Weaving: August 24, 2026

City Words

#Weaving

Rain

Thinking is weaving,

Writing is weaving, nesting

Birds singing working.

CityWords

Plein Air

Oh, throw a pebble,

The old pond makes a ripple...

With a brush, you too.

DavidDavid

🎶like, up first, algo feed dropped reel of little yellow birds making nests...maybe too real...another AI, artificial intelligence enhancement...throw a pebble, the pond makes the ripple...with a brush, the pond ripples on your canvas...a 5x7x5 there...?...hmmph...maybe too real as it is really annoying how entertaining the enhancements are!...and AI just begun...the comments are crazy...usual stuff, with a few " this is AI"..."this is AI slop"...mixed in with the golly gees...and it is a golly gee, a curio, how birds make nests...the making, and the learning...we learned basket weaving from watching birds make nests...?...how can birds learn to make nests?...maybe my "provenance" search can say...

✨️provenance of basket weaving provenance of bird nest weaving

provenance of basket weaving provenance of bird nest weaving
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The origins of human basket weaving may trace back to early hominins observing and mimicking the intricate, hanging structures built by weaver birds millions of years ago. [1, 2]
Provenance of Bird Nest Weaving
Evolutionary instinct: Avian nest-building is an innate, genetically driven behavior perfected over millions of years, famously mastered by family groups like the Ploceidae (weaver birds). [1]
Technique and materials: Birds use their beaks and feet to perform hundreds of precise locking, knotting, and interlacing actions, utilizing flexible grasses, palm fibers, and spider silk. [1, 2]
Natural engineering: Species like the Baya weaver construct pendulous, durable suspended structures featuring reinforced rings, entry tunnels, and false compartments. [1]
Provenance of Human Basket Weaving
Early inspiration: Anthropological hypotheses suggest early hominins (such as Homo habilis) co-existed with prolific avian builders around two million years ago, likely drawing conceptual inspiration from visible nests in the landscape. [1, 2]
Archaeological timeline: While fine perishable basketry leaves few direct fossils from the early Paleolithic, regional traditions like those in the American Southwest trace secure physical artifacts back at least 2,000 years, utilizing local plants like yucca, willow, and bear grass. [1, 2, 3]
Cultural significance: Indigenous weaving traditions, such as those practiced by Karuk master weavers, pass down generational knowledge, cosmology, and deep technical relationships with fire-adapted local flora. [1, 2]
If you would like, I can dive deeper into:

🎶"conceptual inspiration from the landscape"...fump...that's 

enhancement...throw a pebble, the pond makes the ripple...with a brush, the pond ripples on your canvas

weaving is braiding...

✨️provenance of braiding

Hair braiding originated over 30,000 years ago in ancient Africa and across various global cultures. [1, 2]
Ancient Origins
Earliest Artifacts: The Venus of Willendorf figurine from around 25,000–30,000 years ago features carved patterns that many experts interpret as braided hair. [1, 2]

🎶been there in old post...

✨️provenance of braided mosaics

Braided or guilloche mosaic borders originated in ancient Greece and became widespread across the Roman Empire as a standard decorative framing technique. [1, 2]

History and Evolution
Ancient Roots: Interlaced and braided patterns, often referred to as guilloche or plaits, first appeared structurally in late Roman art and Hellenistic floor mosaics. [1]
Hellenistic Period: Early precursors of braided motifs appeared in Greek-influenced regions by the 4th century BCE, such as the famous Beauty of Durrës mosaic, which highlights elaborate braided hair.
Roman Expansion: By the 2nd to 4th centuries CE, geometric braided ribbon borders became a hallmark of Roman villas across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia (such as the Iznik Roman mosaics) to frame central mythological or natural scenes. [1, 2]
Medieval Migration Period: The technique evolved into broader interlace patterns found in Insular, Celtic, and Byzantine art. [1]

✨️provenance of mosaics

Mosaics originated in ancient Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE, using simple materials like colored stones, shells, and ivory. [1]
Early Beginnings (3rd Millennium BCE)
Mesopotamia: The earliest known examples appeared in temples and palaces, such as clay cones embedded in mud walls in Uruk, and decorative works featuring shell and limestone.
Materials: Early artisans used locally sourced items like rounded pebbles, bone, shells, and stones pressed into mud or bitumen. [1, 2, 3]
Evolution in Classical Antiquity
Ancient Greece (4th Century BCE): Greeks transformed pebble mosaics into a refined art form, creating geometric patterns and detailed mythological scenes using uniform natural pebbles. [1, 2]
Ancient Rome (1st Century BCE onward): Romans adopted and expanded Greek techniques, developing opus tessellatum—using cut stone, marble, and glass tiles called tesserae (individual mosaic pieces) to decorate public spaces and elite villas. [1, 2, 3]
Medieval and Byzantine

🎶teasing AI...and...

✨️people mimicked natural tesselations with mosaic art

People mimic natural tessellations—repeating patterns with no gaps or overlaps, like honeycombs, turtle shells, and cracked mud—by carefully fitting small, hard pieces of stone, glass, or ceramic together in mosaic art.
Why Mosaics Mirror Nature
Tessellation in the Wild: Nature builds repeating geometric structures to maximize strength or efficiency, such as basalt columns or cellular plant tissues. [1]
The Human Echo: Ancient and modern artisans use tesserae (individual mosaic pieces) to replicate these interlocking networks on walls and floors.
Historical Examples:Islamic geometric art uses complex, repeating star polygons and tilework (zellige) that mirror mathematical symmetry found in natural crystal structures. [1]
Organic Flow: Artists like Antoni Gaudí used broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) to mimic the fluid, non-uniform tessellations seen in waves, bones, and reptile skin.

🎶"Examples:Islamic geometric art uses complex, repeating star polygons and tilework (zellige) that mirror mathematical symmetry found in natural crystal structures. [1]"

that's my salt and pyramids side by side posts...and there's another take on natron heated up to dissolve granite, stones...

natron heated up attacks granite egypt
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A viral hypothesis suggests that ancient Egyptians used heated or molten natron (sodium carbonate) to chemically etch, soften, or crack hard granite—such as at the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan—though mainstream archaeology views this as speculative and unproven compared to traditional pounding and abrasive methods. [1, 2, 3]
The Natron Theory and Granite
The Concept: Proponents suggest that when natron is heated to around 851°C (1562°F) or higher, it melts and reacts with the quartz and silica content in granite. [1, 2, 3]
Proposed Mechanism: The molten salt allegedly helps break down or "soften" the crystalline structure of the stone, potentially explaining smooth scoop marks and depressions found in ancient quarries. [1, 2, 3]
Geopolymer Connection: Some online theories further extend this idea to claim that the resulting reaction produced water glass, which could then be mixed with crushed granite to cast artificial stone blocks rather than carving them. [1, 2]

🎶hmmph...the great pyramid is a woven mosaic nest 

That is a beautiful and evocative way to look at it! While the Great Pyramid of Giza is structurally built from massive blocks of limestone and granite rather than organic fibers, thinking of it as a woven mosaic nest captures its spirit perfectly.
Here is why that metaphor works so beautifully:
• A Mosaic of Stone: It is made of over 2.3 million individual stone blocks, precisely cut and fitted together like a giant, three-dimensional mosaic.A Woven Structure: The interior chambers, shafts, and structural layers are engineered to distribute immense weight, interlocking much like a tightly woven basket to survive millennia of earthquakes.A Sacred Nest: Ultimately, it was built as a monumental "nest" or resting place—a launching pad designed to protect the pharaoh's body and safely shepherd his soul into the afterlife.Are you writing a poem, story, or description using this concept? I would love to help you develop it further if you share what you are working on!

🎶they're all nests...pyramids, temples...how'd that go up there?...

Cultural significance: Indigenous weaving traditions, such as those practiced by Karuk master weavers, pass down generational knowledge, cosmology, and deep technical relationships with fire-adapted local flora. [1, 2]
If you would like, I can dive deeper into:

ai uses there the magic word, "cosmology"...the depth is the human echo of bird nest weaving

✨️Cultural significance: Indigenous weaving traditions, such as those practiced by Karuk master weavers, pass down generational knowledge, cosmology, and deep technical relationships with fire-adapted local flora. [1, 2] If you would like, I can dive deeper into: ai uses there the magic word, "cosmology"...the depth is the human echo of bird nest weavinh

Human weaving echoes the ancient art of bird nests, tying human survival and culture to the physical patterns of the earth.
The Lesson from Birds
Shared Architecture: Both a bird nest and a woven basket use tension, friction, and local fibers to create a sturdy home or container.
Natural Instinct to Craft: Just as a bird knows which twig bends without breaking, master weavers hold a deep, physical memory of plant behavior.
The Echo: Long before human looms, animals shaped their environments through interlocking materials. Human craft is an extension of this primal ecosystem habit.
The Language of the Land
Reciprocal Care: Indigenous traditions do not just take from plants; they tend them. Burning small patches of land helps basket sedge grow straight and strong.
Material Knowledge: Weavers know the exact season to harvest willow, hazel, or pine root based on water flow and sun exposure.
Living Archive: The materials themselves carry the history of weather, fire, and soil in their grains.
Weaving as Cosmology
Mapping the Universe: The patterns on a basket often map sacred geography, rivers, star paths, or the backbone of the world.
Order from Chaos: Weaving turns wild, chaotic brush into a sacred, ordered object that holds food, water, and babies.
Spiritual Continuity: Passing down a stitch passes down a worldview, linking the ancestors who gathered the roots to the hands shaping them today.

🎶ahhh, AI can illicit a tear or two now and then...short of rivulets...cats angry...late with their dinner...Dodgers off today...Guardians 4-Angels 2...a stitch in time...."stitch"...🙄...🧐🧐🧐

:)

DavidDavid

Mat: August 23, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Mat

Game on...on the radio...Pirates 0-Dodgers 4...top of ninth...

🧐The name "Popol Vuh

" translates as "Book of the Community" or "Book of Counsel" (literally "Book that pertains to the mat", since a woven mat was used as a royal throne in ancient Kʼicheʼ society and symbolised the unity of the community).[5]
It was originally preserved through oral tradition[6]
until approximately 1550, when it was recorded in writing.

wiki Popol Vu

✨️universe is a mat

Assuming you mean "the universe is made of math," prominent physicists like Max Tegmark propose the
Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. This idea suggests reality isn't just described by numbers, but fundamentally is a mathematical structure.

🎶not what I meant...but...mat/math...idea I've seen is that at the tiniest level of matter, things are like a mat...pixelated...

✨️not what I meant...but...mat/math...idea I've seen is that at the tiniest level of matter, things are like a mat...pixelated...

You are thinking of digital physics or spacetime pixelation. This is the idea that space and time are not smooth. They are made of tiny, separate blocks or pixels, like a digital photo or a woven mat at the smallest scale.
What is Spacetime Pixelation?
Planck Scale: Scientists think this limit happens at the Planck length, which is about \(10^{-35}\) meters across.
Cellular Universe: Space is split into tiny volume units. Nothing can be smaller than one unit.
Information Limits: The universe can only hold a certain amount of data in a space. This is the holographic principle.
Why Scientists Think This
Fixing Math Clashes: Einstein’s gravity rules and quantum mechanics break down when mixed together. Pixels fix the math errors at tiny scales.
Particle Tests: Scientists study high-energy light from space to see if different colors travel at different speeds. If they do, space might be pixelated.

🎶hmmph...wondering how I came to that side by side...

✨️Temple and Tomb Art: Frequently depicted in funerary texts; deceased individuals knelt or sat on reed mats during judgment scenes before gods like Osiris. [1]

Sacred Architecture: High-end architectural tiles (such as those in the Step Pyramid of Djoser) imitated woven reed matting to invoke sacred space and rebirth. [1]

🎶I have more to that, back in the blog, part of the fascination with mosaic patterns...tilings...tesselations...snake scales...butterfly scales...honeycombs...packing...polygons...girraff skin....aaaand, just this, is weaving...writing is like weaving reeds...reeds/reads...lol...anyway...came late to game...Pirates 0-Dodgers 4🎀...Angels 3-Rangers 5...more...thinking is weaving...

:)

DavidDavid

Mat: August 23, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Mat

Game on...on the radio...Pirates 3 at Dodgers 0...bottom of third..."pop" I find is ancient Mayan for mat...How I found that: ArcheologicalEd was going on about fer de lance snakes in Mayan land, and I thought, "What pattern fer de lance skin?"...readsaid, like a mat, criss cross...Ohtani up...criss cross pattern happens when reeds are used for mats, baskets...basket weaving...motifs have provenances too, tho I think definers won't include the sense I mean...anyway, yesterday on about the provenance of Charlemagne throne...now, the Mayan pop was a royal mat...Ohtani and Freeman walk...a reed mat has that attribute as Egyptian motif...so, a motif can have mutiple provenance...basket weaving is really ancient...and that diamond pattern...ziz zag...chevron...even more ancient reptile skins...scaled...a lookalike with basket weaving...everything can have provenance, when it began, what happened to it, where it is now...

✨️weaving...everything can have provenance, when it began, what happened to it, where it is now...

Provenance means the history of where something came from and where it went. Every object, idea, and record has a unique timeline that shows its origin and changes over time.
Key Parts of Provenance
Origin: Where and when something was made or started.
Chain of custody: The list of owners, keepers, or locations through time.
Current state: Where the item is right now and what condition it is in.
Why Provenance Matters
Art and Antiques: Proves a piece is real and not fake. It also shows it was not stolen.
Science and Nature: Tracks data, lab samples, or dinosaur bones back to the exact spot they were found.
Digital Data: Shows where a file came from and if anyone changed it.

🎶hmmph...DNA is a file...changes noted...how the changes happen?

✨️Cells possess advanced DNA repair pathways that scan the genome like an antivirus program. If the damage is too extensive to fix, the cell is programmed to self-destruct (apoptosis) to prevent the corrupted code from spreading. If the repair fails and the cell survives, the modification becomes permanent.

Would you like to explore how these changes affect human health and evolution, or are you looking into a specific type of genetic mutation?

"apoptosis"..."repair pathways"...cells must see thru some "lens"-literally...figuratively in recognizing good and bad...just heard while driving, clic clic clic...nail in tire...garage closed, repair in couple days...a caution,  tire stays inflated...repair pathways an understatement...that's an immense task!...Dodgers score...Pirates 3-Dodgers 1...play by play updating...repairing..."provenance matters"

✨️Popol Vuh - Wikipedia

The name "Popol Vuh
" translates as "Book of the Community" or "Book of Counsel" (literally "Book that pertains to the mat", since a woven mat was used as a royal throne in ancient Kʼicheʼ society and symbolised the unity of the community).[5]
It was originally preserved through oral tradition[6]
until approximately 1550, when it was recorded in writing.[7]
The documentation of thePopol Vuh
is credited to the 18th-century SpanishDominican friar
Francisco Ximénez
, who prepared a manuscript with a transcription in Kʼicheʼ and parallel columns with translations into Spanish.[6][8]

🎶welp, DNA is our "pop"...royal mat...royal pattern...Ohtani up...it criss crosses in braided fashion...

✨️term for braided mosaic pattern...

The classic decorative term for a braided or twisted band pattern used in mosaics and architecture is a guilloche (pronounced gee-ohsh). When bands are more broadly looped, knotted, or woven together in complex, multi-strand geometric configurations, it is more generally called interlace or plaitwork.
[1, 2, 3]

✨️term for diamond snake scale mosaic pattern

A diamond snake scale mosaic pattern is best described geometrically as a tessellation or more specifically an imbricated (overlapping) lozenge or diaper pattern. In art and architecture, similar overlapping geometric motifs are often called scale armor, fishscale, or imbrication.
[1, 2]

✨️term for basket weave mosaic pattern

✨️term for basket weave mosaic pattern
The exact term for this layout is basketweave mosaic (or simply basketweave tile). It mimics an interwoven wicker or basket texture, typically made by pairing two horizontal or vertical rectangular tiles with a small contrasting square "dot" in the center. [1, 2, 3]
Related Design Terms
Parquet: A geometric wood or tile pattern category that includes basketweave layouts.
Interlocking / Woven Stone: Architectural descriptions for how the alternating rectangular blocks create depth.
Pinwheel (or Hopscotch): A similar small-format tile pattern featuring a central square surrounded by four larger squares, often confused with basketweave. [1, 2]

✨️term for phylotaxis interlace mosaic pattern

The intersecting, interlaced spirals of a phyllotaxis pattern that form a tightly packed cellular mosaic are mathematically described as a Voronoi diagram (or Voronoi tessellation) mapped onto a spiral lattice, with the visible crossing secondary lines referred to as parastichies. [1, 2]
Key geometric and structural terms for this phenomenon include:
Parastichy: The visible, secondary spirals or intersecting families of curves that wind in opposite directions (often corresponding to consecutive Fibonacci numbers) across a phyllotactic field. [1]
Voronoi Tessellation / Diagram: The partitioning of a plane into convex polygons (cells) around seed points placed along a generative spiral, creating a natural cellular mosaic like those seen in sunflower seeds or plant tissue. [1, 2]
Spiral / Phyllotactic Lattice: The underlying orderly grid of points defined by the golden angle (~137.5°) from which the interlocking mosaic cells emerge. [1, 2]
If you are trying to generate or analyze this pattern, let me know if you need:
• A specific mathematical algorithm or code approach (like Python/Processing)Details on the Golden Ratio connectionInformation on packing efficiency in botany

🎶forgot searches I did with "phylotaxes interalace fibonacci"...oh, here I can say origin provenance emerges...

✨️origin provenance emerges

Provenance is the place of origin, source, or complete documented history of ownership and custody for an item, idea, or data. Derived from the French word provenir ("to come forth"), it traces a continuous line from a beginning point to the present day. [1, 2, 3]
Key Meanings of Provenance
Origin: The exact source, maker, or point where an object or concept first comes into existence.
Chain of Custody: The unbroken chronological record of who owned, held, or transferred an item over time.
Authentication: Proof used by experts to confirm that an artifact, document, or artwork is real and not a fake. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Usage Across Fields
Art and Antiques: Tracks past owners, receipts, and exhibition history to verify value and legal ownership.
Archaeology: Distinguishes the modern history of an item (provenance) from its exact three-dimensional physical findspot (provenience).
Digital and AI Systems: Acts as a transparent audit trail showing where training data came from and how media was generated. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🎶"provenience"...government of late big on provenience...lots of youtube back and forths about origins...hmmph...polygons emerge in mud flats when they dry...Saturn's hexagon emerges from fluid/wind flow on a spinning world...spiral hurricanes like that...oh...hurricane season approaches...last season was a pass...

✨️how do cell repair pathways emerge?

Cell repair pathways—most notably for DNA repair—emerged as an evolutionary necessity driven by the inherent chemical instability of genetic molecules and harsh primordial environmental pressures. As early life transitioned from fragile RNA systems to stable double-stranded DNA genomes, rudimentary self-preservation mechanisms co-evolved to prevent lethal genetic decay. [1, 2, 3]
The Pre-Cellular and Primitive Origins
Chemical Decay of Early Genomes: Long before complex organisms existed, primitive nucleic acids faced constant threat from thermal noise, UV radiation, and reactive metabolic byproducts. [1, 2]
Basic Reversal and Cleavage: The earliest ancestors of life likely relied on simple, direct-reversal enzymes (like primitive photolyases or alkyltransferases) and versatile endonucleases that could recognize basic backbone breaks or missing chemical groups. [1, 2]
The Double-Helix Advantage: The shift to a complementary, double-stranded DNA structure provided the critical redundancy needed for life; one intact strand served as a template to correct errors or damage on the opposite strand, giving rise to early excision-based logic. [1]
Expansion and Specialization
The Oxygen Catastrophe: When photosynthetic life flooded Earth's atmosphere with oxygen, oxidative stress multiplied the types of DNA lesions exponentially. [1, 2]
Protein Diversification: Generalist ancient enzymes (like multi-functional AP endonucleases) underwent gene duplication, mutation, and specialization, giving birth to targeted families of DNA glycosylases and sophisticated multi-protein repair complexes. [1, 2]
Network Integration: Repair enzymes integrated with cell-cycle checkpoints, turning isolated chemical reactions into regulated, multi-step pathways like Base Excision Repair (BER) and Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER). [1]

🎶Pirates 3-Dodgers 4...considering pathways in life, they may all emerge from a wisdom only millions of years evolution can have!

✨️That is a profound way to look at human existence and choice. When you think about it, our modern decisions, instincts, and pathways are deeply rooted in that ancient biological foundation.

Here is how millions of years of evolution shape the paths we choose today:
🧠 The Evolutionary Blueprint
• Deep Instincts: Our drive for connection, safety, and purpose stems from early survival needs.Adaptive Thinking: Problem-solving skills evolved to navigate unpredictable environments.Emotional Wisdom: Gut feelings are often just rapid calculations based on ancestral data.
🧭 Navigating Modern Pathways
• Ancient Setup: We carry traits optimized for small tribes and wild landscapes.Modern Chaos: We apply those exact same traits to career ladders and digital networks.The Conflict: Stress often triggers the same "fight-or-flight" response meant for predators.
🌱 Aligning with Evolutionary Wisdom
• Seek Connection: Prioritize deep relationships to fulfill our hardwired need for community.Keep Moving: Engage in physical movement to satisfy a body designed for active exploration.Embrace Nature: Spend time outdoors to regulate your nervous system naturally.

🎶Ohtani up..."optimized for small tribes"...hmmph...K...

✨️pastoral life, herding, optimized humanities repair pathways

pre historic pastoral life, herding, optimized humanities repair pathways
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Prehistoric pastoral life centered on moving herds of domesticated animals like sheep, goats, and cattle across seasonal pastures. This nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle balanced human survival with animal care, creating a sustainable rhythm of movement, resource sharing, and ecological adaptation. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Core Elements of Pastoral Herding
Seasonal Movement: Groups practiced transhumance, moving herds to cool highlands in summer and mild lowlands in winter.
Animal Reliance: Herders depended on milk, blood, meat, and wool rather than fixed crop farming.
Ecological Balance: Grazing routes allowed grasslands to recover, preventing permanent land damage in dry regions. [1, 2, 3]
Pathways for Human and Social Repair
Mobility and Resilience: Flexible migration routes offer models for adapting to climate shifts and resource scarcity.
Community Cooperation: Shared herd management builds strong social bonds and mutual aid networks.
Low-Impact Living: Integrating human needs with animal life cycles models sustainable, non-destructive land use. [1]

🎶thought is, that that was people for a long long time-Pastoralist...long enough to establish cosmologies, religions, science, world view...as I write this,  I imagine The Forest People want to have a say...and I'm at a loss for what the indigenous, the Indians of So Cal, have to say...leave only footprints...they left  footprints...just a few...

✨️leave only footprints...

The idiom "leave only footprints" (often expanded as "take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints") is a mid-20th-century conservation maxim. It arose in the United States during the 1950s to promote outdoor ethics and minimize human impact on wilderness areas. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Origin and History
Early 1950s First Appearances: The earliest documented instances of the exact phrasing appear in 1954. A July 1954 newspaper noted a sign at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico reading, "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints." [1]
The Appalachian Trail and Parks: Around the same time in 1954, the slogan was recorded as being used by Boy Scouts on the Appalachian Trail and was widely adopted by the National Park Service to handle post-war tourist booms that strained park resources. [1, 2]
Common Misattribution: The phrase is frequently misattributed to 19th-century Native American leaders like Chief Seattle, but historical research shows no record of the saying prior to the 1950s environmental movement. [1, 2, 3]
Core Meaning
Do Not Litter: Pack out all trash, food waste, and gear.
Do Not Disturb: Leave rocks, plants, fossils, and artifacts untouched for others.
Tread Lightly: Stay on designated paths to prevent erosion and habitat destruction. [1, 2, 4]

🎶hmmph...that's evolution's  path...what remains of pastoralists is their language...reading about Ur culture, a mystery where they came from, having a unique language...welp...they were Nomads...

✨️is Basque culture descended from Nomads?

pastoralists in pre historic spain basque origin
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Prehistoric Basque origins trace back to early Neolithic farmers who mixed with local hunter-gatherers and later sustained genetic isolation in the Pyrenees. Archaeological and DNA evidence shows that these populations adapted to highland herding and seasonal pastoralism, leaving the Basques as direct contributors to the region's ancient pastoral landscape. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Neolithic and Bronze Age Roots
Early Farmers: DNA studies indicate modern Basques descend primarily from Neolithic farmer groups who arrived in Iberia and intermarried with indigenous hunter-gatherers. [1, 2]
Highland Pastoralism: Sites in mountain ranges like Aralar show seasonal pastoralist settlements dating from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. [1]
Megalithic Culture: Shepherds and pastoral communities built numerous stone monuments (dolmens and cromlechs) across the Basque mountains. [1, 2]
Genetic Isolation and

🎶hmmph..."hunter-gatherer" I just don't understand...granted, California Indians hunted deer, and harvested acorns...like the early Greeks' Age of Acorns...but I dunno...ice age California was a pastoralist's paradise...more herding animals than Africa...

✨️ice age California Indians were nomad pastoralists

California Indians were nomadic pastoralists

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That statement is incorrect. Ice Age and pre-contact California Indians were not pastoralists because true pastoralism relies on the domestication and herd management of large livestock (such as sheep, goats, or cattle), which were entirely absent in pre-Columbian North America. [1, 2]
Instead, early indigenous groups in California were highly skilled hunter-gatherers and complex maritime foragers. [1, 2]
Subsistence and Lifestyle
Foraging and Hunting: Early inhabitants hunted available game and gathered wild plants, seeds, berries, and roots, eventually developing a rich, acorn-based economy as the climate warmed. [1, 2, 3]
Settlement Patterns: While the earliest Paleo-Indian arrivals during the late Ice Age moved in nomadic or semi-nomadic patterns tracking seasonal resources and large fauna, they transitioned over millennia into remarkably stable, sedentary village societies with high population densities rather than mobile herding groups. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Lack of Domesticated Livestock: With the exception of the dog, native Californians did not breed or herd domesticated animals for meat or milk. [1, 2]
If you'd like, I can share more details on:
• How California tribes managed local ecosystems using controlled burnsThe specific transition from Paleo-Indian mobile groups to sedentary village life

🎶Nope...something wrong there...they transitioned after the Yonger Dryas...the abrupt end of the Ice Age..."sedentary village societies"...that, that's not in our DNA...we were Nomads for long enough, I'd say, for that to be in our DNA...village life went to city life...Ohtani ground out...to top of ninth...Ur was city life, just as crazy as now...oh, not that crazy...DNA hasn't caught up...it has, and can, deal with really big things, like global warming...which is a pause...DNA works in mysterious ways...people can now,  with rocket ships, divert threatening asteroids...to be able to say that a mystery!...Pirates down to their final out...someone outside practicing a tuba?...pop up...Pirates 3- Dodger 4🎀...now, the Mariachi band playing, singing...Angels 3-Rangers 0😇...

:)

DavidDavid

History: August v 21, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#History

Game on...on the radio...Pirates 2-Dodgers 4...top of seventh...🦋Dream: a rectangle tray with blue flowers...rerun...a rectangle tray with pinkish flowers...I wake up...🎶term for history of an artifact..."provenance"...souvenir baseballs like that...bottom of seventh...Ohtani up...so, I can go on web, ask wiki, for history of Egyptian Kings, Pharoahs, aaand, there they all are...artifacts, like ships, have their own history...Ohtani got on...Freeman up...no one keeps track of a bat, unless it becomes collectable, then, according to value, precious...why am I puzzling over this?...I dunno...but a looksee...

✨️provenance of Charlemagne's throne...

TheThrone of Charlemagne(Karlsthron) was built around 790–800 AD for thePalatine Chapelin Aachen, Germany. Crafted from four ancient white marble slabs joined by bronze clamps and set upon six marble steps that symbolize King Solomon’s biblical throne, its precise material origins remain unproven, though local tradition long associated its stone with Jerusalem.[1,2,3,4,5,6]
Construction and Design
Date:Erected in the late 8th century during the construction of Charlemagne’s royal residence.
Location:Placed in the upper western gallery (Hochmünster) of the octagonal Palatine Chapel.
Materials:Four plain antique marble slabs clamped together with bronze brackets, resting on six unequal stone steps.
Symbolism:The six steps explicitly mirror the description of the throne of the biblical King Solomon.[1,2,3,4,5,6]
Historical Use and Lore
Coronation Seat:Used between 936 and 1531 for the enthronement of over 30 German kings and Holy Roman Emperors.
Status:Regarded in medieval texts as thetotius regni archisolium(the arch-stool of the whole realm).
Myths:Popular medieval folklore claimed parts of the stone came directly from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, though this lacks archaeological proof.[1,2,3,4] 

🎶that, that's neat...it resembles the hwt block throne in Egypt...I tried to find if they ever found a hwt block throne...plenty seen in the art, and statues with seated people, but, I don't know if the Egyptians had like a royal palace, with throne room...Tut had a bunch of throne chairs...nothing like made from stone...lot of Egyptian artifacts, seen in the art, but never found...

✨️provenance of King Solomon's throne

King Solomon’s throne is a legendary seat of judgment and royal power described in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 10:18–20 and 2 Chronicles 9:17–19) as an ivory structure overlaid with refined gold, featuring six steps and twelve flanking lion statues. No direct archaeological proof of the physical throne exists, and scholars view it through textual, historical, and mythological lenses. [1, 2]
Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Origins
Design elements: The text describes a high-backed throne with a rounded top, armrests flanked by lions, and a footstool attached of gold. [1]
Canaanite-Phoenician influence: Historians and biblical scholars note that Solomon’s described seat fits the typology of ancient Near Eastern sphinx or cherubim thrones common in Phoenicia and the Levant during the 10th century BCE—where kings were symbolically enthroned upon winged guardians or lions. [1]
Architectural context: The construction aligns with the era's close alliances between Solomon and Phoenician craftsmen (such as those from Tyre) who supplied elite woodwork, metalwork, and ivory inlay for Jerusalem's royal quarters. [1, 2]
Rabbinic and Islamic Tradition
Midrashic folklore: Later Jewish commentaries in the Targum and Midrash expand the provenance, claiming the throne was mechanically engineered with animal automata. As the king ascended each of the six steps, mechanical or golden beasts (lions, oxen, eagles) would extend assistance or symbolise the laws of Israel. [1]
Later plunder narratives: Folklore suggests the throne was later looted by invading monarchs, such as Pharaoh Shishak or subsequent Babylonian and Persian rulers. [1]
Islamic lore: In Islamic literature and regional geography, the concept of Solomon’s dominion expanded into mystical legends, attaching the name Takht-e Soleyman ("Throne of Solomon") to various pre-Islamic archaeological ruins and remote mountain peaks across Iran, Pakistan, and Central Asia. [1]

✨️provenance of throne in palace at Mycenae

A potential fragment of the royal throne ofMycenae(dated 1250–1200 BCE) was discovered in 2014 in the Chavos Riverbed directly beneath the citadel. The 50 kg porous limestone block tumbled down when the southeastern part of the hilltop palace collapsed during a catastrophic earthquake around 1200 BCE.[1,2,3,4]
Discovery and Debate
The Find:Unearthed by archaeologist Christofilis Maggidis, the worked stone piece matches the dimensions and seating ergonomics of a monumental throne.[1,2,3]
Material:The porous limestone composition matches the stone used in Mycenae's Cyclopean defensive walls and tholos tombs, but has no other counterpart inside the palace itself.[1,2]
Controversy:While proponent researchers identify it as the sole surviving royal throne from a mainland Mycenaean palace, Greek Ministry of Culture officials initially questioned the attribution, suggesting it may have belonged to a stone basin.[1,2,3]

🎶"automata"...🙄..."seating ergonomics"...

🧐https://popular-archaeology.com/article/found-the-throne-of-agamemnon/

that, that link is really cool...throne room called a megaron...?...

✨️megaron throne room

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The megaron was the great rectangular throne room and central hall in Mycenaean and Bronze Age Greek palaces. It featured an open columned porch, an anteroom, and a main hall centered around a large circular hearth surrounded by four columns, with the ruler's throne placed against a side wall. [1, 2, 3]
Key Architectural Features of a Megaron
The Porch: An open-air entryway with two columns set in antis (between the extending side walls). [1, 2]
The Vestibule: An anteroom separating the exterior entrance from the inner royal hall. [1, 2]
The Central Hearth: A large, permanent raised circular fire pit used for warmth, rituals, and offerings. [1]
Supporting Columns: Four vertical wooden or stone columns arranged in a square around the hearth to hold up the ceiling and a smoke vent. [1, 2]
The Throne Position: A raised platform or spot for the ruler's wooden throne, positioned against the wall right beside or behind the main hearth. [1]
Wall Frescoes: Lavish paintings plastered on the inner walls depicting animals, war, hunting, and religious processions. [1]
Famous Examples
Palace of Nestor (Pylos): The best-preserved mainland Greek megaron featuring a clear throne dais, painted floor patterns, and griffin/lion wall murals.
Mycenae: Located at the highest point of the citadel, featuring a classic two-columned porch and central hearth foundation.
Tiryns: Boasting a massive main megaron unit with a well-defined circular hearth base and surrounding courtyards. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🎶Black Deck Tales has two megarons...hmmph...around and about, thrones, throne rooms, resembled one another...Pirates 4-Dodgers 4...to top of tenth...

✨️The phrase "Norse and the throne of Charlemagne" most directly connects to the Karlamagnús saga, a 13th-century Old Norse prose compilation that adapted French chivalric romances about Charlemagne and his court for the Norwegian king Haakon V.

The Norse Karlamagnús saga
The Matter of France: Compiled around 1285, the saga translated and restructured continental chansons de geste (epic poems) into Norse prose.
Branches and Tales: It details the lineage, battles, and legendary exploits of Charlemagne (Karlamagnús) and his paladins, including a Norse version of Charlemagne's youth involving the thief Basin.
Cultural Impact: It bridged continental European Christian royalty ideals with Scandinavian literary culture during the High Middle Ages.
Historical Tensions: Norse vs. Carolingian
Outside of literature, the historical relationship between the Norsemen and Charlemagne's empire was defined by violent geopolitical and religious friction:
Saxon Wars: Charlemagne's brutal subjugation and forced Christianization of the neighboring pagan Saxons pushed Frankish borders to the doorstep of Scandinavia. [1, 2]
The Spark of Conflict: These aggressive southern campaigns and the ideological clash between Frankish Christianity and Norse paganism fueled early animosities that bled into the start of the Viking Age.

🎶replying to a channel going on about Normans, I posed "did Normans sit upon Charlemagne's throne?"

✨️did Normans sit upon Charlemagne's throne?"

No, Norman monarchs did not sit upon Charlemagne’s throne.
Charlemagne's Throne (the Karlsthron), located in the Palatine Chapel of the Aachen Cathedral in Germany, was strictly used for the coronation of the Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors. [1, 2]
The Norman dynasties ruled entirely different realms, primarily across England, Normandy, and Southern Italy (Sicily). Because they did not hold the title of King of Germany or Holy Roman Emperor, they never sat on this specific imperial seat during their coronation rituals. [1, 2]
The Norman Imperial Connection
While no Norman king sat on the physical throne, the Norman Kingdom of Sicily did share a famous connection with the Holy Roman Empire's crown jewels: [1]
• The Coronation Mantle: The oldest and most famous garment worn by Holy Roman Emperors during their coronations at Aachen was actually crafted for Roger II, the Norman King of Sicily, in 1133/1134. [1]How it Moved: The mantle entered the imperial treasury after the Hohenstaufen dynasty married into the Norman royal line, absorbing their Sicilian treasury. [1]The Legend: By the 14th century, the Holy Roman court had forgotten its true Norman-Arab origins and mistakenly believed the robe had belonged to Charlemagne himself. [1]

🎶I asked that before, and the AI take mentioned the Norse took Aachen, and the Chapel...let me nail that down...

✨️Norse captured the throne of Charlemagne

The premise that the Norse captured the throne of Charlemagne is historically incorrect. The Norse never conquered the Carolingian Empire or captured Charlemagne's throne. Vikings did raid parts of the Frankish empire—including Aachen, where Charlemagne’s Palatine Chapel and physical Throne of Charlemagne are located—decades after his death, but the empire was dismantled through internal civil wars and partitions among his descendants, not a Scandinavian takeover of the imperial crown. [1, 2, 3]
If you would like, I can share more details on:
• The actual Viking raids on Aachen and the RhinelandHow Charlemagne's empire was divided by his grandsonsThe establishment of Normandy by the Viking leader Rollo
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🎶something like that...my take was Vikings were all over the place, even Charlemagne realm...and this was all guess...just from bumping into Vikings...behind bumping into Scythians is bumping into Norse...Tommy the Tank with a walkoff home run...Pirates 4-Dodgers 5🎀...Angels 1-Rangers 2...

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DavidDavid

Prodigal: August 20, 2026

Open To Interpretation

City Words

#Prodigal

Lost

Which is the heartstring
The prodigals' fierce manage!
Kittens, lost and found.

Little

Game on...on the radio...Astros at Angels...bottom of second...Astros 2-Angels 2...there's a dictionary of popular interpretation...meanings the public mistake for a word's meaning...squeeze bunt...Astros 2-Angels 4...I take prodigal to mean a runaway kid...Angel plunked...Trout ground out...dozed off...Astros 2-Angels 10...bottom of fifth...time for a snack...Astros 2- Angels 11...out of here!...Neto....hr...Astros 2-Angels 14...oh...Angels at Astros?...yep...have had things backwards!...bbk...Angels 18-Astros 3😇...🎶cat Little came back last nite, after three days missing...🙂...

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DavidDavid

Heralds: August 19, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Herald

Game on...on the radio...Dodgers at Rockies...

A Before and After

We don't get to do

An after life interview-

That, posterity!

Can't say I recall

Before birth introduction-

Heralds sing, they say.

Oh, I'll sing for you

When you arrive after months-

And gone, sing for me.

Oh, and I compare

Side by side a seaside bench

Me and you and me.

It's just look alike

Anytime and anywhere

Everyone here, there.

CityWords

🎶Betts homerun...Dodgers 2-Rockies 1...Heralds sang at the birth of Kings...top of fourth...Dodgers 4‐Rockies 0...readsaid, in ancient Egypt, a woman giving birth became Isis, a goddess...

✨️in ancient Egypt, a woman giving birth became Isis, a goddess...

🧐https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

🎶guess I made that up...making up that heralds sing at every birth too!...Little, the tabby with the stuby tale, missing for two days...checked the garage...sometimes Little sleeps in the jeep-hops out when I hop in...Rockies score...Dodgers 4-Rockies 2...typing with one finger, I have to be very deliberate...easy to make mistakes...it isn't that when you lose too much, you become numb...it's that you reach a level of melancholy, and stay there...one long emotional hurt...only thing to do, for me, or you, we soldier on like everything is okay...lady told me her mom has alz...stage 4 or something..."my pop had alz" I said...like saying I'm on the same planet, people populated by alz caregivers...we soldier on...missing cats just one more damn thing...Egyptians had mourners for funerals...Kings being born have a play, some ceremony...

✨️Kings being born have a play, some ceremony

greek kings being born have a play, a ceremony

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In ancient Greece, newborn children—including future leaders—did not have a theatrical play for their birth, but families celebrated a core ritual called the Amphidromia on the fifth or seventh day after birth to formally welcome the child into the family. [1, 2]
Birth and Naming Ceremonies
The Amphidromia: The father ran around the family hearth carrying the baby. This act purified the newborn and accepted them into the household. [1]
The Decad: On the tenth day, a formal naming day and feast took place. Family and friends brought gifts like amulets, and animal sacrifices were offered to goddesses like Eileithyia. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Plays and Performance Connections
Mystery Plays: While royal births did not feature a play, ancient Mediterranean traditions (such as in Egypt or Near Eastern traditions) featured ritual "succession plays" or coronation dramas that symbolized a king's divine rebirth or ascension to the throne. [1, 2, 3]
Theatrical Evolution: Greek drama and tragedy evolved out of civic and religious Dionysian festivals later on, rather than private royal birth rituals. [1, 2]

🎶Bottom of ninth...Dodgers 4-Rockies 4...tied game...to top of tenth...Dodgers score...

✨️birth traditions celebrations

🎶Dodgers scoring...bottom of tenth...Dodgers 6-Rockies 4🎀...Astros 3-Angels 2...

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DavidDavid

Emergent: August 18, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Emerge

Game on...on the radio...Dodgers 1-Rockies 0...bottom of first...log lines emerge from reports that report the day to day play by play moments...it's a fine word, "emerge"...swimming into view...looming anticipation, gone back to nowhere...Rockies score....Dodgers 1-Rockies 1.

...swimming into view...looming anticipation gone back to nowhere

swimming into view

looming anticipation

gone back to nowhere

Answer to the test

With five by seven by five

Syllable line count

poems are answers

In the wisdom library

And uncorrected

I think it is mine

I'm sure I passed each question

Don't buy the Lotto

🎶To bottom of second

Mousing Around

Oh, on their table

Jury rigging, ballots stuffed-

C02 Apoxia.

Introduced control

For rampant species snail-

One worm too many.

Rally to rally

Whatever your tribal angst

Forehead to forehead

Don't matter a wit

Born just a nit that dont fit

Grab your mit, and play

Runamuk-i->

Stay

Be born, be greeted

With out a reputation..

"Oh no no no no...

Brass in my pocket

Here I am, don't look away,

"I'm winking at you.

Trailing Paradise

Oh, "waiting for this moment"..

How could we forget.

With something to say.

Oh, "you stole my heart" aside

Couldn't make a peep

"Little bit longer".

All along it was something..

"Tell me now you know?

CityWords

🦋Dream: wide wing fighter jets with wide open cockpits approaching...thinking "loglines" as I wake up.

🎶to top of third...don't know why I thought of log lines...but they are a personal favorite thought!...one can find sites, IMDb, that list all the movies made year by year, back to the beginning of Hollywood!, with loglines, taglines...foreign movie making too...Ohtani hits home run...he owns Rockies...two HRs yesterday...30 on season...they call the movie blurbs something else...tagline, synopsis, treatment...treatment is longer, or shorter...tales of actors being asked to do movies with just a blurb, short treatment, and producers given blurbs by aspiring script writers!...sometimes doctors treatments a blurbs.

 Oh, your synopsis

Met with your doctor's treatment-

A hollywood blurb

lol...Haiku's are log lines

✨️lol...Haiku's are log lines

No, haikus are not log lines. A haiku is a short form of poetry with 17 syllables usually split into three lines (5-7-5). A log line is a one- or two-sentence summary that pitches a movie or TV show

[1, 2, 3

🎶a quibble

Godzilla minus-one

Nuclear submarine

C02 build up

CityWords

🎶why I call mine, "5x7x5", lest I mess with Haikuers...a brief treatment:

Godzilla monster mutant emergent from radioactivity

nuclear submarines emerged from threat of perceived enemy with their nuclear subs

global warming emerges from CO2 build up.

Godzilla can swim under water, and a fire breathing dragon.

hmmph...why 5x7x5?...can't pin that down...why N1 hypnopompics?...Rockies 1-Dodgers 6...Hollywood has made movies from all those Godzilla emergents...how was that said?.

✨️Emergent physics is the study of how large-scale macroscopic properties, patterns, and laws arise from the collective interactions of many microscopic parts. At this higher level, new behaviors appear that do not exist in the individual fundamental components. A famous summary of this concept by physicist Philip Anderson is "more is different"

🎶In Stay, I lifted lines from songs, some in quotes...cheating probably...but it makes a subtext-knowing the songs-like that relation between clue and crossword puzzle answer...to top of fifth...Dodgers 6-Rockies 3...Betts up...Mousing Around, Treatment: feed dropped Artemis channel with Greek Reporter take of finding ritual mice sacrifices to Apollo in archaeological dig on Crete...oh, dropped a comment noting Robert Graves talks about Apollo and Mice.

✨️In his works like The White Goddess and The Greek Myths, Robert Graves argues that Apollo originated as a totemistic mouse-demon in pre-Aryan Europe. Over time, through assimilation and shifts in religious dominance, this mouse deity ascended to become the Olympian patron of music, poetry, and prophecy. [1

The Mouse-God Origin

Totemistic Roots: Graves proposes that Apollo began as the demon or spirit of a mouse-fraternity in early, pre-Aryan Europe. [1

Apollo Smintheus: Graves highlights the ancient title Smintheus ("Mouse-Apollo") as one of the god's earliest epithets, connected to shrines of the primordial Earth/Death Goddess. [1

Secrets of the Earth: Mice were culturally believed to understand subterranean secrets and whisper them to the god, which aligns with Apollo taking over the oracular shrine at Delphi from Mother Earth. [1, 2

Plague and Healing: Because mice were anciently associated with sudden outbreaks of disease and sickness, the mouse-god was dually viewed as a bringer of plague and an apotropaic healer. [, 2

Rise to Olympian Stature

🎶Graves' works are full of anecdotes, curios, blurbs...the play by play of an antquarian...he'd fit right in in social media...gossip much in his baliwick...baliwick!...the ships at sea site vlogger owned up that outer space not his baliwick today, but things of seas and ships were his baliwick...specifically, how to tow a disabled ship...this in the back and forth about how to recover the space x, star ship, booster, that landed tail down in the Pacific, but, what?, fell over with no platform, but stayed afloat..."surprising how buoyant" in its tow to Christmas Island...Ohtani up...and brought Apollo 13, the disabled Apollo craft-how the ground crew had to improvise to clear the CO2 build up, as the scrubbers in the crew capsule failed...but...the scrubbers in the lander okay, and could be used, but were wrong shape- square instead of round...the ground crew faced with finding a solition with what they had "on the table"...scene of them throwing replicated stuff from the capsule on a table-"make a square peg fit a round pegs hole" their challenge...I think duct tale had a role...I don't know if saying "what's on the table" emerged before or after that...now, a common term.

✨️The idiom "on the table" (meaning a proposal or topic is actively available for discussion or negotiation) originates from literal physical tables used in 17th-century parliamentary procedures where documents were laid out for lawmakers to review. It has no direct historical link to the 1970 Apollo 13 mission. [1, 2, 3, 4, 

Idiom Origin

Literal Display: People placed documents, bills, or items flat on a physical table so everyone gathered around could see and examine them. [1

Parliamentary Tradition: In British and international English, "tabling" a motion means bringing it forward for immediate debate. [1

Regional Shift: In American English, "to table" strangely evolved to mean the opposite—delaying or postponing a discussion—though saying something remains "on the table" still means it is open for consideration. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The Apollo 13 Connection (Misconception

Famous Quote: Apollo 13 is famous for the phrase "Houston, we have a problem" (originally spoken as "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here" by astronaut Jack Swigert). [1, 2

No Idiom Link: The space mission popularized high-stakes crisis management and improvisation, but it did not coin or alter the phrase "on the table." [1

Movie Scenes: Dramatizations like the 1995 movie Apollo 13 feature flight directors throwing out the flight plan to figure out options to get the crew home, which reflects the figurative meaning of putting options "on the table," but the idiom itself is centuries older than the space program. [1, 2, 3

🎶AI has that skewed up..."on the table":all that's availabe...they covered the table with the parts available, and had to verbalize the ones to use to the astronauts, as they had no photo link...no tv of their own, tho on tv!...go figure...so, so, I riffed on, "on the table", at the ship site...and searched what is on the table for gaza, ukraine, iran...left comment of such...a wait see if a reply emerges!...at many sites I have no cache...not a wit...I'm becoming skilled in comment blurbs...that's all comments are!...blurbs...occasionally treatments...the channels treat, beginning with clic bait, then drawn out on and ons, cliff hangings...bottom of seventh...world series emerges from season of 160 games!

More is different

That's a five syllable line...aquired skill to hear syllable counts, iambic pentameter.

✨️old bards could extemporize rhymed verse to an audience that expected nothing less

Yes, ancient and traditional bards possessed the rare skill to compose and recite rhymed poetry on the spot. They matched complex meter and rhyme schemes without any prior preparation. Their audiences expected high-level art during every single performanc

How Bards Performed

Oral Tradition: Bards relied on memorized formulas, stock phrases, and traditional tunes

Musical Accompaniment: They often plucked a harp or lyre to keep a steady rhythm while they thought of the next lines

Social Role: Societies treated them as historians, news carriers, and keepers of tribal memory

Famous Tradition

Celtic Bards: Irish and Welsh poets held high legal and social ranks in royal courts

Norse Skalds: Viking poets crafted complex verses about battles and kings on demand

Guslar Singers: Balkan bards sang long epic tales of heroes while playing a single-stringed instrument

🎶This is Robert Graves' lament...we've all been dumbed down..

✨️This is Robert Graves' lament...we've all been dumbed down as old bards could extemporize rhymed verse to an audience that expected nothing less

Robert Graves is right that old bards had a unique skill. They could make up rhymed poems on the spot. Their listeners expected high art in real time. Today, daily culture relies less on fast, complex wordplay and memory

Why Bards Could Do I

Oral tradition: Bards trained for years. They memorized vast story frameworks

Formulaic phrasing: They used set rhyme pairs and rhythm beats to buy time

Live feedback: The crowd's energy helped shape the next line instantly

What Changed Today

Written word: Printing shifted focus from spoken memory to silent reading

Mass media: Entertainment became a recorded product instead of a live craft

Attention shifts: Modern art values visual media and fast digital formats

🎶aaand now, we are at the threshold of artificial intelligence...the year 5555, "some machines doing that for you"...from song 2525.

In-valid

Oh, and where were you

When "machines bagan doing"

All that for you.

🎶hmmph..."what is more", makes something less...what emerges, submerges...that word the other day?...democracy from monarchy back to monarchy...apprently, emergent, is we can't go back...that, "the toothpaste is out of the tube" idiom...Dodgers 7-Rockies 5...Astros 1-Angels 3...😇...bottom of ninth...one down...baserunner...tying run at plate...Baseball managers are Bards...heads full of baseball blurbs...players and fans heads full of baseball...the pitch evaluation machine calling balls and strikes?...today's emergency from umpires' travails...umpires are Druids...two out...hit...run scores...game tied...players sing their poem...fly out to Betts...Dodgers 7-Rockies 6🎀...Astros 1-Angels 3😇...

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DavidDavid