Notes:...Penelope's loom...
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The shroud that Penelope weaves for her father-in-law, Laertes', eventual funeral symbolizes the cunning with which she confronts the suitors. She lacks the power to fight them with physical strength so she wards them off with her wits.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/the-odyssey/critical-essays/major-symbols-in-the-odyssey
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how she does that is she says she'll choose a new husband when she finishes the shroud, and so each night she unravels what she wove in the day, and the suitors are none the wiser--this goes on for like three years...reminds me of Shaharazad staying her execution by telling the cruel king a new story every night--expectant of another exciting story, he lets her live another day...hmmph...an inbetween posts post...inbetween the 'game on' posts I mean...Angels at Mariners, game time 7pm...wanted to go out and run around...need to get in shape to referee some basketball games Saturday...but it's too hot!...go out to the gym this evening, can watch the game while peddling the stationary bicycle...so maybe no in game time post...but a post in the works...this post!...don't want to lose it...around the world, archaeologist find spindles...round weights with a hole that fit over a stick...oh, wait, what I'm thinking of is the 'whorl'...shows how much I know about weaving!
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A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a whorl,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_(textiles)
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just saw some of the sticks/spindles on ebay...brb...
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9~ ca800 to 1500 A.D. COASTAL PERUVIAN PERU TEXTILE Wood SPINDLES WEAVING TOOLS
https://www.ebay.com/itm/9-ca800-to-1500-A-D-COASTAL-PERUVIAN-PERU-TEXTILE-Wood-SPINDLES-WEAVING-TOOLS/352373360718?hash=item520b16c84e:g:iDwAAOSwVK9bFz06
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hmmph...one bid so far, nine dollars, and a day to go...I have to get my ebay account up to date!...one of them still has thread on it...
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-7-Ancient-Weighing-weaving-terracotta-spindle-whorls-Fayum-Egypt/173351315479?hash=item285c8b2817:g:bAYAAOSwH4hbFh0c
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Choice-Etched-Post-Neolithic-Spindle-Whorls-African-Pottery-Beads/232749500490?hash=item3630f3884a:g:jykAAOSwy6la5KBC
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Trio-of-Ancient-Spindle-Whorls-S-E-Asia/112255551724?hash=item1a22f3c8ec:g:p0AAAOSwa~BYaXAa:sc:USPSFirstClass!92840!US!-1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTHENTIC-PRE-COLUMBIAN-EAR-PLUGS-SPOOLS-SPINDLE-WHORLS-LOT-MAYA-MAYAN/122686071285?hash=item1c90a8e1f5:g:-nUAAOSwKUhZrLO3
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ebays listings of whorls goes on and on...that last one a curio, as it incidentally relates whorls and earplugs...
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According to Maya worldview, the Sun's cyclical journey across the sky, through the underworld, and back again began with the whirling of a spindle. This cosmic relationship is referenced in the carvings which adorn this spindle whorl; the personified sun and its rays of light would be set in motion by the actions of the spinner. The whorl - a fly wheel to give momentum to the rotating spindle - thus becomes a symbol of the world's creation, connecting the creative powers of the gods and the celestial realm with the spinners and weavers on earth.
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/21954/ceremonial-spindle-whorl-maya
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the Mayans, all the ancients, had a penchant for seeing metaphysics stylized in everyday things!...see if I can find earplugs...
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In Mayan art, when gods are shown coming from the mouth of a serpent passing through an ear flare, it means they are being conjured
https://onetribe.nu/blogs/content/78343681-status-symbolism-and-spirit-of-the-mayan-ear-flare
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that relates to the pic I snagged and posted awhile back, of a god coming out of a dragon's mouth...whorls with holes I imagine would have had similar import...earplugs a diversion...for sometime
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Spindles with painted “barcodes” provide new information on weavers at Cerro Azul (Valley of Cañete). Sets of identically barcoded spindles are often found in a specific workbasket, making it likely that each woman coded some of her personal property. At Cerro Azul, identically barcoded spindles occur in mummy bundles, workbaskets, open-air work spaces, storage bins, and a brewery. The juxtaposition of spinning, weaving, and brewing in one work space suggests Late Intermediate behavior anticipated the aklla—an Inca institution requiring “chosen women” to weave cloth and brew beer.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00776297.2016.1169715
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In the Andean region, spindle whorls have been the subject of archaeological analysis less often than other artifact classes, such as pottery. Nevertheless, spindle whorls may have much more to contribute to archaeological interpretations of production, status, and exchange patterns than previously acknowledged.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/spindle-whorls-from-el-purgatorio-peru-and-their-socioeconomic-implications/AFCA3CDD0BEEAE020CD49B28E9A9BFEC
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The ruler wore a unique and splendid tunic that contained myriad patterns,
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His wildly geometric tunic also echoed how the creator being, Viracocha, gave all the people of the earth their distinctive geometric patterns to wear before he sent them underground to reemerge in their proper places (Urton 1999,36). Thus, the Inka constructed a complex conceptual grouping of land, people, and patterned cloth.
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The Inka finest weavers, called the aclla, were precocious artists taken as children to live cloistered lives weaving for the ruler and for the state religion (Costin 1998, 134-135).
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Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles
Michael C. Carlos Museum
http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/bestofthebest
lol...I found that site searching: staff god spindle whorl...I had read in a book that I couldn't snag a quote of the staff god being depicted with a spindle whorl full of thread and a llama next to him...usually he is depicted with the atlatl with darts...or holding severed heads!...and that site turned up as it mentions Virachocha, and incidentally spindle whorls, as it goes on and on wonderfully about Inca textiles...and, and, when I got to the end of it, I realized I was reading where I was reaching...I had been reading from this book on my tablet early this morning, and was taken by it, and wanted to post about it, so, so, here I find it in web accessible form that can be copied from...it's a collection of articles...by scholars...in a bit, I'll get to the parts in the particular one I found this morning!...but, but, when first eyeing this web one, I went, "OH!, I found one!"...I've been on the lookout for the Inca King's tunics designs, the 'myriad patterns' above...the thought being each one is an emblem of a tribe, or military unit, or such...and here's the one...
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from same previous
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lemmego get the King's tunic again...one at bottom row second over on the left..
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from wiki
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a wonder the scholars have is if there is 'meaning' in the arrangement of the designs, the squares...the numbers...I've counted...12 across, thirteen down...or the multiples...like sixteen of the checkerboards, and the others different totals...thinking how khipus counted things, I wonder if there is some counting going on...the Peruvian cultures are a marvel for many things...the biggest maybe that they did what they did without books, or a written language...somehow the ideograms conveyed everything...I need to find that staff god with the spindle whorl!...brb...
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The earliest Middle Horizon representation was found in Pucara culture where the deity was depicted alone with a spindle whorl and ball of wool in one hand and a tethered llama in the other.
p243
Handbook of Inca Mythology
By Paul Richard Steele, Catherine J. Allenhttps://books.google.com/books?id=6Wa9RwqdqEkC&pg=PA243&lpg=PA243&dq=inca+spindle+whorls&source=bl&ots=hKXJ5XzSXc&sig=FnvZLIffIr0k3TrCBEBKcUge1S0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPss6W3czbAhUCbq0KHTMYBLQ4ChDoAQhaMAg#v=onepage&q=inca%20spindle%20whorls&f=false
hmmph...hand copied it...I think I saw that this morning...I was looking at Pucata textiles, I think...brb...no...Paracas is what I was looking at...Pucara!...miss spelled...brb...
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It features a carved figure with fangs and splayed feet. Its right arm carries a staff, while the left ends in what looks like a snake's head. "Within the tradition of Andean iconography, it's got all the elements" of a deity called the Staff God, Haas says. Another, undated gourd displays the same image. The Staff God appears later in Andean prehistory and across several Andean cultures.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/04/oldest-american-idol
hmmph...a dogear...
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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/south-america-early/paracas-nasca/a/the-paracas-textile
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that's the Paracas tapestry...something of a phenom...I don't know if that is the staff god...or what he has in his hands...there is a fringe of 90 characters...the thread very fine...not so fine as the thread made from bats!...Incas and all were crazy about textiles...kind of like the Chinese with their obsession for strange pharmaceuticals...Peru snagged like 40 million sea horses being smuggled to China for their medicinal properties...nothing is safe from China's medicine chests!...anyway...somewhere out there is the staff god standing beside a llama with a spindle whorl and a handful of wool...
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Figure 4. A thousand-year-old woman’s workbasket from the central coast of what is now Perú contained her tools. Many weaving tools throughout the ancient Americas were sculpted or elaborated with paint, or with incised designs (figs. 5-7), making them “art-tools.” Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002.1.126A/U. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
from site quoted aways back...apparently, some of the spindles have like a bar code on them...lines indicating their owner...related, is that families would make/donate adobe bricks to the temple builders, and these would have the families logo on them...hmmph...I think I've found what I was reading this morning, that shows up at that site too...I haven't lost it...I have the name of book/article and page number...but I haven't been able to get back to it...a search: inca textile symmetry took me to it...last posts I noted the square symmetry of the four cornered hats, how they show up on the tunics, how on pottery too...more looking and I found them on the Sun Gate on Tiwanaku, on the 'H' blocks of stone that the Mysterions are always going on about, and, for sometime, on the adobe mud complexes, chan chan?...the square symmetry motif is everywhere, even in the architecture, even in the politics...the Inca empire was divided into four...four is everywhere...seeing the symmetries all over, and not seeing much said about them, I was confused!...just needed better search words is all...ones that bring up the scholars and their books and journals...anyway, what really interested me was the asymmetry of the symmetries!...I noticed in ancient art decades ago, that it is never exact...in our machine age exactness is a necessity...but the ancients would never make two things exactly alike...oh, before I lose it...those two spotted beakers of the fret step I found from the Nasca...there were two of them...seems the Tribes would sometimes make two of things...part of their 'routine'...oddly, that's what I've come to do of late when I make paintings...one for me one for you...idea I got from reading Picasso did that!...for the Tribes it had 'meaning'...an aside...
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As one might expect in such a textile-oriented tradition, there is actually a specific word for twisting two together: k’eswa (Franquemont 1986, 332). K’eswa signifies the spiraling of two things and so encapsulates a particular kind of ayni, one based on what we would call rotational symmetry. In previous Andean studies this was known as the “twisted strand” and is not only the basic unit of weaving but becomes celebrated as the basis of many designs as well (Frame 1986, 50). In other words, large-scale twisted strands become the patterns on textiles made from the small twisted threads themselves. Thus, the underlying technical ayni becomes the visible design ayni.
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Something slightly more unique that was and is of value to Andeans is the concept of necessary irregularity in life and in art, or q’iwa. In acknowledgement of the unpredictability of El Niño/La Niña events, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and frosts, Andeans are conditioned to accept surprise in their environment.
Things that enliven by differing from the rest may be any of very diverse phenomena. They include the lifting protrusions left by the Inka on their fine polygonal stonework, casting beautifully irregular shadows...
http://threads-of-time.carlos.emory.edu/exhibits/show/essays/dialoguesinthread
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I had just seen a Mysterion youtube going on about the famous 'knobs'...'beautifully irregular shadows' a different take...actually, after one gets a 'hold' on the Tribes' sense of symmetry, looking at their polygonal walls, often topped with lesser crafted walls, or such nearby, it makes sense...everything, absolutely everything, somehow represented how the cultures were knitted together...game on!...on the radio...I rolled right through from like 2:30 to 7:30!...lol...have to run around the block after the game...Heaney pitching...Angels 2-0 bottom of 1st...woops...Twins with two rbi home run...Angels 2-2...bottom of 2nd...well, enough...roll over to the gym for the exercise, and snack!...more tomorrowmorrow...
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DavidDavid
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