Open To Interpretation
Eyes
"Eyes we have!"
Said Petra, and turned to Poe,
"Poe?" she said.
And Poe beckoned,
And the Ravens lifted up
From the Black Ships' riggings
And flocked towards the gathered crews
On the wharf below Volcano Never.
And thereabout the Ravens flew about,
And walked about the wooden planks.
The Gulls, jealous,
Followed from the riggings,
And soon the wharf a strange sight:
The crews with their Black Dragons,
Or the Black Dragons with their crews!
Such is uncertainty...
Being swarmed by Ravens and Gulls;
All before Pakal and his entourage
In their outlandish plumed costumes.
From Pakal's crew Petra borrowed a flute.
"May I?" she asked.
Pakal assented.
And to the shrill, and annoying,
Sound of the flute,
The Parrots arrived,
Out of nowhere,
As is their often wont,
And raucous as usual.
The wharf all a swirl with their rainbow colors,
And the Ravens' and Gulls'.
DolphinWords
Notes: Dodgers on the radio...they've managed to get off the deck with a wild pitch...'and that ends the inning'...hmmph...all they get from bases loaded...one run...but game tied...Dodgers 1 Diamondbacks 1...I missed the Angels game!...a plumbing near disaster in the morning had all my attention and effort...again the hose bib/old sprinklers connection by the front steps went south...leaking from the plastic pipes...last time I fixed this, I had to connect fittings without the water being turned off...that particular faucet isn't connected to the house shut off...it goes direct to the city's meter shut off...which I tried to shut off again...bought two 'keys' at hardware, and neither worked...that valve frozen, or stuck...it's never used...I gritted my teeth, and took apart all the old fittings...with the water on, and gushing...if I cant do this, my thought, I cant turn the water off...and what I did, was use a straight knife valve fitting with the valve open...and let the water gush through it while I tightened it to the copper 3/4 inch elbow of the incoming pipe...and it was easy!...simple as could be...kick myself that I hadn't done this four years back now when I struggled to put the hose bib on, bracing my hands on the cement steps against the rushing water...I could have done the valve trick, then put on a new bib...which is basically what I did today...with the valve in place, I reconnected the old fittings to the bib...a couple pics would explain all this...anyway, now, I can forget about that blessed meter shut off, and maybe put the sprinklers back in order for the front yards, which has all dried up again...for a little bit I had the greenest yard, planted some winter grass, but it's not very hardy...whole adventure exhausted me, was back and forth three times to plumbing supply trying to get key that fit...I think they were shinning me on a bit...they must know how difficult these old shut offs can be...glad I didn't ruin it messing with it...leaked for months last time I did...City fellow came by, fixed it...amused...so, exhausted I took a long nap, and slept right through the Angels game, an afternoon game in Colorado...Dodgers got the bases loaded again!...bottom of 5th...Puig on third...don't know all the Dodgers...Farmer 2nd, Taylor 1st..and the Angels walloped the Rockies...8-0...brb....two out...Kemp up, top batting average in NL...Cozart, Upton, Rivera homeruns...and Barria pitched another great game...so glad he's come up from the minors and stayed...they sent him down after his first win, the same night!...something to do with contracts...missed what happened...Dodgers didn't score...they are in deep gloom...things never seeming to go right...Kershaw out now on the DL...so, so, more browsing of Polynesia, and I made a discovery!...in keeping with the dubiousness of most such discoveries...the Olmecs were Samoans...I got to looking at the Olmec heads, which are often said to depict Africans, and I thought, no, they're Samoan, I know Samoan heads, having collided with them in pick up basketball games, and went to check...googled Samoan faces...found one so alike to an Olmec stone head, it could be a portrait...in fact, the Olmec heads don't look stylized, they look like realistic portraits!...thinking on this, I wondered how the Samaoans could have gotten to Mexico...and studied the winds and currents in the Pacific, and those pretty much bring one ashore in Central America, at a place called...brb...
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Michael Coe describes Izapa as being a connective link between the Olmec and the early Maya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izapa
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hmmph...the Samoans were very good sailors...Dodgers bases loaded again!...Puig with his second hit...sac fly by Farmer...Dodgers 2-1...
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But many scientists say that Pacific currents and Polynesian mastery of the waves make it more likely that the Polynesians were the voyagers. They may have sailed to South America, swapped goods for sweet potatoes and other novelties—and returned to their island with South American women.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/epic-pre-columbian-voyage-suggested-genes
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it's a mystery too how sweet potatoes got distributed...
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Collectively known as the Lapita culture, this set of artifacts first appeared more than 3000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago in New Oceania (see map below). This culture grew taro, yams, and breadfruit; brought pigs and chickens; and spread rapidly to the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and eventually to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and beyond.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/game-changing-study-suggests-first-polynesians-voyaged-all-way-east-asia
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I keep seeing mention of 'Lapita'...brb...
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"When they hear that their ancestors had arrived at 1,000 years before the birth of Christ in one of the great chapters of human colonisation and exploration ... really, you can see them, lighting up."
http://en.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20101114-pots-Vanuatu
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hmmph...from Taiwan to Samoa...Vanuatu was where I was yesterday with the volcanic eruption...
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Sand drawing (or sandroing in Bislama)[1][2] is a ni-Vanuatu artistic and ritual tradition and practice, recognised by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
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"rich and dynamic graphic tradition [which] has developed as a means of communication among the members of some 80 different language groups inhabiting the central and northern islands of Vanuatu. The drawings also function as mnemonic devices to record and transmit rituals, mythological lore and a wealth of oral information about local histories, cosmologies, kinship systems, song cycles, farming techniques, architectural and craft design, and choreographic patterns. Most sand drawings possess several functions and layers of meaning: they can be “read” as artistic works, repositories of information, illustration for stories, signatures, or simply messages and objects of contemplation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_drawing
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I've been suspicious of sand painting, having the thought the Navajo and Egyptians both did it...and of course those Tibetan monks are famous for it...I don't think anyone has my notion that Egyptian art began with sand painting...drawing in the sand, along with 'signing', the use of hand signals, were likely the first means of communicating...that, and picking one another's head lice...this I didn't know...hair lice are species specific...and humanity has had the same head lice all along all over the world...which says in parallel with genetics, 'we were all in one place'...
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Drypainting is practised by Native Americans in the Southwestern United States, by Tibetan and Buddhist monks, as well as Australian Aborigines, and also by Latin Americans on certain Christian holy days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandpainting
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well, a thought is that a lot of early cultures two dimensional stiff looking art had its start in sand painting...that and tattoos...tattoos go back to the beginning it seems...Utley gets a two run double...Dodgers 6-3...bottom of 8th...that's not enough of a "cushion"!
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The Luiseño/Juaneño built circular ceremonial enclosures called wamkis in their villages. The fence around the ceremonial area was made of brush. The celebration of important events (deaths, births, or boys and girls becoming adults) included the making of sand paintings inside the wamkis. The paintings were always done in a circle, and represented things of nature such as animals, birds, the sea, mountains, and stars. After the ceremony, the sand painting was destroyed. The Luiseño/Juaneño were one of the few California groups who did sand paintings.
http://factcards.califa.org/cai/luisenojuaneno.html
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The Luiseño/Juaneño are the Indian ancestors of hereabout...feel more akin to them...than anyones anywheres else!...they look a bit Olmec/Samoan too!...Dodgers survived!...
:)
DavidDavid
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