Notes: game on...on the radio...Barria on the mound...Trout still at DH...sore finger on his throwing hand...a kind of 'up from the minors night'...lot of regulars given night off, or injured...blocks and squares!...I notice stuff, then in searching something out, find I'm just following on what has been noticed before!...noticed that the tocapus on the Inca King's Tunic were small squares...and Mayan hieroglyphs are square, and Chinese script are square...recalled that Jewish script is square, and looking closely, noticed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are in squares, and, and, keeping score at the game, noted the little boxes to record batters' at bats are squares!...brb...exchanging line up cards...
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Square script may refer to:
- the Hebrew alphabet
- the 'Phags-pa script
3-2...lead off walk...
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Some sources in classical rabbinical literature seem to acknowledge the historical provenance of the currently used Hebrew alphabet and deal with them as a mundane subject (the Jerusalem Talmud, for example, records that "the Israelites took for themselves square calligraphy", and that the letters "came with the Israelites from Ashur [Assyria]");[16] others attribute mystical significance to the letters, connecting them with the process of creation or the redemption. In mystical conceptions, the alphabet is considered eternal, pre-existent to the Earth, and the letters themselves are seen as having holiness and power, sometimes to such an extent that several stories from the Talmud illustrate the idea that they cannot be destroyed.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet
fly out...a curio, that 'pre-existent'!...Jay's made out...to bottom of 1st...Fletcher lead off hit...Trout up...oh...missed what happened with Trout...made out I gather...Upton up...base hit...runners first and third...Valbuena up...this might be like last night!...Angels got two runs in the first, and hung on to win 2-1!...
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Maya texts were usually written in blocks arranged in columns two blocks wide. Within each block, glyphs were arranged top-to-bottom and left-to-right, superficially rather like Korean Hangul syllabic blocks.
Three ways to write b'alam using combinations of the logogram with the syllabic signs as phonetic complements.
K...Simmons up...well, I've found three examples of 'b'alam' being explained has having three ways to be written!...this one, another in Michael Coe's book...Angels make out...to top of 2nd...and this one on youtube!...
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What's hiding inside Maya glyphs - History of Writing Systems #6 (Syllabary)
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clip is number six in a series called "Thoth's Pill"...starts out in clip one with that back and forth at the before and after of the invention of writing when it was argued writing would cause people to lose the memory skills they had with just an oral tradition...I thought that was a back and forth between Greeks, but here, back and forth between Egyptians...they're cartoons, with children's book like dialog...but go on about logographs and such...myself, I'm resistant to unfamiliar words, especially if they have multiple syllables...Jays with two runners on first and second...both walks...starts out there are pictograms which are one to one representations of things, like a photograph, or realistic drawing...then there are ideograms, or ideographs, which are stylized representations...in the history of art making, I imagine stylized representations came before realistic ones...but I dunno...it isn't like we were unfamiliar with image reproductions...there are footprints in mud; hands smeared with colors, printing; reflections in ponds and rivers...butchering game for food showed what was inside...for sometime Nature's natural art!...simplest thing to do is trace...around the edges of things...or maybe put something transparent over an object, like tracing paper...and, and, oddly, in ancient art, there is none of that!...like there was a preventive algorithm...Jays made out...Angels got out of trouble...to bottom of 2nd...Calhoun up...and after stylized drawings, sounds were associated with a drawing...thenabout, the sound/picture combination of Mayan and Egyptian scripts...Angels gone quick...to top of 3rd...five rookies in the game for the Angels...all the ancient languages seem to have done this...linking the sounds of the language with stylized pictographs...ideographs...the Mayans' are ingenious...like a modern illustrated comic book novel gone wild...
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Dr. Mark Van Stone - How Maya Hieroglyphs are written - Demonstration
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this clip is like a bit from Inktober!...he shows the Mayan glyph for 'stone'...oh...Jays got a run...rbi hit...oh, a home run...Jays 1-0...double play...Jays make out...to bottom of third...'the 'tune' glyph, Stone explains is a stylized cave with a pool of water and stalactities...'tune' is what I hear him say, don't know how to spell it...and so, so search it out...but I've seen the 'cave' wildly stylized...thinking here of the one I saw with monster jaws...
oh...there I was able to snag pic from clip from google images...his pen is drawing the stalactites...Trout with single....runners at the corners...no one out?...Upton up...and the glyph just above has the same 'tune'...how scholars figure these out, I dunno!...they are master Easter egg hunters!...walk...bases loaded!...just that quick, now I'm able to pick out this glyph when browsing google mayan images...
Fletcher risked to go home, and is thrown out on fly out to outfield...so...nothing for the Angels...:(...to top of 4th...Hermisillio dogs a hard hit single...leadoff dbl fo Jays...
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Vessel with a mythological scene (Maya)
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at about 4:00 in that clip, the duet explains it is a mountain monster, miss naming, I think, the cave pools, and stalactites...a quibble...thing is, with a script like this, one has pictures and sounds, and meanings from both...bit like putting an illustration with a poem...and there is just no telling the depths of meanings to the Mayans their scripts had!...Jays made out...to bottom of 4th...Simmons grounds out on a come backer...Calhoun up...hit...Bersinillio...hit...Fernandez fly out...Hermesillio up...Angels make out...to top of 5th...with the Dogon and their checkerboard tilling of soil for planting, I noted, when looking up Chinese square script, that there is a Chinese square script for a planted field...
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田
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Meaning: field, garden, nursery, meadow, acreage, pasture,
https://www.codeoftheancients.com/dictionary/egyptian/term/farmland
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The Maya hieroglypic writing is arguably one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world. It is also very complex, with hundreds of unique signs or glyphs in the form of humans, animals, supernaturals, objects, and abstract designs. These signs are either logograms (to express meaning) or syllabograms (to denote sound values), and are used to write words, phrases, and sentences. In fact, the Maya can write anything that they can say.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/maya.html
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double play and the inning is over...to bottom of 5th...was looking for glyph for farmland in Mayan...found that site...nice page!...the Egyptian one before it too!...Trout up...3-2...K...called third strike...he had two of those last night...same thing...3-2 counts...Upton goes down same way!...to top of 6th...
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Aerial photography provides evidence of raised beds alongside canals. Like the Aztecs, the Maya also farmed field raised up from the bajos, or low, swampy areas. They created these fertile farm areas by digging up the mud from the bottom and placing it on mats made of woven reeds two feet above the water level. In the canals between the beds were fish, turtles and other aquatic life. Water lilies grew in the water and prevented the water from drying up. Raised bed farming was quite labor-intensive but very productive. Each field provided two or three crops a year.
https://www.historyonthenet.com/mayan-farming/
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modern machines have so much taken over 'labor intensive' work that soon most everyone will be out of work!...hmmph...new pitcher...Bedrosan...double play...two out...come backer...third out...to bottom of 6th...
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Archaeologist Ann Kendall began studying terraces in the Cuzco region of Peru in 1968. She intended to focus on Incan architecture and stonework, but she was soon captivated by the dry canal beds and terraces that beckoned from across the valley. “I thought about the problem that local people had no water and didn’t cultivate this [agricultural system],” she says. She remembers thinking, “if only one could study traditional technology and rehabilitate all this in the Andes, wouldn’t it be wonderful.”
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they did things in a fashion that kept the ground warm around the plants...laying stones down to absorb the heat of the day...the Amazon too was once covered with farmland...
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Farming without fire in tropical regions, like indigenous populations did before 1492, may be the key to both feeding people and managing land more sustainably, according to new research.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/10/3474208.htm
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one out single...Calhoun up...unlucky play, Calhoun out on grounder ping ponged from first baseman to pitcher coming to cover...
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Project (GAP) used advanced radar remote sensing applications to map the city and its environs. The project identified the urban complex of about 200-400 square kilometers, surrounded by a vast agricultural complex of farmlands, local villages, temples and ponds, all connected by a web of earthen-walled canals, part of a vast water control system.
https://www.thoughtco.com/angkor-civilization-ancient-khmer-empire-169557
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half a world away, but the Khmer had the self same roads and irrigation inventiveness of the Mesoamericans and Andeans...another comebacker...this the top of the 7th inning...one out...Jays 1-0 still...base hit...two outs...Jays make out...to bottom of 7th...Fernandez with lead off single...Kinsler up...pinch hitting...
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Temple gardens often had rows of fig trees and sycamores (the tree sacred to the goddess Hathor), tamaris, willows, or palm trees. Rows of trees sometimes stretched for several kilometres, connecting several temples. The temples themselves had esplanades planted with trees. When rows of trees were planted far from the river, wells had to be dug ten metres deep to reach water for irrigation. During the time of Amenophis III, some temples were devoted to a goddess in the form of a tree, with a trunk for a body and branches for arms. This goddess was believed to carry water to the dead, the quench their thirst.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_ancient_Egypt
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fly out...Fernandez out trying to reach second on iffy call...Jays kept the tag on until he was off bag a little...Angels make out...to top of 8th...Alverez on the mound...a plowed field is kind of like a blank page...fly out to Fletcher in left...or blank score book box...or something...well, it is something...seeds are a miracle the ancients wouldn't have missed...plants growing and such...seeds as a metaphor for words a common thing, I find, searching 'seeds, words, metaphor'...Jays made out...to bottom of eighth...Trout up...two Ks one hit...3-2...foul off...oh geez...Trout stinks as DH...K...playing in the field improves ones hitting...if Ohtani ever comes back as just a hitter, he'll need to play a position to be at his best...Upton K...Valbuena up...a home run..."way out of here!"...Angels 1-1...Simmons K...to top of 9th...
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One popular tale told how the gods opened Maize Mountain where the first seeds to plant maize were found.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/maya/religion_and_mythology.php
site for kids...gory details edited out...this more for the adults' sensibilities than the kids...kids glory in gory details!...is Maize Mountain that mountain monster glyph?...
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The discovery and opening of the Maize Mountain - the place where the corn seeds are hidden - is still one of the most popular of Maya tales. In the Classic period (200-900 AD), the maize deity shows aspects of a culture hero.
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The maize god's presence in the San Bartolo arrangement of five world trees has been interpreted as his establishment of the world.[12]
Fig. 1: Tonsured Maize God as a patron of the scribal arts, Classic period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_maize_god
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Jays caught stealing...great throw by Bersenillio...two out...single...W...runner first and second...
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Both Lespinasse and his brother, who offered the stone to the Metropolitan Museum on his behalf, noted that the stone was similar to a keystone at the summit of an arch. A reanalysis of the architectural sculpture recorded at Uxmal in the years after the consul's original visit, however, reveals that the Met's block formed part of a monumental mosaic "mask," an anthropomorphic portrait of a mountain deity, or witz in Mayan.
Mountains were central to Lowland Maya cosmology; the ancient Maya actually viewed their pyramidal buildings as mountains from which water and sustenance emerged. Accordingly, the builders of ancient Maya temples and carvers of ancient Maya sculptures marked architecture and places with what is known as the witz monster. These fantastic creatures are often portrayed with enlarged snouts and gaping jaws which represented overhangs and watery caves beneath mountains.
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Maya artists and sculptors at Uxmal mixed geometric designs reminiscent of woven textiles with conventionalized and naturalistic portraiture to transform a palace building within a mountainless landscape into a mythological mountainous location for courtly life and ritual.
https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2014/mountains-eyebrow
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oh no...three run home run for Jays...Jays 4-1...Morris on the mound...Jays made out...to bottom of 9th...
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Maya iconographic motif; also known as the cauac monster. Because this zoomorphic symbol is marked with the distinctive "grape clusters" and dotted semicircles of the month sign Kawak (Cauac in the old orthography), it was once referred to as the cauac monster. (See "The Cauac Monster" by Dicey Taylor, online at Mesoweb/PARI.) Thanks to the epigraphic research of David Stuart, it is now known to personify a mountain (witz in Mayan).
http://www.precolumbia.com/encyc/index.asp?passcall=rightframeexact&rightframeexact=http%3A//www.precolumbia.com/encyc/view.asp%3Fact%3Dviewexact%26view%3Dnormal%26word%3Dmonster%26wordAND%3Dwitz
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that's a good page!...http://www.mesoweb.com/...Calhoun K...liner to center...caught..two out...
the cave monster in the SmartHistory quote has to be a witz...it has those 'grapes'...which I thought to be stalactites...
and I may have it right...just different words being used...K...hmmph...more tommorromorrow...cue the witz monster...
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