Buried Treasure
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Royals and Angels...top of third...Angels 0-0...trying to remember my geometry musings...back in the New Age eighties, I would visit the Golden Bough bookstore to find history books about ancient Egypt and Greece...I'd had a bit of an epiphany about the dolphin and anchor motif in a mosaic on the Island of Delos...one moment I'd read a Nat Geo story about artifacts found on an ancient Greek shipwreck off the coast of France...an amphora had been stamped with a dolphin and anchor...and, I'd just got my first Mac...a mac plus, with microsofts' word, Aldus...and read the bit in the instructions about Aldus, and the dolphin and anchor...and then about with these two 'sightings' of the motif, I opened another Nat Geo with a story about Delos, and there again was the dolphin and anchor...go figure...hence, DolphinWords!...
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Dolphin-and-Anchor device of Aldine Press, ca. 1500
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/windows/southeast/aldine_press.html
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hmmph...I didn't know the 'hasten slowly' bit...I've seen that motto...it's basketball coach John Wooden's...take I had was the anchor was this world, the dolphin the spirit world, or some such...Trout with a hit...Ohtani up...bottom of third, I think...there's this scene...the ships of the new Delian League off the coast of Delos, all the crews taking an oath of fealty to one another, and to seal this they drop iron anchors into the sea, swearing to be loyal to one another until the anchors rise...K...two out...
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From the very first beginning, there appears to have been an element of rivalry with Sparta, as is suggested by the author of the Constitution of the Athenians, a little treatise that is (probably incorrectly) attributed to Aristotle of Stagira:
Aristides saw that the Spartans had gained a bad reputation because of Pausanias and urged the Ionians to break away from the Spartan alliance. For that reason it was he who made the first assessment of the tribute of the cities, in the third year after the battle of Salamis, in the archonship of Timosthenes, and who swore the oaths to the Ionians that they should have the same enemies and friends, to confirm which they sank lumps of iron in the sea.
https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/delian-league/
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In the ancient world the dolphin was the guide to souls in the underworld, the saviour of the shipwrecked. The earliest Christians believed this and used the symbol of the dolphin with ship or anchor to indicate the idea of the church guided by Christ. Their identification of the dolphin with Christ went even further in that iconography which depicted the crucifixion of a dolphin pierced by a trident. But the beauty of the pagan guide who loved and died, who saved the hero and foretold the storm – this is the dolphin symbol that lives deep in the hearts of poets and those whose minds are unbounded by time. The ancient longing that wells up behind eyes looking through walls and surroundings, through centuries to the mysterious grottoes of a more vital innocence, finds this dolphin. In his sonnet "To Homer", the words of Keats reach back to lightly touch upon that archaic reality:
Standing aloof in quiet ignorance,
Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
https://www.theosophytrust.org/653-dolphin
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hmmph...Ecuador...I've floated the notion that trade in textiles between Mesoamericans and Andeans and South Western North Americans is how the step fret triangle diffused...and the diffusers were the sea trading cultures in Ecuador...for sometime...and for sometime their counterparts on the Atlantic coast of the New World...one couldn't walk through the Darian gap, and crossing the northern desert of Mexico was problematic, the hostile environments, the hostile tribes...so, so, just by the process of elimination, the diffusion must have happened by sea...unless, unless the tribes were telepathic...oh, this is new age thick!...search: inchoate visions....Royals 3-0...to bottom of fourth...I did that search looking for visions, collective visions, and such...and there is a long elaborate history of such...Calhoun hit by pitch...Smith with a double...Royals 3-1...and, visions cant be taken serious...they just cant...but the ancients seriously did take them seriously!...so, from their viewpoint, there is no mystery to the step fret triangle diffusion...it was seen in shared visions...I'm reaching here for a curio I found in this search, and haven't much of a grasp of it...Angels with a bunch on base...Fletcher up...ground out...to top of fifth...
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen. --Rumi
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In this type of telepathy, one person registers the feelings or needs of another at a distance. As you will see below, this teaching can be found in a wide variety of cultures, both ancient and modern. In every culture, the area around the solar plexus is key.
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Another example of mind-to-mind telepathy is the direct transmission practiced by the Buddhist teacher Padmasambhava, who brought Buddhist practices from India to Tibet in the eighth century. Padmasambhava was said to have concealed teachings, texts, and religious objects to be discovered by later generations. The teachings, called termas, or “spiritual treasures,” are transmitted mentally to masters called tertons, or “treasure finders,” in two ways.
The earth termas are symbolic texts written on yellow scrolls. These scrolls are concealed in rocks, lakes, and temples. Once found, these symbols would reawaken the terton’s conscious mind to the guru’s teachings. Mind termas are direct mind-to-mind transmissions from guru to terton. These teachings are concealed within the terton’s mind in the form of letters or sounds. At the appropriate time, the terton becomes consciously aware of the transmitted information. These forms of direct transmission have allowed the teachings to be passed down from one generation to the next in an unbroken lineage.[15]
http://realitysandwich.com/317591/three-types-of-telepathy/
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that site a laundry list of the usual goings on about spiritualism...and that last bit is curious...things buried then dug up...more than a few horror movies about some artifact dug up and it causes grief...so, so, I came home from the new age bookstore back then with books about the mysteries of the Great Pyramid...and as it happens, where I lived had a rec room with pool tables, but no billiard balls, so I'd acquired a set of my own...now, I'd taken note of the Egyptians' fascination with gold and pyramids, and arranged the billiard balls, and thought, a wonder, if gold in it's mineral state is pyramidal...just so...Royals with another run...Royals 4-1...top of sixth...search: octahedral gold crystals...Skaggs done...relief comes in...
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I worked for a jewelry manufacturer in the early 1980's that produced real gold nugget jewelry. Unfortunately I only purchased a few, while gold was cheap. I purchased a few small octahedron nuggets. I found it curious that the shape is the same as raw diamond crystals. I am curious how rare they are. I was a goldsmith for 30+ years but I am new to prospecting and metal detecting.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/gold-prospecting/262634-how-common-octahedron-crystal-nuggets-now-photo.html
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hmmph...Angels up...Albert up...bottom of sixth...hits it to the warning track...out...
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Figure2 – Octahedron
Gold crystallizes in what mineralogists refer to as the “cubic” habit. That does not mean that all gold crystals are found in the form of a cube. It means that the individual atoms of gold are] arranged in a three dimensional cubic lattice-work. (See Figure No. 1.) And although gold does crystallize in a cubic system, cubic crystals of gold are relatively rare. More often crystallizedgold is found in the form of octahedrons and more rarely in dodecahedrons. (See Figure No. 2.)
https://kristalle.com/gold/
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ral...that...that's a total surprise...I was expecting to find gold crystal pyramids...I mean, back then, I went to the mineral museum to check...and the crystalline gold looked like it had little pyramids...well, a cube looked at cattycorner looks pyramidal...I guess...I dunno...but, here I am looking at octahedrons looking like chacanas!...lol...so, so the whimsy I was having about the gold crystals and the Egyptians was the Egyptians noted the pyramidal shape, and it inspired them to build pyramids...now, with The Geometry of the Maya and their Rattlesnake Art by Jose Diaz-Bolio at hand, I find Bolio's whimsy is that the Mesoamericans studied the rattlesnake and, built their pyramids from it...there's organic growth, and mineral growth...common to both is geometric growth...and as the fractal lessons have taught, things scale and are self similar...to bottom of seventh...Fletcher up...Bolio reiterates his notion many time in various ways...Fletch lines out...Trout up...here's one:
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As a mathematical pattern the Durissus Canamayte is more perfect than the Pythagorean diagram of proportions, for not only does it have the vertical square and the Saint Andrew's X like the cross symmetrical inserted in it but also the four interior squares with rows of scales symmetricaly set, so it is a perfect pattern of squares for composition and design.
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Trout hit again...Ohtani up...K...search Durissus Canamayte...Simmons makes out..to top of eighth...a curios...site does a kind of 'cover' of Bolio's notion:
https://terremoto.mx/solarism-season/
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To the Maya, the day-sign Chicchan translates as the ‘precious serpent’, present in many aspects of their lives and culture. One of them is the geometric pattern found on the skin of the Yucatan Crotalus Durissus which reveals extraordinary keys.
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In his books ‘The Feathered Serpent, Axis of Cultures’ and ‘The Geometry of the Maya and their Rattlesnake Art’, the writer, poet and musician Jose-Diaz Bolio extensively demonstrates that the reason lies in the unique pattern shown on the viper’s skin.
canamayte pattern
Called ‘Canamayte’, which translates as ‘the square of the serpent’, this pattern owes the Crotalus Durissus the reverent title of Ahau Can – the great or lordly serpent – whereas the general term tsab-can is used to designate rattlesnake.
https://mayancalendar.net/mayan-calendar-crotalometry/#.XOHcZmfsbIU
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book is full of variations of that pattern...one being the chacana...the octahedron?...I dunno...thought is that the Mayans found in the small snake pattern, patterns for the their whole culture...well, consider, the 'small' thoughts of mathematics, and how they scale up...not only does Bolio link the Pythagoreans, with comparisons, but he goes on about the solstices crossing, that Saint Andrew's X...it took me awhile to get to that X...and, and he has the T cross too, the Tau...see recent previous posts...and notes it is a stylized rattle...Bolio is a native of Yucatan...and popular in an obscure way...and, he looks to be right...I mean, the Aztec ruins in Mexico city are covered with rattlesnakes...I don't know if he knew of the Olmec buried mosaics...see yesterdays post...but he would have likely seen them as a motif showing a rattlesnake snout on too!...and comes to mind, these mosaics were buried, then dug up...a hark to that 'spiritual treasures' bit above...here and there in his book he references Peru...that the motifs are known by the Andeans too...but his focus is the Mayans...and goes so far as to suggest Yucatan is the cradle of all civilizations...Angels make out...to top of ninth...I don't think any of his books are in print...most all look to be small press books...like those old ones about desert ghost towns...one was 300 pages and several printings...and, he had a street named after him in Mexico...his last chapter in the Mayan book, the one I have, is called The Tiny Solar Round Faces...he noted in a pic of a Costa Rican rattlesnake what looked to be a tiny face at the beginning of its rattle...and having noted a relief with tiny faces surrounded by rattle motifs, cast about, writing letters, asking for more pics and ideas about the little face...but, he really couldn't nail down that there is a rattlesnake with that design on its tail...what I note, is that the 'rattle motif' surrounding the faces is the chacana!...he sources faces pic to the Zamna pyramid, Uxmal...brb...Royals with runners on...one just thrown out at home plate...search: Zamna pyramid Uxmal...that didn't bring up much...like I said, Bolio is popular, sorta...hard to find his things on web...but found this with shortened search to just Zamna...
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Itzamna was, in Maya mythology, the name of an upper god and creator deity thought to reside ... According to this same author, Itzamna (now written Zamna) had been a sort of priest who divided the land of Yucatán and assigned names to all
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzamna
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oh, one more thing...Pakal was found with a cube in one hand, and a sphere in the other...
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/palenque-and-great-temple-inscriptions-site-built-king-003370
Trout up...fly out to the warning track...'and, that is how the game ends'...Twins tomorrowmorrow...
:)
DavidDavid
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