Aegina
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Reds and Angels...top of sixth...runner on third...two down...Angels 1-1...Puig hit a home run...missed it...I had thought to go to game, but change of plans, and stayed home...then Bour hit a home run for the Angels...Reds make out...to bottom of sixth...so, I discovered a coin with a Turtle stamp in the horde of the Darius foundation box, and this is a lookalike to gold coins minted on the Greek island...brb...Trout up...K...Ohtani up...2 for 2, single and a double...stranded on second a couple innings back...on the Greek island Aegina...Ohtani W...and promptly steals second on next batters first pitch...Upton up...game began at 5 pm, early start so Reds could get on to their next town...and it's hot out after all of June being overcast and cool, which kept me away from going to games...on a hot day the 7pm games are nice...Upton walks...on a cool day, kind of miserable, sitting high up...anyway...
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The silver stater with a turtle is a coin from the 6th century BC Greece. The front has a sea turtle design, while the back has a punch mark, found on most coins at that time. The earliest coins were made of electrum, a mix of gold and silver. The coins were first made in the island of Aegina off the southeast side of Greece. Some historical sources say the first coins were made by the king of Argos, Pheidon. The coins with 'turtle' design are considered "an important early trading currency".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_stater_with_a_turtle
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Aegina, according to Herodotus,[6] was a colony of Epidaurus, to which state it was originally subject. Its placement between Attica and the Peloponnesus made it a site of trade even earlier, and its earliest inhabitants allegedly came from Asia Minor.
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Its early history reveals that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times. It is usually stated on the authority of Ephorus, that Pheidon of Argos established a mint in Aegina, the first city-state to issue coins in Europe,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegina
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Goodwin makes out...Fletcher up...runners on first and second...grounds out...Ohtani stranded at second a second time...to top of seventh...infield hit to lead off...
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Type of the Aegina stater found in the Apadana hoard, 550–530 BCE. Obv: Sea turtle with large pellets down centre. Rev: incuse square punch with eight sections.
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- After awhile, Aegina began minting a land tortoise coin instead of the sea turtle...hard to see, but the back has a dolphin in one of the corners...these coins were the first coin money, anywhere...oh, a W, runners first and second...maybe I can show the reach in a hurried run on sentence!...Reds make out...by chance, I literally bumped the tablet from one youtube clip to another, the another about the Egyptian Osireaon...now I've seen the Osireon before, and the caption about the water in the bottom of it, it was designed that way, the shrine is like set at ground water level, but I had forgotten this, but, I was looking for ground water takes, as the Sumerian god Enki is the god of ground water...in the desert ground water is really important, and too, Enki has the symbol of a turtle...with those two thoughts in mind, and another thought about Egyptian gods Nun and Set...Nun related to ground water, Set to turtle emblem, I considered the clip about the Osireon....the ground water at the Osireon a fit, my thought...and it is...both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, desert cultures, revered ground water...the Sumerians had really good irrigation, canals and such, on a part with Andeans...writing now, I dimly recall below surface canals with occasional openings to the surface in Arabia...I'll look for this!...Qanat!...so, Egyptians have ground water gods, gods of the underworld...underworld and under ground water look to go together in the old myths...and this rings a bell, as over in Mesoamerica there is god Chaac/Tlaloc...both represented with turtle motifs, very complicated!, and the underworld...the Yucatan peninsula is a flat limestone shelf, and rain just gets sucked up by it like a sponge...but it is riddled with caves, and cenotes, with under ground rivers...Mayans were really big on under ground water/underground world...and thinking on it, it has a resonance...underground water is like the Earth's blood beneath it's skin, ground level surface...in a dry land, or a limestone shelf, it is where all the vegetation and animals get their moisture...and so very treasured...now, over with the Andeans I've been wanting to go on for a long while about their irrigation feats...they mastered the run off from the Andes, making it replenish the ground water, so they would have water in the long dry seasons...just up the street from home, is a pond sort of thing, always filled with water...read said it is used to replenish the aquifer for Town's wells...in places, the cemented Santa Ana rivers isn't cemented...in these places water pools and soaks down into the ground...so, so, I've gathered some things to go on about regarding ancient's irrigation skills, and all the while carrying the ground water notion, I keep coming upon turtles!...the myths about turtles are really cool!...so, so there's the reach with its preceding steps...Enki, Nun/Set, Chaac/Tlaloc, Andean gods???...the Egyptians started out eating turtles, then revering them, then trying to kill as many as they could...the later because, I think, turtles related to Set, the enemy of Horus...but that's just weird...cultures world wide have turtle stories, and likely many stories of springs and fountains and underground rivers...if I remember right, the Styx disappears under ground...in the desert, one sees creeks among the boulders that disappear under the sand, then reappear, and then disappear...Trout up...3-1 count...lead off walk...Ohtani up...they still walk Trout if a threat to tip the game, and still Angels 1-1...pick off sails off, throwing error...Trout to second...Ohtani base hit!!!...runners at the corners...Upton up...ground out...Trout stays put, Ohtani moves up, first base open...Goodwin up...I think...Terry a bit fast and loose with who is up!...lol...K...geezzz...now, Fletcher is up...1-1 the count...3-1...tomorrowmorrow will be turtles all the way down!...some kind of hit for Fletch...Angels 2-1...ball was fielded, but no time, or place at third, to make the throw anywhere...Bour up...another one...home run...that should cheer Bour up!...second home run for him in game...Angels 5-1...it's the bottom of the eighth!...Regnifo grounds out...to top of ninth...K, passed ball, throw out, just!...one down...Puig up...I can go to San Diego and maybe see Puig at a Padres game...K...ground out...appeal...nope...Angels 5-1...put a halo over this one!
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