially the little stone weapon in his hand, and his big eye rings...see post back a few days...oh, wait...I'm so sloppy keeping track, but that slop works out to actually be a good tool...not being able to remember something, one finds new avenues trying to remember!...just found that Mayan "gem"...from image search...an image search is how I found Marin's blog...and image searches are like that computer endless paper-drawings inside drawings inside drawings!...now it's raining cats and doggers!...and it's late...time for a snack and nap...continued tomorrowmorrow...


:)

DavidDavid

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Aztec Higa Tackyness:OTI::pics,notes:::8/19/2023

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"In sum, the following pages explore the material culture of seeing in both Mediterreanean and Mesoamerican Worlds, and the ways certain objects were understood to sculpt sight: visual manipulations that could influence the social world.  Yet this is not simply a story about optical-social effects in the past.  As I argue in the final pages, the shield painted higa on Magliabechian 55r continues to radiate its apotropaic powers, shaping perceptions of the page on which it is depicted.  Five centuries after being created, this black and white detail still warps the human gaze.

The Higa and Tlachialoni:

Material Cultures of Seeing in the Mediterratlantic

Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Academia.edu










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(this Tlaloc image from wiki is holding another version of a rain stick-Tlaloc, god of rain)


Like many creatures, snakes are most active (and also mate) in the rainy season, and in particular rattlesnakes - only found in the Americas - make a highly evocative sound with their rattles that is distinctly reminiscent of falling rain. This sound is easy to reproduce with hundreds of seeds pitter-pattering down over little wooden pegs studded along the length of rainsticks, a sound described by one of Mexico’s most famous musicologists, Samuel Martí, as ‘unos sonidos ligados, muy sugerentes y misteriosos, que nos recuerda el rumor del agua o de la lluvia’ (1968: 56). Such sounds served to add what Arnd Adje Both calls ‘magical support’ to ritual practices.
Moreover, rattle sticks accompanied summer rain dances, involving snake-shaped choreography, in which ‘leaping, with its vertical design, was associated with rain’ (Kurath & Martí 1964: 88).

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Frank Neumann has written an entire academic article on ‘The Flayed God and his rattle-stick: a shamanic element in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican religion’, in which he documents how several investigators have noted ‘the importance of the rattle-stick as an item of shamanic equipment’ (1976: 253) and he gives examples of its use in shamanic ritual not only in Mexico, past and present, but ‘throughout the entire hemisphere’ (op cit: 260). In one instance, quoting the Mexican chronicler Alvarado Tezozomoc, he records how ‘such a rattle was used in connection with drums to imbue the [Aztec] warriors with power and incite them to fight’ (op cit: 258); it is still used today in Zinacantan in the form of a ‘summoner gourd’ to restore power to the patient in curing rituals. Interestingly, the gourd is filled with exactly 52 grains of corn (13 each of white, yellow, red and black) - sacred numbers in ancient Mesoamerica.
Izikowitz (1970: 122) too traces the common shamanic use of gourd rattles through South America, noting that it coincides loosely with the spread of maize culture round the Americas.


https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/chicahuaztli-rattle-staff

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Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Rays at Angels...second game of double header...Angels won the first game...Angels 7-Rays 6...Ray up in the night cap...Rays 3-Angels 0 )...top of five...Angels should be out inning, but rookie Adams dogged one in the outfield...two out, runners at corners...looking for Higa, carry over thought from last post...another hit, run scores, and a play at the plate on the fifth run...appealed...runner safe...Rays 5-Angels 0...bottom of fifth...Angels with a home run...for goodness sake...the Higa search became completely engrossing...first I found the rain stick, then I went back to the pay walled papers about the Higa, and Academia let me see one!....Hamann's "tackyness" and "skulpted sight" are genius!...I have, or had, a rain stick somewhere...really neat sound...between the sound of the sea in a conch shell, and a rainstick...I think Hurricane Hilary has lessened to the point of not much rain...and, disaster struck the Angels since I was "gone"...Rays scored a bunch...two more on the board...Seventeen to One!...lol...Rays 17 Angels 1...it's top of eighth...Rays with 19 hits...note the candy stripped staff...the candy stripes are on the Mixtec Kneeling Warrior...for sometime...Ohtani up...bottom of eighth...Ohtani waps a double...gives the crowd something to cheer about...and what they came for, to see Ohtani!...and Drury hits a home run...Rays 17-Angels 3...time to feed the critters...and a snack...bbk with report...

:)

DavidDavid 

Friday, August 18, 2023

Hanub Ku:OTI::pics, notes:::8/18/2023

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https://libraries.mit.edu/150books/2011/05/09/1983/


The emergence of metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica occurred relatively late in the region's history, with distinctive works of metal apparent in West Mexico by roughly 800 CE, and perhaps as early as 600 CE.[1] Metallurgical techniques likely diffused northward from regions in Central or South America via maritime trade routes; recipients of these metallurgical technologies apparently exploited a wide range of material, including alloys of copper-silver, copper-arsenic, copper-tin and copper-arsenic-tin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_Mesoamerica#










The ancient Monte Alto people of Mesoamerica, for example, used stone that had been magnetized when struck by lightning to build giant heads and potbellied sculptures centuries before the rise of the great Maya civilizations. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests this civilization, which flourished in present-day Guatemala around 500 B.C. to 100 B.C., must have had some way to detect the relative strength of the magnetized stones.

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“It was almost a super highway of information, cultural contact and exchange up and down the Pacific coast,” says Elizabeth Paris, an assistant professor of Mesoamerican archaeology at the University of Calgary in Canada who was not involved in the study.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mesoamerican-sculptures-reveal-early-knowledge-magnetism-180972820/













After being introduced to the concept by Hunbatz Men, who discussed this concept in his 1986 book Religión ciencia maya,[16] Argüelles popularized Hunab Ku in his 1987 book The Mayan Factor.[17] However, instead of Martínez' symbol, what Argüelles asserted was the "Hunab Ku" symbol was originally a rectangular design used by the Aztecs for a ritual cloak, known as the Mantle of Lip Plugs (or, arguably, mantle of "spider water"). The design survives today as a rug design being sold in central Mexico, but was associated with the Milky Way and the god Hunab Ku by Argüelles, who modified the symbol to look more like a circular motif evoking a yin and yang symbol as well as a spiral galaxy or the blood dropped by Hunab Ku on the bones that Quetzalcoatl took from Ah Puch to create humanity. It has become associated with Mayanism.

The earliest known appearance of the design is in the 16th century Codex Magliabechiano, an Aztec (not Maya) document that is also known for graphic depictions of heart sacrifice drawn by indigenous artists. The design was first reproduced by Zelia Nuttall, who rediscovered the Codex Magliabecchiano in Florence, Italy in 1898, in her 1901 book The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations: A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological and Calendrical Systems.[18] Facsimiles of the codex were published in 1903 and 1982.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunab_Ku#Notes




(pinterest, alamy, etc. have this, but I can't find original..."hand drawn image" only captions...)










http://www.famsi.org/research/graz/magliabechiano/img_page012.html













The Higa and the Tlachialoni: Material Cultures of Seeing in the Mediterratlantic


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8365.12357




Notes:   Game on...on the radio...Rays at Angels...bottom of sixth...lead off base hit...Moustakaas on...O'Hoppe up...O'Hoppe back!...Angels 5-Rays 5...long fly out...Ohtani earlier with a grand slam!...I was at football game...Hurricane Hilary is on the way, and the air is becoming electric...Angels were up, but Rays caught up...Moniak, K...Trout might be back tomorrow...tomorrow a double header...from last post, I was searching up ancient astronomical tools, and a search turned up: Mayan compass tattoo...for some reason, compass tattoos are popular, and one, like a step fret yin yang, a favorite...when I fist saw this motif, I thought it a modern invention, but no, it's from the Magliabechiano codex...an on and on about it in old posts...it is so distinctive!...and re-visiting it, how remarkably like the yin yang symbol...now, the thought there astronomy instruments, tools, for sighting, my carry over reach from last post...calling it a compass is a modern note, I think...but, as I discovered, the Mesoamericans knew of Magnetic North...the pyramids of Teotihuacan are oriented to magnetic north, as opposed to true north, like the Egyptian pyramids...a compass needle is magnetized iron...Mesoamericans knew of iron thru iron pyrite, and its thought they knew of loadstones...loadstone are lightning magnetized magnetite...this lightning magnetizing thing is a thing...it's the only way magnets occur naturally...the earth's magnetic field isn't strong enough to do it...I gotta wonder if the two headed snake motif is a nod to magnetism, bar magnets with north and south poles...and the wonder if the Mayan ceremonial bar motif is a bar magnet!...it's kindofa fit...it gets worse...there are these stone heads that have magnetic areas, like their cheeks...boulders, stones, get magnetized areas when hit by lighting...this must be what Brian Foerster is showing when he exams the lego like building stones at Puma Punca in Peru-stones have magnetic anomalies...and an ongoing search up: magnetism in the pre-Columbian Americas...Caldwell, Angel rookie, got his first hit...Ohtani up...in the second he had the slam...foul ball over the fence...the Amerindians had metallurgy skills...K...another foul, close down the 3rd base line...Drury with a hit and rbi...Angels 6-Rays 6...Moniak hauls in a long fly...to bottom of eighth...top of ninth...base hit lead off...Esteves on mound...oh, the compass motif has a name, Hunab Ku, and a wiki take...and Nuttall knew of it...it's in the Nuttall codex too(?)...this a study...and I found a more elaborate motif like it, but can't source it, yet...thanks to google image search up of similar images for finding this!...oh, a bloop hit...runners at corners...a TRIPLE play!!!...to bottom of ninth...Valesquez steals second...no one out...one down...rookie up, Nolan Schanuel...grounder and late throw to second...and, now, Ohtani up?...an appeal on that throw...safe!...Velasquez stays on second...Ohtani up...the Cornfield motif, and the Venus motif look alike...and they look like that hand drawn compass/clock, my thought, somehow...they're all quincunx like?...I dunno...yet!...to top of tenth!...hit batter...need another triple play...Esteves is struggling...Rays 7-Angels 6...K...rbi hit...Rays 8-Angels 6...Niven lifts Esteves...a bit late for that!...geahhh...Rays 9-Angels 6...to bottom of tenth...found another Tlachielioni take, but behind pay wall...what's a Higa?...for sometime...Rays 9-Angels 6...double headers in SoCal for both Angels and Dodgers, Sunday games moved to Saturday, out of the way of the Hurricane!

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DavidDavid

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Tlachieloni/YinYang:OTI::pics,notes:::8/16/2023

Open To Interpretation

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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DavidDavid