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Janus Figurine Nasca
Janus Mural Figures Moche
Shaman's Two States Transition:"Two Narrative Moments"
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Why the Moche depicted these two men like this is a mystery. "There is nothing quite like this in South American archaeology," Lisa Trever, an associate professor of pre-Columbian art history and archaeology at Columbia University who is one of the leaders of the team, told Live Science in an email. "The artists may have been experimenting with how to show movement, and two narrative moments at once."
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Seattle at Angels...Seattle leaves bases loaded top of sixth...Seattle 7, Angels 7...first inning, Seattle scored 5...I couldn't listen...went out for snack...tostada senior plate, ice tea...stopped at "Wantea" for a strawberry slushy, and began to listen...can hardly continue to listen...top of sixth, Angel pitching walked the based loaded, with nobody out!...but got out of it...Regnifo up...looking about, I found another "Janus" Andean thing...the two faces has to be a "convention"...I've been pugging "convention" into the searches...Moche art convention, convention Nazca art, convention Picasso art...works really well!...and convention is next to "custom" and that next to my favorite Herodotus quote, "convention is king of all", which I've gone on and on about way back...Ohtani up...I bookmarked the Janus I found, a figurine with two faces showing the transition from being sober to being intoxicated by some hallucinogen...it's conceit is so tight, one wonders if it is modern...the Andeans weren't that big on illustrations(?), not like the Greeks with their pottery...illustration of a story, or state of mind...it's like the Nazca, and all, were in a happy state, all the time, and their pottery and fabrics can't be fully appreciated without being in that state...for sometime coca leaves and chuspas, pouches/bags...anyway, my tablet went darkdark, battery low, and I'll have to find the Janus figurine again....brbk...Seattle up...Janus pics are from an art sale site, and lots of neat things with captions, and four views....the effort to sell beats the effort to show of museums and such..."the face mask with the step fret design"...I didn't know what on many figures, those motifs were about the mouth, but they're like the little masks worn at Halloween...it takes awhile, but because all the Andeans were so so conventional, one figures out, eventually, what the motifs are...the purpose of them still a mystery, unless one ingests some cactus concoction?...lol...I dunno...anyway, my reach is that the Janus figure, the two faces, is the convention seen in the mural recently uncovered, actually sort of rediscovered...Seattle is scoring...that Mural was buried, and known, but off limits on private property, until recent permission to dig it out was given...Peru has so many sites, it can't protect them, let alone dig them up with archaeological discipline...the looters mole into everything, and the artifacts show up for sale, eventually...aaand, the Mural figures illustrate the same conceit: the Shaman in two states, sober, then in their vision...that is an Andean convention, its most simple representation, the alternating colors...for sometime, nail down the alternating colors, and positive/negative spaces!...just generally, it's like my yin yang of art and facts...art I facts...the realm of imagination, and Nature...the vision Mural Figure has a checkerboard, step, tunic, and on the wild belt are trophy heads...and its two heads look to be birds(?)...for sometime the two headed bird motif!...hmmpph...Seattle 9, Angels 7...the Angels have a way of transporting into a bleak vision landscape!...time to feed critters...top of ninth underway...Seattle made out...Angels up...bloop hit...a walk...Ohtani up...0-2...ah...K...the Andean shamans seem to have all been going to the same vision realm...likewise the ancient Egyptians...the mural figures have the Egyptian convention of head in profile, body full front, and legs from the side-go figure(?)...Seattle 9, Angels 7...to the critters..."Angels have to win twice as many game as they lose"...two out of threes...
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