Sycamore Tree
Someday
The Sycamore Tree
Will just be
A Sycamore Tree.
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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Rays and Angels...top of third...Ohtani wapped a double during the commercial...hmmph...on second now...Pujols made out...Ohtani in the first inning with a three rbi home run...Angels 3-0...Cueo grounds out...Ohtani to third...Calhoun flies out...to bottom of third...
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Gebel el-Arak Knife with Master of Animals motif at the top of the handle. Dated circa 3300-3200 BCE, Abydos, Egypt.
In the art of Mesopotamia the motif appears very early, usually with a "naked hero", for example at Uruk in the Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC), but was "outmoded in Mesopotamia by the seventh century BC".[13] In Luristan bronzes the motif is extremely common, and often highly stylized.[14] In terms of its composition the Master of Animals motif compares with another very common motif in the art of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, that of two confronted animals flanking and grazing on a Tree of Life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Animals
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The concept of world trees is a prevalent motif in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmologies and iconography. World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which represented also the fourfold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi connecting the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial world.[29]
Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid/Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology. Among the Maya, the central world tree was conceived as or represented by a ceiba tree, and is known variously as a wacah chan or yax imix che, depending on the Mayan language.[30] The trunk of the tree could also be represented by an upright caiman, whose skin evokes the tree's spiny trunk.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life#Mesoamerica
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Rays made out...to top of fourth...
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The central world tree has also been interpreted as a representation of the band of the Milky Way.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_world_tree
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Fletcher still with the sore shoulder...the lions/griffins of the Lion Gate flank a pillar, a lookalike of the Knossis palace columns...temple columns represent trees and hark to the time of sacred groves...time was, everything was outside, and natural things regarded sacred...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Gate
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The carvings were executed on the polished surface of the tusk with a silex microburin from top to bottom, one register after the other.
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The handle of the knife is carved on both sides with finely executed figures arranged in five horizontal registers. The opposite side of the handle shows Mesopotamian influence[19] featuring the Master of Animals motif, very common in Mesopotamian art, in the form of a figure wearing Mesopotamian clothing flanked by two upright lions symbolising the Morning and Evening Stars (now both identified with the planet Venus). Robert du Mesnil du Buisson said the central figure is the god El.[20] David Rohl identifies him with Meskiagkasher (Biblical Cush),[21] who "journeyed upon the sea and came ashore at the mountains".[22]Nicolas Grimal refrains from speculating on the identity of the ambiguous figure, referring to it as a "warrior".[23] Modern scholarship generally attributes the back reliefs to Mesopotamian influence, and more specifically attribute the design of the clothed wrestler to the Mesopotamian "priest-king" Master of Animals images of the Late Uruk period.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebel_el-Arak_Knife
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next to the Pyramids, the Master/Mistress of the Animals is likely the most common motif cited as proof of an ancient world wide culture...hard to gainsay!....ad is on so inning break, not sure where game is...see previous post for more on Lion Gate...considering when the grid first came into use, I stepped to registers...when did the use of registers begin!...St. Petersberg power outage!...lol...reason for all the commercials...Terry is on his cellphone explaining...it's bottom of fourth, one out, when game resumes...it's a guess how the stylization was arrived at...oh, note the lions on the knife handle are standing up on something, a lookalike to the Lion Gate, and the sphinxes on King Tut's wooden box posted in earlier post...here's a guess:...first the tree flanked with two animals, then a pillar like something representing the tree flanked with two animals...coincidentally, first a female flanked with two animals, then a male flanked with two animals...down through time, this gets more and more stylized...a central arch with two flanking smaller arches...the motif becomes a toponym motif, naming rulership...the 'Pythagoreans' , the geometry/astronomy artists, maybe slip in symbolism of Milky Way and Venus...that Chimu monster face with the two foxes on either side--the foxes are thought to be the two appearances of Venus...hard to explain the reverence the ancients had for Venus...for sometime!...I proposed that the Lion Gate pillar had a double ax on top, like the one on the Minoan box being paidd tribute, this a couple posts back...that's a common motif...pillar with double ax...brb...
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In ancient Crete, the double axe was an important sacred symbol of the supposed Minoan religion.[13] In Crete it never accompanies male gods, but always female goddesses. It seems that it was the symbol of the arche of the creation (Mater-arche).[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrys#The_Minoan_double_axe
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quoted that yesterday too...'arche' a curio...
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Arche (/ˈɑːrki/; Ancient Greek: ἀρχή) is a Greek word with primary senses "beginning", "origin" or "source of action" (εξ’ ἀρχής: from the beginning, οr εξ’ ἀρχής λόγος: the original argument), and later "first principle" or "element", first so used by Anaximander (Simplicius in Ph. 150.23). By extension, it may mean "first place, power", "method of government", "empire, realm", "authorities" (in plural: ἀρχαί), "command".[1] The first principle or element corresponds to the "ultimate underlying substance" and "ultimate undemonstrable principle".[2] In the philosophical language of the archaic period (8th to 6th century BC), arche (or archai) designates the source, origin or root of things that exist. In ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle foregrounded the meaning of arche as the element or principle of a thing, which although undemonstrable and intangible in itself, provides the conditions of the possibility of that thing.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arche
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oh, that's that!...that last bit...
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In ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle foregrounded the meaning of arche as the element or principle of a thing, which although undemonstrable and intangible in itself, provides the conditions of the possibility of that thing.[
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what's behind behind...a part of my fascination with double words...a caution: repeating double words can make one dizzy!...anyway,
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Marija Gimbutas believed that the labyris was a symbol of the Goddess as butterfly. The various stages of the life cycle of this insect can be seen as representing the cycle of life, death and rebirth – or resurrection.
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Although builders of temples and shrines, Cretans were quite late at it. While the Maltese people built enormous megalith temples from 3600 BC, Cretans did not start this practice until almost two millennia later. In fact, their first attempts at building temples started around the same time as the Maltese temple culture collapsed. However, before they started to perform rituals innside temples, they performed them in natural sanctuaries, such as caves, mountain peaks and groves. They continued to use these natural sanctuaries for the duration of the Minoan civilization, until its collapse around 1300 BC.
http://potnia.theladyofthelabyrinth.com/symbols-of-the-minoan-goddess-religion/
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see yesterday's on and on about the Mesoamerican butterfly pectoral...and, Maya my dog is napping, and the nba playoff game beginning...I'm off to a sports bar with big screen tv, and for a snack...update when I come back...bk...Warriors lost...Raptors 114-110...Angels won...Angels 5-3...and, Ohtani hit for the cycle--homerun, double, triple, single!...put a halo over this one!
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