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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatrefoil#/media/File:Chalcatzingo_Monument_1_El_Rey.svg
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This group is dominated by the best known carving from Chalcatzingo: Monument 1, also known as "El Rey" (The King). "El Rey" is a life-size carving of a human-like figure seated inside a cave with a wide opening; the shape of the opening represents one-half of a quatrefoil. The point of view is from the side, and the entire cave appears cross-sectional, with the cave entrance is seen to the right of the figure. The cave entrance is as tall as the figure, and scroll volutes (perhaps indicating speech or perhaps wind) are issuing from it. The cave in which the figure sits is equipped with an eye, and its general shape could suggest that of a mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcatzingo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabaka_Stone#/media/File:The_Shabaka_Stone.JPG
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The goddess Naunet and her male counterpart Nu represented the stagnant primeval water itself; Huh and his counterpart Hauhet represented the water's infinite extent; Kek and Kauket personified the darkness present within it; and Amun and Amaunet represented its hidden and unknowable nature, in contrast to the tangible world of the living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_creation_myths
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbwUeTyDb0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MkchWsfao
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Notes:...game on...on the radio...Marlins at Angels...top of fifth...Marlins 1-Angels 0...Quatrefoil!...found the word I was looking for in previous post...and there are lots of papers, not just the one I had happened on...aand most behind the paywalls...'ubiquitous quatrefoil"...yet another motif found here there and everywhere...searching I happened on a youtube vlogger going on about creation myth story motifs...story motifs I'm familiar with!...English majors study such...and the scholars collected stories from all over the world during the era of exploration...I have a book of Navajo Sandpainting motifs, and each painting has folk/myth story...for sometime...the art motifs need the story motifs to make any sense...and both come from times without writing...the ancient oral traditions lost...but what are records?...Sooners broke the record for games won in a row, but when asked about it, "We don't keep track of that, or read reports on our games-we're focused on winning..."...a paraphrase...baseball full of records...anyway, curious about creation myths, I found wiki's take on Ancient Egypt's...now, I've followed the mystery of the Pyramids, like everyone, and knew they represent the first mound of Earth that rose from the Ocean...and as it happened, I've been binge watching a youtube vlog about the history of the Earth-dinosaurs and all that...as a kid, I read all the books about dinosaurs, but then there weren't many...now, now there are a lot...same with ancient cultures...apparently, for a billion years of several, the climate was stable, and inhospitable, though bacteria thrived, and the Ocean was 'black'...and nothing lived on land...aand I suspect the cloud cover obscured the Sun...sooo, having read that, I happened on some of Egypt's creation myth that speaks of a black ocean, and the emergence of the Mound, and the Sun appearing...welp, that kind of happened...something caused the Earth's atmosphere to change to like what we have today...top of sixth...earlier, before the Black Ocean, there was the oxygen event...a long time that too...often reading the Creation Myths, there are similarities with the Creation Story science has cobbled together...which make me wonder, if something like out of Clan of the Cave Bear is at work...there, the heroine, in dream state, sees the ancient past...lol...our noggins are the 'cave' where resides the Witz monster, our mouths the opening that breaths...Mayan's noted winds come out of caves...our skulls our hut, canopy...the Romans preserved the hut of Romulus and Remus...Mohammad met under a canopy, which became the model for Mosques...and I've gone on and on about the canopy on the Narmer palette and Moche sacrifice rituals...oh, I suppose Jesus being buried in a cave covered with a round stone a fit too!...the Shabaka Stone has one of the Egyptian creation myths on it...there were a few myths that coexisted...more than a few!...it was repurposed as a mill stone, or a foundation for a column...Egyptians were obsessed with their Creation stories...all the paintings and monuments...complex as the ones of modern science...I can only kinda skip around it...myths and science...came home with an up to date Algebra 1 book...nope...was never much for math and languages!...like the Navajo Sandpaintings, I sometimes think the Egyptians started out with sandpainting; like the Navajo, the paintings go with a story....I don't know if wiki's wordy takes represent how the originals came across....that Chalcatzingo Monument gives pause...it's the Quatrefoil in profile...a 'cave'...and there's a figure sitting on a square, an on and on about Sumerian and Egyptian sitting on a block square...I dunno...the frets represent clouds...Mountains, Mayans thought, breath clouds from caves...bottom of seventh...Marlins 2-Angels 0...Pyramids are mountains with caves inside...bottom of eighth...aaand, Anton just posted to his youtube vlog a take on cells and beginning of life...hmmph...seems we're the beginning of "reproductive intelligence", as once upon a time cells figured things out, as far as they could!...stories and motifs grow and survive...a human being just one example of what reproductive intelligence can be!...long live baseball!...top of ninth...lead off hit...double play...aand Angels about to lose a streak of ninety games with a score-no shut outs...Neto walks...a hit!...runners at second and third...Trout up...0-1...0-2...1-2...2-2...fly out...Marlins 2-Angels 0...
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