Dot In Square:OTI::pics,notes:::8/13/2023

Open To Interpretation

A quincunx is a quadrangle (earthly female symbology) that is formed and bisected by intercardinal axes that represent the sun’s winter and summer solstice horizon markers at sunrise and sunset. A cosmic light chief exists at each corner to banish the shadows of chaos and illumine the new, civilized world (Roys, 1933). According to noted anthropologist Dr. Prudence Rice, the quincunx is also a completion sign that represents “the four cardinal directions plus the center, or axis, joining the celestial and earthly realms, often conceived as a World Tree; it thus signifies an encompassing sense of the four winds, the whole world, or the total cosmos” (2007, p. 62). 

https://thetinkuy.wordpress.com/the-amaru-dot-in-square-symbol-the-quincunx-twisted-gourd-xicalcoliuhqui/

In one hand he carried a shield with feather balls and low-hanging paper flags. The flags (pantli) are warrior symbols and are associated with sacrifice. At other times he carried a white shield with five balls of cotton forming a cross; four arrows emerged from the shield. During his times representing a warrior he would carry four arrows in his right hand, or a spear thrower (atlatl). There may have been some times where he carried a large arrow with feathers and flint stone (a "god's staff, Teotopilli), but the sources are unclear. As well he may be seen carrying a fife-like instrument and a fan of heron and crow feathers. Duran describes the fan as being of blue, green and yellow precious feathers, emerging from a brilliantly polished mirror of gold. This mirror has a viewing hole in the center of it, through which one may look and observe the world.

https://www.newalexandria.org/papers/aztec/extended.html

English: The Tovar Codex, attributed to the 16th-century Mexican Jesuit Juan de Tovar, contains detailed information about the rites and ceremonies of the Aztecs (also known as Mexica). The codex is illustrated with 51 full-page paintings in watercolor. Strongly influenced by pre-contact pictographic manuscripts, the paintings are of exceptional artistic quality. The manuscript is divided into three sections. The first section is a history of the travels of the Aztecs prior to the arrival of the Spanish. The second section is an illustrated history of the Aztecs. The third section contains the Tovar calendar, which records a continuous Aztec calendar with months, weeks, days, dominical letters, and church festivals of a Christian 365-day year. This illustration, from the third section, depicts an instrument consisting of a staff wrapped with painted papers surmounted with a wheel. A large paper knot binds the top. At the right is a symbol of a striped face with white feathers on the head and a necklace. The text describes Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war, as being similar to Jupiter for the Romans. The month, identified as May, is called Toxcatl (Drought). The patron gods of this month were Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca (the god of the night sky and memory). The instrument shown, a tlachieloni or itlachiaya (viewing instrument

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toxcatl,_Drought,_the_Fifth_Month_of_the_Aztec_Solar_Calendar_WDL6736.png

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/high-fashion-ancient-egypt-bead-net-dress-007661

Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Angels at Astros...Moniak with an rbi hit...Ohtani up...Angels 1-Astros 0...K...to bottom of third...I close read a second time Devereaux's take on the dot in a square...it's a long take!, and I haven't finished close reading it...there is so much stuff-papers!...I skim read to the pictures, skip read the text, close read, focus on some small bit...it's just not possible to absorb it all, yet the authors seem to have done just that!...erudite they are...anyway, the dot in circle connects to the quincunx, that motif of four directions and a center-dot in square...and Devereaux connects the dot in square to Tlaloc...now, yesterday, I mentioned Tlaloc, an Owl connect, because of Tlaloc's big round eyes, and looking at figures, I was disappointed that Tlaloc didn't have the owl rays around the pupil, so common on the Moche Owl figures, and on the Mixtec Kneeling Warrior-his candy stripe eyes...but, I did see a motif around one Tlaloc figure's eyes, and so did Devereaux....it's the dot in square!...go figure...Devereaux scales up and down, connecting things to the Amerindians cosmology, cosmogony...cosmogony a new word to me!...one author debunked some fake artifacts, dinosaurs and such, because they had no cosmology...genuine pre-Columbian artifacts do have that about them, one has a sense of some larger purpose, meaning to them-a cosmogony....for sometime to illustrate that!....all the artifacts are illustrations of myths, oral stories...no art for art's sake...readsaid Egyptians didn't have a word for "art"....dot in diamond another quincunx, and a curio, as the Ancient Egyptians have that...everyone has the quincunx, I keep flowers purchased from the street vendor in a vase with the design...Goddess Nut wears the diamond dot fish net like dress, along with a star spangled one-she's seen arching over scenes, representing the night sky...Taylor Swift of late has been taking the stage dressed in sequin dresses...a new song of hers...brb...Bejeweled!...lol...for sometime, AmerIndians and shiny things...Ohtani up..."and this ball is out of here"...home run...Angels 2-Astros 0...to bottom of sixth...and then Devereaux goes on about the tlachieloni...and I was off...search: tlachieloni...at times, one needs a full body mental hazard suit reading about the Aztecs...the tlachieloni is too much...but Devereaus is right, it connects to the dot and square...there are dot and squares all over it, and it is wielded by Tezcatlipoca...Astros with a run...Angels 2-Astros 1...bottom of seventh...I alternate between "I can't sleep!" to "I can't stay awake!"...a travail of age...it's Sunday afternoon...time for a nap...back with report...bk...put a halo over this one...Angels 2-Astros 1...

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DavidDavid