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Duran Codex
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While this design appears to become a standard ornamental motif in Iron-Age Celtic culture by the 3rd century BC, found on a wide variety of artifacts, it is not clear what symbolic value was attached to it.[37][38] Unlike the Chinese symbol, the Celtic yin-yang lack the element of mutual penetration, and the two halves are not always portrayed in different colors.[39] Comparable designs are also found in Etruscan art.[7]
- 37. beaked flagons, helmets, vases, bowls, collars, hand-pins, cross-slabs, brooches and knife blades. Harding 2007, pp. 70f., 76, 79, 155, 232, 241f., 248, 259; Kilbride-Jones 1980, p. 128
- 38. "apotropaic": Duval 1978, p. 282
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu#Ming_and_Qing_eras
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- Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough,
- Graves, Robert, The White Goddess,
- Jane Ellen Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
- Roud, Steve (2004). A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-051549-6.
It’s a curious coincidence that three notable writers happened, in the summer of 1916, to be on the same bit of the Western Front at the same time. Robert Graves was wounded in the fighting at Mametz Wood in July 1916. David Jones, a private in the same battalion in which Graves was an officer (the Royal Welch Fusiliers) also fought in this engagement — Mametz Wood is an important location in Jones’s masterpiece In Parenthesis. J R R Tolkien, though in a different battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers, was on the same line at the same time, only a little way north of Graves and Jones.
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he declares in one of his best-known poems, ‘To Juan at the Winter Solstice’. Although Graves only began formulating his Muse theories in the mid-Forties, the ‘one story’ of his vocation dominates his entire career. Graves’s ‘poetic principles’ involve a wholesale rejection of 20th-century civilisation and complete submission to the capricious demands of the Goddess: ‘a lovely, slender woman with a hooked nose, deathly pale face, lips red as rowan-berries, startlingly blue eyes and long fair hair; she will suddenly transform herself into snow, mare, bitch, vixen, she-ass, weasel, serpent, owl, she-wolf, tigress, mermaid or loathsome hag. Her names and titles are innumerable.’ All true poems are invocations of this volatile ‘Mother of All-Living’, and their effect is immediate — ‘the hair stands on end, the eyes water, the throat is constricted, the skin crawls and a shiver runs down the spine.’
https://medium.com/adams-notebook/fantasy-mythography-of-ww1-the-case-of-robert-graves-28dd1cca72e6
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Fighting with Femininity:
Gender and War in Aztec Mexico*
CECELIA F. KLEIN
According to a historical manuscript written around 1580 by the Dominican friar Diego Durán, a fifteenth-century ruler of Tlatelolco had employed a memorable strategy after being vigorously attacked by Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital now buried beneath Mexico City. The Tlatelolcan king responded to his desperate circumstances by ordering some women and small boys to strip naked and attack the invaders. While the little boys threw burning sticks, the women approached with their private parts "shamefully" exposed, some slapping their bellies and genitals, others squeezing their breasts and scattering milk on their enemies. Another version of the same event recorded by D. Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc adds that the naked women had their heads gaudily feathered and their lips painted red, the color of harlots (1). According to Tezozomoc, the aggressive women car-
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ried shields and obsidian-bladed clubs while loudly accusing the Aztecs of being cowards. As the obscene contingent advanced, other women� still dressed�turned around, flung up their skirts, and showed their buttocks to the enemy, while others�also alluded to in the picture� flung from the top of a pyramid brooms, cane staves, weavings, warping frames, spindles, and battens.
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That Coyolxauhqui�s animosity was directed here toward her new brother, not her mother, is indicated by a different version of the same basic event, in which, under the name Malinalxochitl, she is said to have terrorized her people with black magic in hopes of attaining divine status like her brother. As a sorceress, she turned at times into an animal, while at others she unleashed noxious snakes, scorpions, centipedes, and spiders, in the aftermath devouring her victims� hearts (20).
http://archive.hemisphericinstitute.org/course-nyu/conquest/materials/text/genderwar.html
Diego Durán (c. 1537 – 1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.[citation needed]
Also known as the Durán Codex, The History of the Indies of New Spain was completed in about 1581. Durán also wrote Book of the Gods and Rites (1574–1576), and Ancient Calendar (c. 1579).[1] He was fluent in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and was therefore able to consult natives and Aztec codices as well as work done by earlier friars. His empathetic nature allowed him to gain the confidence of many native people who would not share their stories with Europeans, and was able to document many previously unknown folktales and legends that make his work unique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Dur%C3%A1n#External_links
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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Seattle at Angels...bottom of sixth...Seattle 1, Angels 1...Drury up...Angels made out...to top of seventh...A reach I have is that the Greek Keys are an apotropaic decoration...but searching "apotropaic Greek Key" no luck, so far...but I found that note in wiki's Yin Yang, Taijitu, take, where I was a few posts back comparing the Yin Yang with Step Fret Triangle...both these motifs show up on architecture above entrances, around the roofs, like at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, like around the Supreme Court building!...the step fret at the Tajen Pyramid, at the Mixtec Temples....readsaid, while the Andeans had no written language, the Aztecs, Mayans, Mixtec, did...because the Mesoamericans and Andeans are self similar, the step fret a tell, what is lost with no books in the Andes, is found with Aztec books, and post conquest reports, codexes...and what a tale they tell!...Silseth pitching for Angels, thru seven, three hits, one run....to bottom of seventh...Thais waps a home run, but Seattle waped one in top of seventh...so, game tied again!...Angels have been losing to Seattle, but each game has been terrific!...Seattle 2, Angels 2...I searched up Jane Ellen Harrison, an author to read with regard to ancient Greece!...for sometime...Graves I know well, and Frazer everyone knows...top of eighth...author Klein puts footnotes between the text,,,cool!...Klein has the take on Coatlicue...Aztecs saw cosmic significance in everything, too-a comet appeared, an Eclipse happened, during the conquest...for sometime, cosmic connections, coincidences, astrology, written in the stars, and such...back in posts, I related finding Graves in a footnote in the Norton Anthology of Literature, our class text-it was about remembering the future...bottom of ninth...Moustakis with a long long out...game still tied...extra innings...to top of tenth...K...intentional W to Rodriguiz...Estevez pitching...pick off play under review...runner is out...two down...but Mariners got a run...Seattle 3, Angels 2...to bottom of tenth...two out...Cron up...K...Seattle 3, Angels 2...
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