Oh, I'm the envy of all the fishermen,
Maybe the fishies too,
Vicky sent me an emoji--a heart.
Notes: Game on...on the radio...after a three hour rain delay...bottom of fourth...Angels and Orioles...Orioles with lead off hit...I think...Trout up...just went to get the tablet...what happened to the Orioles?...made out I guess...intuitively observed!...well, I have a lot of loose ends from previous posts, the puuc Temple at Labna the biggest...let me make a start on that...Trout got on but Simmons hit into DP...Orioles 4-1...to bottom of fifth...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labna
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that's the one replicated in Delhi, India...brb...
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A replica of Labna’s Arch, a symbol of expression of friendship and links between Mexico and India, was inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at the Garden of Five Senses on Monday.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/arch-in-delhi-commemorates-indiamexico-friendship/article5137172.ece
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India's is a poor copy...the motif elements not all copied...here I could go on about the ancient artisans as compared to modern artists...I read said the Egyptians didn't have a word for 'art', as in what artists make...artisans faithfully replicate what they are presented with...India made some artistic omissions...which is what often happens when one culture tries to replicate another culture's culture!...ral...Phoenicians replicated Egyptian things, Kushites too, but their replicas are off...kind of like tourist souvenirs...anyway...posting that pic from Labna, I just had an 'oh!'...it, on the large scale, is like the motifs I posted up yesterday!...two curls, frets, on either side of a crowstep, half a chacana, step motif...crowstep is an Old World term for the motif's occurrence there...no common term I've found for the New World...half a chacana is clear enough, if one knows what a chacana is...a bilateral step motif...I dunno...brb...this:
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from Devereaux's wordpress page about El Tajin
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what this motif looks like complete and half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdEVrLEJQw&t=3930s
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pics from yesterday's post...it's self similarities like this that brings on head scratching...if the corbelled arch is a stylized step motif, crowstep, its an imaginative runamuk...corbelled arches are all over the Old World...again, the nature of the building stones, blocks, and lack of knowledge how to make a curved arch, is the explanation often seen for the why of corbelled arches...about here the guide turns to the tourist group taking a pause in the Great Pyramid's ascending passage way, the ceiling corbeled, and asks, 'whadaya think?'...in post back away, I went on that the two curls with the step motif between represents the witz monster...oh, let me get the Labna arch I think is the best, just the best of it all!...brb...
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https://www.hammocksandruins.com/ruins-articles/labna
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oh, wait...temple I like is the same one India replicated...hmmph...it has two sides...I need a close up of it...I found it in early March looking up the witz monster...and discovered the Puuc Trail...a trail that connects Towns with that distinctive mosaic stone work of the Zapotecs...looking close at this Palace of the Arches, I noted the little step motif openings...they are somewhat like that 'T' gone on about in previous post...and they are the Andeans' step motif, plain and simple...running out of game, and Angels fall more behind...top of eighth...Orioles 5-1...OH!...looking for an old note, I found the site a book page was imbedded in...
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ARCHITECTURE, RESTORATION, AND IMAGING OF THE MAYA CITIES OF UXMAL, KABAH, SAYIL, AND LABNÁ
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that crowstept, is from a book printed in 1841, and the book is at that architecture site, somewhere...it calls the step motif a Pigeon House...a charming thought just came...the caves under temples were dens for Rattlesnakes, the little houses on top, coops for Macaws...the Egyptians were big on keeping pet animals at their temples!..ral...there is a mysterious small hole in the wall near the floor at the Temple of the Sun at Machu Pichu...an egress and entry for snakes?...when I saw that old drawing in that old book about the Labna Arch...I thought, 'that nails it down!'...'the Andeans and the Mesoamericans are connected'...to come to that takes a couple steps...first, connecting the Andeans with one another...then, connecting the Mesoamericans with one another...Angels down to their final strike...and...swung at and missed...Ohtani given a rest day against a left hander, or some such...Orioles 5-1...on to Minnesota...and connecting the Andeans with one another, and the Mesoamericans with one another!
:)
DavidDavid
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