Notes: Game on...on the radio...Blue Jays and Angels...Trout up...bottom of third...2-2...Angels 2-0...noted in previous post was the A inside an O motif...it was beneath the rope stretched between two figures in the Codex..heck...missed what Trout did...Goodwin up...brb...
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http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/mexcodex/vind05.htm
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Simmons with a hit...Goodwin K...Albert up...waps a double...Calhoun up...Calhoun had the two run home run for the Angels' runs...
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home page of that site has the motif for its logo!...just noticed...Calhoun gets on...Bour up...force out at home...1-2...an appeal?...nope...Angels 3-0...in the very right lower corner in the mountain scene, those are five peaks, the motif appears again...and it has a little line drawn to the circles...the circles represent days or years...the motif, the A and O, an eagle, etc. represent a particular day, or year, in the calendar...it's complicated!...for sometime the two figures with the rope, and the why of the motif beneath the rope...I have some notions about the rope...anyway, seeing the A and O yesterday, I remembered seeing it on a Mixtec gold mask...it has a curio...the O loops under the A, almost a kind of optical illusion...that for sometime...but first the little connecting line...I noted that too, and browsing today, I found blog that notes it!...brb...
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Figure 4. Referential lines between bodies and nominal day signs, Codex Nuttall (c. AD 1400).
Direct contact as a means of linking a text and its pictorial referent is not limited to Mixtec sources, for it appears commonly in early Colonial documents. Figure 5 juxtaposes a Pre-Columbian example, from the Codex Vienna, each day sign brushing against its specifying number, and a Colonial example from the Codex Azoyú from Guerrero, Mexico, that employs both tethers and, in three mummy bundles below, direct, almost frictional contact between name signs and bundles.
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Although still insufficiently theorized (see, e.g., Zender 2014:69–72), Plains Indian pictography has long been known to employ remarkably similar conventions. Thus, Garrick Mallery (1894:168) reproduces a drawing of the Hidatsa/Minitari Chief Lean Wolf (Fig. 14), observing that “[h]is name is…added with the usual line drawn from the head.” Mallery cites Lean Wolf’s own explanation of his name glyph as indicating “the outline character of the wolf, having a white body with the mouth unfinished … to show that it was hollow … i.e., lean” (Mallery 1894:168; see also Zender 2014:69–70). Similarly, the famous Hunkpapa-Lakota Chief Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake) is depicted in the ledger book of the Cheyenne artist Howling Wolf (Fig. 15), a long tether attaching his portrait to the strongly-stylized sign of a seated buffalo.
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https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/touching-text-in-ancient-mexican-writing/
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showing off a bit with this find!...that's a great blog, but with all the wordpress drawbacks...not the least, the twenty five dollar pay wall...this one does have a search box...put in my usual Andean search words, but nothing...blog's focus the Mayan...but this bit about the lines falls into the speculative about diffusion...and if I can find those lines in Andean motifs...a search in progress...those mummy bundles are suspect above too...those are Andean...I found the blog searching something I forget that was completely unrelated...but I noted 'maya decipherment' and leaped to it...I had spent most of the night looking for something, anything, that captions the Codexs' motifs...they are captioned by the makers of some of them, but in Spanish that's a scribble and hard to read...many of the Codexes are published in popular books, and many the lament in amazon reviews that the pictures are without captions explaining their meaning, or at the least, what each motif might represent...looked to this Mayan decipherment blog for help...and it may have some things...it's scholars' work, well fashioned, with comprehensive references, but few links to other web sites...it's in those two worlds, before the web, after the web...lol...anyway, the Mixtec Gold Mask...Angels score some more runs...Jays have come unglued again....some more showing off!...I thought the mask was likely without providence...part of conquest loot...but looking for good image, this one isn't, I find where it came from...and more...
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The representation of a deity with a buccal mask was found in the tomb itself, on a gold pectoral that has previously been identified as the male god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, though lacking any diagnostic male attributes, and wearing a headdress similar one worn by female supernaturals in the Mixtec codices (Fig. 11).
https://antharky.ucalgary.ca/mccafferty/gender-research/tomb-7-monte-alban
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"a headdress similar one worn by female supernaturals in the Mixtec codices"...thought the headdresses were at that page, but no, it seems...I'll have to go look for them...as having made some sense of the A and O motif on the headdress...it's a year date...I got to wondering about all the other things!...top of fifth...Jays picked up a run in fourth...Angels 5-1, I think...Mixtecs name themselves after the day and year they were born...bit like being called 3-26-48, which, oddly, is often the response requested for id...what's your birthdate?...hmmph...but everywhere in the Mixtec codexes are these date names attached to figures with the little lines...
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same site as previous...
and, the step motifs everywhere...here just one steps...when there are a bunch of step motifs, it seems they are counting something too...oh...found another reference in the first site referenced, that the eye, half closed half open?, represents stars...need to find that again and do bit on the stars motifs...for sometime...Jays mess up base running brought on by Simmons, the Trickster. being tricky...to bottom of fifth, check that, sixth...too, more on the cross motif, like Saint Andrews cross...Rick Steves informs us in one of his travel videos that Saint Andrew is buried in Amalfi, Italy...whisked away to there from Constantinople by the Crusaders...here's a better image of the mask/pectoral...
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http://www.galeon.com/chell/mixtecas.htm
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somewhere there must be caption that tells the date, and name...it may not be a person, but an event, or some such...Trout is up...delay for new pitcher for Jays...a long reach is to study out the Mixtec motifs, and because of the similarities to Andean motifs, unravel what both of them are!...and a lot of study has been done on the Codexes...the motifs in the books are on the pottery and figurines, as here on the gold mask...the Andean motifs are on pottery, textiles, figurines, monuments...out of here...Trout hits a home run!...Mixtec monumnent have motifs too...the most curious in resembling Andean motifs for next post, the Puuc Trail...Goodwin gets a bloop hit that falls between three Jays...Vlady Jr. not in the lineup tonight, and wondering I imagine what he's gotten into...lol...he's the Jays' wan hope...held back in the Minors until cleared of that resigning complication teams dicker with...its complicated!...but bring a player up too soon after rookie signing, and down the road when the contract runs out, you lose committed years, or some such...hmmph...distracted awhile browsing...Angels 6-2...put a halo over this one...tomorrowmorrow, Angels off to Mexico to take on the Astros!...browsing found some neat things...for tomorrowmorrow...
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