An Indentation
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Royals and Angels...line ups about to be read...
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The Olmecs believed that in the distant past a race of "Were-Jaguars" was made between the union of a jaguar and a woman.[48] One ‘were-jaguar’ quality that can be found is the sharp cleft in the forehead of many supernatural beings in Olmec art. This sharp cleft is associated with the natural indented head of Jaguars.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmecs#Jade_face_masks
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have I seen that cleft in Andean art?...have to look...things I don't note, I have to go look all over again!...anyway, the author of the book I have on order about how the rattlesnake is the 'axis' of Mesoamerican art, has the take that the cleft (update: no, another author goes on about the cleft, see below) is the cleft in the head of rattlesnakes...and, he has a strong case, I'd say!...brb...first let wiki have its say...
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The Kunz axes (also known as "votive axes") are figures that represent werejaguars and were apparently used for rituals. In most cases, the head is half the total volume of the figure. All Kunz axes have flat noses and an open mouth. The name "Kunz" comes from George Frederick Kunz, an American mineralogist, who described a figure in 1890.
same wiki
Royals make out...took just ten pitches...to bottom of first...some curios from the search...LaStella hit into a hard out...Trout first pitch doubles...Ohtani up...2-0...2-1...K...Simmons up...full count...ground out...to top of second...
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Maya whistle in the form of the moon goddess and her rabbit consort. CE 600–800. Princeton University Art Museum.
curios from 'Olmec jaguar' search...top: Castaneda's inspiration?; middle: the Egyptian headdress; bottom: the Tau pectoral?...pics from pinterest page...cant source bottom two...Olmec Jaguars look like jaguars, much as their giant head sculptures look to be from life, the features true to a real person...Olmec artisans were accomplished...I don't see the cleft in the Jaguars...yet...this pic from same pinterest set:
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Royals make out...to bottom of second...Pujols lead off walk...Calhoun up...waps opposite field double...Lucroy up...
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from search: Olmec jade heads, and its at Kahn academy page I cant open...
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Goodwin up with bases loaded...Angels tighten up when a bunch on base...cant get them across...
search: Olmec heads cleft
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The were-jaguar motif is characterized by almond-shaped eyes, a downturned open mouth, and a cleft head.[
A stone Olmec were-jaguar, showing common were-jaguar characteristics including a downturned mouth, almond-shaped eyes, pleated ear bars, a headdress with headband, and a crossed-bars icon on the chest
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Fletcher hits into a DP...one run scores...Goodwin made out with K?...missed his at bat...Angels 1-0...LaStella up..."pleated ear bars"...King Tut's Pleated Ear Bars!...hmmph...sourced here the Egypt look headdress to the Olmecs...for sometime...base hit!...another run...oh...Goodwin walked...Angels 3-0...Trout up...fly out to center...to top of third...the Olmecs are the oldest Mesoamerican culture, sorta, as there were cultures before them in the same location...see first wiki above...two quick ground outs...
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really good site...pic from slide show...bottom of third...Ohtani up...lines out...juggled grounder puts Simmons on...oh, hard to read...but one thought for the cleft is that it is the cleft in newborn babies' heads...Pujols with a hit...beat the shift with an inside outside swing...he's the savviest of hitters!...Calhoun with a fc...run scores...Angels 4-0..Lucroy K...to top of fourth...
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The Met's small-scale figurine is similar in theme to the famous Señor de las Limas, a cross-legged individual cradling a "were-jaguar" infant across his lap (fig. 5). This infant has defined limbs and a sloping head with an incised cleft. Other babies with cleft heads have been identified as personified maize sprouts, a concept that persisted into the beliefs of the much later Classic Maya, who referred to youths as "ch'ok" or "sprout."
The Met's small-scale figurine is similar in theme to the famous Señor de las Limas, a cross-legged individual cradling a "were-jaguar" infant across his lap (fig. 5). This infant has defined limbs and a sloping head with an incised cleft. Other babies with cleft heads have been identified as personified maize sprouts, a concept that persisted into the beliefs of the much later Classic Maya, who referred to youths as "ch'ok" or "sprout." The body of the main figure is incised with mythological characters on his shoulders and knees, emphasizing the Mesoamerican belief in the four corners and a center as an organizing principle of the Olmec worldview. The baby, this maize sprout made manifest, then stands in for the center of the world.
that met take is really good!...our brains have two hemispheres with a cleft between them...I'm not one to source motifs to real anatomy features of our bodies, but there is a lot of that in discussions out there...example: the caduceus, the two snakes coiled around one another, becomes sourced to the genetic code...sourcing motifs to features on animals, and from Nature, I'm fine with...to bottom of fourth...I dunno...Freud and Young, the psychologists, ran wild with motif interpretation...both the Mesoamericans and the Andeans were pre-occupied with dualism...there are many figures, faces, with one side normal, and the other all distorted...our reality, and the shaman's...Norman Rockwell and Pablo Picasso!...probably the best at motif interpretations are auction curators...the big buck money involved hones their skills!...Angels up...to top of fifth...search: La Venta Mosaics
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One of the three buried Mosaics or Pavements from La Venta, consisting of nearly 500 blocks of serpentine
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Recent excavations have established that small villages in the immediate area were growing maize as early as 1750 B.C., but the site reached its maximum size and importance from 1000 to 500 B.C. It was apparently abandoned by 400 B.C. First explored in 1925, La Venta has provided some of the most important archaeological finds from ancient Mesoamerica. In addition to one of the earliest known pyramidal structures—the
—the site’s inventory features seventy-seven carved stone monuments, including four colossal heads; four multi-ton greenstone offerings and three mosaic pavements of serpentine blocks; a tomb of basalt columns; and numerous small jade figures and ornaments. Excavations in the 1980s established the site’s truly ancient past and provided the first accurate map.
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Fetch's throw short hops Albert...a hit...lead off runner on...
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Three rectangular pavements (about 15 by 20 feet) were found at La Venta. Each has "about 485 blocks of serpentine, laid in the form of a highly abstract jaguar mask. Certain details were left open and emphasized by filling with colored clays. Strange as it may seem, these were offerings, as they were covered up with many feet of clay and adobe layers soon after construction" (Coe and Koontz 76). Tassels decorate the chin (center image) and a cleft marks the top of the head (right and left).
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a strike'm' out throw'm' out...maybe an appeal...nope...to bottom of fifth...well, there has been an 'appeal' made about the notch being part of a jaguar motif...
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In 1972 I have positively identified these La Venta "mosaic masks" together with their "underlayments" as "mosaic sculptures" - namely, as three-dimensional representations of a greenish rattlesnake. (10) Meanwhile, in the La Venta Museum Park, at Villa Hermosa, the central Olmec iconography still is being displayed upside down. All the while, the living relatives of these Olmec dragons continue to slither about right side up -- as Crotalus durissus
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author of that page seems to have lifted from the author I was reaching for...to top of sixth...this the author:
The Geometry of the Maya and Their Rattlesnake Art Paperback – 1987
Ohtani up...base hit...Trout is on second...missed how he got on...what I'm looking for is the text passage that relates the flak the author got when he presented the thought that the mosaic wasn't a jaguar, but a rattlesnake, head on view...rattle snake heads have a cleft...wait...I should have that bookmarked on the tablet...nope..it is the video author I was reaching for...author is a bit of a Mysterion...I dunno...those axes at the beginning of the post have the look of the rattle snake head face on...
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In the tropical forests along the southern shores of the Gulf of Mexico a serpent cult has provided the earliest stirrings of Middle American civilization. The Olmec are best known for their grandiose basalt sculptures. But more amazing than these gigantic heads of basalt was a pair of enormous "mosaic" sculptures, made of green serpentine rock, and buried in the La Venta ceremonial ridge.
The first archaeologist who, in 1943, stood face to face with the greenish portrait of an Olmec earth-dragon, looked at its mysterious face upside down. He failed to see the deity's telltale serpentine clefts on the forehead, and he named its face a "tigre mask." He also misread the diamond pattern subscript. Beyond this, he ignored the naturalistic coloring and texture of the green serpentine stone slabs that were used. (9) Both mosaic faces were laid out on large cubic foundations of imported serpentine rock -- each measuring approximately eleven hundred cubic meters.
The mistake in identification, made by the first archaeologists, was perpetuated by other scholars. In due time they certified the Jaguar as having been Middle America's primary deity. But, should we not give these ancient Olmec founders of Middle American civilization the benefit of doubt that they were intelligent people? Would they have carried these many tons of green stones a hundred kilometers, all the way from the other side of the isthmus, only to portray a brown jaguar?
In 1972 I have positively identified these La Venta "mosaic masks" together with their "underlayments" as "mosaic sculptures" - namely, as three-dimensional representations of a greenish rattlesnake. (10) Meanwhile, in the La Venta Museum Park, at Villa Hermosa, the central Olmec iconography still is being displayed upside down. All the while, the living relatives of these Olmec dragons continue to slither about right side up -- as Crotalus durissus durissus.
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The first archaeologist who, in 1943, stood face to face with the greenish portrait of an Olmec earth-dragon, looked at its mysterious face upside down. He failed to see the deity's telltale serpentine clefts on the forehead, and he named its face a "tigre mask." He also misread the diamond pattern subscript. Beyond this, he ignored the naturalistic coloring and texture of the green serpentine stone slabs that were used. (9) Both mosaic faces were laid out on large cubic foundations of imported serpentine rock -- each measuring approximately eleven hundred cubic meters.
The mistake in identification, made by the first archaeologists, was perpetuated by other scholars. In due time they certified the Jaguar as having been Middle America's primary deity. But, should we not give these ancient Olmec founders of Middle American civilization the benefit of doubt that they were intelligent people? Would they have carried these many tons of green stones a hundred kilometers, all the way from the other side of the isthmus, only to portray a brown jaguar?
In 1972 I have positively identified these La Venta "mosaic masks" together with their "underlayments" as "mosaic sculptures" - namely, as three-dimensional representations of a greenish rattlesnake. (10) Meanwhile, in the La Venta Museum Park, at Villa Hermosa, the central Olmec iconography still is being displayed upside down. All the while, the living relatives of these Olmec dragons continue to slither about right side up -- as Crotalus durissus durissus.
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that's what I had read, the reach of the post, and I thought it was Bolio...easy mistake...I mean, how many authors go on about Crotalus durissus, crotalemetry, and Mesoamerican motifs!...Royals scored...on a bunch of walks...Angels 4-2...to bottom of sixth...Calhoun up...oh...more Olmecs for sometime...and, look at what if found paddling about...wait...this is cool...
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Olmec Indians Bury a Newly Created Tile Mosaic of Serpentine BlocksFelipe Davalos
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for sale at site...soon as the Olmecs made the mosaics, they covered them up...gotta wonder how much of their stuff is still underground...Fletch with hit...Angels have runners...
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site a wonder source!...all the maybe dinosaurs depicted in ancient art...that's a moche pot...now, the site author gathered it in for the dinosaur look, and inadvertently gathered in a step motif, with a Tau T, in the middle...these are like my best finds!...when someone has a motif, but is unaware of all it's features...I may have pulled that one in for the step motif, and someone seen the dinosaur, which I missed...so it goes...
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top of seventh...this one I found earlier looking up Griffins...a site author had it thinking the Greeks found a fossil dinosaur head, and imagined it a Griffin head...the ancients found fossils too, the thought...painting tells a story, for sometime for the Griffin post...Royals make out in nine pitches...to bottom of seventh...Trout up...2-2...so, another example of this peculiar way of finding things...Trout with a hit...Ohtani up...I was watching this clip, titled 'War and the Moche', which is really good...and the narrators drag out some pottery figurines of a common sort...they're not show pieces...narrator explains museum have thousands of such in storage...K...and following along, I blinked when I saw the step frets on the figures cheeks...
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the mystery of what the step frets are hasn't lessened one bit!...Simmons K...Pujols up...time to feed Maya, my dog, and foray out for a snack..."Albert delivers"...Angels 5-2...Trout had stolen second...Angels made out...to top of eighth...Royals make out...to bottom of ninth...Lucroy up...2-2...K...Goodwin up...2-2...Maldonado snags a foul...last year an Angel...thought he went to the Astros...Astros dumb to lose him...Fletcher with two out hit...Fletch thrown out stealing...to top of ninth...Angels goofing with Maldonado!...Angels dumb to lose him!...one out...two out...4-3...put a halo over this one!...Angels 5-2...
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