Open To Interpretation
Sketch For Sonnet
Opening, inside I see the welter:
Balsa wood pieces unassembled--
Propeller, rubber band, tissue paper--
Instructions to be deciphered
Khufu's boat
Mayan hieroglyphs
Someone could have just explained it all,
Like the fascination with Mickey Mouse.
DolphinWords
Notes: Angels game came on early...forgot they were in Houston...bottom of second...thought, which is silly, is to do these posts while the Angels games are in progress, or in close proximity, like when I come back from seeing one live...that may be a longer row to hoe than I can do...season has a hundred and sixty games...but...I've done the like before!...anyway...this fourth post...see previous...
I remembered the Egyptian god Geb is in a relining pose too like the Chacmools, and Pakal in the 'astronaut' pose...are they falling, rather than reclining on the ground?...Pakal is associated with maize, Geb with wheat...thought to see what the gods of rice look like...DewiSri is knockdown gorgeous...and still worshipped in Indonesia side by side with Islam...one thing wheat, maize, rice gods have in common is being androgynous...that, and snakes...
oh, the 'Sketch For Sonnet'...this is how one of mine looks starting out...I have the conceit...a balsa wood model in its box just opened...and what I wanted to reach for is that the instructions are without words...just drawings with arrows and parts numbers indicating what goes with what, and the order of assembly...now, beneath the Great Pyramid was found a wooden boat, disassembled...and just made of ropes and wood...and without instructions...its been put together...and early on, a fellow who was independently wealthy, as he was married to a rich girl from California, involved his time in an unheralded effort to meticulously copy with painting and drawing all the Mayan hieroglyphs he could find...this when everything covered by jungle still...that I learned this by watching a youtube clip in the wee hours of a lecture by Michael Coe about Mayan hieroglyphs...so, the sonnet's elaborated conceit would try to reach for the puzzling something out without much help...or instructions that are minimal...thought is what has come down to us from ancient cultures is like minimalist instructions, or, in the case of the Khufu boat, and Mayan Hieroglyphs, no instructions at all....obvious of the balsa wood model is that it is an airplane, obvious of the Khufu boat was that it was a boat...it's a big help if you know what something is supposed to be!...the Mayan hieroglyphs didn't give a clue, until it was noted the numbering, and then the calendars...that's something all the ancient cultures had in common--numbers and calendars...the temples, and stories, oriented to the seasons and the stars...end of four...no scores yet...
since van Daniken noted Pakal looks like an astronaut, everyone has been scouring ancient things for ancient astronaut stuff...brb...
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The idea that ancient astronauts existed is not taken seriously by academics, and has received no credible attention in peer reviewed studies.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts
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for the sonnet I'm trying to think up a couplet too for the end that has a horde of starwars figurines buried and dug up far in the future, and the future is amazed that we had space travel and contact with aliens!...of course we know better...all that is from the movies...and I'm wondering if that is what we are finding in the ancient cultures...'movie' things...near as I can tell, there are no spaceships depicted, but there is no shortage of fantastic things from somewhere...
when I was a kid, it had to have been something of a shock to open the pages of Nat Geo and read about the Ancient Egyptians and their dung beetles...right there on King Tut's chest, a pectoral with a scarab...wonderfully rendered, but still, a dung beetle rolling a ball of dung!...it may as have well have been a tangled ball of thread...and I've been trying to unravel it for months now...it was the start of these posts, but hung fire...Valbuena gets a hit...first hit through five...this happened in the last game in the Boston series, no hit through five...and yesterday they were no hit through six...this is not good!...a walk, and single by drought ridden Calhoun...his first hit in like eighteen at bats...there's a bug on some island near New Zealand that went extinct, it was thought...a ship wreck populated the island with rats which ate all the bugs in short order...but some recent rock climbers on another nearby island, a pinnacle (I have this fascination with pinnacles now having done the Pinnacle Race Black Deck Tale--see moveTombRaider!), found some surviving bugs...Tree Lobsters they are nicknamed...and these bugs, somewhat uniquely for bugs, mate, male with female, loyally, though the females can give birth too without mating...which is a boon to the bug folk...a few bugs have been sent here and there to establish populations, and insure they wont go extinct again!...they lay eggs like in the thousands...I could make an allusion from that for the archaeologists digging up Aztec things...early Christians buried them, least they continue, and there is voiced a concern that digging them back up will reestablish the savagery of the Aztecs...we may not be immune to contamination by former cultures!...brb...
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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster (Italian: Caltiki, il mostro immortale) is a 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film. The film's storyline concerns a team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins who come across a creature that is a shapeless, amorphous blob. They manage to defeat it using fire, while keeping a sample of the creature. Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to the Earth, the very same comet that passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilization collapsed, raising the question: "Is there a connection between the creature and the comet"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltiki_%E2%80%93_The_Immortal_Monster
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a recurring refrain in the movies!...Angels got another run...Pujols walks, two on two out...Valbuena up again...K...bottom six...Sumerian gods of wheat?...brb...
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Nidaba...was the Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidaba
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That!, that's very good!...harvesting, planting, and such, can allude to writing, reading and learning and such...but there is another Sumerian harvest I've been curious about...brb...well, Sumerian god Dumuzi is together with Innana and both together with Date Palms...but I can't find a good quote to snag...there are some, but inside books...wiki's letting me down!...much is made of the winged eagle headed being with a bucket in one hand, and a pine cone in the other, standing before a tree...this works out to the bucket having pollen in it, and the pine cone, or pine cone looking thing, a way to spread the pollen on the tree, which is a date palm...spreading pollen on date palms is familiar to date palm farmers to this day...I need to go to the store and get some dates!...this icon is found on the Sumerian palaces--now in museums...I don't know what the Eagle head and wings are about...the allusions of these icons are lost...the 'assembly' in all this is to re-discover the allusions!...difficult as so many see illusionary allusions!...the bucket is compared to what looks like a bucket held by the Tula Warriors...and from there more ancient astronaut conjectures...hmmph...brb...
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since van Daniken noted Pakal looks like an astronaut, everyone has been scouring ancient things for ancient astronaut stuff...brb...
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The idea that ancient astronauts existed is not taken seriously by academics, and has received no credible attention in peer reviewed studies.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts
unquote
for the sonnet I'm trying to think up a couplet too for the end that has a horde of starwars figurines buried and dug up far in the future, and the future is amazed that we had space travel and contact with aliens!...of course we know better...all that is from the movies...and I'm wondering if that is what we are finding in the ancient cultures...'movie' things...near as I can tell, there are no spaceships depicted, but there is no shortage of fantastic things from somewhere...
when I was a kid, it had to have been something of a shock to open the pages of Nat Geo and read about the Ancient Egyptians and their dung beetles...right there on King Tut's chest, a pectoral with a scarab...wonderfully rendered, but still, a dung beetle rolling a ball of dung!...it may as have well have been a tangled ball of thread...and I've been trying to unravel it for months now...it was the start of these posts, but hung fire...Valbuena gets a hit...first hit through five...this happened in the last game in the Boston series, no hit through five...and yesterday they were no hit through six...this is not good!...a walk, and single by drought ridden Calhoun...his first hit in like eighteen at bats...there's a bug on some island near New Zealand that went extinct, it was thought...a ship wreck populated the island with rats which ate all the bugs in short order...but some recent rock climbers on another nearby island, a pinnacle (I have this fascination with pinnacles now having done the Pinnacle Race Black Deck Tale--see moveTombRaider!), found some surviving bugs...Tree Lobsters they are nicknamed...and these bugs, somewhat uniquely for bugs, mate, male with female, loyally, though the females can give birth too without mating...which is a boon to the bug folk...a few bugs have been sent here and there to establish populations, and insure they wont go extinct again!...they lay eggs like in the thousands...I could make an allusion from that for the archaeologists digging up Aztec things...early Christians buried them, least they continue, and there is voiced a concern that digging them back up will reestablish the savagery of the Aztecs...we may not be immune to contamination by former cultures!...brb...
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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster (Italian: Caltiki, il mostro immortale) is a 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film. The film's storyline concerns a team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins who come across a creature that is a shapeless, amorphous blob. They manage to defeat it using fire, while keeping a sample of the creature. Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to the Earth, the very same comet that passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilization collapsed, raising the question: "Is there a connection between the creature and the comet"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltiki_%E2%80%93_The_Immortal_Monster
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a recurring refrain in the movies!...Angels got another run...Pujols walks, two on two out...Valbuena up again...K...bottom six...Sumerian gods of wheat?...brb...
quote
Nidaba...was the Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidaba
unquote
That!, that's very good!...harvesting, planting, and such, can allude to writing, reading and learning and such...but there is another Sumerian harvest I've been curious about...brb...well, Sumerian god Dumuzi is together with Innana and both together with Date Palms...but I can't find a good quote to snag...there are some, but inside books...wiki's letting me down!...much is made of the winged eagle headed being with a bucket in one hand, and a pine cone in the other, standing before a tree...this works out to the bucket having pollen in it, and the pine cone, or pine cone looking thing, a way to spread the pollen on the tree, which is a date palm...spreading pollen on date palms is familiar to date palm farmers to this day...I need to go to the store and get some dates!...this icon is found on the Sumerian palaces--now in museums...I don't know what the Eagle head and wings are about...the allusions of these icons are lost...the 'assembly' in all this is to re-discover the allusions!...difficult as so many see illusionary allusions!...the bucket is compared to what looks like a bucket held by the Tula Warriors...and from there more ancient astronaut conjectures...hmmph...brb...
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Kisilevitz tells Megan Gannon at LiveScience that they are not certain if the toads were buried as a posthumous snack. The Egyptians considered toads a symbol of regeneration, and that may have influenced the choice of offering. But the decapitation may be an indication the toads were prepared as food, similar to the way indigenous people in South America remove the head and toes of frogs to more easily remove their toxic skin, reports Borschel-Dan.
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routinely I do a 'news archaeology' search, and just back two posts while I was going on about magic toads, that showed up...and I had to wonder if the heads had been ingested for their hallucinating toxins...a dogear....but in the jar too was date pollen, which was unusual, as date palms not native to Jerusalem...thought is an orchard had been planted and maintained...I imagine along with it came Innana and Dumizi...early Israelites held to pagan gods, much as I imagine the Indonesians worship Sri while holding to Islam now...one inning to go!...Angels hanging on--2-0...9th...Pujols up...Dumizi is mixed up with, or is, Tammuz...brb...
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Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
Ezekiel 8
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hmmph...come on guys...tying run at the plate...bottom of 9th...Middleton pitching...walk...no outs...1st and 2nd...k...K...play at third under review...pass ball throw 'm out...he's out!...a halo over this one!...lol...
more tomorrow morrow...
:)
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