Gorgons
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Pirates and Angels...top of fourth...Upton with lead off hit...Upton up...Pirates 6-0...Angels knocked around in the early innings, again...K...I had a reach for Gorgons awhile back...got diverted...and since lost the preparation, the browses I'd made...but here I re-found one site...it mentions the similarities between the Greek Gorgon and the Egyptian Bes...I might add, the Andeans' Decapitator...reason for this is they are all depicted full face, and scary...Angels get another hit...don't know if it was Albert...nope...one down, two on...Renigfo up...hit by pitch...bases loaded for Stasi...sac fly...two down...Angels make out..to top of fifth...Pirates 6-1...
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Other early poets add further details: the Gorgons lived in the far west, toward the edge of night, on a rocky island beyond the streams of all-encircling Ocean.
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The earliest images of the Gorgon, found on reliefs and painted vases, depict a disembodied head with staring eyes and a fat tongue protruding from a gaping mouth. The face is fringed with tight curls and very often—and importantly—a beard. On vase paintings, the Gorgoneion often serves as the central embellishment of a warrior’s shield. Remarkably, whether painted or sculpted, the Gorgon face is always shown face forward, staring at the viewer head-on—a striking fact given the Greek convention for depicting characters, human and divine, in profile.
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The essential features of the Gorgoneion—bulging eyes, grimacing face, protruding tongue—are shared by monstrous creatures of other cultures. The Indian Kirtimukha, or “Face of Glory,” for example, appears in painted and sculpted forms on temples, statues, and over entryways. Bes, the stocky dwarf god of ancient Egypt, shares many Gorgon traits, including a grotesque head with protruding tongue, a fringe of beard, and face-on presentation. The wide-staring face in the Aztec calendar and face-on presentation. The wide-staring face in the Aztec calendar stone, dating to about 1479, is also Gorgon-like in appearance.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fear/dread-gorgon
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Pirates made out...to bottom of fifth...people who have seen terrible things know the look of the Gorgons...a lot of pages going on about such...there were three of them, and the famous, mortal one, was Medusa...her gaze even in death turned men to stone...Perseus takes her head and defeats the sea monster threatening Andromeda...think I have that right!...anyway...first two Angels on...Ohtani up...Ohtani keeps bailing out at the plate...someone needs to tell to stand in there!...heck...DP...shift won...ball was hit right up the middle...Upton up...oh...Angels get a break...Pirates bobbles the ball, and Upton reaches first...Pirates 6-1...Calhoun didn't go home from third?...Pujols up...ground out...to top of seventh...
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An archaic Gorgon (around 580 BC), as depicted on a pediment from the temple of Artemis in Corfu, on display at the Archaeological
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home run for Pirates...Pirates 8-2...there's a meander, but it's not the greek key...but...the Gorgon's running pose is from the complicated greek meander...and, it's complicated!...another home run...that pose shows up a lot in paintings and statues and such...Pirates make out...to bottom of sixth...
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Kaiser Wilhelm II had a "lifelong obsession" with the Gorgon sculpture, which is attributed to his attendance at seminars on Greek Archaeology while at the University of Bonn.
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The pediment depicts Medusa in a formulaic, stylised fashion; her feet are arranged in a configuration suggesting rotation, which in turn indicates motion or flight when applied to the attributes of Medusa, especially Medusa's wings.[13] The Medusa is wearing a mini–skirt which allows her legs freedom of movement while she is fleeing from Perseus. Her motion is further indicated by the formulaic positioning of her legs in the so–called Knielauf position which stylistically resembles a swastika.
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The Gaze of the Gorgon is a film-poem created by Tony Harrison, which examines the politics of conflict in the 20th century using the Gorgon as a metaphor. The narration of the film is done through the mouth of a statue of the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, which Kaiser had removed from the Achilleion after he took over ownership of the palace from Empress Elizabeth of Austria. The film describes the connection between Heine, the Corfu Gorgon, and Kaiser Wilhelm II who had an obsession with the Gorgon.[8][23][24] In the film, Harrison's voice narrates:[9]
...what was Kaiser up to? Excavating on Corfu, the scholar Kaiser on the scent of long lost temple pediment not filling trenches, excavating the trenches where the Gorgon's waiting there in the trenches to supervise the unearthing of the Gorgon's eyes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis,_Corfu
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123...to top of seventh...hmmph...more on the Gorgon for sometime...leaving off and listen to the game...bbk with update...bk...Pirates 10-2 final score...
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