Open To Interpretation
Gingerbread Men
Notes: Game on..on the radio...Mariners at Angels...top of sixth...Angels 6-1...left off yesterday with thought to looksee at Egyptian harvest festivals, how they might line up with the solstices, and Orion...and, and got lost in the Pyramid literature!...one paper notes the corners, south east corners, form a line that leads to Heliopolis...for sometime...wait...a looksee!...
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But, the 3 pyramids at Giza are precisely aligned, along their southeast corners. The old aerial photograph and the diagram below show the point, and it is quite clear that the alignement is intentional. Three of the 5th Dynasty pyramids at Abusir are similalry aligned, this time across their northwest corners. Incidentally, the two lines, from the two sets of pyramids, are said to cross at Heliopolis (On, in the Bible), the site of the Sun Temple, in the suburbs of present-day Cairo - but that's another story.
http://egypt.hitchins.net/pyramid-myths/giza-pyramids-sorry-not.html
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hmmh..."another story"...for sometime....I was hoping to find some kind of St. Andrew's Cross made by the Pyramids, but nothing jumps out...so, soh, back to the Crossed Bands in Mesoamerica from yesterday...Mariners made out...Angels up...bottom of sixth...oh!, Adell hit a home run, oh!!, he hits another one!!!...first two of his major league career...Angels 7-1...need to get a snack, haven't eaten all day...brb...bk...Adell up again...same inning!!!...Angels 10-1...K...to top of seventh...I thought to lookabout the Andeans for a "crossed band" motif, and happened on a Mesoamerican paper going on about Charlie Chaplan figures...these are figures with their bare feet turned outwards...the way Chaplin comically walked...now, figures from the Andeans' are famous for Chaplin feet...but the paper made no mention of the Andeans...this is kind of the same circumstance of step frets...a few scholars connect it to Mesoamerica and the Andes, even wiki gives it a nod...but the connection not a big deal...to me it's a big deal!...and the feet are like the step fret, and I've gone on before I think the link is the balsa rafts that plied the west coast of the Americas...Heyerdahl made a big deal of sailing a raft to Easter Island from Peru, thus proving that the Pacific Islands had contact with Peru...kind of a no brainer...there are polygonal walls on Easter Island...bottom of seventh...BenBoom with lead off hit...Simmons walk...Fletch up...infield hit...Ohtani up...rbi f/c...Angels 11-1...Gingerbread figures...brb...Trout with a home run!...Angels 14-1...Mariners are in very last place...just below the Angels...
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The paper presents evidence for the definition and origin of a figural jade theme that is common in Costa Rica. It consists of a standing figure in a ritual pose, and it is argued that it originated in the context of the jade exchange network linking the ancient jade artisans of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica to their counterparts in the Maya region of Mesoamerica. In the Maya region, archaeologists have referred to this theme as “Charlie Chaplin” figurines because of the characteristic pose with knees bent and feet pointing to the sides.
The “Charlie Chaplin” Silhouette Figural Theme: A Pan-Middle American Ritual Performer Theme
David F. Mora-Marín
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America
davidmm@unc.edu
https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/25274/25732
Appendix 12 is an incomplete draft of the typology and description of shell Charlie Chaplin figurines. These are anthropomorphic, small, usually of exteriorly worked Spondylus shell, with incising, notching, grooving and drilling the technical repertory. However, many are plain, that is, the human form is silhouetted. A total of 538 shell figurines exist in the Tikal collection.
Spondylus, otherwise known as the "thorny oyster" or "spiny oyster", is a bivalve mollusk found in the warm waters of most of the oceans of the world. The Spondylus genus has about 76 species living worldwide, three of which are of interest to archaeologists. Two spondylus species from the Pacific Ocean (Spondylus princeps and S. calcifer) held important ceremonial and ritual significance to many of the prehistoric cultures of South, Central, and North America. S. gaederopus, native to the Mediterranean Sea, played an important role in the trade networks of the European Neolithic. This article summarizes information about both regions.
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Beginning about 100 BCE, trade in Ecuadoran spondylus reached the Lake Titicaca region in Bolivia.
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Spondylus shell also was also part of the extensive North American pre-Columbian trade network, finding its way into far-flung places in the form of beads, pendants, and unworked valves. Ritually significant spondylus objects such as the so-called "Charlie Chaplin" figurines have been found in several Maya sites dated between the Pre-Classic to Late Classic periods.
Charlie Chaplin figurines (referred to in the literature as gingerbread cut-outs, anthropomorphic figurines, or anthropomorphic cut-outs) are small, crudely-shaped human forms lacking much detail or gender identification. They are found primarily in ritual contexts such as burials, and dedicatory caches for stelae and buildings. They aren't just made of spondylus: Charlie Chaplins are also made of jade, obsidian, slate, or sandstone, but they are almost always in ritual contexts.
https://www.thoughtco.com/precolumbian-use-of-the-thorny-oyster-170123
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see if I can find a like paper for the Andeans'...brb...Ohtani up again with bases loaded...ground out...another f/c rbi...Trout with sac fly rbi...Angels 16-1...Mariners using position players to pitch...which brought back memory of the 16 inning loss to the Mariners last season!,,,turning point of the Angels' season...well, wait...I added some more quotes above...for sometime some pics of the Andean ginger breads...home run for the Mariners...Angels 16-3...two outs top of ninth...the trade was in the conch shells too...so, along with step frets derived from conch shells North and South, there's these Gingerbread Figures North and South...for tomorrowmorrow!!!...K...Angels 16-3...put a halo over this one...
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DavidDavid
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