Open To Interpretation
Notes: fifteenth in series...see previous...game coming on...on the radio...announcer reviewing lineup...Trains' 'Calling On All Angels' playing in the background...on the big screen will be playing a collage of old Angels players...the lead up to a game is very very ritualistic!...after the Train song, another collage of current players and their exploits, lights flashing, lightning, rumbling...very volcanic!...the big screens have become a real integral part of the game...cameras often picking out cameos of fans...one inning devoted to the 'kiss cam'...yesterday's Mother's Day afternoon game was classic...wonderful day at the ballpark...came home with a giveaway sun hat...Angels won, 2-1 over the Twins...'just misses that inside corner'...K...game under way!...
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These are a group of 14 ships discovered in Abydos that were constructed of wooden planks which were "sewn" together. Discovered by Egyptologist David O'Connor of New York University,[2] woven straps were found to have been used to lash the planks together,[1] and reeds or grass stuffed between the planks helped to seal the seams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipbuilding
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some reaching!...no scores...on to inning number two...
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Tomol construction was controlled by a guild and supervised by a master builder, known as the altomolich, who directed a building crew of six in a range of skilled tasks, including getting out and fitting planks, fastening, caulking, and decorating. In control of such a critical economic activity, the altomolich was of high status and well compensated.
http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-chumash-and-tomol.html
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the Chumash used milkweed stuffed into the plank seams...along with asphalt...common in SoCal...which is the self similiarity I was reaching for!...but there at Chumash wiki the ship guild...end of 3, tied 1-1...hmmph...it should be an easy search to find the history of 'ship guilds'...notion is building boats is a specialized effort, and would have had it's own kind of 'priesthood'...guild...
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A type of guild was known in Roman times. Known as collegium, collegia or corpus, these were organised groups of merchants who specialised in a particular craft and whose membership of the group was voluntary. One such example is the corpus naviculariorum, the college of long-distance shippers based at Rome's La Ostia port. The Roman guilds failed to survive the collapse of the Roman Empire. [2]
In medieval cities, craftsmen tended to form associations based on their trades, confraternities of textile workers, masons, carpenters, carvers, glass workers, each of whom controlled secrets of traditionally imparted technology, the "arts" or "mysteries" of their crafts. Usually the founders were free independent master craftsmen who hired apprentices.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild
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I try to be 'twitter' like short, but sometimes a long quote...notion is the 'arts' and 'mysteries' making a 'priesthood'...the Chumash 'altomolich ' a kind of priest...
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The process of manufacture of the Chumash plank
canoe was filled with ritual significance and symbols of
rights and power. As noted above, the Brotherhood of the
Tom01 was a specialized craft guild that monopolized
rights to make tomols. The master builder, or 'altomolich,
held an elite position in society based both on wealth and
his association with mainstream ritual or political power,
for he was sometimes also a chief or ritual leader.
http://www.academicroom.com/article/transportation-innovation-and-social-complexity-among-maritime-hunter-gatherer-societies
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well, thought here is that the Chumash guild was self similar to shipbuilding guilds worldwide...the 'Captain' of a ship...
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And in the Orphic Argonautica (64ff.), the Argo is most explicitly the first ship to sail:
Summoning Athena Tritogeneia, she [Hera] ordered the goddess to build the first ship out of wood, the first to pierce the salty deep with its wooden oars, the first to disturb the sea with its passage.
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Pallas Athene herself took a hand in its construction and placed in the vessel's prow a timber from the speaking oak of Dodona, which should serve to guide and warn the adventurous chieftains who formed the crew.
http://www.argonauts-book.com/the-argo.html
hmmph
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took a bit to get back to uncolored text!...and I'm in a diversion...that 'first ship' bit gold for the Pakal's Black Deck Tale...top of 5th...1-1...if I remember right, the Argo was named after Argus, the shipbuilder...brb...
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Argo was constructed by the shipwright Argus, and its crew were specially protected by the goddess Hera. The best source for the myth is the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius. According to a variety of sources of the legend, Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena. According to certain sources, Argo was the first ship to sail the seas. It was Athena who taught Tiphys to attach the sails to the mast, as he was the steersman and would need an absolute knowledge of the workings of the ship.[1] According to other legends, she contained in her prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo
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Upton drives in a run...Angels 2-1...Pujols up, two out...Upton 1st, Trout (walked again!), 2nd...K...top of 7th...well, I've traveled in the searches over these innings!...years ago, I was reading in a National Geographic about a Greek shipwreck off of France...and there was a amphora pottery stamp, a dolphin and anchor...which, as it happened, was in the software literature of my first Microsoft Word software I'd just opened for my mac...see history of Aldus...and, and, coincidentally, I had just gotten a book about Delos, and found myself looking at a mosaic in it, a dolphin and anchor...the stamp and the mosaic were said to be 'corporate logos' of some Roman business...and nowabout, I've been trying to find that...but not much luck...brb...
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The House of the Trident contains peristyle panels with the motif of a black dolphin situated around a red anchor and black tridents against a white background. The theme suggests that the owners of the house were somehow connected to maritime pursuits.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaics_of_Delos
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bottom of 8th...Angels 2-1...wow!...Heaney went 8 innings!...Calhoun up...'an easy one hooper to ss'...Maldanado up...has been the hero of late!...scored the go ahead run...
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There is evidence that the Neanderthals hunted marine mammals.[9]
The earliest seaworthy boats may have been developed as early as 45,000 years ago, according to one hypothesis explaining the habitation of Australia.[citation needed] Humans used boats for travel and eventually for food resources. In the history of whaling, humans began whaling in pre-historic times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_maritime_history
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thought is that with the boatbuilding came a boatbuilding crew, with the craft/skill passed down from old to young, and with an 'Argus'...the captain/builder...the 'altomolich' of the Chumash...I imagine the self same crews that built the boats sailed them, at the beginning... so, so, that's one 'guild'...keepers of a secret craft craft!...oh...Calhoun again a hero on defense!...reached into stands for foul ball, then catches runner off base...'the offense (his) isn't there at the moment'...we'll take the throw'm outs!...that's six such on the season for Calhoun...Trout and Simmons combined on one yesterday to save that game...hmmph...hopper got through...runner on first...two out...
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The Pimugnans were renowned for their mining, working and trade of soapstone which was found in great quantities and varieties on the island. This material was in great demand to make stone vessels for cooking and was traded along the California coast.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Santa_Catalina_Island_(California)
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'chopped to third base'...put a halo over this one...Angels 2 Astros 1...yesterdays score too!...more on the Pimungnans tomorrow morrow!
:)
DavidDavid
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