where angels fear to tread
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Tigers...Angels 3-0...top of fourth?...in previous post was the step fret as a design tool, like the spiral in Greek architecture, the step fret is a design tool for Andean and Mesoamerican, and North American Southwest too...thinking here of some Anastazi ruins said to be step frettish!...anyway, pan-American...a pan- American tool for architecture and artistries...on my tablet I save/share sites to my memo pad...if the paste needs a key word to identify the ulr, I add something to jog my memory...when I found that site yesterday that was overlaying large step frets on the walls of the temples, I keyword noted it "step frets writ large"...another look at that will help me step along here!...brb...
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https://arquitectura.unam.mx/uploads/8/1/1/0/8110907/6_cap%C3%ADtulo4.pdf
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hard to see, but those are over like three friezes, together thirty feet tall or so...author demonstrating how the tool is used with the overlays...so, so today browsing, I happen on site with Mayan temple that had giant step frets like those, for real!...go figure...oh...Ohtani is in the lineup!...to top of fifth!..brb...Fletcher, Trout, Ohtani!...how cool...Fletch with lead off hit...
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The Palacio de las Grecas, or Palace of the Frets, spans the third and fourth terraces of Tonina’s towering seven tiered acropolis. The structure takes its name from the enormous stepped fret motifs that span the entire height of the third terrace’s retaining wall, which also supports the palace structure directly above on level four.
https://uncoveredhistory.com/mexico/tonina/tonina-palacio-de-las-grecas/
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Trout fly out...Ohtani...0-2...and 0 for 2 with run batted in...hard to see the big frets...maybe I can find illustration...found site with the new Spanish search word, 'grecas'...'grecas stepped frets'...
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Está enclavada en la selva Lacandona del norte de Chiapas. La acrópolis de Toniná es un palacio esencial para entender la visión maya del mundo: un resumen arquitectónico de sus ideas y conocimientos arcaicos. La cultura maya es, quizá, la más misteriosa y bella de Mesoamérica. Los científicos persisten en la decodificación de su sabiduría avanzada, un rastro difuso y fascinante por sus secretos milenarios.
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bottom of fifth....hmmph...
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Below are some pictures that prove the existance of the Greek civilization at the B.C. ages ,all over the America's region. These pictures have to do with the ancient civilizations of Incas, Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs, and all these cultures have the Greek influence inside them . Each thumbnail photo is a link to a larger version of the same photograph.
http://www.greek-thesaurus.gr/Ancient-Greeks-America.html
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"all over the America's region" there is indeed the step fret...and it resembles the greek key, which is all over Europe and Asia...the Old World...but, the fret is different...at least so far I haven't found the pixelated step, fret, triangle, in the old world...though...I have found its companion the step motif...missing in the old world has always been that combination of the three things for the step fret...Robert Graves in his book The White Goddess persuaded me like fifty years ago that spirals, the greek key with its wave intertwining with wave, is a calendar motif...days as they lengthen and shorten can be imaginatively thought to spiral from the longest day to the shortest day...a refrain, wave, as the years go by...hence the greek key...runners on for the Angels at the corners...one out...but I dunno...it's decorative...in the Old World more so than in the New...in the Americas the step fret is always special...today in the google news, news archaeology 'news' menu. story of shaman's bag with contents found in Bolivia...in it a fabric headband...Calhoun sac fly...Angels 4-0...
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https://www.archaeology.org/news/7634-190506-bolivia-tiwanaku-bundle
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a zoom in shows a step fret pattern on the headband...for sometime has been to go on about those little palettes used to prepare hallucinogens...
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Paletas and Tabletas: Comparison of Hohokam Stone Palettes with Snuff Trays of South America
Among the typical artifacts of the Hohokam culture of southern Arizona during the period from a.d. 500 to a.d. 1150 are rectangular, stone “paint palettes.” The function of these objects has always been uncertain, but comparison on the basis of size, form, decoration, materials, and provenience with the snuff trays, or tabletas de rapé of South America strongly suggests that Hohokam paint palettes were associated with the use of hallucinogenic plant materials.
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eesh...maybe the trade good that connected the Americas wasn't the step fret on textiles, but the step fret on shaman's kits...it does show up on the Andeans chuspas...the bags the populace carry coca leaves in...article above is behind pay wall...this one isn't and, too much information!...'where angels fear to tread'...Fletch K...one out top of seventh Angels 4-2...Trout up...a hustle double...Ohtani up...
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Coca-chewing shamans beneath a starry sky. The lime container, from which lime is removed with a spoon and placed in the mouth, is clearly visible. (Painting on a Moche jar, Chimu, ca. 500 C.E.)
A shaman with all of the coca paraphernalia (bag for leaves, gourd for lime) beneath a starry sky that is spanned by a double-headed snake (rainbow, a ladder of coca). (Painting on a Moche jar, Chimu, ca. 500 C.E.)
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
Erythroxylum coca Lamarck
https://doctorlib.info/herbal/encyclopedia-psychoactive-plants-ethnopharmacology/51.html
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Ohtani waped a line drive, but, caught...and another ground out finishes inning...to bottom of seventh...that bag with the checkerboard handle...Katheryn Deveraeus has it the checkerboard harks to the Milky Way...that back aways in the posts...I dunno...was hoping to find the little palettes...motifs on them...diverted to the bags!...
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Heritage Auctions Search [1875]
Heritage Auctions
Snuff Palette Huari/Tiwanaku A.D. 500 - 1100 Gray slate with red inclusions, Weight
https://www.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=1875&Ns=Item+Title%7C1&No=624&searchView=gallery&ic4=GalleryView-071515
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its not like I know ahead of time where I'm going...but those stepping stones too easy!...the little palettes are gems...and stylized...there's a bunch in google images...inca snuff palette...and related search words...was looking for ones like the ones posted...those have two figures on top...like these:
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Figura 2. Representaciones de Antropomorfos Simples. a) Dos Antropomorfos Simples. Tableta 1999.1.177 de Chunchurí, Calama (tomado de Oyarzún 1979: Fig. 6). b) Dos Antropomorfos Simples abrazados. Tableta 1999.1.173 de Chunchurí, Calama (tomadode Durán et al. 2000: Fig. 67).
https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-10432012000100002
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article is in Spanish...but it may be going on about one geographic area noted for having two figures on top of the palette, which is what the two I found have!...are they all from same place?
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En el estilo Circumpuneño la máscara de felino confiere al antropomorfo su carácter de Sacrificador, en forma semejante a como ocurre en el arte Tiawanaku (y por extensión en el arte Pucara y Wari), en donde —aunque no siempre se aprecia la máscara como tal— la boca del personaje antropomorfo es felínica con colmillos entrecruzados.
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author is going on about the unique traits of these snuff palettes, which would all seem to be from Tiawanaku...Tigers up...bottom of eighth?...Angels 4-2...to top of ninth...
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Figura 10. a) Tableta 2228 proveniente del Pucara de Tilcara (dibujo de Tania Basterrica en base a foto publicada en Sin autor 2002a). b) Gorro tipo bonete monocromo con dos orejas proveniente de Solor-3, San Pedro de Atacama (tomado de Berenguer 2007: Fig. 20c). c) Gorro tipo bonete polícromo con dos orejas proveniente de Catarpe-2, San Pedro de Atacama (tomado de Llagostera y Costa 1984: 66).
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"C" has the step motif stylized in way I haven't seen...first look it looks like chacana...quadripartite step motif...closer, it's almost an arrangement of step frets...hmmph...what is it?...a hat, a bag?...two out, Trout up...W...Ohtani gets another at bat!!!...it's a cap with ears!...Trout steals second...and Ohtani walks too...Simmons up...hit up the middle...Angels 5-2...Pujols grounds out...to bottom of ninth...one out...don't want to lose this:
A striking Tumaku effigy...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/127961_auction-70-fine-ancient-and-ethnographic-art/?page=16
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in the browse I'd just seen this,
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Jama-Coaque figurine, 300 BC-AD 600
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_Ecuador
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and this is what caught my eye...
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0272: A choice LaTolita sello (roller stamp) from Ecuador
Est. $120-$150
same auction site
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hmmph...mind's eye thought the hands were up...but so it goes in my browse!...runner on...two out...three out...Angels 5-2...a halo over this one...
:)
DavidDavid
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