OTI:notes:5/18/19

Open To Interpretation

Short Shorts

Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Royals and Angels...wait...bottom of fourth...Angels 2-0...Angels' pitcher, Kanning,  perfect through 4...one out...Calhoun up...I had no sure reach for a game post this morning...but browsing I found one, and then the Mayan Geometry book came, and now I have more than I know what to do with!...two out...Lucroy up...brb...search: mayan figure huichol...to top of fifth....walk and hit for Royals...two on no one out...

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This figure is from Huichol, in what is now west-central Mexico, and is reputed to be Mayan. The Huichol artisans from the past (as well as currently) are known for their intricate geometric designs.
This figure may perhaps be carrying pottery incense burners and taking burning coals to the necessary sacred locations for a religious ceremony. The incense, made from the sap of the copal tree, was believed to take the people's prayers to the deities.

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/mesoamerican-pottery-4121923

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Angels in a 'situation'...3-2 the count...liner to Fletch...one out...the half of chacana, crowsteps, have that triangle in the center...see yesterday's figure at top of that post...seeing the step frets on the short shorts, gives me pause...triangles are famous for representing vaginas...but this a male figure...as if nowadays that helps...anyway...curious about Huichol culture, I looked about...Royals make out, just...search: huichol mayan artifacts...bottom of fifth...Goodwin up...makes out...Walsh too, ground out...Fletch K...to top of sixth...and, and Huichol culture for sometime...in that search I noticed a wizard hat...

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An ancestor pair from Nayarit, 100 BCE - 200 CE, executed in the Ixtlán del Río style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Mexico_shaft_tomb_tradition

wizard hats, again, for sometime...and, the pattern on the skirt looked step frettish, so, search: Nayarit figurines...ball drops in for hit in front of Trout...one out double...fc 6-5 runner out at third...two down...

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https://www.skinnerinc.com/search?s=Nayarit

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there's a bunch of Nayarit figures with step frets...and the wizard hats...and the ball game models, and house models...last season, 5/30/18 post, goes on and on about them...in that post too my first mention of thinking snake skins have patterns the ancients were using for their motifs...

https://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2018/06/otinotes53118.html

lot of things in that post...anyway, more on Nayarit culture for sometime...I think they are close by Huichol...Trout up...W...Ohtani up...one out..."he blasts one high!!!"...two run home run...Angels 4-0...Simmons up...Simmons with a triple?...on third...error on throw to second...Calhoun with sac fly...Angels 5-0...Lucroy K...to top of seventh...

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Two Minutes with the Curator: Nayarit House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlI2RV1sDyQ

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Narrator explains it's not a two story house...the lower lever represent the lower realm, the afterlife...the steps here are likely just steps, but it has that step motif, crowstep with rectangle look...see yesterday's post for the illustration with such...K for final out...to bottom of seventh...Warrior whip Portland in game three...110- 99...Portland had like a big lead at half, and even in the third were up like eight when I left off at Round Table Pizza...there I can snack and watch big screen...what happened!...check later...Walsh up...youtube replays everything...the Nayarit figurines, often miniatures in a model setting, are like the most nostalgic, giving a real sense of things back then...Fletcher with a hit...runners at  first and second...LaStella up...for sometime to go on about just the Nayarit culture costumes, especially the hats...now, on that one figure above, the man has little four pointed stars on his tunic...I've seen these a lot down in Moche land...read said they represent San Pedro cactus...Angels make out...to top of eighth...for sometime a correspondence between motifs and plants!...I keep coming back to the step fret represents a plant....looking straight on at the cactus cut, one sees the star shape...like six, or five, rays...plants are full of geometry...the world is full of geometry!...picked up 'geometry gear' at the Dollar Store...grid paper, ruler, protractor, and such package, drawing tablet, and, a bunch of ping pong balls...for tomorrowmorrow and the Mayan Geometry book...oh, I cast about for how in the world the step fret made its way all over the Americas...

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Nayarit Family, Ixtlán del Río Style, Protoclassic, 100 BC - AD 250

his family group is the most elaborate and ornately decorated of the Silvers' West Mexican couples, a tour de force of form and color, and a defining model of the Ixtlán del Rio style of elite ancestor figures. With lively and vibrant identical expressions, poised in their respective roles (holding a nursing child and playing a rasp), they portray a youthful couple that have fulfilled their achievements and celebrate the continuity of their status. The couple is a confirmation of "gender complementarity," described as the idealized portrayal of male and female roles as separate but interdependent and supportive spheres of activity (Pirtle, in Beekman and Pickering, eds., Reassessment, 2016, p. 159). Pirtle’s study of attributes denoting gender and status in Ixtlán figures emphasized how status and gender were shown by the frequency of both male and female figures participating in all rituals.
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Clothing details on ceramic figures such as these are the only source of insight into the textiles of ancient Mexico, the actual fabrics long lost in the archaeological record.  In addition, textile exchange was part of the larger trade networks along the Pacific coast whereby the valuable, and in some cases sacred, raw materials such as spondylus and obsidian available in Mexico were traded to Ecuador and the larger Andean region.
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She further concludes, “Within Mesoamerica the tradition of Ecuadorian-style clothing marked into geometric squares is known only in West Mexico, both at Ixtlán del Rio and, over a thousand years later, among the sixteenth–century Tarascans” (Anawalt, in Townsend, ed., Ancient West Mexico, 1998, p. 242). Besides specific jewelry such as tusk pendants, she observed  that short breeches, short-sleeved tunics, women's wrapround skirts, and the step-fret motif are key attributes shared in both Ecuadorian and Ixtlán del Rio figures (ibid., p. 237).

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LaStella dogs a play...line drive hops out of his glove...Royals making a comeback...Angels 5-3...two out...3-0...essh...Mark and Terry had this one in the bag...W...that's such a good page!...like I noted, auction curators are the best!...and there's the short shorts with the step fret step motifs, again, on female for sure...Ecuador, the home of my imagined Mesoamerican Phoenician sea traders, for sometime...I dunno...K...to bottom of eighth...time to feed Maya my dog...and foray for a snack...oh...Trout up...wait see...W...Ohtani up...K...Lucroy with a two out double...Angels 6-3...Goodwin up...Angels make out...to top of ninth...K...and that is how this ball game ends...put a halo over this one!...Angels 6-3...

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DavidDavid