Open To Interpretation

Lost, To Be Found

Pakal approached Ichi,
Ichi standing near where
The Long Slender Craft was moored
To the wharf below Volcano Never.
"Where is it?" asked Pakal.
"We'll find it!" said Ichi with a wan smile.

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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels at Twins...rain delayed...top of 5th...Angels 1-0...just got back from the laundry mat...hmmph...Kinsler had the home run for the lead...Hermosillo grounds out...trying to puzzle out a Black Dragon Lore Post about BlackSpace Ships...I don't know when Hollywood started it...I date it to the first moviePiratesOfTheCarribean...usually Disney lifted stories from famous books or fairy tales...just retold them...lucky play on liner from Kinsler...ball pinballed around the infield...two out...Trout up...and then Pirates came along, and it was based on the ride at the Park...the writers, it appears, used the scenes on the ride as 'prompts' and filled out a story...Trout made out...that isn't quite what I have in mind with the Black Deck Tales...rather thought of the way the tales from ancient Greece have come down in confused fragments...consider Sappho's poetry...well, those fragments are 'prompts'...the Star Wars scholars/commentators are all going over all the allusions and references in moveSolo...seems the whole idea of the movie is from the first Star Wars movie when Han Solo brags he made the Kestle run in 12 para secs, or some such...that was used as a prompt...HBO is going to begin a whole new Game Of Thrones, set 10,000 years earlier, and based, it seems, on 'prompts' from the current tale...that's not a bad way of going about things for a creative writer...I often just write out stuff, as now!, and as I go along, something gets written that's distinctive somehow, and it's a prompt...it may be a creative writing teaching method to tell students to write like four pages about any old thing, and on the fourth page find a prompt in the any old thing writing, and use that as a seed to begin a tale...once you have a good seed for a tale, or a poem, they pretty much write themselves!...Twins made out, I think...to top of 6th...now, BlackSpace Ships, as I've described before in Black Dragon Lore, are big, big as a small size islands in the ocean...they come in colors, like minerals...(Black Dragons are named for minerals--something to note!), but can look pretty much like any other island on the ocean, or a mountainous outcrop on land...one here might want to...oh, Pujols whapped a home run!...Angels 2-0...consider a certain Valley with enormous granite batholiths...I can't, in Black Dragon Lore, compare things to modern things,...that would be anachronistic, I believe is the term...but, but if I could, BlackSpace Ships are somewhat like Transformers...they can blend in!...:)....Angels made out...to bottom of 6th...the Angels are in a tough West AL division...all the teams are over 500...the Mariners and Astros both have 40 wins, which would put them at the top of all the other divisions...Angels have 36 wins, which would put them at the top of many of the divisions...one, AL Central, all the teams are under 500!...now, about islands and rock outcrops that fly!...Twins get a double...

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There are a number of other legends regarding what the Shiprock pinnacle might be. Some Navajo traditionalists argue that it is a geological anomaly that may have originated as a work of the 'star people'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiprock

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Twins got a run on a fielders choice, or something...pitching change for Angels?...Angels made out...to bottom of 6th...Skaggs is still on mound...Twins have runners?...

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Iroquois Creation Myth

Long before the world was created there was an island, floating in the sky, upon which the Sky People lived.

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html

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the Greek myths have it that Delos is a floating island...that's well known...looking for a good quote, I'm finding a bunch of floating islands!...searches: mythology floating islands...curious this Iroquois one includes a tale of twins...twins are in the Delos myth...Apollo and Artemis...Delos gets anchored, somehow, and a long time back, I related THAT to the Delian league dropping iron anchors into the sea, swearing to be loyal to one another until the anchors floated...Skaggs sailed through the seventh...to top of 8th...how cool!...Angels 2-1 still...the bull pen with another narrow late inning lead to protect...Trout up...fly out...second out...oh...Upton thrown out at home trying to score from second...third out...to bottom of 8th...wiki has a page of floating islands and cities in fiction...not very complete...the islands ON the ocean...the cities IN the sky, or traveling through space...I don't know if any one has had a whole rocky island lift off as a space ship!...a natural step I'd say...and I'm almost certain somewhere I read Delos flew...I may have inferred that myself, insomuch as it had to be anchored...at any rate, I've provided the Black Deck Tale crews with BlackShips, and BlackSpace Ships...and...soon as I get to it...which I keep putting off...can't get a good hand hold as yet!...the Tale of the 'first ship'...of which Ichi's Long Slender Craft is one half...originally it was part of a double hull craft...Pakal has lost his half...:)...Twins get a single...fly out to Trout...to top of 9th...Angels made out...to bottom of 9th...

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King Wei, King Xuan of Qi State, and King Zhao of Yan State sent people to look for

the three sacred islands, namely, Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou. The three sacred
islands were said to be in the Bohai Sea, not far from the habitat of humans. When
people approached, a disastrous wind would hit and force the boat to leave. Those who
landed on the islands saw gods and goddesses, and found elixir [food of the gods] on the

islands. The animals and things on the islands are all white. The palaces are made of gold

and silver. Seen from afar, the islands are swathed in clouds. Before arrival, the three
islands exist below the water. When someone wishes to land, the wind comes and arrival
becomes impossible (史记·封禅书, pp. 1369-1370).

https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/default/files/ISJLuoGrydehojSacredIslandsChina_0.pdf

hmmph...on that page a scholar goes on and on about Floating Islands...a good read...for sometime...focuses on China...often I happen on the old myths by finding some scholar's paper going on about them...the papers present the myths in fragments, so I have to follow things out to read an old myth itself...one out...Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou...two out...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Penglai

strike two...strike three..."Parker seals the deal...Angels with six in a row..."...more tomorrow morrow!

:)

DavidDavid