News....game on...on the radio...Calhoun has the first hit of the ball game for the Angels...snapped an 0-14...top of 3rd...Yankees 1-0...there are ruins all over Mexico...and tourists making youtubes too...web visited Frida Khalo's Blue House...Kinsler pops out...two gone...Trout up....Khalo's house is really big...and the abstract double house she shared with husband Diego Rivera...one side for him, one side for her...very modern looking...and then the museum they built to house his collection of pre-Colombian things...very big and built to look like a Mesoamerican pyramid...Diego routinely gathered up things from Teotihuacan....and that pyramid temple complex is really really big!...and from there....what I was about was following youtube's....heck....Calhoun thrown out trying to make home on Upton's single to right...youtube's recommended thumb nails....from there to the Yucatan...clips taken by drones...some of these are really well done!...and floating above Chichen Itza, the pyramid with the four stair cases....bottom of 3rd...seen from right above...I thought...wait...I've seen that!...brb...Heany pitching...bunt attempt-one out...Sevarino for Yankees...Judge fly out to Upton...Yankees made out...Pujols up...
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Each of the pyramid's four sides has 91 steps which, when added together and including the temple platform on top as the final "step", produces a total of 365 steps (which is equal to the number of days of the Haab' year).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Castillo,_Chichen_Itza
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sharp ground out...Ohtani up...Ohtani walks!...fourth walk for Sevarino...Simmons up...hit...runners first and second..."one little hiccup...is his base running"...Ohtani could maybe have made it to third...Cozart up...made out...to bottom of 4th...
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This image comes from the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, an Aztec screen-fold book painted on deerskin parchment, and depicts the quadripartite cosmos and its relation to the sacred 260-day calendar called the tonalpohualli. In the center of the page stands the fire god Xiuhtecuhlti holding a bundle of spears and wielding an atlatl. Flanking him in the four cardinal directions are different types of trees, and in the interstices of these directions are birds that each bear one of four year signs.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/world_mexico_codices/5/
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3dice_Fej%C3%A9rv%C3%A1ry-Mayer
they're the same!...the illustration is from one of only four pre Columbian books left from Mesoamerica...I think...the Aztecs continued for awhile making books after the conquest...the lament is that the...Home Run Trout!...Angels 1-1...Upton up...the lament is that the Spanish burned up all the books...thousands...but, you know, there may have not been that much of a variety...the Mesoamerican cultures were so ridged, that it is unlikely much could be written that didn't support the state/theocracy...this to say, the one book was their bible, and its various themes...Angels made out...don't know how!...and there were just thousands of them...Yankee double off the wall...two out...
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The Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is an Aztec Codex of central Mexico. It is one of the rare pre-Hispanic manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of Mexico. As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar – the tonalpohualli – it is placed in the Borgia Group. It is a divinatory almanac in 17 sections.Its elaboration is typically pre-Columbian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Fej%C3%A9rv%C3%A1ry-Mayer
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the illustration is on page one...I got to looking at it close...and realized I could make some of it out, having perused so many ideographs by now!...the fellow in the center is holding in his hands three atletl darts, a shield, and the thrower...apparently one griped the thrower with two fingers...it has two loops...but I'm not sure...and it is what the Tula warriors are holding in their hands by their sides, on one side the thrower, on the other the darts...brb...Yankees have bases loaded...two out!...come on guys!...Stanton flies out...'tied at one'...top of 6th...
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from Tula
The figures here are depicted as wearing "stylized butterfly breastplates, sun-shaped shields on their backs, feathered headdresses and carry spear throwers and a supply of spears".
from Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza is a site located on the northern centre of the Yucatan Peninsula and contains what is known as the Temple of Warriors. At the top of the temple, used as support for the roof, run columns of the carved warriors wearing a feathered headdress, a butterfly-shaped pectoral, and holding a dart thrower and darts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean_figures
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grounded out...Simmons up...I haven't seen the Itza warriors...brb...two quick outs on the Yankees...Angels made out...fly out to Calhoun...top of 7th...oh no...Maldanado thrown out trying to reach second...loses a double...Judge second throw'm out...Calhoun up...hits through the left side...I can't find any google images of the Chichen Itza El Castillo warriors...I'm guessing they're insde the box on top of the pyramid...are they're four of them?...holding up the roof?...hmmph...Kinsler made out...to bottom of 7th...tourists since 2006 can't climb it anymore...one fell...kinda like Half Dome...one fell there just the other day...tourists undeterred thereabout!...Torres home run...Yankees 2-1...to top of 8th...Trout up...ground out...
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The structure is built in 9 platforms, that correspond to the Maya conception of a nine-stage underworld.
http://cookjmex.blogspot.com/2010/07/chichen-itza-part-1-yucatans-ancient.html
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forgot that...El Castillo, and the Codex illustration, I imagine, represent those adventures in the underworld...if I remember right, there were like four ages, the world created and destroyed four times...oh...the hero torn apart into four pieces like Osiris being torn apart by Set...or some such!...that site is really really good!...links to a whole bunch of Mesoamerican ruins, all visited by the author, I think...Ohtani coming up...bring in Chapman...but no pics of inside the box on top...looking at the illustration, seeing the gripped atlatl thrower and darts...the bundle of darts with the shield, just three darts, shows up a lot...one ruler named 'smoke shield'...well...brb...Upton moves to second on passed ball...ground out...sigh...bottom of 8th...the bundle of darts with shield is some kind of ideograph for something...all the little things in the illustration allude to something...those red vine looking things are blood flowing...there are severed body parts with bones sticking out...Mesoamercian ideographs have the matter of factness of medical books!...a thought I've had about Egyptian icons too...one curio is a set of teeth...just upper and lower teeth of an open mouth...seen here and there...one I saw in the trunk of a little tree...tree I learned was an avocado tree...and glyph indicated a town whose logo was an avocado tree...little temples depicted with smoking burning tops, with a logo beside them, indicate towns captured by a ruler...for sometime is to find a book that explains these ideograph/glyphs!...Pedrozan pitching in relief...two out...had the thought that the bundle of darts with shield is a calendar related glyph, and that it is the butterfly pectoral on the warriors...those pectorals look to have been where something was hung...a decoration...and there are three protrusions on each side...the three darts with shield...but I dunno!...keep looking...more on the glyphs for sometime...W...Rivera coming in...earlier I quoted the find of a small figurine the archaeologist figured out was a flute/whistle kind of thing that they discovered when played made the sound of a Jaguar...in watching the youtubes, I saw replicas of this being sold as souvenirs at the ruins...how cute, I thought!...and looking about to maybe get one, they are available on amazon, I discovered the Aztec death whistle!...one pitch ends the inning...top of 9th...and that whistle is the most gawdawful thing!...it imitates someone screaming...these whistles looks like a little skull with a spout coming out the back...where one blows...anthropologists suspect the sound of it aided going into altered mental states...which suggests the drug inebriated priests used noises to create their illusions...it's really scary!...and these too, like the jaguar whistle, the archaeologist didn't know what they were at first...thought they were toys...one out...Cozart up...Yankees too tough...long fly out to left...Maldanado up...Chapman throwing one hundred miles an hour...going for tenth save...last pitch 101...K....sigh...oh, I had it wrong...the warriors at Itza are on the Temple of the Warriors, not El Castillo, and much eroded...for tomorrow morrow...
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