Notes: bottom of the fifth coming up....1-0 Angels...listened to game while doing errands...got some new batteries...hmmph...movieRaidersOfTheLostArc had it that Nazi archaeologist in the interwar years were scouring the globe for artifacts...purpose being to prove their idea they were the master race...something to do with being 'aryans'...browsing the ancient mystery sites, I find this is still going on, and sometimes I get deceived into appreciating a site, when it is trying to push a racist agenda...the Mormons have it that a lost tribe of Israel or two made it to the New World, and that's the connection to Joseph Smith and his golden tablets...BYU has some high tech scanning gear that has been used to read the Dead Sea Scrolls, the burned scrolls at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and some Mayan reliefs...brb..."that is a three run homer by Marti"..."Marti gets the parti" started...lol...cinco de Mayo today...
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PROVO — For almost 60 years, researchers from a now BYU-run organization have scoured Mesoamerica for remnants of ancient civilizations and — as they have many times before — discovered another important artifact.
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"The style … is clearly Olmec and we think that the community who lived in Ojo de Agua was Olmec or related to them based on the material found, the style of the sculptures found and the time frame," Murrieta said.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700112207/BYUs-long-running-archaeology-program-helps-uncover-ancient-sculpture-in-Mexico.html
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Mormons seem a kinder lot than the Nazis, but then, they cast a curse on Illinois!
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"The prophets" referred to Joseph and Hyrum Smith, who were killed in 1844 by a mob while in jail in Carthage, Illinois. "This nation" referred to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_vengeance
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hmmph...apparently this particular "fatwa" was lifted in the 1930s...the neo-Nazi site I happened on had some youtubes, one with clips of Middle Eastern dancing...a kind of line dancing...those in line doing flamenco like feet stomping, all holding hands, and the leader is waving about a scarf, doing the lion share of footwork...looks to be a snake dance...brb...lol...search brings up belly dancing and such...try again...brb...Angels have a 4-2 lead...
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Anytime the weather would change, the mud would crack and members of their family or community would come and help patch it by forming a line and joining hands and stomping the mud into place. In colder months, they would sing to help keep their bodies warm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_dance#Dabke
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Dabke, the dance is called...there's a whole bunch of Middle Eastern dances...some of those dances will have movements that go back to Noah...scarf can be a stick, or sword too, I guess...I thought it a snake's tongue!...brb...got diverted looking at Eagle Dances...dances for sometime!...thoughts out there that the Olmecs came from China, or Africa, or maybe Vikings...and...it's noted it's kind of sad that the Olmecs can't be left alone to be from the Olmecs!...there's a whole cottage youtube industry in India hooking up India with Mesoamerica...Olmec figurines display a bunch of yoga poses...and Japan is linked to Ecuador...
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Ceramic phase A of the Valdivia was long thought to be the oldest pottery produced by a coastal culture in South America, dated to 3000-2700 BC. In the 1960s, a team of researchers proposed there were significant similarities between the archeological remains and pottery styles of Valdivia and those of the ancient Jōmon culture, active in this same period on the island of Kyūshū, Japan).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdivia_culture
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everyone's fond of this little 'alien'...from Jomon culture...
check my notes...brb...
that isn't what you might think, if you have seen one of these in South West souvenir shops...
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This Colima figurine depicting a woman covered with children is a very rare piece; only a handful is currently known to exist from prehistoric Mesoamerica. This type of figurine can have as many as 87 small children. Typically three larger children sit around a bowl in the mother-figure’s lap. This is the only example where the bowl is filled with food, the others are empty. A large figure typically straddles the shoulders and holds onto the head. Single figures perch on each arm, shoulder and breast, and one clings to the back. All eleven smaller figures wear loincloths and turban-like headdresses. The assemblage appears to represent motherhood, nurturing and sustenance.
Today, pueblo potters in the American Southwest make a similar type of figure called a “storyteller,” a man or woman covered with children and often telling a story. While it is surprising given the similarities in form, there appears to be no connection with these past Mesoamerican art forms. The first Puebloan storyteller was made by Helen Cordero of Cochiti Pueblo in 1963. The first “storyteller” was a ceramic representation of her grandfather, who was the storyteller for Cochiti and who passed down the oral histories of the people. The “storyteller” figures have spread to modern potters in almost all of the Pueblos today and are a highly respected and prized art form.
http://arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/explore-the-museum/exhibitions/cultures-of-the-ancient-americas/Mesoamerica
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that, I'd say, is a very good example of 'convergent'...hmmph...'and now it is a 4-3 Angels lead'...'and it's gone'...Seattle 5-4 lead...homerun Sanino...oh, floodgates have opened...but wait...a review...play at home...safe...6-4...on a wp...two out Trout up...down two strikes...a double!...'Upton up...that one is gone...outa here!'...Upton all the way up!...lol...Pujols up...k...6-6...
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Ancient Maya dance is often characterized by transformations of human beings into supernatural (god like) beings by means of visionary trance. Some think that hallucinogenic drugs or medicines were used to put the performer into an altered state of mind. Once in this state of mind the participants were transformed into their wayob or soul companions. These soul companions were depicted through the masks and the costumes people wore in the dance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_dance
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One Spanish explorer describes a performance he watched as eight hundred heavy warriors danced in a giant stadium. Not one of the warriors were off beat as they danced all day with food and drink brought to them as they danced. Diego Garcia de Palacio compared a courtyard enclosed by stairways in Copan to the Colosseum in Rome.
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I had wondered if the Mayans had outdoor theaters, seeing how so theatrical their costumes are...brb...
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Located near the North Acropolis, the theater was enclosed by buildings dating to 250-550 B.C. on all sides. A 26-foot-long façade of one of these buildings was torn down around 850 A.D. to create the forum and make it work as an acoustic shell.
According to Martos López, the unusual architecture makes the theater stand out.
"It's different from all the other theaters that have already been studied. These theaters were usually located in plazas and were built to entertain the crowds," Martos López said.
https://www.livescience.com/22986-mayan-theater.html
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Mayans just seemed to have no sense of 'make believe'...prisoners, slaves, orphans, at times most anyone it seems, filled in for the sacrifice scenes!...
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“Elizabeth Artemis Mourat, performer and dance scholar has categorized these dances into six types: religious dances, non-religious dances, banquet dances, harem dances, combat dances and street dances.” (Ancient Egypt,1) Irena Lexova mentioned that at the end of the fourth century BC there were acrobatic dances and pair dances. Men and women were seen dancing with clappers (wooden castanets). She also added that dancers of that era used a short curved stick or cane while dancing which is a prop still used by modern Egyptian dancers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_ancient_Egypt
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curiously, the upper class, royalty, didn't dance, while with the Maya they did...and thought to do to impose their will...
lol...if the game hadn't gone extra innings, I might not have gotten that one!...
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This text contains what has been interpreted as staging instructions concerning the actors for a grandiose play where a great number of performers including supernumeraries, props such as statues, and backdrops were used. Symbolic dances which may have been holy rituals and ballet scenes formed part of the performance.
According to accounts Seth, represented by a live hippopotamus, was killed on stage by a priest or even by the king himself in the role of Horus. The final annihilation of Seth occurred when a hippopotamus cake was carved up and eaten.
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/ceremonies/theatre.htm
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Young up...two out...Cozart on second...top of ten...dink hit!!...Cozart scores...Young had been 0-19!...7-6 Angels...Graderal a hit...Kinsler up...out at 1st...lucky inning!...managing a hippo on stage seems a bit much!...have the thought that animal sacrifice was how ancient priesthoods got fed, and the whole thing a sham to fund their life style...not much different today...Politics having taken up the human sacrifice...Hollywood, for all it's faults, is make believe...Seattle pinch hit single...'cept in the tales of actors and actress who burn out on drugs and such...actors who die young often have that aura about them of having been sacrificed...well, anyone who dies young in pursuit of something admirable...brb...Gamel scores on wild throw by Marti...'unforced error'...Graderal catching...throw 'm out at second...review...out...two out...bases clear...then there's the villagers with the torches...k...top of eleven...criminals another source of fodder...the popularity of public execution is notorious...and Hollywood's priesthoods' bread and butter...violence...toned down now, a miscue in a sporting event warrants booos...being benched...sent to the minors...time was though...the whole losing side in an Aztec ball game ended up on the skull racks...they called their wars, Flower Wars...Trout walks...fifth time on base tonight...Upton up...brb...
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Texcocan nobleman Ixtlilxochitl gives the "fullest early statement concerning the origin as well as the initial rationale" of the flower war.[4] From 1450 to 1454, the Aztecs had suffered from crop failure and severe drought; this led to famine and many deaths in the central Mexican highlands.[4] Ixtlilxochitl reports that the flower war began "as a response" to the famine: "the priests . . . of Mexico [Tenochtitlan] said that the gods were angry at the empire, and that to placate them it was necessary to sacrifice many men, and that this had to be done regularly."[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_war
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back to back walks...Pujols up...dp...Simmons dink infield hit...not in time to first...Trout scores!...8-7 Angels...
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Imagine for a moment a scheme in which American taxpayers were taken to the cleaners to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and there was barely a hint of criticism or outrage. Imagine as well that the White House and a majority of the politicians in Washington, no matter the party, acquiesced in the arrangement. In fact, the the annual quest to boost Pentagon spending into the stratosphere regularly follows that very scenario, assisted by predictions of imminent doom from industry-funded hawks with a vested interest in increased military outlays.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-military-industrial-complex-is-on-corporate-welfare/
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It's not hard to imagine at all...the thought that every time there is an economic downturn, a 'drought', wars start up...the interwar depression leading to WW2 often cited...nowadays the priests wear funny hats...nowadays it's just war...lead off walk...a double...8-8...runner at second...have had a bad feeling all along!...rather than flower war...and the dismal thought is that war, flowery or otherwise, is an integral part of any cultures economy, old or new...walkoff single..."Mariners come away with a 9-8 victory"...good game...you can all come back tomorrow...Ohtani to pitch!
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Maya polities engaged in violent warfare for political control of people and resources. Some scholars have suggested that the capture of sacrificial victims was a driving force behind warfare.[1] Among the most critical resources were water and agricultural land. Economic control of resources such as obsidian also increased competition among polities.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_warfare
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