Open To Interpretation
T is for Sundial
Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Angels and Orioles...top of third...tie game...Angels 2-2...last post, I lamented I couldn't find a good pic of the big painted restoration step frets on a wall at El Tajin...Fletch with lead off hit...LaStrella up...and just a moment ago browsing, fount them looking for more about the T shaped opening in one the El Tajin temples...this I saw in a clip last night, and thought it for today's subject!...so, so Katheryn Devereaux has the painted step frets I found on a page...and, and, it was in her wordpress blog I first read about the T...I thought it just another version of the step motif...not so!...and she goes on about the T in the same paragraph about the painted step frets...go figure!...Trout up...first base open...3-1...oh, pop up...two out...Ohtani up...Ohtani with a lot of hard hit at'm balls for outs...passed ball...Fletch to third...Albert hit a two run home run for the Angels' scoring...3-1...fly out to left...brb...
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The Great Xicalcoliuhqui. The majority of Tajin’s structures were plastered and painted red with accents of Maya blue and yellow. A few architectural features have been repainted to recreate the Twisted Gourd’s cosmology of a terrestrial plane surrounded by water that was centered on the witz Mountain that led to a watery underworld (Olmos, 2009). Notice the stepped T sign of the wind aspect of the Feathered Serpent that extends from the Mountain/cave. One scholar believes that pilgrimage to Tajin may have followed the celestial cycle of Venus, the Feathered Serpent’s avatar (ibid., 113, citing Ladron de Guevara).
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Devereaux is one of the few that goes on and on about step frets...Robert Markens another...both professional scholars...brb...Albert hits another one...Angels 3-2...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdEVrLEJQw&t=3930s
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oh...I left a comment at Markens clip, and he responded...highly unusual!..un-scholarly sorts like myself can be off putting to scholars...or just plane off putting!...I dunno...see clip for the back and forth...anyway, note the curl with the crowstep...at El Tajin in the painted step frets, and the others I think from Monte Alban...the one in middle came across dark, but it is the best...see clip!...so, now for the T...bottom of fifth...
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Palenque y su código geométrico arquitectónico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91of1C8ecc8&t=9s
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pasted clips low quality makes this tough to describe...in the clip, the scene is the Pyramid at Palanque...that small T in the first pic is a hole in the tower...at the solstice, I think, the sun shines through it...that's the next two pics...the last is just sunlight on an interior wall...from there, the clip pans to a low wall, kinda like the Gran Greca wall, and in the wall again is the T, a T shaped hole in the wall, which the narration captions as a 'wind' opening...wind a sacred thing...Ohtani with lead off hit...Albert up...top of seventh...base hit...runners first and second...Goodwin up...earlier in the clip, narration explains how sunlight falls on the interior of a partitioned room on top of one of the pyramids...it's ingenious!...see clip...the whole place is a sundial...an astronomical tool...and here I find that this T is part of that tool...wild pitch moves runners up...and it is so close to being a crowstep, half a chacana!...back a few posts I went on and on about how I thought the chacna is a sundial...and, and I found a youtube clip that goes on and on about the chacana!...it has a lot of examples of the Andean motif...only a brief glimpse of one in Mesoamerica...bases loaded for Calhoun...base hit...Angels 4-2...and, that will be for tomorrowmorrow!...sleepy...long morning...reffed Special Olympic games this morning...another run scores...Angels 5-2...Fletch up...fc brings in another run...Angels 6-2...top of sixth...Trout up...bases loaded, two outs...K...bbk for game report...raining again like yesterday...
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