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I can talk on the television.
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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Mariners and Angels...Mariners 5-2...like the sixth inning...thought to go to the used bookstore this afternoon...it closed, or moved, so stopped in Barnes and Nobel on way back...a desultory browse, but came back with this month's Nat Geo...story about Delphi...noted the smiling Apollo found thereabout, and noted how much it looks like Etruscan work...and then noted the step motif in a story about the Copts in Egypt...brb...
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The numerous and brightly colored designs on the architectural sculpture are the best surviving example of what were Classical and Egyptian traditions that continued into Late Antiquity.
https://egyptology.yale.edu/expeditions/current-expeditions/yale-monastic-archaeology-project-south-sohag/red-monastery
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lemmee try a search: red monastery coptic crow step...
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The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
edited by Elizabeth S. Bolmanhttps://books.google.com/books?id=hwuQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=red+monastery+egypt+crow+step&source=bl&ots=t27EfL0fzf&sig=ACfU3U3IvC0-8db_qojWRXqhHGTtMcmOzg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNk73xmeDhAhVIUK0KHdFQAGYQ6AEwDHoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=red%20monastery%20egypt%20crow%20step&f=false
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there's a White Monastery nearby...the pillars remind me of the Sumerian White Temple, an adobe temple, the pillar decorations fashioned by pressing colored fired cones into the mud bricks...did post on that last season...it was temple of Moon?...and Innana's?...nearby was Temple to the Sun...the temple at Samothrace called Red Temple?...motifs can come very tiny or very large!...Temples to the Moon and Sun, Pyramids, a common motif...example of a tiny motif is the tiny polygon stone found in the polygonal walls here and there!...PhenomenalTravel youtube Mysterion clip narrator has it that ancients encoded messages for the future in how they made things, as well as the things they made...this saying, sorta, each artifact was fashioned as a time capsule...each temple, each tomb...well, making anything is like making it for the future...an afterwards...but covering things up and burying them seems to suggest the ancients gave no thought to future reviews!...I dunno...the Red Monastery and Copts need a major looksee...Angels up bottom of sixth...Trout up...Mariners 5-4...again, Angels creeping back into the game...third game in a row...K...to top of 7th...Trout may come up again...to win he must!...anyway, the interior of the monastery looks like a pastiche, a synthesis, of many previous motifs from other cultures...it was a transition time from pagans to Christians...and it reminds me of Petra...there on the architecture are things from Egypt, pyramids/obelisks, Rome and Greece, pillars and roof gables, and Sumer/Persepolis...the step motif...oh...the step motif more common at Saleh, but I've seen pics of them at Petra too...that place, places, is huge...it was a trade route crossroads, and remote, hidden by desert and canyons...the Red Monastery built in remote area, desert, too...modern civilization is creeping up on it...
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Saint Catherine's monastery is the oldest continually operating library in the world, having been in use for 1,500 years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4829310/Scientists-lost-languages-Egyptian-monastery.html
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cool page...ancients re-used parchment...scrubbed them clean to write over...but now we have tools to see the old writings, thought lost, still faintly visible on the parchments...St. Catherine's monastery has the outside look of the Red Monastery...curious to peek inside...brb...
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Entrance fresco, Church of the Transfiguration, St.Catherines Stock ...
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Entrance fresco, Church of the Transfiguration, St.Catherines Monastery Sinai Peninsula, Republic of Egypt
https://www.google.com/search?q=st+catherine%27s+monastery+entrance+egypt&rlz=1T4TSNJ_enUS440US440&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqsaezpeDhAhUFVK0KHf-wBQQQ_AUIDygC&biw=972&bih=418#imgrc=acR-TbMkQiHnjM:&spf=1555819053813
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sheesh...St. Catheryn's is dedicated to the Burning Bush...THE step motif?!...lol...reference yesterday's bit...
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https://www.academia.edu/20770845/VAN_HOEK_M._2004._The_stepped-fret_motif_in_American_rock_art_an_attempt_at_tracing_origin_and_meaning._THE_ARTIFACT._Vol._42._pp._75_-_91._El_Paso_Archaeological_Society._El_Paso_Texas
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the part I lost doing yesterday's post had in it, along with Fletcher's hit, Trout's home run, and Bour's pop out goof (he didn't run it out, resulting in double play of Pujol's pinch runner and Bour--Mariners dropped the pop fly while Bour went in the dugout, thinking it pointless, ball would be caught...no...double play!...hmmph...it had in it mention of how elaborately Van Hoek goes on about the step fret...providing some of its many variations...top of eighth?...Mariners at bat...two out...about now, I'm wishing for an ancient Pausinas who toured the monastery and left an account of that entrance...La Stella put into pinch hit for Fletcher...Ausmus is a complete idiot...all the time looking down at the analytics' recommendations...Cozart got a lead off hit...then Ausmus pinch hits for Fletch...go figure..."looks like two...it is a double play"...hmmph...Mark notes the idiocy...Terry tries to think along with Ausmus...but gives up on it...it was dumb...last three games have seen same moves in late innings...Trout up..."Angels really heavily analytic"...spot on Terry...Trout K...stupidity punctuated...bottom of ninth...one out...Pujols up...a curio:
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Linen and wooden screen curtain, loop-weave technique, Antinoe, Egypt, 5th-6th cent AD. Benaki Museum, Athens
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byzantine_Egyptian_screen_curtain.jpg
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Pujols hit a home run!...Mariners 6-5...too little too late, I'd say...but, two outs to go...that pic has the rainbow checkerboard...foul fly out...Bour pinch hitting for Smith...sigh...Smith had been 1 for 3 on the night...a stat that needs to be looked at is what batters do coming cold off the bench!!!...Trout is terrible when DH...that crowd will be whoooing and boooing...3-2...more on the rainbow checkerboard for sometime...K...yep..."that will do it"...Mariners 6-5..."just the worst" last three games...
:)
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