Open To Interpretation
Proposition
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Twins and Angels...top of second, two out...Twins 1-0...Twins make out...to bottom of second...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=great+pyramid+uxmal+relief&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=dLuCzN6ZJb8MUM%253A%252C0r74bVk1wE-yqM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kROi-l2ZNBVXvrye9ucMteBtQkuBw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi18Ijwy6viAhVNVK0KHRWhDeYQ9QEwAnoECAkQBg&biw=1350&bih=544#imgrc=ZNNs7p8tafT_5M:&vet=1&spf=1558406304423
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link to source, a tourist's site?, messed up...but those are the little sun faces Bolio was going on about...see tail of yesterday's post...I see them surrounded by chacana, quadripartite step motif, and, there are the Xs too...it's hard to figure...Bolio seems to have it the Mayans saw geometry in the rattlesnake motifs, but that could be the other way around, they could have had the symbology, somehow, and then seeing the designs the snake has, thought, we can use the rattlesnake to articulate our symbols...or our concepts, or something...bit like the American revolutionaries seeing in the rattlesnake's quiet but dangerous when aroused nature, a symbol for the Don't Tread On Me Flag...Benjamin Franklyn was great for reading into things, things...
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Written after fighting had begun between the Colonists and the British, but before the Declaration of Independence, it gives us a glimpse into Franklin's observant mind.
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I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't tread on me." As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America; and as I have nothing to do with public affairs, and as my time is perfectly my own, in order to divert an idle hour, I sat down to guess what could have been intended by this uncommon device – I took care, however, to consult on this occasion a person who is acquainted with heraldry, from whom I learned, that it is a rule among the learned of that science "That the worthy properties of the animal, in the crest-born, shall be considered," and, "That the base ones cannot have been intended;" he likewise informed me that the ancients considered the serpent as an emblem of wisdom, and in a certain attitude of endless duration – both which circumstances I suppose may have been had in view. Having gained this intelligence, and recollecting that countries are sometimes represented by animals peculiar to them, it occurred to me that the Rattle-Snake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America, and may therefore have been chosen, on that account, to represent her. But then "the worldly properties" of a Snake I judged would be hard to point out. This rather raised than suppressed my curiosity, and having frequently seen the Rattle-Snake, I ran over in my mind every property by which she was distinguished, not only from other animals, but from those of the same genus or class of animals, endeavoring to fix some meaning to each, not wholly inconsistent with common sense. I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her. Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America? The poison of her teeth is the necessary means of digesting her food, and at the same time is certain destruction to her enemies. This may be understood to intimate that those things which are destructive to our enemies, may be to us not only harmless, but absolutely necessary to our existence. I confess I was wholly at a loss what to make of the rattles, 'till I went back and counted them and found them just thirteen, exactly the number of the Colonies united in America; and I recollected too that this was the only part of the Snake which increased in numbers. Perhaps it might be only fancy, but, I conceited the painter had shown a half formed additional rattle, which, I suppose, may have been intended to represent the province of Canada. 'Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. One of those rattles singly, is incapable of producing sound, but the ringing of thirteen together, is sufficient to alarm the boldest man living. The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation. In winter, the warmth of a number together will preserve their lives, while singly, they would probably perish. The power of fascination attributed to her, by a generous construction, may be understood to mean, that those who consider the liberty and blessings which America affords, and once come over to her, never afterwards leave her, but spend their lives with her. She strongly resembles America in this, that she is beautiful in youth and her beauty increaseth with her age, "her tongue also is blue and forked as the lightning, and her abode is among impenetrable rocks."
– An American Guesser
We live in Thomas Jefferson Land (hark to 'Disneyland')...he was our Hermes...Ben Franklyn our Prometheus...Bolio too notes the Don't Tread On Me Flag, so I dunno, it's a chicken or egg first thing...inspiration got attached to the rattlesnake, reading into it, or inspiration came from the rattlesnake, reading from it!...in the Old World this happens too...Ephesus with its Bee motifs...and Egypt went plain bananas with all its animal headed gods and such...Angels up...Walsh just made out...the ancients didn't think animals and plants dumb...LaStella with two out single...lots of room here, brb with Ben's Turkey...
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It’s one of those Thanksgiving fun facts I loved repeating when I was a kid: Ben Franklin liked turkeys so much that he wanted them to be our national bird, instead of the bald eagle. It’s a popular fun fact. But I was shattered to learn as an adult that this little nugget of trivia isn’t quite true.
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I am on this account not displeased that the figure is not known as an Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the truth, the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America… He is besides, though a little vain and silly, a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on.
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hmmph...some myths are made up from observing animals behaviors, or events in Nature...that must have a name...brb...
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Moon Madness
While many lunacies associated with the moon remain largely myth, some strange patterns of animal behavior have, indeed, been linked to the lunar cycle. A variety of rationalizations explain these effects: A full moon can provide a time cue for synchronized events, facilitate visual communication in the nighttime, or just scare normally night-active nocturnal animals into the shadows. Here are six of the most unexpected ways the moon affects animal behavior.
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Ohtani up...K...well, that's a step in the direction of my reach!...beside those small faces above, are the Xs...now, Bolio, and others I've quoted, link the X motif with the X pattern the sun makes going from solstice to solstice...seeing that, Bolio thinks, and then seeing the X, the diamond on diamond back rattlesnakes, the Mayans connected the snake with the passage of the sun, and from that derived a calendar, and from that, a civilization...ancients can all be noted for having rituals tied into a calendar...but, but I realized, the Moon too must make an X...two out bottom of fourth...so, thoughts like, the chacana is a sundial, can be too, the chacana is a moondial...and in Mesoamerica, and South America, where there is a pyramid to the sun, there is usually a pyramid to the moon...
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The schematic diagram below shows the placement of the stones in the U.Mass. Sunwheel as seen from above, with large dots for the 8'-10' tall stones and the small dots for the 2'-4' tall stones. The Sunwheel includes stones for cardinal directions, solstices, and the northern and southern extremes of the lunar rising and setting seen at major standstill. The figure indicates the maximum monthly range of moonset and moonrise seen at major standstill, and the minimum monthly range of moonset and moonrise seen at minor standstill.
MY VISION OF THE FUTURE
- Teach people to pay attention to the sky and help them understand what they see
- Help enrich people's lives through deepening their connection to the Universe
- Build Sunwheels in National Parks
- Build Sunwheels on University Campuses
- BUILD A SUNWHEEL IN EVERY COMMUNITY!
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that last bit is exactly what the Mayans, well, all of them, did!...hmmph...in detail, I cant follow, but I get the X part...
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https://www.thetinytravelogue.com/chichen-itza-or-uxmal/
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that's the usual pattern, with the usual snake rattle tail, and, I cant see the head well...usually someone in the mouth!...the diamond is the chacana is the border of the little sun faces...hard to see, but there are spirals and rosettes inside the diamonds...maybe restoration work...LaStella up...a bunt!...two on now for Trout with two out...line out to left...hmmph...to top of sixth Twins 1-0...
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Among the Mayans, the first propositions must have been suggested from the phases of the moon, or the AHAU CAN--which posses an evident geometrical pattern that points out and moves oneself to a desire of learning its Crotalometry rather than its geometry.
The Geometry of the Maya and their Rattlesnake Art
Jose Diaz-Bolio
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Ohtani K again!...hmmph...the 'first propositions'...brb...
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Proposition 1
To construct an equilateral triangle on a given finite straight line.
Let AB be the given finite straight line. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookI/propI1.html
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ok...I get that now!...a proposition is a mathematical term...AHU CAN is like rattlesnake's name...it's geometries...Bolio, Franklin like, thinks it a good name for all the Americas...I've seen that before...when the explorers came ashore, they asked, where are we, and the natives answered AHU CAN, or some such...the native name enough like America to suggest Vespucci didn't name America...
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In 1874, Thomas Belt proposed that the name derives from the Amerrique mountains of present-day Nicaragua. In 1875, Jules Marcou suggested a derivation from indigenous American languages where "Amerrique" originally named the prominent mountain range.[7] Marcou corresponded with Augustus Le Plongeon, who wrote: "The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and ... the [suffixes] can mean ... a spirit that breathes, life itself."[8]
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Naming the continent after a European colonizer has been seen by some civil society groups as problematic. In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term Abya Yala instead of "America" when referring to the continent. There are also names in other indigenous languages such as Ixachilan and Runa Pacha. Some scholars have picked up the term with a reference to the illegitimacy of colonialism.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas
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one of the epithets of the Feathered Serpent, is 'wind'...top of seventh...Warriors ran down the Trail Blazers in another OT game...last one, game 3, was a double OT...fly out to Trout...to bottom of seventh...
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"The last page of the Dresden Codex shows the destruction of the world via water. Waves gush from the mouth of a celestial dragon. More flood waters pour from sun and moon symbols on the underside of the monster's body. An aged goddess also pours flood water onto the Earth. At the bottom of the picture crouches a ruler of the underworld. Above the picture, about half of the 15 glyphs have been destroyed, but a few of the remaining ones consistently refer to "Black Earth" or "Black on High"."
https://www.crystalinks.com/dresdencodex.html
I was browsing my copy of Michael Coe's Breaking the Maya Code, and noted that image on page 194...his caption goes:
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The last page if the Dresdan Codexm depicting the destruction of the universe, The sky dragon (Itzamna) and the old creator goddess release floods, while the war god (God L) hurls darts.
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bottom of seventh...one out, runner on first..."Itzamna" is the name I came across yesterday, in Bolio's book where he goes on about the little sun faces on the Zamna Pyramid, the biggest, or most famous at Uxmal, I gather...wiki said Itzamna/Zamna was a god depicted as an old man...Pujols up batting fro Walsh...
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http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=1893
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Pujols walks...Cozart in to run for Albert...Fletcher up...I'm guessing the middle figure is an old woman, as Coe states, and she has bird feet, which harks to Innana...on her dress are crossed bones...a Moon goddess?...this site has good pic...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-image-on-p-74-of-the-Dresden-Codex-depicts-a-torrential-downpour-probably-associated_fig1_327130091
ah...fly out...Goodwin on third, Cozart on first...LaStella up...two out...flare base hit!...Angels 1-1...Trout up...crossed bones goes with Pirate Flags...skull and crossbones on black...maybe the Moon...called third strike...eesh...Angels can't seize the moment, runners on left stranded...crossbones for sometime...somewhere there must be a caption for that flood scene that goes over all the elements...the Dresden Codex was rescued from Berlin during the war by a Russian Soldier, or some such, and he took it back to Russia, knuckled down to figuring it out, and learned Mayan...or got a start at it...it's kind of iffy if anyone understands Mayan...lots of back and forth about the translations...see Coe's book towards the end...oh, Israeli courts have passed a law that archaeologists digging in the West Bank are to be anonymous...their identities protected...there's an international agreement not to take treasures, archaeological finds, from occupied lands, or any foreign lands for that matter...but with the identities hidden, who is to say?...archaeology is serious stuff in the political world...home run for Twins...Twins 3-1...top of eighth...
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Skull Bones Carving Ruins Ancient Mayan City Uxmal Mexico– stock image
https://depositphotos.com/203822842/stock-photo-skull-bones-carving-ruins-ancient.html
the photo stock folk are flooding google images...
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At the closing stages of the war in May 1945, Knorozov and his unit supported the push of the Red Army vanguard into Berlin. It was here, sometime in the aftermath of the Battle of Berlin, that Knorozov is supposed to have by chance retrieved a book which would spark his later interest in and association with deciphering the Maya script. In their retelling, the details of this episode have acquired a somewhat folkloric quality, as "...one of the greatest legends of the history of Maya research".[9] The story has been much reproduced, particularly following the 1992 publication of Michael D. Coe's Breaking the Maya Code.[10]
According to this version of the anecdote, when stationed in Berlin, Knorozov came across the National Library while it was ablaze. Somehow Knorozov managed to retrieve from the burning library a book, which remarkably enough turned out to be a rare edition[11] containing reproductions of the three Maya codices which were then known—the Dresden, Madrid and Paris codices.[12] Knorozov is said to have taken this book back with him to Moscow at the end of the war, where its examination would form the basis for his later pioneering research into the Maya script.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov
Coe has that in the book I have, mentioned in wiki's take...wiki looks to suggest it's an iffy story!...there is no solid ground in archaeology!...Ohtani either got hit by pitch, after swinging, or a foul off bat, or?...an appeal?...nope...K...one out...Simmons grounds out...and stumbles going over bag...writhing about it sounds like!...wiped out his ankle...Angels make out...to top of ninth...apparently, it is that codex illustration that caused so much consternation in 2012 about the end of the world...and I just cant find yet a detailed caption...which is odd, as it received so much attention...anyway, that for sometime...I have it the illustration depicted an end of a cycle in the calendar...or some such...that too for sometime!...time to feed Maya my dog...and my snack foray...bottom of ninth...lead off hit?...one out...Lucroy with the hit...Cozart up...grounds out...maybe DP...an appeal...Fletch grounds out...Twins 3-1..
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