Meanders
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Athletics and Angels...Ohtani fly out...to top of second...
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Petroglyphs, pictographs and pottery shards inspired traditional Navajo weavers.
The many canyons where Navajos lived contain ancient Anasazi ruins and historic Navajo pictographs. Beautiful pottery shards could always be found at the feet of most Navajo weavers.
https://www.canyonroadarts.com/symbols-and-motifs-in-navajo-weaving/
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that may be where the Navajo weavers found the step fret triangle design in the storm pattern...see yesterday's post...short fly out dropped ball gets runner going to second...two out...brb...hmmph...a book to find:
Alex Patterson. Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest. Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 1992.
enigma meanings lap into horoscope like predictions...the stars are here, this means this....predictions//intuitive observations...and in the Southwest they are popular, charts, posters, post cards and such explaining symbols and motifs...As make out...three runners stranded...to bottom of second...there's a Navajo blanket/rug/pottery culture...the Kachina dolls are my fascination, along with the flute player...on vacation tour of Southwest, I took note...a lament is out there, that the Southwest doesn't have 'ruins' like Mexico and Peru, but in truth, it is the truest place to study the ancients...the Navajo and other cultures still retain a lot of the old lore...it's one thing to study an ancient culture, being a foreigner; another thing is to be descended from an ancient culture...speak its language...Tony Hillerman's detective mystery books a favorite...his writing style too...
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One of the most significant words in the Joe Leaphorn/Tony Hillerman lexicon.
The term refers to apparently random, often serendipitous, set of occurrences that are seemingly unrelated but that are aligned in a mix of happy accident and/or corresponding incidents. Sometimes coincidence is likened to "fate" or "fortune," events that come into being through forces that are beyond human control.
Joe Leaphorn, a savvy, experienced, and pragmatic lieutenant, does not believe in coincidence. Things happen for a reason, or come into alignment for a reason, and it's up to the perceptive investigator to recognize covert machinations that seem belied by overt, if allegedly random, connections.
http://ehillerman.unm.edu/node/1461#sthash.YngVE62f.dpbs
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Angels down 123, to top of third...hmmph...more on the Southwest for sometime...Calhoun catches them all, 123...to bottom of third...wait...a tour blog captured some neat things, and captions them with fun things...
This repetition of pattern suggests a design that might be used for a blanket.
https://wandering-through-time-and-place.com/tag/sheep-cult/
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diamond grid, maltese cross, frets, steps, epsilons?...Regnifo two out double...so, Tony, go figure...lol...Angels make out...to top of fourth...back to Greece...
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Hagia Triada sarcophagus (article) | Minoan | Khan Academy
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The Hagia Triada sarcophagus is a late Bronze Age 137 cm-long limestone sarcophagus. It was originally dated to 1400 BC and was rediscovered in Hagia Triada on Crete in 1903. It provides probably the most comprehensive iconography of a pre-Homeric thysiastikis ceremony and one of the best pieces of information on noble burial customs when Crete was under Mycenaean rule, combining features of Minoan and Mycenaean style and subject matter. The sarcophagus is on display in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Triada_sarcophagus
the horizontal rosette frieze is a lookalike with King Tut's chest...see recent posts...and the vertical keys are lookalikes with Amenanhotep's ceiling, the keys with bull heads with rosettes between the horns...oh, let me get those...side by side the similarities are striking...
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http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/cairo%20museum/cm,%20tutankhamun,%20furniture/pages/tutankhamun%2C%20painted%20box%203.htm
https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/mycenoan-crete-archaeological-evidence-for-the-athenian-connection/
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As with a barrage...As 3-0...that pattern with the bulls is on other Egyptian tomb ceilings, but without the bulls...Egyptians had a copy book, a clip art book, of designs...not unlike, I find, modern architects and designers...maybe all the ancients did, though oral transmission was big part of student artists learning motifs, I conjecture...to bottom of fourth...that Minoan box has a tribute seen...a note for sometime...and, the double ax with a bird on a pole as the object of respect, devotion...the Egyptians and Aegeans artisans were borrowing from one another...the double ax for sometime...a preview is that it is a lookalike with the split rosette, and the back to back epsilons...those altars the Lion Gate lions stand on suspect...the pillar there has the look of the Knossis palace pillars...and has the roundel motifs, which, when painted, could be rosettes...Ohtani up...hit...Calhoun up...too many things/elements/motifs!...Pujols up...hit...there's one out...Fletcher up...base hit...bases loaded...
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A detail of a Greek vase from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. H. W. Janson describes this as "the oldest characteristically Greek style in the fine arts, the so-called Geometric." It's 8th century B. C., which means that it was created close to the founding of the Olympic Games.
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sac fly...As 3-1...Guarno up, he last night's walk off double...Angels make out...to top of fifth...
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complex Greek meander
https://www.classicist.org/articles/classical-comments-the-complex-greek-meander/
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the Navajo had swastikas on their blankets until World War Two...they were called 'whirling logs'...swastika has an onus now because of WW2, and Navajos no longer use it...I don't find it in Mesoamerica or South America...neither have scholars. which I sourced one...it's all over Europe and Asia...in the meander it just appears as part of the over all 'complex' meander...that one seems a favorite of royalty...at the site above was King Philip II's shield, with the complex meander around it, and searching that, found his chest/box...
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The name "Vergina Sun" became widely used after the archaeological excavations in and around the small town of Vergina, in northern Greece, during the late 1970s.[2] In older references, the name "Argead Star" or "Star of the Argeadai" is used for the Sun as the possible royal symbol of the Argead dynasty of Macedon. There it was depicted on a golden larnax found in a 4th-century BC royal tomb belonging to either Philip II or Philip III of Macedon, the father and half-brother of Alexander the Great, respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun
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A larnax (plural: larnakes; Ancient Greek: λάρναξ, lárnaks, plural: λάρνακες, lárnakes) is a type of small closed coffin, box or "ash-chest" often used as a container for human remains in the Minoan civilization and in Ancient Greece, either a body (bent on itself) or cremated ashes.
The first larnakes appeared in the Minoan period of the Aegean civilization, when they took the form of ceramic coffers designed to imitate wooden chests, perhaps on the pattern of Egyptian linen chests. They were richly decorated with abstract patterns, octopuses and scenes of hunting and cult rituals.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larnax
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As score a run...As 4-1...the gold thing floating in the air was in the box, it's acorns and acorn leaves, a wreath...King Philip II is the father of Alexander the Great...which puts this box a thousand years after the Minoans in Egypt, or some such...the box lid has that star, with rosette...hard to find good pic of lid...the rosettes too are four, eight, sixteen, symmetry, like the sixteen rayed star......oh, Goodwin with a miss throw...'loses the baseball completely'...something for the blooper reel...As 5-1...
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https://www.discovergreece.com/en/mainland/macedonia/vergina
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browsing about I found this:
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http://www.museumspartner.com/en/geschichte-en/early-celts.html
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I don't know what it is, or its where and when...the site has it as part of a intro slide show, and doesn't caption it...two Celtic warriors holding a Greek lookalike plate, on either side, vertical Greek complex meanders, I guess...and, that star, this time with eight points...Trout up with two out...Lastella got on with a hit...blasts one high...Troutahere!...home run...As 6-3...Ohtani hard line out...to top of sixth...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vix_Grave
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the horses are a marvel...the frieze above their heads is running spirals...the whole krater, and its story, is a marvel...acquired by trade, or spoil of war, I dunno...and there's another one:
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The Derveni Krater is a volute krater,[1] the most elaborate of its type,[2] discovered in 1962 in a tomb at Derveni, not far from Thessaloniki, and displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. Weighing 40 kg, it is made of a bronze with a high tin content of about 15%, which endows it with a superb golden sheen without use of any gold at all.[3] It is dated to the 4th century BC, and was probably made in Athens. Large metalwork vessels are extremely rare survivals in Ancient Greek art, and the Derveni Krater is the outstanding survival from Hellenistic art, as the Vix Krater is from the Archaic period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derveni_Krater
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Angels with a runner...Fletcher lines out, one down...Calhoun steals second...these Kraters are like five feet tall...Goodwin K...so, into kraters!...Angels make out...there's a lot old Greek pottery extant...some of the clay pots five feet tall too!...the thought of how much the ancients had, and how much has been lost, is a bit much...oh...As with a home run...As 7-3...
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Attic geometric crater. On the main zone is depicted the ekphora (carrying out of the body to the grave) of the deceased on on a carriage, around which are women mourners and men with swords. From the Dipylon. By the Hirschfeld Painter (750-735) BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Large Cypriot amphora. Linear decoration and lotus flowers in red and black paint. Bichrome rythm. Cypro-Archaic I period 750 BC.
http://www.greek-thesaurus.gr/geometric-period-pottery-photo-gallery.html
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neat pot, with some rosettes...I'm looking for one with the complex meander...meanders have a lot of varieties...and too, looking for some pottery kraters that would look to be the prototypes of the bronze giant kraters...
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The chalice from Chios from the time about 600 BC shows beside the hook meander and the false meander also a row of “true” meanders with six horizontal bars as illustrated in figure 17b.
https://blogmymaze.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/different-types-of-meanders-in-greek-art/
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Walsh flies out...next batter pops out...Lastella up...that's a really neat pot...here's a 'wth!':
eleusinian amphora
http://www.ufo-contact.com/ancient-spirals-2/eleusinian-amphora-2
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Lastella reached on infield hit...Trout up...first seeing that, I noted the motif like a twisted rope...since finding the Shinto twisted ropes, I'm now noting twisted rope looking motifs!...second seeing, are those crabs?...I dunno..site has no info, and about ufos...Trout with W...Ohtani up...I'll have to go to the Getty museum and get my own Greek meander pics!...all over stock photos of them...ground out...heck...As 7-3...to top of eighth...As made out...Calhoun up...ground out...Fletcher up...ground out...Goodwin up...Guarno hard ground out...to top of ninth...
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Rhodian vase painting was a regional style of East Greek vase painting, based on the island of Rhodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodian_vase_painting
it's not a vase, but a plate...and there are a bunch of these...
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http://panoplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-force-awakens-new-greek-vase-scenes.html
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parodies Greek heroes, substituting Star Wars heroes...just saw site with famous statues with Star Wars figures heads...As made out...Walsh up...ground rule double...here's the page with lots of plates...lost it, for awhile...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rhodian_plates
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rhodian_plates#/media/File:Rhodian_Dish_MFA_99.507.jpg
that links the slide show...run comes across on fc...Trout up with two out...As 7-4...ground out...game over...
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