Butterfly Warriors
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Brewers and Angels...lead off single for Brewers...I was looking at Olmec artifacts in google images...with my weather eye noting anything Andean like...step frets...step motifs...brb...
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keep a weather eye open
- (intransitive, idiomatic) to maintain a background awareness of something; to remain alert to changes without it occupying one's full attention.
from wiktionary
hmmph...sometimes a word or phrase comes to mind to write, and I've never used it before...my understanding vocabulary is a lot bigger than the one I think with, talk with, write with...a neither here nor there!...anyway, I sighted one Olmec incense burner with step motifs...brb...oh, here's link to paper written up by student to finish their degree...student papers a marvelous source...and they had a 'weather eye' out for the crossed bands motif...which I'm not familiar with, though cherry picking one motif from the welter of motifs, I am!...Angels up...Brewers didn't score...
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THE CROSSED BANDS MOTIF: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
by
BRITTANY KNOTT LUTHER
B.A. Archaeology, Baylor University 2010
B.A. Classics, Baylor University 2010
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Artsin the Department of Anthropology
in the College of Sciences
at the University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
Spring Term
2016
Major Professor:
https://sciences.ucf.edu/anthropology/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/07/Luther_B.pdf
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caught my eye as I'm tracking, yes, as in tracking animal tracks, skull and bones motifs...Trout is on base...oh, runners on first and second...don't know how they got on...Pujols up...two outs...slap hit to right?...more likely he'll loft one towards the fences...liner up the middle...Trout scores...Buor scores on hit by Goodwin...Angels 2-0...another infield hit...Angels 3-0...wth...La Stella waps a three run Home Run...Angels hitters are feeding off Trout...when Ohtani comes back, it might be a feeding frenzy!...K...Angels 6-0...
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The dynastic rulership of Copan spanned from around 450 to 850 AD
(Sharer 1999). It is known for its three-dimensional sculptures, which are only present inthis valley. These sculptures are also a source on the foundation of the dynasties and
relationship between the Maya and Teotihuacan (Sharer 1999). The Acropolis was built
over the reign of 16 kings, creating a large man-made hill. Stela 11 on the doorway of
Temple 18 depicts the narrative of 8 Ajaw. The ruler depicted on this column has thecrossed bands motif on his belt.
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a curio...I was wondering about these sixteen rulers in previous post...note "(Sharer 1999)"...academic papers reference other authors with a note like that in the text...and at end of paper is full reference...thing a kind of footnote...the numbered footnote thing seems to have fallen out of fashion...I do this with movies...moviePurple Rain1999...lol...with two outs, Brewers collect three runs!!...Angels 6-3...
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pic from paper
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Calhoun K...Trout up...singled earlier...the crossed bands is right above the figure's head...the figure emerging from a cave is a motif...brb...infield hit for Trout...found it...its a Teotihucan Incense Burner with the step motif...
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File:Teotihuacan-style incense burner depicting a ruler and his court, Maya, Early Classic Period, 250-600 AD, ceramic - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC04482.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teotihuacan-style_incense_burner_depicting_a_ruler_and_his_court,_Maya,_Early_Classic_Period,_250-600_AD,_ceramic_-_Royal_Ontario_Museum_-_DSC04482.JPG
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I don't see many Mesoamerican Motifs that specifically hark to Andean motifs...though in a bit, another post(s), I'll show a whole bunch...on this burner is the step motif...but in a general way, the way the motifs have the look of a language about them, Mesoamerican things are very Andean...
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The headdress depicted frontally on this incense burner is typically associated with Teotihuacan's elite combatants.
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/80403/warrior-face-incense-burner-fragment/
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note the nose ornament...
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WHAT: This incense burner depicts the 'Butterfly God'. It was used in ceremonial settings, and its condition suggests that its final use was as a burial accompaniment. Censers with similar forms to this one have been found in Esquintla, Guatemala, suggesting that this piece, or objects like it, may have been traded to peoples in that part of Mesoamerica.
Height: 48.9cm
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/cloth_clay/resources/teothuacan_001.cfm
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Did I find it?...is that the 'butterfly pectoral' on the Toltec Warriors and the Chac Mools?...lol...that was sort of where my motif mania started!...browsing, one sees these repeating motifs, and one can't help but wonder, wth are they, what did they mean?
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The columns atop Pyramid B at the Toltec capital of Tollan (Tula) which once supported a roof structure. They are each composed of four column drums and represent Toltec warriors ready for battle wearing their customary headdress and butterfly pectoral. (10th-12th century CE)
https://www.ancient.eu/image/1422/toltec-warrior-columns/
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Chacmool
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I went over the Toltec Warriors early in last season's posts...looking again, and familiar with the Moche warriors' fighting, the losers being stripped, led with a rope to the sacrifice ritual, I can see how this is the same with the Toltec Warriors and the Chac Mools...the Chac Mools are stripped down Toltec Warriors...the notion of the Aztec Flower wars was to gather from enemy nobility noble captives which were sacrificed...thought about the Moche was that each river valley tribe raided neighboring river valley tribes for captives for same...the rivers running off the Andeans into the coastal desert made distinctive niches, valleys where the 'Moche' built their pyramids...each tribe may have had a distinctive culture, that together made up the Moche...oh...note the headbands holding the feathers on the standing warriors...it has a kind of polygonal, beaded, decoration...on the Chac Mools, the feathers are gone...homerun for La Stella...much needed...Brewers had picked up another run...Angels 7-5...enough for now!...time for a snack and stretch!
:)
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