Open To Interpretation
Fret or Key
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Rangers and Angels...to bottom of first...Rangers had a lead off home run...Rangers 1-0...Fletcher up...ground out...Trout up...the step fret book came...not a book...a few pages that record a talk given...ground out...give in 1879!...Ohtani up...W...Pujols makes out...
IX.--The Fret or Key Ornamentation in Mexico and Peru.
Communicated by Robert Philips Greg,
Read May 15, 1879
Archaaeologia, Vol. XLVII.
pp. 157-160
it has an illustration page, and four pages of text...kind of a treasure, the pages being so old, and the thought so current!...try to scan in the illustrations...Rangers up...one out walk...had to download new software...gave Maya, my dog, a brushing...and, Angels scored 3 runs...top of fourth 3-1...
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author includes one from Arizona...he thinks the step fret is from water...the top left is a plant...the middle top is the plant on a step motif...and stands for a month of the year; Atemotzli?...and the second row middle has the plant again (water is depicted with like little florets)...his source for that is Lord Kinsborough's Antiquities of Mexico, which is nine volumes about Mexico...printed up back then...Rangers batting...lead off batter on first...
"The brickwork, showing steps on one side, probably represents in section the end of an artificial dam; or reservoir, and the pendulous material on either side water flowing down from the top.".
that, that's a very different take on what the step fret is...but it's kind of a fit...both the Mesoamericans and Andeans had irrigation tricks, dams and such...for sometime irrigation!...lemessee if I can find Lord Ks. books...a 'go figure' I'm looking at brickwork again!...see yesterday's post...bottom of fifth...Fletch with lead off hit...Trout up...Trout with ground rule double...Ohtani up...hard liner to first for an out...Pujols up...
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In the year thirteen hundred and twenty-four after the advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Mexicans arrived at the site of the capital of Mexico; and as they found the place and situation agreeable, after having for many years wandered in their travels from country to country, in some of which they stopped for several years, having prosecuted their journey from distant parts, none of the situations in which they had made a temporary abode contenting them, they arrived at the site of Mexico, which was at that time a complete swamp, overgrown with thick rushes, which they call tuli, and tall flags resembling a thicket. The entire extent of this site was occupied by a clear stream of water in the shape of a cross, free from weeds and rushes, which cross resembled that of Saint Andrew, as the painting shows.
that, that's a go figure...Lord K. is quoting an early chronicle, Mendoza Codex...it's the famous motif/scene on Mexico's flag...the eagle on the cactus with the rattlesnake in its claws...and here is added that the cactus is on the solstices cross, the St. Andrew's cross...X marked the spot for Tenochititlan/Mexico City!...Angels left the runners on...made out...to top of sixth...
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The magnificent nine-volume publication entitled 'Antiquities of Mexico' was produced by Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, from 1831. Through its fine illustrations, Kingsborough's publication gave scholars access to Mesoamerican manuscripts in European collections. This page reproduces the title page of the early sixteenth-century 'Codex Mendoza', which has been in the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, since 1659. It shows the founding of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital from 1325 to 1521, remains of which lie beneath modern Mexico City. The city's site was chosen in fulfilment of a prophecy that it would be located where an eagle (the Crested Caracara) was seen perching on a cactus.
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caption doesn't note the X...I didn't either, and have often seen this pic...hmmph...Rangers with one out runner at second...Rangers made out...bottom of sixth...one out...Cozart up...Goodwin on first...lost track of game...Angels made out...and now coming unglued...even Trout dogs a play...Rangers 4-3...
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Atemoztli contains A (a-tl, "water") plus conjugated form of the verb temoa ("fall", "descent") to yield "Descent of the Waters", is the name of the 16th Aztec "month" of twenty days. Note that the temple in this case is part of the logogram TEMO.
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Fletch made out...Trout up...Rangers 4-3...I'm trying to nail down that icon for the month Atemoztli...did Trout walk?...Ohtani up...that one, the waterfall, looks like the Itzamna dragon's waterfall...back a few posts...Trout out on fc...Pujols up...the icon Greg found was in the Mendoza Codex...can't get by the paywalls for that...Angels made out...a curio...
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hmmph...crowsteps as a hearth?...and there's the X...lol...with the little feet as a ritual guide...here, then here...that's a fit... thought, a step motif, crowstep, hearth on top of the Moche temples would make sense...maybe the little rectangle a venturi! to force air from below to the fire...I dunno...Rangers made out...to bottom of eighth...Lucroy up...infield hit...Lastella up...DP...eesh...Angels make out...to top of ninth...
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The Tovar Codex, attributed to the 16th-century Mexican Jesuit Juan de Tovar, contains detailed information about the rites and ceremonies of the Aztecs (also known as Mexica). The codex is illustrated with 51 full-page paintings in watercolor. Strongly influenced by pre-contact pictographic manuscripts, the paintings are of exceptional artistic quality. The manuscript is divided into three sections. The first section is a history of the travels of the Aztecs prior to the arrival of the Spanish. The second section is an illustrated history of the Aztecs. The third section contains the Tovar calendar, which records a continuous Aztec calendar with months, weeks, days, dominical letters, and church festivals of a Christian 365-day year. This illustration, from the third section, shows a profile of a head wearing a headdress with green feathers holding a blue snake staff and a water vessel from which water pours. Above this head is another of a woman with a roundel above her forehead. Above this head is a hand of leaves of grass set over a square shape. The text describes the celebration of Tlaloc, the god of rain, and describes him as being shown with the face of his mother and a bundle of green leaves over an altar step, to indicate that by his hand he gives greenness to the land through his rains. This month, identified as that of Thomas the Apostle, is called Atemoztli (Water Descends). The month was dedicated to Tlaloc. The couatopilli (snake staff) is a common attribute of Tlaloc. The headdress is the same as that in the month of Tepeilhuitl. Chalchiuhtlicue (Jade skirt), described variously as the mother, wife, or sister of Tlaloc and goddess of lakes and streams, is indicated by the chalchiuitl (green jade) above her head.
a long caption, and a box canyon...I just cant find Greg's brickwork pic...Lastella snags a liner for second out...k, third out...to bottom of ninth, just a run down?...hmmph...turned up where I first found Greg's paper...
Calhoun up...fly out...Goodwin with hit...Fletcher up...makes out...Trout up...K...Rangers 4-3...more on Greg's paper for sometime!...
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