Lizards
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Mariners and Angels...Mariners 2-1...bottom of second...two down down...Theis up...W...Fletcher up...Angels made out...Mariners up...home run...Mariners 3-1...this pic from yesterday's post:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJ_rPHfSyU
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for some reason, Trout taken out of game...Calhoun goes to center, Fletcher to right...Upton is over in left...that's it now for outfielders on the roster, just the three...and Fletcher is primarily an infielder, third and second bases...Mariners make out...dropped pop out lost in sun, but runner thrown out at second, then, next play, runner thrown out trying to steal second!...to bottom of third...Simmons fly out...Ohtani up...K...
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The pictorial zone is full of dot-rosettes, crosses, and Mischwesen (composite beings).Two staid sphinxes heraldically flank a floral column on the back of the flask. On the front, in the space between the sphinxes' backsides, a confrontation takes place between two other fabulous beasts: the winged horse Pegasos, with Bellerophon on his back, flies in from the right to face the Chimaera, who stands firmly with all four paws on the ground. Set strategically between the hybrid creatures, below an even smaller bird, is a lizard or, specifically, a gecko.2
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The lizard is invariably rendered this way on Middle and New
Kingdom Egyptian reliefs as well as in Near Eastern art:
https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/25067977.pdf
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the youtube clip snagged pics from this pdf, I think, to caption the helmet's gecko...Simmons on fc throws out runner going home...and now Pujols throws out runner going to third...hmmph...to bottom of fourth...
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replica crop of above vase, same site
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this is an example of a Greek vignette, or toponym...it names a scene in a myth, much as the Egyptian building ritual vignettes name an event in the ritual...dogs are pursuing the rabbit, a bird is diving on the lizard...and then there are incidental things which aren't mere decorations...the twisted rope, the rosettes, the staffs on either end...site author goes on that the lizard wasn't just decorative...nothing ever is in ancient art!...the gecko on that Phillippine helmet is kind of a big deal...I've tracked it to a museum in the Philippines, but haven't found the museum...Mariners made out...to bottom of fifth...one Angel on...Thais up...gets a hit after a slump of 0-13...two on...Fletcher up...W...bases loaded...Trout out due to calf stiffness...Simmons up...
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Josephus calls it in Latin Aurea, and equates the island with biblical Ophir, from where the ships of Tyre and Solomon brought back gold and other trade items. Historian Otley Beyer said that the “dawn man”, the aborigines of the Philippines, existed 250,000 years ago, although the Callao man fossils have been dated as 65,000 years ago.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(900%E2%80%931521)
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3-1 the count...take the walk...take the pitch...woop!...ball four...W...Mariners 3-2...and, Ohtani up!...the land of Ophir is a curio, for sometime...sac fly...Angels 3-3...just one down...Upton up...K...two down...Pujols up...and the Philippines are islands, and a gateway to the Pacific islands, and the Americas...the Spanish galleons rode the currents to off the shore of California, where when they spotted signs of land, seaweed, birds, they turned south to Panama where there treasures were off loaded and transported to the Atlantic, and from there to Spain...Angels made out...to top of sixth...fly out to Fletch...Mariners make out...to bottom of sixth...
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Apollo with a lizard on a string on a mosaic from Roman Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Sauroctonos
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last season I went on about Praxitales, who made the famous statue of Apollo as youth about to spear a lizard with an arrow...one caption says he's trying to catch it...again in that mosaic is the twisted rope, and some kind of staff, and animals catching, fighting...
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Preisshofen recalls, in fact, a much more widespread manifestation, greatly elaborated in the long tradition of animal physiology, of Apollo the Sun God as the Healer, that is, Apollo Medicus, most notably healer of maladies of the eyes. The association is thus medicinal, auguring healing, and most commonly emblematized by Apollo’s encounter with the lizard, or Gecko. As it ages and grows the animal molts, shedding its skin and emerging, blind. Sight is restored, however, by the healing rays of sunlight cast upon it by the benevolent Apollo.
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What is lost in this quagmire is one of the great achievements of Greek culture, already known, surprisingly enough, in the early seventeenth century.6 The evidence can be seen on the bases of the great bronze twisted columns that support the canopy (Baldacchino) covering the high altar in the crossing of St. Peter’s in Rome (Fig. 2). There Gianlorenzo Bernini, having been commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, represented this very motif, a lizard climbing up toward a radiant image of the health-giving Sun! (Fig. 3) In the mother church of Christendom, overseen by the Barberini pope, there were three major emblematic symbols of the papal reign, each laden with profound meaning. One was the famous Barberini bee (Fig. 4), alliterative to the docile provider of the mellifluous benefits of the church. Another was the sun, which appears in many contexts as divine illumination. And the third was the lizard, whose meaning is illuminated---I use the word deliberately---as it scurries about the columns of the Baldacchino, upward to the sun, and even downward to devour evil in the form of a scorpion (Fig. 5).
https://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/LAVINApolloFableBeauty.pdf
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hmmph...Renigfo on first...I've gone on and on about canopies...that bit about the lizards a curio to add to that collection...and the bee bit to the bee collection...and Apollo as healer explains the staffs, the twisted snake cadueces...Renigfo steals third...first big league steal...ground out...to top of seventh...
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The Homeric hymn to Hermes relates how Hermes offered his lyre fashioned from a tortoise shell as compensation for the cattle he stole from his half brother Apollo. Apollo in return gave Hermes the caduceus as a gesture of friendship.[17] The association with the serpent thus connects Hermes to Apollo, as later the serpent was associated with Asclepius, the "son of Apollo".[18]
The association of Apollo with the serpent is a continuation of the older Indo-European dragon-slayer motif.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
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oh, a loop back to Gudea...
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The "libation vase of Gudea" with the dragon Mušḫuššu, dedicated to Ningishzida (21st century BC short chronology). The caduceus is interpreted as depicting the god himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningishzida
don't know but the twisted snakes become the twisted rope motif...Angels throw runner out going home...third time for this to happen today!...two down...K...to bottom of seventh...Fletcher grounds out...
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In one of the earliest surviving descriptions of a salamander, Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) noted that the creature is "an animal like a lizard in shape and with a body specked all over; it never comes out except during heavy showers and goes away the moment the weather becomes clear."[1][2] All of these traits, even down to the star-like markings, are consistent with the golden Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra aurorae) of Europe that has golden or yellow spots or blotches on its back[3] and some similarly marked subspecies of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra).[4] Pliny even made the important distinction between salamanders and lizards, which are similar in shape but different in other respects, which was not systematized until modern times, when biologists classified lizards as reptiles and salamanders as amphibians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanders_in_folklore
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salamanders and lizards are lookalikes...base hit for Ohtani...Calhoun K...to top of eighth...K...Mariners make out...to bottom of eighth...this site has mention of the salamander in relation to the Gorgon/Medusa...skip reading to find it...may take a bit..brb....
by AL Frothingham - 1911 - Cited by 57 - Related articles
alone or in the Perseus myth; (2) the head of Medusa, usually ... Greek cities, the connection of Medusa and Apollo was undenia- .... In the famous tripod-vase of early black-figured ware f ...... The salamander over Medusa is a solar allusion.https://www.jstor.org/stable/497414?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
hmmph...the Gorgon is on the Philippine Greek armor...it's a very common motif...does it relate to lizards/salamanders?...Renigfo fly out...two down...Bour pinch hitting...
"It is, in any case, a good creed not to believe in the aimlessness of ancient art."
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Calhoun moves to third on Bour's single...Smith comes in to run for Bour...who is up?...Thais hits his first big league home run!!!...very cool...Angels 6-3...Fletcher up...fly out...to top of ninth...grounder to Thais at third...one down...two down...Mariners down to their final strike...Gorgons for tomorrowmorrow!...2-2 the count...base hit...0-2 the count...again down to last strike...yep...K...Angels sweep Seattle, and did it in style!...put a halo over this one...
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