Sheperd's Cap
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels and Cardinals...two down...bottom of sixth...W...bases loaded...Gudea Cylinders...ground out...to top of seventh...Cardinals 2-1...
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Ningirsu responds that his governor will build a temple dedicated to great accomplishments. Gudea is then sent a dream where a giant man – with wings, a crown, and two lions – commanded him to build the E-ninnu temple. Two figures then appear: a woman holding a gold stylus, and a hero holding a lapis lazuli tablet on which he drew the plan of a house. The hero placed bricks in a brick mold and carrying basket, in front of Gudea – while a donkey gestured impatiently with its hoof. After waking, Gudea could not understand the dream so traveled to visit the goddess Nanse by canal for interpretation of the oracle. Gudea stops at several shrines on the route to make offerings to various other deities. Nanse explains that the giant man is her brother Ningirsu, and the woman with the golden stylus is Nisaba goddess of writing, directing him to lay out the temple astronomically aligned with the "holy stars". The hero is Nindub an architect-god surveying the plan of the temple. The donkey was supposed to represent Gudea himself, eager to get on with the building work.
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Preceded by the Kesh temple hymn, the Gudea cylinders are one of the first ritual temple building stories ever recorded. The style, traditions and format of the account has notable similarities to those in the Bible such as the building of the tabernacle of Moses in Exodus 25 and Numbers 7.[17] Victor Hurowitz has also noted similarities to the later account of the construction of Solomon's temple in 1 Kings 6:1–38, 1 Kings Chapter 7, and Chapter 8 and in the Book of Chronicles.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea_cylinders#Translations_and_commentaries
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Pujols up...standing ovation from standing room only St. Louis fans...first ten years of his career he played for Cardinals, famously, Trout like!, then, the Angels signed him to a ten year contract, again, like Trout's new contract...hall of fame bound Trout, Pujols like!...beats out infield grounder...Fletcher pops out...one down...Rengifo with hit...in looking about for modius, cylinder vases/cups, and such, I kept seeing in 'goggle images' heads of Gudea...Ohtani coming in to pinch hit...and Cardinals bring in a left handed relief pitcher...
Foundation figurines of gods in copper alloy, reign of Gudea, c. 2150 BCE, from the temple of Ningirsu at Girsu (British Museum, London).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea
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Ohtani K...Guerno up....there are a lot of these statues, often made in diorite, a stone Sumer had to import...
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Gudea's appearance is recognizable today because he had numerous statues or idols, depicting him with unprecedented, lifelike realism, placed in temples throughout Sumer. Gudea took advantage of artistic development because he evidently wanted posterity to know what he looked like. And in that he has succeeded—a feat available to him as royalty, but not to the common people who could not afford to have statues engraved of themselves.
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K...to bottom of seventh...well, that's changed...anyway, his hat set my curio antennae a quiver...the circles a tile, one step from polygonal honeycomb...but no, not that...the circles represent the curls of lamb's/sheep's wool...crown is called a shepherd's hat...the conceit being the Sumerian king was a shepherd of his people...which is a good analogy!...I've been wondering how, if they did, the ancients depicted a king's charisma, or queen's...there's something called 'royal glory'...brb...Cardinals get a walk...one on...Angel's bullpen second in walks given up in AL...stolen base on wild pitch...maybe 'royal fame' another term...much as his old home town fans rose to pay tribute to Pujols, royalty receives such...
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Khvarenah or khwarenah (Avestan: 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀𐬵 xᵛarənah) is an Avestan word for a Zoroastrian concept literally denoting "glory" or "splendour" but understood as a divine mystical force or power projected upon and aiding the appointed. The neuter noun thus also connotes "(divine) royal glory," reflecting the perceived divine empowerment of kings. The term also carries a secondary meaning of "(good) fortune"; those who possess it are able to complete their mission or function.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khvarenah
As an epithet of kings and the reason the dynasty is so called, Middle 𐭪𐭣 and New Persian kay(an) originates from Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬌 kavi (or kauui) "king" and also "poet-sacrificer" or "poet-priest". The word is also etymologically related to the Avestan notion of kavaēm kharēno, the "divine royal glory" that the Kayanian kings were said to hold. The Kiani Crown is a physical manifestation of that belief.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayanian_dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiani_Crown
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Cardinals going off scoring runs...Cardinals 5-1...Cardinal make out...to top of eighth...
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Other Persian reliefs generally lack inscriptions, and the kings involved often can only be tentatively identified. The problem is helped in the case of the Sassanids by their custom of showing a different style of crown for each king, which can be identified from their coins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_art
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I went on about the Sassanid crowns a ways back...how they commonly have the crowstep motif...in Asia it relates to the crenulated tops of mud brick fortresses...anyway, Gudea's crown distinctively different...how sheep respond as one to the guidance of sheep dogs is a curio...almost telepathic like...don't know if Mesopotamians had sheep dogs!...brb...
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"Dogs were extensively used in droving,...although there is curiously little mention of them in contemporary records..." Why is that?
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Dogs are commonly seen on seal designs of the period, sometimes sitting beside a enthroned goddess, sometimes by themselves supporting the symbol of the crook. The crook is the symbol of the god Amurru or Martu who was a personification of the nomadic peoples of the desert. He is sometimes shown carrying a crook, appropriate to a god that accompanies pastoral nomads (Black, Jeramy A. et al. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary, University of Texas Press, 2003). One of the earliest reference in literature to a shepherd's dog, in "Dumuzid's Dream", which comes from ancient Sumeria.
the goddess Gula on a stele with her dog, dated to the reign of Babylonian king Nabu-mukin-apli, 978-943 BC. Drawing ©Stephane Beaulieu, after Black and Green 2003. Gula is one of a number of healing goddesses of the region that is associated with dogs.
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Dumuzid was a shepherd and a mythical, prehistoric, pre-dynastic Sumerian king (prior to ca. 2900 BC which is when the Early Dynastic period begins). According to some sources, he is considered a precursor to the Babylonian god Tammuz (Wikipedia, et al). In these interpretations, Tammuz is either a nature god, who protects agriculture and flocks and personifies fertility, or he is a sun god. In any case, similar to such gods of other mythologies, he dies at midsummer, and is ressurected the following spring, and this appears to be the case for Dumuzid as well. According to others, this narrative focuses "on the goddess Inana's journey to the Underworld, her rescue and return, and her pact with the Underworld gods, whereby she is replaced in the Underworld by her lover, the god Dumuzid." The Literature of Ancient Sumer by Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi. Translated by Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi (2004, Oxford University Press).
In the story, Dumuzid lies down to sleep and dreams. When he awakens, he is terrified and relates his dream to his sister, who is a "wise woman who knows the meanings of dreams". Dumuzid says that in his dream, among other things, water was thrown on his coals, his holy drinking cup was torn down from its peg, his shepherd's stick disappeared, an owl took one of his lambs, he died, and haunted the sheepfold.
His sister interprets the dream to mean that terrible things will befall him and that she will morn him. She sends a friend to look for the villains (demons of the Underworld [ibid.]), and the friend reports that they are on their way. She tells her brother, who says he will hide and begs her not to tell them where he went. She responds with:
"If I reveal your whereabouts to them, may your dog devour me! The black dog, your shepherd dog, the noble dog, your lordly dog, may your dog devour me!"http://www.bordercolliemuseum.org/EarlyHistory/EarlyHistory.html
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She was known as a patron deity of Lagash, where Gudea built her a temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintinugga
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Nintinugga another name for goddess Gula...both Angels and Cardinals made out, didn't score in eighth...to top of ninth...oh...the shepherd's hat...diverted thinking about telepathic dogs...''V' dogs' pop called them, after reading a science fiction story I lent him from my collection of sci fi...short story about telepathic 'V' frogs...brb...cant find it...Fletcher on base, but tossed out in a double play...Cardinals 5-1...more tomorrowmorrow--shepherd kings...
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