Chankillo
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Yankees and Angels...top of third...Yankees 2-1, I think (nope, Yankees 2-0, 4-0 during spell check!)...Angels scored first, but, that didn't last...lol...when I opened youtube this morning, the first algorithmically recommended site was going on about the Pyramid Apron of the ancient Egyptians...Ancient Architects channel...I went on about the pyramid aprons in the previous post!...brb...I left a comment:
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I've seen discussion of the pyramid on the apron...just posted a bit about it to my blog last night...go figure...related I think is the square throne Pharaoh sits on...a whimsy: the sun rays radiating from the corner represent the sun's shift from solstice to solstice on the horizon...in Peru there is a row of thirteen squat towers on a hillock that were used by Chancelly culture...from a central equinox center point aways off on either side, ancient astronomers would sight through the towers, marking the passage of the seasons on the horizon...at Tiwanaku, atop the much eroded pyramid like monument, it's thought a large chacana shaped reflecting pool was on top...the chacana is a cross made of checkerboard squares, and checkerboard motif thought to represent Milky Way...an astronomical tool?...a sundial I'd say...the cluster of pyramids on Giza too...Pylons are missing too from the paintings...and too they were oriented to sun rise on the horizon...I dont know if they were secritive...what oral tradition context there was to it all would certainly help...one thing for sure, they thought it important to reiterate the solstice/sunrise/sunset mystery for some practical reason...the Andeans and Mesoamericans too...isn't one of Horus' epithets "Horus on the Horizon?"☺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPoRSFatagU
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like I said, I've come to nearly making blog posts in the comment sections!...comment threads are suspect...full of trolls, sock puppets, shills, and what look to be robotic posts...social media posts in general are a tangle of misaligned purposes...some misaligned purposefully!...so, a post to a comment thread is kind of a piss in the wind...a wan hope, a pearl before swine...basically, talking to oneself...in defense of commentators, just the sheer volume of posts in a thread precludes any productive back and forth talk!...but, on occasion in the threads I get a reply...and the reply has a lead...a clue to follow on my thought...like there with the Pyramid Apron...clip has examples and speculations and seeing them bumped my imagination...I dunno...maybe the scribed lines from the corners are solstice related...brb...
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Evidence of this article of clothing has been found in Nubia (one of Ancient Egypt's influences), but not in Egypt herself. Despite this, during the Middle and New Kingdoms, depictions in Egyptian art often showed men wearing skirts with large triangular aprons. However, this is very weak evidence of their use in Egypt. It is difficult to distinguish if these depictions actually show people wearing an apron or, if not, some other type of clothing that was part of the construction of a skirt. The above picture may show men wearing separate aprons or a wrapped skirt that was fashion to look this way.
http://egyptologypage.tripod.com/fashion.html#Aprons
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found that quote just browsing for example of apron...and quote has a lead...that bit about it being found in Nubia, but not in Egypt...sorta...clearly it is found in Egypt, but it may have been a unique fashion lifted from Nubia...I saw the King Tut guard statue at the Science Museum show in LA...every bit of an Egyptian painting/costume is a motif, and each motif like a word...and everyone wore these motifs...native costumes all over the world were once covered with motifs...that had meaning just like a word...one was like a walking advertisement brands covered race car driver, or some such!...ral...anyway, where's the game...Angels in the cellar...strike'm out throw'm out...Trout erased at second on the throw...two gone bottom of third?...Simmons up...stretched a hit into a double...and, and last night after posting, I found another follow on to that post!...fly out...Yankees 2-0?...sixth?...I've totally lost track of game...anyway, I found this: Chankillo, which, forgot for a moment, I went on about in comment above, misspelled Chancilly, or some sort...close enough for google search...lol...often google finds something even if one misspells it...back to back singles for Yankees...oh...wait...
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In another example, West says, "The Royal Apron is characteristic of Egyptian art. Schwaller De Lubicz carefully measured seventy two of these aprons--almost all of them within the covered Temple of Luxor--and found in every single case that the aprons were constructed according to precise mathematical considerations. In each case, these proportions corresponded in some way to the mathematical relationships of the mural of which the royal personage was a part."
http://www.fromoffthebeatenpath.com/2010/03/egypt-16-luxor-temple-iii.html
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blog author is quoting Anthony West's Serpent in the Sky book...and I've remembered that bit about the aprons from reading that years ago...BW...before the web when there were just books and such!...anyway...more on the apron for sometime!...
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The ruins include the hilltop Chankillo fort, the nearby Thirteen Towers solar observatory, and residential and gathering areas. The Thirteen Towers have been interpreted as an astronomical observatory built in the 4th century BC.[6][9] The culture that produced Chankillo is called the Casma/Sechin culture or the Sechin Complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanquillo
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Yankees 3-0...and, I'm hungry...time for a snack foray...more tomorrowmorrow about Chankillo, and the Giant Sundials!...game report too...
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DavidDavid
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