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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.
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
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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