Tau
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Twins...bottom of second...one out...Angels all grounded out in top of first...sometimes, sometimes in my reading I find something in one place that I found in another place, and, it's an 'eye blinker'...something being a motif, or a story, some such...archaeologists and scholars around the world gathering things have a lot of these things...self similarities I call them...and, yes, that term harks to fractal geometry, and fractal geometry in Nature...similarities in Nature are common...single drives a runner in for Twins...Twins 1-0...
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Self-similarity can be found in nature, as well. To the right is a mathematically generated, perfectly self-similar image of a fern, which bears a marked resemblance to natural ferns. Other plants, such as Romanesco broccoli, exhibit strong self-similarity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-similarity
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can self similarity be applied to mythology?...brb...Twins made out...to the motifs, the enigmas?...without words, that's what a match cut, a side by side, can do...that Narmer Mace scene set beside the Moche rituals painted on their pottery...hard to measure, dear Reader, when I've illustrated enough!...sigh...so, so in post a couple posts back I go on about the "T" motif...referencing Devereaux, and the youtube clip showing the sun shining through the T opening in the tower at Palanque...that shape, in the naming of crosses, is called a Tau cross...brb...
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A T-shaped cross. Also called the Saint Anthony's cross, the Saint Francis' cross and crux commissa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross_variants
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so, the Mesoamerican T motif can be called a Tau cross, much as the crossed band motif can be called a Saint Andrew's cross...X...hmmph...Twins with a lead off runner bottom of third...
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In Egypt, this cross was called “ankh,” which was formed by a “tau” cross (looks like the letter “T”) with a loop on top of it:
In Mexico, the Aztecs and Mayas used the same exact “tau” cross, only with no loop:
https://www.richardcassaro.com/tag/tau-cross/
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'tis so...that Aztec T hole in the wall I referenced as the opening for the 'wind'...and too for the sun shining through on the Palanque tower...Egyptians too have a motif that doesn't have the loop...Angels up...LaStella...think Twins picked up two runs...Twins 3-0...bloop hit...oh...Trout DP...Ohtani up...base hit...fly out...to bottom of fourth...hmmph...getting diverted by Tau searches!...
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In numerous cultures tau was connected to abundant water or rain-deities. For instance, Augustus Le Plongeon, one of the first archaeologists of the Maya, writes that the T-shape corresponded to Crux, or the Southern Cross. This constellation appears shortly before the beginning of the rainy season in southern Mexico.
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“The ancient Maya astronomers had observed that at a certain period of the year, at the beginning of our month of May, that owes its name to the goddess MAYA, the good dame, mother of the gods, the “Southern Cross,” appears perfectly perpendicular above the line of the horizon. This is why the Catholic church celebrates the feast of the exaltation of the holy cross on the third day of that month, which it has consecrated particularly to the Mother of God, the Good Lady, the virgin Ma-R-ia, or the goddess Isis anthropomorphized by Bishop Cyril of Alexandria.” (2)
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In Egypt the ankh, or ansate cross, was the “key to the Nile” by which Osiris, husband of Isis, accomplished his annual riparian inundations. The upper loop represents the womb, and the lower straight portion represents either the birth canal or the phallus.
https://redice.tv/news/the-tau-or-t-shaped-cross-hopi-maya-egyptian-connections
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that's a guess...Cyril appeared in the story of Hypogia...something happened when two monks in that time were sent to the Island of Philae, whereabout is the Temple of Isis...almost instantaneously, the tribes south along the Nile became Christian all the way to Ethiopia, and thrived...this tale for sometime...the Southern Cross was known both to the Egyptians and Mesoamericans...hang on to that!...Twins 4-0...to top of fifth...Angels made out...to bottom of fifth...
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Professor Colless says the stars were known to the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians but by Roman times the Southern Cross had sunk below the horizon, disappearing from sight in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/01/23/3931015.htm
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that would be because of the Precession of the Equinox...the Earth's tilt...Fletcher waps an rbi double...Twins 4-1...Trout up...no outs...La Stella must be on...and Fletch too...K...Ohtani up...Graves has it that Hercules was sacrificed on an Oak tree shaped like a Tau cross...p120 of the White Goddess...base hit...rbi single...Twins 4-3...was going to quote long passage, as it gives the gruesome details of the sacrifice, and, and it reads just like the Moche sacrifice rituals...'Hercules' the generic name for sacred kings...sacred kings are, an enigma...oh, Ohtani base running error, gets tossed out...Simmons had hit safely...Ohtani, noted for base running gafs!...
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The manner of his death can be reconstructed from a variety of legends, folk customs, and other religious sources. Hercules is made drunk with mead, and led into the middle of a circle of twelve stones arranged around an oak, in front of which stands an altar stone; the oak has been lopped until it is T-shaped.
p120 The White Goddess
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in the intro to the book Graves laments that scholars completely ignore his effort...well, yeah...when it is a reconstruction from "a variety of legends folk customs, and other religious sources"...in his defense, he wrote two volumes of Greek Myths, which gives sources, sorta...Graves had his procrustean bed, and would shorten or lengthen one in a eye blink!...lol...I find my ownself a bit misshapen by such...but that passage above goes on to match bloody scene with bloody scene with the Moche paintings...to say nothing of the rest of Mesoamericans and Andeans...he may have been familiar with Aztec lore and such, being the antiquarian, ethnohistorian, he was...but I dunno...in the early 1960's he dabbles with Mexico hallucinogens, which in the intro to the Greek Myths, he goes on about as being the under story of the myths...Twins with a one out runner...it's a slog...the lament of archaeologists is that every ancient city they dig up has evidence of warfare...another lament might be, that every royal grave has evidence of human sacrifice...except, maybe, Caral...
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Caral, or Caral-Chupacigarro,[1] was a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca Province, Peru, some 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Lima. Caral is the most ancient city of the Americas and a well-studied site of the Norte Chico civilization.
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No trace of warfare has been found at Caral: no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Shady's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the temples, they uncovered 32 flutes made of condor and pelican bones and 37 cornetts of deer and llama bones. One find revealed the remains of a baby, wrapped and buried with a necklace made of stone beads.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caral#Peaceful_society
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Fletch with another hit...two Angels on with two out...LaStella up...
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Research developed by Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady Solís of San Marcos University suggests that Caral, as the 150-acre complex of pyramids, plazas and residential buildings is known, was a thriving metropolis as Egypt’s great pyramids were being built.
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Though discovered in 1905, Caral first drew little attention, largely because archaeologists believed the complex structures were fairly recent. But the monumental scale of the pyramids had long tantalized Shady. “When I first arrived in the valley in 1994, I was overwhelmed,” she says. “This place is somewhere between the seat of the gods and the home of man.”
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-city-in-the-new-world-66643778/#O5uzLXTGIx3C1uoE.99
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in the Book of Ezekiel: “The Lord said to him, ‘Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over the abominations… (Ez. 9:4). The Tau is the sign placed upon the foreheads of the poor of Israel, it saves them from extermination.
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Because of the Tau’s resemblance to the cross, this sign was very dear to St. Francis of Assisi, so much so that it occupied an important place in his life as well as his gestures. In him the ancient prophetic sign was actualized, regained its saving power and expressed the beatitude of poverty, which is an essential element of the Franciscan way of life.
https://aleteia.org/2014/10/28/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-cross-so-loved-by-st-francis/
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I am a published iconologist currently working on Tau Cross symbolism and Gobekli tepe has really rocked my world! My most recent paper (in number 14 of the journal Migration and Diffusion, Vienna) is devoted entirely to the subject of T-symbolism and its interhemispheric diffusion in ancient times.
https://www.interfaith.org/community/threads/471/
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a self promoting source!...lol...for sometime...W...bases loaded...Twins made out...to top of eighth...Trout up...K...Ohtani up...infield hit...Simmons up...fly out...Pujols up...ohh...Ohtani thrown out at home...Pujols hit a bloop single...no challenge...this site has a bunch of Tau side by sides, and notes that odd false door in Peru...
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http://thehiddenrecords.com/gobekli-tepe-taurus-bull
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aramu-muru
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if it's a Tau, it's not very distinct...but considering that it is, then like for the Mesoamericans and Egyptians, it can represent the Southern Cross...curious to know if any shadows fall on this at sunrise, or sunset, whenever...Andeans never seem to miss an opportunity for sun alignments...sundials of one sort or another everywhere...Mesoamericans too...Angels are going to pinch hit Bour for Fletcher...hmmph...Angels with one out walk...one out...Bour K...LaStella up...shallow fly ball...Twins 4-3...good game...off for a snack...Fish Taco Teusday...
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DavidDavid
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