Notes: pick off...fly out to left...on to the top of the 6th...Astros 3 Angels 0...Angels finished with a win last night...Angels 8 Astros 7...a fine effort!...Agriculture came around to inspect the citrus trees...some kind of pest on the loose...delayed the morning, and turned the radio on late for the Angels' afternoon game in Texas!...brb...
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The pyramids themselves represented the first mound of earth to emerge from the primeval waters of Nu in Egyptian mythology.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=126979308348410557#editor/target=post;postID=270662356834503797
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dung beetles tunnel into the ground...brb...
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Many dung beetles, known as rollers, roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as tunnelers, bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the dwellers, neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in manure.
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The nocturnal African dung beetle Scarabaeus satyrus is the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient itself using the Milky Way.[
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Perhaps the most famous example of such "heart scarabs" is the yellow-green pectoral scarab found among the entombed provisions of Tutankhamen. It was carved from a large piece of Libyan desert glass.
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One scholar comments on other traits of the scarab connected with the theme of death and rebirth:
It may not have gone unnoticed that the pupa, whose wings and legs are encased at this stage of development, is very mummy-like. It has even been pointed out that the egg-bearing ball of dung is created in an underground chamber which is reached by a vertical shaft and horizontal passage curiously reminiscent of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs."[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle
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I forget what it was I was watching or reading..oh!...it was an explanation of the WAS scepter...and the DJED pillar...and ANKH, authors thought they were made from bull parts...stylized of course...brb...
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In this collection, we’ll look at some of the speculation concerning the Was scepter as well as compare a number of them with current artistic renderings of the Pteranodon.
http://new.s8int.com/2009/09/28/pteranodon-on-a-stick-egyptian-was-scepter-creature-no-mystery-without-darwinian-history/
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oh!...that's not what I was looking for...a charming diversion!...Plutarch, or one of the other old Greeks, reported a Pteranodon like bird in India....brb...for sometime...can't find it quick...brb...and I can't find the article I read about these regalia being stylized Apis Bull parts...WAS Sceptre a bull's penis...djed pillar a bull's sacrum...forget what the ankh was...Egyptians made canes out of dried bull penises...it was a scholar's article, and at the end, he suggested that much of ancient Egypt, what their iconography was alluding too, could maybe be found in the remaining cultures in the Sudan...so, I went and read about the people who live still in the ancient ways in the Sud by the Nile...it was youtube clip actually...NatGeo...brb...the Dinka!...the Dinka love their cattle, just adore them...and their environment is such...desert up against swamp...that they are beset by stinging bugs...now, everyday they gather the cattle's dung into a mound, and set it afire, for cooking and warmth, and in the morning there is a mound of ash, and they cover themselves with the ash, and so get through the day bug free...now, I took note of the mound of dung, and how it was central, and thought dung beetles must live in the dung...all this the Egyptians must have seen...and there is the primordial mound which led to the Pyramids with the tunneling dung beetles of rebirth...Egyptians were big on tunneling...could that be?...I don't know, but it is the way the ancients seem to have seen symbols, and the principles of their gods, in Nature....those comic book animal heads on Egyptian gods are serious stuff!...Angels couldn't catch up...Angels 2 Astros 5...Verlander is too tough...so, now, I have this notion to regard insects as the Egyptians did, for their principles...on another note, I may have really found something!...the Toltec/Tula warriors have a distinctive headdress (chacmools wear it too)...a beaded cylinder topped by feathers...looking at these, I knew I'd seen them before somewhere...a comment commentator said so too, and pegged it to an Egyptian relief of Semitc foreigners...I found that, and, sorta alike...I had thought I'd seen it on the Sumerian reliefs, but they have a headdress made of horns...or so I thought...I was looking at these face on...but from the side, there's the beaded cylinder with feathers combine with the horns!...the human headed winged bulls wear them!...cattle were beloved by everyone!...brb...
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/enemies.htm
The bulls are called Lumasi...I didn't know there were so many of them...a few less because of the wars...the warriors and the bulls have the same stiff poses too...and I hadn't thought the Lumasi would take me to Ezekiel again...it's thought Ezekiel's visions were influenced by his likely having seen Lumasi...brb...
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The ancient Jewish people were influenced by the iconography of Assyrian culture. The prophet Ezekiel wrote about a fantastic being made up of aspects of a human being, a lion, an eagle and a bull. Later, in the early Christian period, the four Gospels were ascribed to each of these components. When it was depicted in art, this image was called the Tetramorph.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamassu
Sixth post in a series...see previous...some of the Lamasi are lying down, their head turned ninety degrees...
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