Towers
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Cubs...top of eighth...Angels one by one accumulating enough runs to maybe win...Angels 6-1...one out...runner at second...Calhoun up...round towers of the Cloud People is up...and, I don't know what to write about them, except, dear reader, go have a looksee...then maybe go have a looksee at the round towers of Sardinia...I happened on them reading about the Turin Papyrus...Turin, Italy, like many places, collected Egyptian artifacts...lots of them...and one is a fragmentary papyrus with the Dynastic King List...a bunch of these lists have been found, some on temple walls, and by comparing, a complete list of the Dynastic Kings has been made...kind of like the list of the Kings of Copan in Mexico...there's an Inca list of Kings...Bible has a list...we, in our brief history, have a list of Presidents...the peculiar thing about these ancient lists is they reference ages before the dynasties, when very long lived humans were kings, or even gods...Greek mythology lays this out very plainly...the Kings of Athens...oh, wait, I'm off on kings lists when I wanted to go on about round towers!...there's round towers in Ireland, and bee hive stone buildings too...go see if wiki has a list of ancient round towers!...Cubs with a double...brb...well, search: ancient stone round towers, turned up Irelands, and a few others...a conflation with ancient light houses, which is a another tale for sometime...but not a general gathering of towers from around the world on web...Cloud People, Incas, Sardinia, Tibet (these are polygonal, hexagons and such, and very tall, scattered in the mountain villages, their original purpose forgotten), Ireland, are on my list...the Mysterions have it Sardinia was rolled over by a tidal wave, its towers abandoned, and the residents became the Etruscans, whose turf was like from north Italy to Turkey...or some such...thing about the Etruscans, they were sea traders and metal workers like the Phoenicians/Carthaginians...both were defeated by Rome...did they have a diaspora, sail out across the Atlantic to the New World?...this is where the 19th century antiquarians went with their captions...and faked Phoenician artifacts found in America...Cubs score two on single...bottom of eighth...but, I dunno...more and more it looks like some how some way Old World culture diffused to the New World, and maybe visa versa...there was this Egyptian mummy wrapped with linen that had Etruscan script on it...lot of overlap between Etruscans and Egyptians...throw in Phoenicians...
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The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (Latin for "Linen Book of Zagreb", also rarely known as Liber Agramensis, "Book of Agram") is the longest Etruscan text and the only extant linen book, dated to the 3rd century BCE. It remains mostly untranslated because of the lack of knowledge about the Etruscan language, though the few words which can be understood indicate that the text is most likely a ritual calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus
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ritual calendars are kind of a thing...to make them takes an understanding of the passage of the sun, astronomy, to understand astronomy takes an observatory, sundial temples...to know how to use the sundials, takes a priesthood, a learned brotherhood...expert with pythagorean triangles for building...Pythagoreans...giant sundials...stardials...tracking the movement of the sun is akin to star tracking...a natural step...it could happen, I guess, convergently...but, say the Brotherhoods could link up...of late, I can't help but note the male domination in history....for sometime...hmmmph...top of ninth...two out...intentional walk to Fletcher!...Allen, the relief pitcher up...national league rules...full count!...Allen's first big league at bat...foul tip...veteran of seven seasons...K...to bottom of ninth...
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They gave us the word "person" and invented a symbol of iron rule later adopted by the fascists. Some even argue it was they who really moulded Roman civilization.
Yet the Etruscans, whose descendants today live in central Italy, have long been among the great enigmas of antiquity. Their language, which has never properly been deciphered, was unlike any other in classical Italy. Their origins have been hotly debated by scholars for centuries.
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There, they were called "tuscii" in Latin. The obvious explanation for this has always been their fondness for building tower-like, walled, hilltop towns like those still to be seen scattered across Umbria and Tuscany.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/18/italy.johnhooper
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hmmph...two more outs to go in the bottom of ninth...the tuscii came from Turkey...where else might they have gone?...W...base hit..a hustle double...was watching clips about the Sarapeum...and the big black boxes...these boxes have distinct lids...a flat middle section, with two sloping sides...actually the ends are sloped too...faceted...but, looking at the Etruscan tombs, the ceilings have this look...a middle section with sloping sides...a head scratch!...ball to the outfield dogged by Goodwin...Angels 6-5...K...
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This type of hut urn, made of an unrefined clay known as impasto, would be used to house the cremated remains of the deceased. Not coincidentally, it shows us in miniature form what a typical Etruscan house would have looked like in Iron Age Etruria (900-750 B.C.E.)—oval with a timber roof and a smoke hole for an internal hearth.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/ap-ancient-etruria/a/the-etruscans-an-introduction
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an Etruscan pottery model house...2-0...2-1...K on check swing...Cubbies having conniptions!...appealing call...you can put a Halo over this one!
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