Notes:...Games over, Sunday evening...Angels over Blue Jays, 3-2 in ten innings...Reds walloped the Dodgers...I keep trying to find something complete about the use of colors-conventions?, designs?, for the pre-Columbian Americas...there are conventions for ancient Egyptian Art, for colors, designs, everything!...though there too, it's hard to find it all in one place...most stuff is intro stuff, museum guides, tourist guides, coffee table books...that's just generally true of everything!...anyway, finding the bit about the two headed snakes (another common to all motif), boulder hopped to the two headed bird, and, an OH Wait!...that stylized condor is the step fret...is the step fret a Condor?...as a convention, a scheme, a design, common to all, yeah, well, maybe, though I've been down this path with the step fret being a stylized Rattle Snake...maybe it is the Jaguar too!...sooo, I've been looking for "fractal scale" and "color use"...old, and older posts go on about the colors...back aways, the bit about the new checkerboard tunic they found, and how the hues of its color were different, indicating some local thing...one take has it the different colored Inca quipu threads could identify an individual-like one had their own bar code...this notion includes the tocapu tunics, everyone had their own livery...oh, too much!...pursuit of these notions on going...the scale thing is kinda unique, though I found takes on ancient Egyptian scaling-Lotus columns...the example of fractal scaling is often given of hurricanes and spiral galaxies and Fibonacci spiraling sunflowers...fractal scaling is in Nature...thought is the ancients' symbols were take offs of things in Nature...aaand, each motif might be an artifact, an artistic representation of a fact in Nature...art I fact...I dreamed I was tasked with rescuing such from an art museum under attack, kindofa Monuments Men thing-a figure painting in a protective box, called Time "something"...Time Guard, Time Soldier...something!...I got a hold of it, ran out into the catastrophe, aaand, woke up...lol...
The film prop idol was based on the actual Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure in the pre-Columbian collection at Dumbarton Oaks. The artifact is presumed to depict the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl.[2] Scientific analysis by the Smithsonian, though, shows the Dumbarton figure to be a probable fake from the late nineteenth century.[3][4] Other scholars are less certain, but express similar doubts.[5]
The Chachapoya culture was a genuine subject of interest for scientists under the Nazi government, particularly Jacques de Mahieu, who like the fictional Belloq was a French collaborator. Based on quotations from Spanish colonists (many of them fabricated), and on his interpretations of since-refuted archaeological digs, he argued that descendants of Vikings had once ruled Peru.[6][7]
In the Cupisnique/Chavin image on the lower left, we see a world divided between serpent and predator realms that are unified by blood/water, with the plant “cat’s claw,” a woody tropical vine that can snake its way 100 feet or more up a tree to reach sunlight, referencing the form of the serpent attached to feline claws and bird talons that produce blood. As always the serpent (liminal and physical properties of water) is there to establish the reciprocity between blood and water. As a very early example of a visual kenning among a people who had no written language, the genius of this visual narrative that described the spiritual powers (duties) that transpired in the temples of royal actors is striking.
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Pirates at Angels...underway in a few minutes..."artifacts" in baseball are called memorabilia!...souvenirs..."I will find a souvenir, just to say the world is here."-Nina 99 Red Balloons...before Tree in the Door's Fauna and Flora, there was, is, Tree in the Door...and looking it up, I find in my blog's about about profile, where it is listed, it opens to a bunch of spam stuff...Ohtani K...two outs bottom of first...Moniak up...that happened, happens, to my Yahoo Geocities USS Panay blog, some hack messes it up...this the result of malitious robots, the thought, one hopes, and not some shadow banning hacker, hands on...I don't think a search brings up Tree in the Door...anyway, Tree in the Door spun out from a poem I wrote, Souvenir, that included mention of the "walls of Jericho"...hmmph...I was just looking at all the artifacts of Indiana Jones tales, including the Ark of the Covenant (destroyed Jericho)...Pirates with two out double...looked up the Ark...always a good read...wiki's take...Detmers on mound for Angels...Tree in the Door was a "treatise" on my own poem, a souvenir, an artifact...for awhile, Tree in the Door's Fauna and Flora artifact has been about the step fret triangle motif...what's with artifacts?...top of third...welp, I'm slipping around, footing is loose, the Fern Ledge drop off to my left...lol...I've noted the Chachapoya before...step frets on their cliff houses...web's a small world!..it was an all night browsing!...began with studying out Cosmologies...wiki gives brief takes...like a bunch of tik toks!...the Jains give one pause...likely the closest to hard facts science, but fantastically strange!...long fly out, bottom of third...Angels have runner on, Regnifo...Ohtani up...K...to top of fourth...Jains bring to mind the Brad Pitt Tibet movie...Jain pilgrims sweeping the ground in front of them least they step on a bug...silly until one read their explanation of karma, which is in that list of wiki cosmologies!...Pitt played the role of a German...were the Indy Nazis in Tibet too!...search: Tibet Nazis...yep...what is it with artifacts!...anyway, I did search: cosmology Moche, (which became search: Nazca ceramic mummy bundles)..."a very early example of a visual kenning among a people who had no written language"...visual kenning, after some definition searches, I take to mean visual knowing, or common knowledge of symbols, aaaand, cosmology...cosmology being the culture's stories and myths, everything...the ancient civilizations are really lost, the "kenning" is gone...first hand knowledge anyway...Renfroe up...Angels with things in the works...leave bases loaded...to top of fifth...no score...Pirates get a run...when I happened on the Mummy Bundle drawing, I thought it was of a cloth bundle, but no, it is of a ceramic bundle, which is a marvel, and I found another one similar...today's post was to be just these two artifacts, the other stuff has crowded in, wanting mention too!...Pirate rookie hits a homer...Pirates 3, Angels 0...top of sixth...to bottom of sixth...Nazca pottery is beyond...and the two bundles have step fret belts!...both have cactus motifs...and a wonder is if the lower face, faces, is being born...like Indy's gold idol!...to top of seventh...critter feeding time!...brbk...then there' Nazca fisherman ceramics...Renfroe with a hustle double...Nazca pottery went thru distinctive phases, motifs added and subtracted by like a central command...Ancient Egypt, happens there too...for sometime comparing Egyptian and Moche/Nazca mummies!...bottom of eighth...Ward W...Moustakis up...hit by pitch...bases loaded...oh, Cabbage hits a comebacker double play...Pirates 3, Angels 0...
Similarities can be seen in Neolithic–Eneolithic era Cucuteni–Trypillia culture on the territory of current Ukraine and Romania. Patterns containing ornament looking like Taijitu from archeological artifacts of that culture were displayed in the Ukraine pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.[35]
While this design appears to become a standard ornamental motif in Iron-Age Celtic culture by the 3rd century BC, found on a wide variety of artifacts, it is not clear what symbolic value was attached to it.[37][38] Unlike the Chinese symbol, the Celtic yin-yang lack the element of mutual penetration, and the two halves are not always portrayed in different colors.[39] Comparable designs are also found in Etruscan art.[7]
Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Pirates at Angels...Ohtani on mound...bottom of first...Pirates 0, Angels 0...Neto up...Ohtani up...full count...W...Moniak up...the step fret triangle, found in Mesoamerica/Mitla, Peru/Moche/Lord Sipan's crown, became step fret triangle for me when I noticed the triangle...an "Oh! wait..." moment...my comments to youtube vlogs of late begin with Oh, wait!...lol...anyway...and all along, since, when I see the yin yang symbol with the two dots, I've wondered if the dots are like the triangles...so so this afternoon, I look up "What are the yin yang dots..." and turned up, as turning over a rock to see what's under it in a tide pool, wiki's take...wiki's take has it, things are unsure of the symbolism of the motif, other than the Chinese yin yang, which the Chinese wrote about extensively...philosophically...it illustrates philosophy of Chinese, or some such...Angels made out...top of second...Philosophers do that, make up symbols...have in works for sometime, motifs as symbols...religions have symbols too...and science...mathematics is represented with symbols...insomuch, we all start out at birth a blank slate, our lives are discovery, rather than recognition...this to say, because others have seen something, it is no less a discovery when we see something...today, that the yin yang relates to the Xicalcoliuhqui, is my discovery of wiki's recognition of this, or some such...I suppose for someone sometime at wiki it was a discovery!...now, birds don't discover how to fly, they are like born to it, recognize it...welp, I ramble!...anyway, I made up a "symbol" to represent the human imagination, and Nature...Nature is "fact", our imagination is "art"..."Beauty is truth, and truth Beauty"...well, not quite...Beauty is in the beholder, literally...and Truth is out there, somewhere...because everything we see is seen with our imaginations, even facts, it's Wonderland all the time for us...top of third...soooo: Art I Facts...the yin yan, readsaid, to be the union of opposites...Art I Facts the union of Imagination and Nature...to bottom of third...then there's Artifice..."fice" as in artificial...is "fice" a word?...brb..."fice is a small dog"...lol..."a nervous belligerent little dog"...fice butts up with feist...what I'm doing here is looking at a word as a combination...which is what the yin yang dots symbol is, the step fret triangle, is...Neto at bat...readsaidseen breakdowns of the step fret, but yet to come on an on about about the triangle, like I have for the yin yang dots!...now, when I found the Moche feather textiles, that knocked me down, it has the step fret with dots!...oh, Pirates get a home run...Pirates 1, Angels 0...oh, wait, back up...Art I Ficial...another home run...Pirates 2, Angels 0..."Ficial as in "Fake"...kindof the imagination dealing with something imaginary...Art I Art...Beauty is Beauty...Ohtani getting bombed a sudden...visit the mound someone!!!...the philosopher wrangle over if everything is determined, Fact upon Fact; or imaginary, My Dream and the Butterfly's...Pirates make out...to bottom of fourth...the two, Fiction and Fact, interweave, all I'm saying...Ohtani walks, then Moniak hits a double!!!...Pirates 2, Angels 1...aaand, Moustakis hits a 3 run home run...Pirates 2, Angels 4...homeruns in 19 games in a row, Angels with a new franchise record....last two games, Ohtani has been walked six times?...in a row?...and he has come home for a run at least three times, I recall...a curio!..baseball is nothing if not curious!...so, so, are the Native American motifs a philosophical symbolism!?...Another home run...Cabbage's first major league home run!!!...Pirates 2, Angels 5...it makes a kinda sense, as the Chinese yin yang symbol is attributed to a single philosopher...yet, yet, as wiki notes, it is one of those symbols found world wide, and back in time...even the dot, for the yin yang...I don't know when the triangle for the step fret starts up...it's missing in many representations...and sometime indistinct as to what kind of triangle it is...sometimes it is equilateral, other times Pythagorian...Pirates up...hit by pitch...top of fifth...wap..a home run...Pirates 4, Angels 5...the "Pythagoreans" are one of the usual suspects for being whoever it was that was spreading knowhow and motifs around in ancient times...the stuff of the Mysterion vlogs...these "whoevers" still about, I'd say...one of their "tells" might be the use of colors...the symbol post in the works touches this...the Moche have this quadripartite habit...see Four Corner hats!!!...in the textiles, there will be four boxes, each with the same motif, but the colors alternate, the boxes diagonally from one another the same...and this persists in the ceramics...and other Andean cultures...is that some code?...some philosophical symbolism?...my wonder, is it a "factual" thing..."1" represents "one"...all the numbers represent, well, numbers. making accounting factual, true, and reliable...Angels up...Neto hits a home run!!!both sides with three home runs...I wanted to go to game...speculation it might be Ohtani's last pitching outing in Angel uniform...trade deadline August 1...if Angels don't sign him...oh, too much, too sad, if he is traded, or goes to another team in free agency...Ohtani gets on on dropped third strike...Pirates 4, Angels 6...Moniak K...Ward up...home run...Pirates 4, Angels 8...Moustakis up...K...to top of sixth...I've read about how the Moche use colors, the vlog about Four Corner hats by Smart History has it I think...brbk...oh, wait...Pirates with a home run...Ohtani still getting bombed...visit the mound!!!...Pirates 5, Angels 8...K, one down..."everything in the air is just...jumping"...well, yeah, it is hot!...fly out...welp, game is moving along too fast...for sometime how the Moche were alternating things...to top of seventh...unless I can find a good quote about it nowabout!...well, there, the four corner hat...it is even kinda fractal, different colored squares inside of squares...Ohtani relieved...a round of applause!...top of seventh...that hat, the step fret feathered pouch (see last post) are painfully beautiful to look at, like they are from an impossible realm of the imagination, impossible considering our modern world!..in comments to Smart Histories take on that second hat, I corrected their interpretation...the three fingers represent a hand holding a bird...the self same bird in the other squares...somehow, it relates to the "Decapitator" motif, where a figure holds decapitated head, in this case the bird a stand in, or some such...but the diagonal alternation in colors is there, the alternation even includes the parts...it's ingenious!...apparently, these were created in kinda like monastereis for women weavers, closely guarded and pampered, as textiles were wealth and status...Ohtani up...W...Moniak up...base hit...the Museum rotates the hats...each side a different color scheme...if the Native American's motifs, art, are a "Chinese Philosophy", oh that would be a disappointment...Philosophers, psychologists, metaphysicians, and such, often insert themselves into motifs...I mean, not only do they make up their own, but make up stuff about ones they didn't make...and their deliveries so compelling, one is moved to think, "Oh, that's how it must be..." ...the symbol post will go into this!...an ax to grind for sometime...top of eighth...time to feed Maya my Dog, and find a snack for me!...oh, the indoor cats, Eugene and Emily, too...two down...if I were to peg the motifs to something, it would be the stars-Astronomy...time will tell...to bottom of eighth...cats fed...have to listen to this game play out!...two down...runner on first...Valesquez steals second...Renfroe up...to top of ninth..."I think therefore I am"-Descartes...Art I Fact....two down...pop up...and Moustakis puts it away...Pirates 5, Angels 8...put a halo over this one...
... the Moche scenes to assert any interpretation of the paths with assurance. ... If so, the step-fret would be a good marker for the shifting positions of ...
Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Ohtani up...bottom of first...errand to Huntington Beach in a few minutes...this a to be continued post...but I found some really really neat sites...and want to note them before I lose them, or Googles search messes things up...W...I was using my chrome book to find them with search: moche step fret hermeneutics...and the pdfs were opening, but I've lost one...something about Mayan artists discovering contrapposto, that bent leg pose, Farmer the author?(edit: found it...he was tracking the "philosophy" of Mayan thru the drawings of anatomy...this goes with God L's Leg post!)...but I've lost it...Ward waps a two run home run!...but I did find the Feathers pdf...and it's giant...a compendium of papers on the feather textiles...heck...some of the feather pics I can't find again!(found them, one in particular, the pouch with the whispy step frets-a new favorite!!!)...and I gotta leave off...Regnifo hit a home run...Yankees 0, Angels 3...to be continued...bk...Angels win!..Yankees 3, Angels 7...put a halo over this one!!!
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Yankees at Angels...bottom of fifth...signing on I was trying to listen...lot going on...Angels scoring!...bottom of fourth...Sandoval on the mound...he could use a "cushion"...Moniak steal second...earlier, I think, he hit a home run...Yankees 1, Angels 5...they walked Ohtani then in third, and Moniak delivered(edit:it was the first, Neto blup hit, Ohtani K, Moniak HR), to the chagrin, I'm sure, of a Yankee vlogger who thought Moniak, first name Mickey, a nothing burgher to pitch too rather than Ohtani...Oh, the Yankee fans are woeful they pitched to Ohtani last night!...wap...of course, if Moniak and Ohtani didn't hit home runs...that's baseball...runner on for Yanks, on an error by Cabbage on first...double play!...to bottom of sixth...at the Cemetery, there is a statue of Moses, a copy, one of Michelangelo's, with the horns...back in the blog, a post up about the horns on Moses, and Alexander the Great...and I thought to look the horns up again, and found a long piece going on about them, and happened on the word "hermeneutic" that caught my fancy...of late, when I fancy a new word, I sometimes think to make it up into a poem, and begin a search: poem "new word"...if one just searches "poem", or any one word, google search will have the "usual" things, things the algos think are important, and then the listing trails off...guessing here, Google here doesn't want the browsers to divert into an endless listing...it was like that for a while!...I could search "USS Panay" and eventually happen on my own blog post, even just after I posted...this when blogger had its own search...it still does, I guess, but hoops to go through to use it...but, of late, I find if I add "poem" to "one word", all kinds of marvels show up...see post up two days back...Sandoval has made it to the seventh!...just one hit, home run...to bottom of seventh...before the advent of scientific inquirey, and archaeological scholarship, there was study of the Bible...might be said, it was an illustrated study, what with all the paintings and statues telling the stories...Islam prohibits portraits, so all the geometric designs and script instead, and likewise, much study...Neto up...K...Ohtani up...oh, Ohtani got that triple earlier today, one he needed for cycle yesterday...K...anyway, the whole culture of religious study has just moved over into scientific study, where the object of study, the artifact, was the Bible, now, it's just everything, planet Earth, the Universe, lost civilizations...the "study" extends into fiction, fans study their favorite stories, heroes, worlds entire...I've come to see the yin yang symbol as the opposing worlds of fact and fiction depicted...together they make the world go 'round, or some such...top of eighth...Yankees get a runner on...Sandoval relieved, he went eight innings!...when Angel pitchers do well, they do really well, like there is team potential there to really shine...Moniak up...a hit!...three hit night, one the two rbi home run in third!...top of ninth...one down...Estevas on mound...K...fly out!...and the ball game is over!...put a halo over this one!..."boy, it was quick ballgame"...yep...more hermeneutic for sometime!
God L of the Schellhas-Zimmermann-Taube classification of codical gods is one of the major pre-Spanish Maya deities, specifically associated with trade. Characterized by high age, he is one of the Mam ('Grandfather') deities. More specifically, he evinces jaguar traits (particularly the ear), a broad feathery hat topped by an owl, and a jaguar mantle or a cape with a pattern somewhat resembling that of an armadillo shell. The best-known monumental representation is on a doorjamb of the inner sanctuary of Palenque's Temple of the Cross.
Notes: Game on...oh, they just walked Ohtani to load the bases..,Angels had runners on first and third...Yankees at Angels...bottom of sixth?...fifth...Moniak up...two ball count...fly out...to top of sixth...Yankees 0, Angels 0...I was close reading about God L being a "merchant"...for sometime the "traders"...but then, looking at the drawing, I noticed his legs...whoever drew them, understands life drawing-anatomy-muscles and bones...artists in Ancient Egypt did too, and had a real fascination with knees and shins!...the Egyptians arrived at like super hero comic book proportions, depictions...the Greek's copied with their Korous sculptures, and developed full on heroic musclemen....this sort of got forgotten, until they dug up the Laocoon, which inspired Michelangelo, aand to this day, comic book hero artists...thought is, to study out the ancient artists world wide, by how much they knew of anatomy...the cave artists in France understood animal anatomy...Yankees score two, a batter too far for Canning....he's throw over a hundred pitches...but Thais waps a home run in bottom of sixth!...Yankees 3, Angels 1...top of sixth...Canning still pitching...Yankees 3, Angels 1...bottom of seventh...Angels with a runner on, and, they decide to pitch to Ohtani...wap!...over the fence...hitters, like artists, can look at one another swings and "see" the level of skill...and swinging a baseball bat is deeply studied!...next to that, is golf swings...there might be more instruction videos of golf swings than painting!?...not likely, but the fascination by professionals to amateurs is the same...to top of eighth...the more you learn, the more you recognize...it gets ridiculously detailed...Picasso lept to fame because he drew better pigeon feet than his father, or so the story goes...but when looking at his line drawings, one can see he is faithful to anatomy, to muscles and bones...bottom of eighth...top of ninth...Yankees have runner in scoring position, no one out...W...fly out, and runners had to stay put...one down...Double Play!...to bottom of ninth...Yankees 3, Angels 3...Ohtani up!...and they are pitching to him...needs a triple for cycle...like seven times this season he's needed a triple, or something, for the cycle!...K...fly out...Ward up...W...Moustakis up...infield hit...runners first and second...Thais K...and ump kicks Thais out...to top of tenth...to bottom of tenth...Regnifo up, Wallach on second...Steffanick with a hit...Yankees 3, Angels 4...thankgoodness...I was going nowhere with God L's legs..lol...Put a halo over this one!!!
At the time Anni Albers wrote On Weaving in 1965, few discussions of Andean textiles “as art” had appeared in weaving textbooks, but there were numerous publications, many of which were German books published between 1880 and 1929, that documented and described their visual and technical properties. Albers almost single-handedly introduced weaving.
“The affinity between the compositional structures, color planes and geometries of these ancient textiles and works by Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and even Ad Reinhardt or Jasper Johns is frequently noted,” Drake Moraga writes . “Our sense of pleasure in, and ‘familiarity’ with, Andean modes of expression may be largely informed by modern art practices and discourse; its more fascinating corollary, however, is that latter-day abstractionists took significant impetus from the visual ideas and icons of the impressive early American cultures.”
Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Ohtani up...Astros at Angels...Astros 1, Angels 1...bottom of third...4-3...Moniak, K...to top of fourth...to bottom of fourth...oh!...I thought the feather step fret was collected long ago..."bought at auction in 1960s"...hmmph...anyway, Anni Albers was a textile artist, with an interest in Peruvian textiles...and seeing that, I found the German collection...to the side, is Anni's husband (see yesterday's post) and all that fame and fortune in the art world they had, have...I just did a comment post to a long youtube about Anni, comparing artists to Indiana Jones...Indy is always after some artifact, and in competition for it with some villains, usually German Nazis!...just saw the latest episode...one's art is one's artifact, in the making!...just did a quote post of Ray Bradbury surrounded by antiquarian treasures going on about everyone should make things, anything, for a legacy...lol...to the side, drowning in clutter...anyway, anyway, oh, Cabbage, rookie, hits a double, his second hit of the game...first hit his first in Bigs...before scientific archaeology , there were collectors, Antiquarians...Pausanias and his travels noting artifacts come to mind...and it goes way back in time...but it didn't really become serious until discovering Pompeii and Herculaneum...towns completely covered up by a volcano, forgotten, "lost civilization", gave everyone pause...now, discovering and making things a push back "against the wind"...some runs scored on Cabbage's hit...Astros 1, Angels 3...and Paul Klee was good friends with Anni...and I'm sure he must have lifted from the Peru textiles...a looksee...brbk...Search: Paul Klee Peru Textiles...bottom of fifth...welp, I've stumbled into a whole another storage room of things "step fret"...time for a snack...beback with game report!...bk...Astros 9, Angels 8...almost a bookend win with yesterday's game, even to Ohtani with home run again to start a rally...diving catch in the outfield of Moustakis line drive saved the Astros...
