Step Frets (Grecas) And Spirals
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Braves and Dodgers...Dodgers 4-0 bottom of fourth...sometimes in a tourist's, well, we're all tourists!, sometimes in a tourist's youtube clip I find a best view...brb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UeAvyYSQBw
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the adventurers descend into a tomb under one of Monte Alban's Temples...maybe it's Tomb 7, where the Golden Pectoral came from...the tomb's walls are full of the same designs on the outside of the temples...and cruciform too...see clip...and in place of prominence on corridors end walls is the step fret with triangle...kind of like Alice's white rabbit in my adventure!...and then there is this site...a pdf file all in Spanish going on about grand things...grand words are usually the same in English and Spanish, and I know enough connecting Spanish words that I can follow along, sorta...author has it there is an underlying geometric shape to all the Mitla tempels and friezes...one sees this in discussion of ancient Greek temples...sacred geometry spirals, rectangles, and such, are superimposed on the temples to show their design...brb...
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https://www.goldennumber.net/parthenon-phi-golden-ratio/
apparently, what that spiral was to the Greeks, the step fret was to the Pan Americans...brb...wait...here's pic of one of the corridors' end walls...
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http://www.famous-historic-buildings.org.uk/mitla_93.html
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Capitulo 4
La greca unidad de medida armónica
https://arquitectura.unam.mx/uploads/8/1/1/0/8110907/6_cap%C3%ADtulo4.pdf
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that side by side/match cut I should have seen all along!...the step fret is often pixelated...this I thought from the pixilation lent by textiles, woven crafts, clay bricks...reptile skins, fish and butterfly scales...Nature is full of pixilation...we have hexagons in our eyes...but I hadn't thought the pixelated step fret would be used as a kind of template for proportions...doggone Pythagoreans for sure!...noted has been the Egyptian's square grid the artists used...one square equal to one hand...and here is shown how the step fret squares are like the Egyptian's grid...author could have gone wild overlaying step frets on Egyptian things!...the spiral and the step fret have their own kind of 'one hand' base, somehow...not sure how that is, but the magic of having a grid is that one can scale things up and down, and everything stays in proportion...bit of genius that the author latched on to the step fret as a kind of protractor!...pdf file has lots of overlay pics...a must see...to bottom eighth...Dodgers 5-3...my sundial notion is related to this somehow too, I suspect...the quadripartite step motifs, the chacanas, are often found together with the step frets...oh, and here in the file the author has the step motifs, quarter, and one half steps...and together with the frets...missing is the little right triangle!...for sometime how that fits!...
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same site
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so, the step fret triangle chacana is a thing, like the spiral...but what things!...Nature is full of them!...top of ninth...Dodgers rolling over everyone...
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same site
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note the frets and steps, the real stone ones, the steps like the Inca warrior tunic...this from a Puuc Town...in fact, this the Arch India replicated...see post about four back...I discovered the Puuc Temples back in early March, and been sitting on them until the season was underway....they are really cool...for tomorrowmorrow, the pigeon coops...Dodgers won...Angels had day off...oh, and lost to Houston 10-2 on Sunday in Monterrey...
:)
DavidDavid
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