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Other terms for hypnagogia, in one or both senses, that have been proposed include "presomnal" or "anthypnic sensations", "visions of half-sleep", "oneirogogic images" and "phantasmata",[4] "the borderland of sleep", "praedormitium",[5] "borderland state", "half-dream state", "pre-dream condition",[6] "sleep onset dreams",[7] "dreamlets",[8] and "wakefulness-sleep transition" (WST).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
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hmmph...and here I thought I was into something obscure!...and indeed there are names for what I'm going on about...the little drawings are from critters I saw in my Hypnagogia!...if you un-focus your attention, somewhat like with your eyes un-focusing...relaxing might be a better word...these 'dreamlets' pop up spontaneously...I don't give them much attention, though relaxing to the point they appear eases going asleep...but I'm wondering if the Mayans gave them attention...for that matter all the ancients...in the Michael Coe youtube lecture he notes a lot of things...one of them was that the Maya may have had sleep temples like in ancient Europe...to catch a poem, I kind of relax in the same way...and a line, or image, or something, will appear...this is very strange, and far afield from writing prose...it's like you're collaborating with inspiration...baseball hitters do everything to relax as the pitch is coming...hitting a baseball is a collaboration between consciousness and unconsciousness...oh, Houston scores a run, but runner at first caught off first, and out...end of 2nd--2-1...Coe is all over the map with things...at Copan, he conjectures, there was a sanctuary for scribes...this the only way they could survive the incessant Mayan warfare...and scribes were highly regarded...they individually signed their works...noting which King they served...the Yucatan peninsula has limestone for bedrock...and is permeated with caves...rain dissolves through the limestone...Coe hopeful that Mayan books will be found preserved in the caves, which were frequented by the Mayans...their underworld...in an interview Coe has with a Mormon, a youtube, the back and forth is about finding verifications for the Mormon Bible...it has Mayan things in it...and the interviewer brings up the Lidar laser scannings of the jungle...these scans see right through the jungle and find the old ruins...it's proving out how extensive they are, especially around Copan...in Egypt this is being done too with satellites...they should try it on Mars!...asked if the Egyptian astronomers compare to the Mayans, Coe laughed, and said no, Mayans much more sophisticated, but the Chinese were the Mayans equal...Trout walks, bases loaded!...there is something called the Chinese Mayan Continuum...brb...this is the notion that China contacted the Americas before Columbus...Angels 4 Houston 1 bottom 3rd...a thought is that the iconography of the Mesoamericans could induce states of mind, un-focus ones attention and refocus it on something else...well, we do that with our entertainments...three walks, two k, fly out...Ohtani gets through the third!...create an event...not knowing what one is, one could be confused looking at an empty baseball stadium...and watching the game wouldn't help, at first, until one realized what the players are about, and then each event of the game would make sense, and the overall attempt to win the game, an event, and the seasonal goal of winning the world series, another event...it's all a fabric of events...the Mayan temples, statues, books, rituals, stories, are all about events...allude to events...and their events are lost to us, though, being human beings, like people today, their events must have been self similar...DP and the inning is over!...on to 5th...insomuch as the Mesoamericans were behaving like they were nuts, what events they pursued and commemorated is to be noted!...on Coatlicue's chest are the four severed hands, and hearts, some have just two hands, some have a skull too, and on some she had a head, rather than two snakes, and the skin over her head looks odd...she's wearing a flayed human skin!...that chest pectoral with severed hands--a stylized flayed skin...brb...Bernal Diaz described the Aztec priest residing in the houses on top of pyramids--inside the walls covered in blood, and the priests wearing human skins...the Mesoamericans were given to human sacrifice, cannibalism, shrunken heads, scapling, skinning, the usual things!...brb...
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Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare.[9] He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. Without his skin, he was depicted as a golden god. Xipe Totec was believed by the Aztecs to be the god that invented war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe_Totec
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a lot of these gods are like swiss army knives!...hmmph...Houston picks up 2 runs...4-3 now...this to say they have a lot of attributes...how the Maya kept track of them all is a wonder...but Xipe was about as horrific as they come...images of gods that were related to planting and growing sometimes had plants literally growing out of them...boxes shaped like Osiris have been found, filled with dirt and wheat growing...and there's the Green Man...this is a nice site...
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As has been mentioned above, some commentators have associated the Green Man with a deity known as Khidr from esoteric Islamic Sufism. In this belief, Khidr is a kind of mediating principle between the imaginary and physical worlds, and a voice of inspiration to artists. This suggests the possibility that medieval European sculptors and carvers, in an early cross-over of cultures, may have seen the Green Man as a source of inspiration for their art.
http://www.greenmanenigma.com/theories.html
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hmmph...some scarab work...brb...
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Khepri ḫprj is derived from Egyptian language verb ḫpr, meaning "develop", "come into being", or "create".[1] The god was connected with the scarab beetle (ḫprr in Egyptian), because the scarab rolls balls of dung across the ground, an act that the Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky. Khepri was thus a solar deity. Young dung beetles, having been laid as eggs within the dung ball, emerge from it fully formed. Therefore, Khepri also represented creation and rebirth, and he was specifically connected with the rising sun and the mythical creation of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khepri
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"Egyptians saw as a symbol of the forces that move the sun across the sky."...its disconcerting that they regarded a bug as a god...but, that's where gods come from, Nature...Ohtani done...w, k, top of 6th...Rivera in for relief...Nature's Events!...
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Hamlet:
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this
special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature:
for any thing so o'erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose
end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the
mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own
image, and the very age and body of the time his form and
pressure.
Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 17–24
https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/hold-mirror-up-nature
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HR Astros...Angels 4 Houston 5...maybe in one of those caves they'll find a Mayan Shakespeare...and it's annoying, the odd stories of the gods and goddesses...they were shaped somehow...from some events...and...the odd stories of insects have caught my attention...and what they could possibly allude to!...tomorrow morrow...time to foray out for a snack!...Angels now 8, Astros 5, and in peril, two Astros on...
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DavidDavid
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