News
You all looked at this yesterday;
It was news.
Today:
Empty stadium seats,
Sprinklers watering the green grass--
Such is sleep.
DolphinWords
Notes: 15th in series...see previous...game on!...line up being announced...last night, and the night before, the games were bookends!...I went to both...Angels won Thursday, and then lost last night...they were ahead, got tied, went ahead, then won...they were ahead, then tied, then ahead, then tied, then behind, then lost!...in the ninth, Trout lined out...feel remiss in the loss...left in the eighth...game looked to be in the bag...but the Twins wriggled out...it was cold and rain mist coming down in the stadium lights, swirling about...a lot of fans left early...our bad...both well played games...K...one out...have a ticket for tomorrow...Ohtani to pitch...6-3...Tropeano pitching...8...I keep score at the games...score book on my lap...K-strike out, 6-3-grounder to short, throw to first, 8-fly out to CF, center field, Trout...Cozart up, lead off...Kinsler moved down to 7th...I found some conjectures that Southern California Indians are from Polynesia, or had contact with...K...Trout up...brb...(be right back)...K...Upton W...Pujols up...
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In this exclusive interview, James Blake Wiener of the Ancient History Encyclopedia speaks with Dr. Terry L. Jones, an archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the California Polytechnic State University, with regard to his assertion that there were technological and linguistic exchanges between the Chumash and Gabrielino tribes of California with ancient Polynesians.
http://etc.ancient.eu/interviews/polynesians-in-california-evidence-for-an-ancient-exchange/
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hmmph...a general view...the Chumash were settled between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and on the Channel Islands thereabout...and to get about they had sewn plank boats...this I knew...the Indians that lived on Catalina had them too...more on them in a bit...and once I'd seen the thought that Indians in Chile had sewn planks boats...this article mentions that, but doesn't suggest the Indians from Chile made it to California made it here...brb...
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The Chilean craft sends us back to the chicken bones sourced to Tonga and Samoa. Is it another link in the voyaging history of the Polynesians? For there is no doubt that the sewn-plank canoe was important in Polynesian life and the world of their ancestors. It’s an exported technology, a very special form of boat building that goes back to the Philippines and beyond and is found in island after island between. The list is endless — Guam, the Marianas, Carolines, New Hebrides, Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, Tuamotu, the Marquesas and Easter Island, are but a few.
http://barry-brailsford-indigenous-knowledge.blogspot.com/2012/02/hawaii-california-voyaging_23.html
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hmmph...that's one view, and at that site, the comment thread gives some good alternative views...sewn-plank boats are found here and there all over the world...famously, the boat beneath the pyramid in Egypt...they've snuck the second boat out of the ground without me knowing!...Hawass peering beneath stone being lifted...it's a mess...water got at it, and it all collapsed on itself in a heap...but, they've got plans to have it reconstructed by 2020...brb...
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Egypt's famed pyramids at Giza have a newcomer in their midst: the largest on-site antiquities laboratory meant to restore the location's second pharaonic boat.
https://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-famed-pyramids-new-lab-restore-pharaonic-boat/3786924.html
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Twins got 2, 2 on, Tropeano in much trouble...no one out...sac...now Twins 3-0...there are some small 'iron' fittings on the second boat...u-shaped for the oars...'metal'...don't know if they're iron...Trout full count, Cozart on...W...runners at the corners...Upton up...there are replica 'tomolo' boats to see near Town...one in Thousand Oaks...the indigenous boat site, previous post, goes on about them...and too the Poynesian debate...FC...Cozart scores...Pujols up...I've been forlorn thinking I cant go touring and see these ancient ruins for my own self...funds way beyond my means!...Pujols single...Simmons up...but, but, I have an ancient civilization right hereabout...the Indians on Catalina go back to 7,000 BC, maybe further...and if they were on the Island then, they had boats...it looks there is an argument that they used only dugout prior to discovering plank boats around 400 AD...but, that's iffy...one could argue they had plank boats in 7,000 BC and the technology diffused from California!...they made these boats from redwood logs that drifted down from Northern California...redwood just kind of naturally splits into planks...a curio is that the Northern Indians only used dugouts...maybe with the easy supply, they didn't resort to sewn planks...and in Hawaii they used drift redwood logs on rare occasion...checking that...brb...
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There's a popular theory that the tomol was imported from Hawaii, where one fully stitched plank canoe existed (which happened to differ from the tomol is just about every other respect possible).
http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/2013/02/tomol-construction.html
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that in the Indigenous boat site: author in comment expanding on subject...he provides enough information to make one!...
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On the starboard or male side of the boat is a male figure. Where the female figure has prominent eyes and can see, the male is blind. But he holds a disc that represents the wisdom of the ancestors. Between the two of them, they have the perception and knowledge to guide Hokule'a safely.
http://indigenousboats.blogspot.com/search/label/Hawaiian%20canoes
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story of Hawaiian replica sailing around the world...seems to anticipate my current Black Tale plot...I was going to have blind Ichi's Long Slender Craft to be the sister catamaran hull to Pakal's...his Lost Boat...to be explained!...lol...sticking with the idea, but now influenced by these two idols!...bottom of 5th...throw 'm out by Calhoun...top of 6th...still Twins 3-1...more on these boats for sometime...the California Indians are a curio...in some respects they were all together, but they had entirely separate languages, and each tribe clung to small area...and there were hundreds, and hundreds of languages!...one is struck how malleable language can be...these tribal member numbered in the hundreds, and yet were able to have their own unique language and sustain it for generations...I'm not sure what went on where one tribe interfaced with another tribe...trade and so forth certainly...but they don't seem to have blended together into bigger tribes...and I keep losing the name of the tribe that lived where Town is now...the Luseno where near Temecula...probably right at Rainbow, where I lived awhile...brb...
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Another major federally recognized tribe of related people, the Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians resides to the southeast in the area traversed by State Route 76. A total of five other federally recognized tribes of Luiseño are located in southern California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pala_Indian_Reservation
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the Indians hereabout haven't federal recognition...appeals in the works...and quarrels about casinos...there were plans for one within eyesight of home...but a waterpark won out, blighting my eastern horizon!...Valbuena knocks in Kinsler, who had a dink triple...trying to sort out Town's Indians, I happened on an account by a Mission San Juan Capistrano priest, 1812...lemessee if I can find that again...Angels 2 Twins 3...brb...
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Fray Gerónimo Boscana, a Franciscan scholar who was stationed at San Juan Capistrano for more than a decade beginning in 1812, compiled what is widely considered to be the most comprehensive study of prehistoric religious practices in the San Juan Capistrano valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juane%C3%B1o
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1812 was the year of the Capistrano earthquake...a curio...I stayed up all night reading Boscana's account...that Thursday night...there is a distant language relation between some California tribes and Mexico...and I was kind of attuned to seeing similarities with Olmecs/Mayans...Boscana was attuned to seeing the Devil in the Indian's ways...everyone has filters/algorithms...selectivity...even the Indians Boscana interviewed...so, it's a muddle...the first thing to set aside, is that the Indians were primitive...hunting is hunting, whatever weapons used, fishing fishing, cooking cooking, story telling story telling...languages languages...people all over are equal in sophistication...anyway, there's a lot in Boscana's account to consider!...and he was just one fellow at one mission at one time...and there is a whole string of Missions from San Diego to San Francisco, each with their tales of the local Indians, which were all different!...
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To commence this relation, it may be proper, in the first place, to search after the origin, or lineage of these Indians of New California. But it is impossible to find any account of where they originated; as those of this mission, (St. Juan Capistrano) and indeed those of all the missions in the province, have no tradition, and are entirely ignorant of their descent. Without examining into the opinion of others, as to their being descendants of the Jews, Carthagenians or Ph�nicians, I shall confine myself to the class that came to populate the Mexican Territory, and from these have doubtless descended the natives of California.
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The diversity of language is so great, in California, that almost every 15 or 20 leagues, you find a distinct dialect; so different, that in no way does one resemble the other.
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That they might know the class of animal, which the God, Chinigchinich, had selected for their particular veneration, a kind of drink was administered to them, made from a plant called Pibat, which was reduced to a powder, and mixed with other intoxicating ingredients. Soon after taking this preparation, they became insensible, and for three days were deprived of any sustenance whatever. During this period they were attended by some old men or women, who were continually exhorting them to be on the alert, not to sleep for fear the coyote, the bear, the crow, or the rattlesnake might come; to observe if it were furious or gentle, and to inquire of the first that should come, what were its desires. The poor Indian thus intoxicated, without food or drink, suffering under delirium, beheld all kinds of visions; and when he made known that he had seen any particular being who explained the observances required of him, then they gave him to eat and drink, and made a grand feast; at the same time advising him to be particular in obeying the commands of the mysterious apparition.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051119174054/http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ca/cahaoto0.html
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diffusion a debate back then too!...Upton ties it up with double!...these old writers write so well...the Monkish orders much like the Mayan scribes in their status!...and that last bit, that right out of the Mayan accounts...headed to 8th tied up...
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Like a number of other Indigenous ceremonies, the vision quest has been mentioned in statements by Indigenous leaders concerned about the protection of ceremonies and other Indigenous intellectual property rights; one of these documents is the 1993 Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality.[10][11] In 2007 the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which has given further support to Indigenous people's rights to protect their cultures and ceremonies, and address restitution when intellectual, religious and spiritual property is taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_quest
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so popular has become the notion of 'vision quests' that a tourist industry has grown up, sometime with fatal results...which brings me to the day or two last week I spent watching youtube clips of divers exploring the Mayans underworld...
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the entrance to Xibalba was traditionally held to be a cave in the vicinity of Cobán, Guatemala.[citation needed] Cave systems in nearby Belize have also been referred to as the entrance to Xibalba.[2] In some Maya areas, the Milky Way is viewed as the road to Xibalba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba
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Xibalba is like new age sugar...it's in and on everything!...and tourist divers are flocking to go into these caves...some accessible by tourist boats...
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Xibalba seemed to be rife with tests, trials, and traps for anyone who came into the city. Even the roads to Xibalba were filled with obstacles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba
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essh...Calhoun dogged a play?...catchable hit?...say it isn't so...lost in the lights?...don't know but Xibalba lends credence to my theory that the ancients were playing video games...the temples and such just like movie/game spin offs...toys, and such--theme parks...not so far fetched...movies, their dream quests...their 'culture' what they bring back from the dreams...brought back a Simmons bobble head last night!...Middleton pitching...runner on...top of 9th...strike 'm out throw 'm out...Simmons applied the tag on runner scrambling to third after over sliding second...
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Modern civilizations use chiasms infrequently, though many ancient civilizations, especially in the Near East, employed them often.
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/10/chiasmus-in-mayan-texts?lang=eng
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hmmph...walked Trout again...need to put Ohtani behind Trout!...or visa versa...Upton up...he can do it...chiasmus I've come on before...it is very prevalent in the Bible...and the author notes in the Book of Mormon...and in Mayan...a reach...the Mormon predisposition in the authors thoughts...heck..."Albert hit it hard"...Upton had singled, moving Trout to third...Pujols lined out...there are weird things in languages...at times, English looks to have been fashioned by a single artist...I know it's an amalgam of many languages...but it's like it was from a 'clip art' book of suffixes and prefixes...for sometime!...and chiasmus is weird...and kind of mesmerizing...Hemingway latched on to such stuff!...
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In brief, Max discovered that Hemingway used a technique called 'chiasmus' – forming words into one or more crosses on the page. The cross is not a visible cross, a graphic element – doing that would be impossible for printers faced with different type measures for proportionally spaced fonts and line lengths that vary from edition to edition.
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Our conclusion is similar to the conclusion we reached when we looked at Joyce's deep structures in the St. Kevin episode of Finnegans Wake. Hemingway did not hide his chiasmic structures, they are in plain view. The are not perceived by casual readers, nor were they perceived by professional critics until 1997, when Max noticed them. They do however, have a strong effect on the communication of the text, they reach beyond the linguistics and the semantics of the written word to work on the reader's consciousness in a completely different way. If you think about these examples you will appreciate for yourself the functionality of the chiasmus in them.
http://figures-of-speech.com/2016/01/hidden-hemingway.htm
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oh, an example...
quote, author's of Hemingway,
This example also shows a chiasmus within a chiasmus: the surface of the water is reversed into the stream under the surface.
As the shadow of the kingfisher moved
up the stream,
a big trout
shot upstream in a long angle, only
his shadow marking the angle, then lost his shadow
as he came through
the surface of the water,
caught the sun,
×
and then,
as he went back into
the stream under the surface,
his shadow seemed to
float down the stream with the current, unresisting, to his post under the bridge where
he tightened facing
up into the current.
'Big Two-Hearted River', SS 210
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I forget what I wrote that used it, unbeknownst...I went on about it in Tree in the Door...almost anything regarding diffusion can be extracted from closely studying language...it is the most sophisticated technology we have, and we all have it!...hooey...on to the eleventh...hungry and need a snack...stick it out...where was I...well, I skipped over the Mayan eccentrics...these are flint/chert figurines made by napping...flaking off pieces like seen on arrow heads, spear heads...some creative Mayan thought to make figurines this way, and it was taken up...and highly regarded by the Mayans...don't know if eccentrics are unique to Mayans!...brb...
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Eccentric flints show a great variety of forms, such as crescents, crosses, snakes, and scorpions.[6] The largest and most elaborate ones display multiple human heads, with minor heads sometimes branching off from larger ones
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one has to look closely, and long, at these, as with many Mayan icons, to see what they are...the many faces reminds me of that wood statue in Russia...I don't know if any where else in the world any of these are found...which is odd!...everyone worked flint, and made arrows and spear heads...a kind of 'figure'...seems a 'natural step' to make figures...hmmph...Cozart hit by pitch...Trout up!...Trout has had another four walk night...Trout on fc...steals second...Upton fc...Trout to third...and Pujols up!...and they walk Simmons!...this analytic stuff has gone too far!...based loaded, Marti up...don't swing Marti!...one strike one ball...2-1...'only fitting...poetic justice...a walk of walk'...2-2...dink...thrown out pitcher to first...why they don't listen to me!...lol...on to 12th...I cant find eccentrics like the Mayans from anywhere else...I imagine they mimicked wooden precursors...
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The earliest example of a sewn boat is the 40+ metres long "Solar" funerary boat on show near the Gizeh pyramid, in Egypt; it dates back from 2600 BC. The sewn construction was a natural step when coming from raft or reed boatbuilding, which dates from some thousands of years before that.
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The foundation of 'convergent' thinking is that there are 'natural steps'...Twins picked up a run...no one out...Angels 'had a boatload of opportunities to win this game'...I'd say...fifteen runners left on base...but there were like nine walks...calculated I imagine by the 'analytics'...
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The Ainu conducted trade with mainland Asia, especially with ports on the lower Amur River (now the border between northeastern China and Russia), as well as with Korea and with other parts of Japan. They used sewn-plank boats called itaomachip, built on an expanded dugout base and powered by both oars and sails as shown below. Some of the boats, at least, were about 50 feet long.
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Interestingly, ancient Amerindians from 9-12,000 YBP have an Australoid appearance. The skulls from 9000 YBP appear Ainuid or Polynesian and the earlier skulls line up with Negritos, Papuans and Aborigines. This implies that the ancient Northeast Asians or Siberians from around the Altai region who immigrated to North America 9-12,000 YBP may have been an Ainuid people.
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well, 'interesting' is what you get when going extra innings!...Angels down 2...Kinsler walks...Calhoun up...don't swing!...we are two down...'sliced foul'...I don't know what analytic has it you swing 1-0 down two...chopper to ss...could have been, may have been, a double play...review...oh, Kinsler dove back to first...this is like that Yankee/Boston play!...Kinsler interfered!...Calhoun out..dp...Calhoun is just a disaster at the plate...now they get a walk...the twelfth!...I was being conservative...Cozart up....and he's swinging too!...0-2...that's it...fly out to left!...more on the Ainu and locale of Korea/Japan next time...
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