Earth Monster:OTI::pic,notes:::5/27/2023

Open To Interpretation

Olmec Earth Monster

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/chalcatzingo-earth-monster-0018193

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Although it has been considered possible that certain elements originating in the Olmec culture of Mexico were added to older Peruvian traditions to produce the Chavin civilization, the radiocarbon dates on Olmec and Chavin make them approximately coeval. A black-ware bottle found at Kotosh, in the central Peruvian highlands, bears a design of an ear of maize, a motif of probable Olmec origin. Since this vessel was from a phase immediately preceding the Chavin horizon, it is suggested that the Olmec culture began earlier than did Chavin and, in fact, could have been the progenitor for civilization in the Andean Area.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/an-olmec-design-on-an-early-peruvian-vessel/C66D800583C9472C8AABCD3067F1BE51

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Both Lespinasse and his brother, who offered the stone to the Metropolitan Museum on his behalf, noted that the stone was similar to a keystone at the summit of an arch. A reanalysis of the architectural sculpture recorded at Uxmal in the years after the consul's original visit, however, reveals that the Met's block formed part of a monumental mosaic "mask," an anthropomorphic portrait of a mountain deity, or witz in Mayan.

https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2014/mountains-eyebrow

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Notes:...game on...on the radio...top of seventh...Marlins at Angels...Marlins 2-Angels 3...runner on second, one out...browse had news of return of Olmec monolith to Mexico, called the Earth Monster...relief pitching shaky...yep...Home Run...Marlins 4-Angels 3...Ohtani no longer pitcher of record...he could have got a win, after a shaky outing of his own-dogged two defensive plays: an overthrow to first, and a slow get to first...otherwise he was his usual remarkable self...Sooners won!...KH tied it up in seventh against Clemson, JB in relief the last three innings, 7,8,9, last two extra...Trout up...fly out...I had just been reading a paper about the motif-here the Earth Monster mouth...Ohtani steals a base...on on FC?...Renfroe up...oh, trying to find the paper, I found the one about the maize motif...it's by Michael Coe, famous for Mayan study..."progenitor for civilization in the Andean Area"...hmmph...Urshela hits a home run!...Mariners 4, Angels 4...aaand, his paper is behind paywall...but that's neat...he's not a "fringe" scholar, and here he hints at connection between the Americas...but then he hints at connection with China, too...hmmph...the Olmec Earth Monster related to the Witz monster..and that four lobed motif, like a smoothed out chacana?, I dunno...I need that paper, a re-search!...look 'till game ends, maybe get lucky...top of ninth...Mariners up...neat game...bottom of ninth...Trout up...base hit...Ohtani up...fly out...to top of tenth!...woops...Moniak dogs a basket catch...Mariners 5-Angels 4...Angel's errors their undoing in games...double play...Angels get a chance...to bottom of tenth...the Earth Monster and Witz monster are the same, it seems...an entry to the "underworld"...oh, heck...inning ending double play reviewed and overturned...another run...Mariners 6, Angels 4...and two more come in on another hit...two runs unearned, and that dropped fly ball, and, Angels leading majors in errors!...fump...Mariners 8-Angels 4...Urshela with an rbi hit...Mariners 8-Angels 5...fly out...two down...Neto up...ground out...Mariners 8-Angels 5...

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DavidDavid

Hotel LagunaOTI::pics,notes:::5/17/2023

Open To Interpretation

Laguna Hotel Painting

Sandpiper Inn, Corona del Mar

Oh, the Old Greek, who managed the place,

Who in childhood experienced the German camps, 

Hired the loveliest girls to work the front desk...

A porter, I was there to be near the sea,

But incidentally took note of the girls'

Tales of nightclubbing in Laguna, Hotel Laguna,

And wished they'd take me along. 

DolphinWords

Notes:...Game On...on the radio...Trout ties it up with a home run...Angels 1, Orioles 1...top of fourth...Ohtani up...rolled out to Goodwill, and back with a treasure!...can't discern artists name, but he or she knew their stuff!...very unusual for an original piece to make it to the Goodwill sale...when I first saw it, I though  it a bit of a mess...but it sinks in...oh, my thought, that's the Laguna Hotel!...just with that it was a purchase-ten bucks...it's painted with one strokes and dabs and touches...that alone a marvel, more so is the lights and darks, the chiroscuro...not many artists understand lights and darks, something acquired by study of the Old Masters...bottom of fourth...in dim light, it looks great, very night light time...a trick to make a painting 'read' in dim light...and one is lured in to see the details, and there are vignettes, paintings within the painting, to explore...it looks "film noir", mysterious-artist an illustrator?...eventually I'll find out who...how'd my poem go?...brb...lol...Orioles scoring...Angels 1, Orioles 3...oh, I have to go out in the garage...shelves to clean...now with new roof, safe to store art out there...a project, house is all a clutter with art I've collected from Goodwill and art materials...bbk with game report...

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DavidDavid

Trough:OTI::notes,pic:::5/16/2023

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Cow Trough

Notes:...Game on....on the radio...wash machine on too, a "wip"-work in progress...got a lot of those, the old house demands...feel like Sherazade...so long as I have a repair, a project to do, I have a roof over my head...recurring dreams of being roofless, behind in the rent, some such...quick claimed the old house to my niece...put the whole caboodle in her care-hence the new roof, and a hand me down washer and drier from my sister's house-sister now moved in with my niece!...and not feeling well, my niece too!..she a caregiver now much as I was with Pop, sooo, after a fashion, I am in her care too...my sister completely so...anyway, the laundry sink doesn't drain fast enough, so I bought a cow trough, those big tanks they sell for garden plants at Home Depot, drilled a hole thru the window pane, ran the drain hose outside  to the trough where it sits on the porch...THIS took some thought and doing...thought is to use the grey water for gardening, which is okay to do so long as soap is biodegradable...found soap at HD after much searching...the trough bottom has a fitting I can hook a garden hose to, and that now goes to house side garden to be...I was all set, I thought, but washer wouldn't fill, kept clicking off...something to do with lid...press on the lid and it might work...aaand, discovered the lid switch had fallen thru its hole...not working at all then...looked repair up on youtube...holy smoke!...looked to be I'd have to disassemble the entire washer...on closer study, I found one could reach under the top and get to it-that cleared up a deep "tingw" (this is never gonna work) funk...oh, funk, Orioles with a home run...Angels 3, Orioles 7...I snapped lid switch back to its slot, puzzled awhile over the dials...and got the machine going-working at present...fifth inning I think...sixth bottom...it was just Angels 3, Oriole 4, but now..."Hey, Big Dog, hear that bird?...'huh?'..."What bird is that?"...went out front to view progress...trough one third full...a lot of water!...and not draining thru the fitting and hose, a mystery that(does drain, slowly)...and, looks to be a vagabond on his bicycle out front getting my attention...lol...I ask him if he lost his bird..."What's the bird saying?" he says..."Mocking Bird!", over on top the telephone pole."...I point..."Sure enough, Big Dog!" and off he rides....Ohtani up...a pause to make a snack...top of ninth...two down, three down in a hurry...Angels 3, Orioles 7...

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DavidDavid

Iberians:OTI::quotes:notes:::5/13/2023

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Iberians

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So how did Cleveland land on Guardians as its new team name? The new mascot pays homage to the Guardians of Traffic statues near Progressive Field in Cleveland, located on the Hope Memorial Bridge. Cleveland owner Paul Dolan noted Friday he hopes the name Guardians helps "unify our fans and city.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/07/23/cleveland-guardians-name-change-decision-explained

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According to all the indications, the large boar sculptures and the bulls at Guisando, near Ávila, are of Celtic origin. The Iberian culture is represented by three sculptures of female figures - the Lady of Elx, the Lady of Cerro de los Santos and the Lady of Baza - that are currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.

https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/espana/historyandculture/culture/Paginas/index.aspx

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Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Angels at Guardians...bottom of seventh...Angels 4, Guardians 2...I'm guessing Cleveland's team has it's newest name, Guardians, from the Marvel Guardians comic book characters...brb...oh, Neto with a circus play-double play...nope, according to the owner..."Guardians of Traffic" statues?...I dunno...anyway, gone are the Cleveland Indians and their logo...the "Angels" derive from the old minor league Los Angeles Angels...for awhile, Anaheim Angels...then back to Los Angeles Angels, which compete, name wise, with the Los Angeles Dodgers..."Dodgers" derive from people dodging trolly cars in New York...Angels make out...long story that, about the Dodgers move to West...it gets worse...Los Angeles is a Spanish name...Los Angeles started out as "Puebla de Los Angeles?", on land colonized from the Chumash?-California Indian tribe...in the mix is the name, misnomer, "Indians" for indigenous American tribes...oh, Neto waps a home run...Angels 6, Guardians 2...as a kid, we'd visit San Juan Capistrano mission, and that kinda explained a lot...anyway, anyway, the history of words tells the story of cultures, tribes, and such...sooo, in my browsing, I happen on the mystery of the Iberians, that Spanish isn't really a romance language derived from Latin, it comes from an older than Rome language that seems to have left bits in Languages all over the world!?...this all an idea from the fringe, a youtube on about Moche motifs...but  with just a skip read, it makes sense, fringe sense...the Catholic Church latinized languages and cultures, the Romance languages do have a lot of Latin words...English is a mix too...the three Marias and Iberians...that's a search...Guardians get a run...Angels 6, Guardians 3...and another run...and another run...hmmph...Angels 6, Guardians 7...the "Marias" I was looking for had something to do with astronomy? in the Moche Mural!!!...this "Celtic" link something else?...I need a snack...more tomorromorrow...oh, and another run, Angels 6, Guardians 8...wap wap, two Guardian home runs...Angels up...Trout at the plate...top of ninth....3-2...K...Ohtani up...ground out, 4-3...Regnifo up...W...Renfroe up...3-2...base hit...runners at the corners...5-3 ground out...Angels 6, Guardians 8...

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DavidDavid   

Tocapus:OTI::pics,notes:::5/3/2023

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Tocapus

Inca King's Tunic

Pyramid Stone Rows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT49JrlNnno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4vV1aAgVGw

Notes:...game on...on the radio...Angels at Cardinals...Neto, fly out...Trout up...top of first...acquired a washer and dryer...was making room for them in the little utility alcove off the kitchen...lots of clutter gathered there!...and utility sink doesn't drain...sooo, lots to do, aaand, interrupted all that with 'game on' and Tocapus!...lol...I'm easily interrupted from chores...readsaid Emily Dickenson loathed housework...Ohtani grounder base hit...Rendon up...Trout was K...fly out...aaand now, Ohtani takes the mound, Cardinals up..."Tocapus" is a revisit of one of the first youtube step fret triangel things I watched and blogged: the Inca King's Tunic, a Yale lecture thru Dumbarton Oaks...or some such...old post has report...at the end, there were questions and answers, and I found the lecturer dismissive of the questions about the Tocapus and Warriors' Checkerboard Tunic...being annoyed tends me to search things up!...soo, the whole step fret triangle saga in the blog...this started up now three or four seasons back!...too much...anyway, watching the lecture again I noticed talkabout one tocapu in particular (the King's Tunic is made of a collection of them!) that has the fret...brb when I retrieve that...Cardinals wap a home run...Angels 0, Cardinals 1...Maya, my dog, is fur shedding, snoozing...we both snooze a lot...on occasion I exfoliate blog posts!...Drury waps a home run...ties it up!...Angels 1, Cardinals 1...on to bottom of second...oh, the tocapu I noticed has the double inverse fret...or some such...need a name for it...previous recent posts are on about it...ball gets by Drury...then wild pitch...runner on third...Ohtani is having one of his spells!...K, one down...in the browse, happened on the vlogger "History for Granite" going on about the rows of stones on the Second Pyramid, the one with still some cap stones...K...two down...same detective deductions going on in that as here about the tunic-trying to see how the makers were thinking...the Tocapu one mentions that the weavers were hidden away, no one saw the tunic until it was finished...just so the making of the Pyramids-there's no record of how...another K!!!...two innings six strike outs!...oh...Ohtani waps an rbi single...runners on first and third...two outs...Rendon up...the way the edge stones alternate could have been noticed by anyone, and indeed, are in the historical record, but I never saw this before...as it is, all the rows of stones have been measured, but not much studied...another run...Angels 3, Cardinals 1...History for Granite takes advantage of drone footage, and calls for a team to delve into these rows...there is a "team' of sorts studying the tocapus.., but one needs to be a part of "academia" to stay current with it...fans have to wait for news...Hawass is announcing news of new Egyptian revelations...fump...fans have to make do...like trying to keep track of the Star Wars saga, and such...another K for Ohtani...is that seven in a row!, except for home run and grounder???...hit by pitch...Ohtani has hit seven batters!...most in the majors...Cardinals are second time thru the order...oh, runner thrown out at second...two down...so Ks not in order...K...eight strike outs thru three innings!...to top of fourth...the Pyramid builders used weaving technique?...sometimes I think, everything started with basket weaving...or braiding pony tails...Ward on with a lead off single..and I'm off to get a snack...be back with report!...back...Home Run...Lamb ties it up!!!...Angels 4, Cardinals 4...top of ninth...was looking gloomy!...Ohtani taken out in the fifth, Angels down 4-3...he struck out thirteen!...Trout up...Little and Tucker have white chests...Trout waps a home run!!!...Angels 5, Cardinals 4...Ohtani waps a double...aaand, Maya has a white chest...and Great Horned Owls have white chests...a Zebra stripes thing...Zebras, Tiger Swallow Tails, Tigers...Tiger Tiger Burning Bright...Rendon with a single, Ohtani scores...Angels 6, Cardinals 4...woops...double play...to bottom of ninth...motifs in Nature...at Seven Eleven, one dollar big gulp and free pizza slice deal...clerk, tall fellow with turban and accent, asks for phone number...shake my head...three fifty five, he says...what about deal? I ask...phone number...oh, that's the deal, I think, waggle my hands 'no', and walk out, leaving behind my orang bang big gulp, which I really wanted...three supreme soft tacos and ice tea at Taco Bell...two down...Esteves the closer of late...fly out to Ward..."the boo birds out in full force in St. Louis...put a halo over this one!"...Angels 6, Cardinals 4...rain tonight, first for the new roof...need to rewatch, close watch,  the Tunic youtube...more...

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DavidDavid 

Olmec Jaguar Growl:OTI::pic,notes:::4/23/2023

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Jaguar Growl

Olmec

Moche

Vicky Arana  https://www.vickyaranafineart.com/moche-motifs#0

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https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,PHPC001*,AND&query=sub,contains,fish*%20OR%20crabs%20OR%20sea%20lions%20OR%20crustaceans%20OR%20anemone%20OR%20waves%20OR%20crayfish%20OR%20octopus%20OR%20shell*%20OR%20strombus,AND&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&sortby=rank&vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&mode=advanced&offset=0

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It is also interesting to note that the Olmec seem to have felt a kind of fascination for those individuals affected by deformities as shown in their representations. Lacking scientific knowledge, it is possible that all sorts of mystical concepts were used to evaluate or explain deformities. This type of behavior was also characteristic of later cultures and was commented upon by the Spaniards who found the emperor Montezuma surrounded by hunchbacks and dwarfs. The Olmec left a generous number of figurines representing different kinds of deformities, such as dwarfs, hunchbacks, and even indi­viduals with leper-like characteristics.

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/jaguar-cult-downs-syndrome-were-jaguar/

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Notes:...Game on...on the radio...Royals at Angels...Royal 3, Angels 1...bottom of sixth...Ward waps a lead off home run...and ties it up...Royals 2, Angels 2...Trout up...and Trout waps a home run...Angels 3-2...browsing, I happened on a Peruvian modern artist who has a show of her paintings that are a take on the Moche ceramic drawings-the Lime Bean warriors some of them..."back to back to back"...Ohtani waps a home run too!...Royals 2, Angels 4...Renfroe up...Royal hit one too, top of seventh...Royals 3, Angels 4...I've gone on about the Olmec Growl before, and happened on Vicky Arana's Moche paintings, and noted the growls!...they're a takes on the originals, but faithful to them in details, like the growl...bottom of eighth...Trout with double...Ohtani legs out an infield single...runners at corners, no outs...considering "Lacking scientific knowledge, it is possible that all sorts of mystical concepts..."...that's kind of an understatement of the perplexed ancients pre occupations!...where Einstein/Newton would ponder the Fall of an Apple, and do an exegesis, explanatory elaboration, using the scientific principle, birthing modern science and the atomic age, the ancients considered Eve handing Adam THE apple, and went off...the rest history...the Olmec figurines have Downes syndrome, readsaid...and the Moche ceramics have all kinds of handicap features, deformities caused by disease too...these are not simple things to understand..."Trout makes the catch, and the ball game is over!"...put a halo over this one...Royals 3, Angels 4...

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DavidDavid 

Confucius:OTI::pics, notes:::4/22/2023

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Starry Night

Greek Key

Chinese Meander

Step Fret Triangle

Confucius

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pic from wiki

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190326-the-moon-one-of-the-earliest-human-symbols#:~:text=Bronze%20Age%20Celts%20may%20have,tomb%20in%20County%20Meath%2C%20Ireland.

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In Taoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole. In the ethics of Confucianism on the other hand, most notably in the philosophy of Dong Zhongshu (c. 2nd century BC), a moral dimension is attached to the idea of yin and yang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang#History

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https://www.thecollector.com/south-american-civilizations-before-inca/

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Notes: game on...on the radio,,,Home Run for Hunter Renfroe!...bottom of fourth...Royals 3, Angels 2...Royals at Angels....baseball announcers reiterate!...back aways, I noted that a way to do life drawing is watch baseball...the players assume the same postures over and over, so their moving isn't a problem!...it's the very same with the announcers speaking, the crowd cheering, talking...bird species have one call, and one call only, sorta...baseball, elaborate as it is, is one song...maybe that is what Graves means with his one story...I dunno...I've become proficient umpiring softball to the point of 'ritual"...all my mechanics "on cue"...which is what the craft of umpiring demands!...I'm very low key, undemanding, which encourages a kinda superficial sloppiness...but I've had to acquire the traits of umpiring: dusting off and polishing my shoes before each game, putting a pleat in my pants, turning my upraised fist inward towards my ear, 'the hammer" strike!...and then of all things, the bow and arrow, 'strike three"!...hmmph...Artemis...emblem of Artemis is the bow and arrow, she's the Huntress, aaand, the crescent of the crescent moon resembles a bow, sooo, the Moon as emblem of Artemis...as often as I've gazed at van Gogh's Starry Night, I missed admiring the crescent moon up in the top right corner...oh, Trout hits a home run...bottom of fifth...Royals 3, Angels 4...reading about it I was trying to picture it, seeing the yin yang thing in the middle as the Moon...the interlocked swirls...Ohtani long fly out...hmmph...welp, it's the swirls I'm after, the step fret triangle...the frenetic brush strokes are seen in van Gogh's drawing strokes too with charcoal and such...other artists use the method...I attempt it...kinda neat...the Impressionists use it for paint strokes...in and of themselves, the strokes are a motif...kinda sloppy...leastwise the curators of the French Salon thought as much...but that changed...anyway, back a long ways, I was proud of myself for figuring out two spirals together represent the passage of a year...the days growing long, then shorter...that could be the Moon too!...the phases of the Moon...the famous Yin Yang symbol is the phases of the moon...the motif often has a white dot on the dark side, and dark spot on the white side...New Moon and Dark Moon...Royals tie it up...Royals 4, Angels 4...and then Royals 6, Angels 4, aaand then Royals 6, Angels 5...Renfroe with a second home run!...and another Angel run comes across...Royals 6, Angels 6...I didn't book mark it, but while browsing I happened on a statue of Confucius with Greek Keys, paired, along the border of his robe...Chinese meander...bottom of seventh...Ohtani up...Trout just struck out...Ohtani pops out...ancient China is so full of motifs, symbols, and talk about them...too much...metaphysics...the bit of textile is from the Wari/Huari...two Greek Keys inverse...our Ears!...Einstein noted that just considering really simple things, can lead on to searching up really complicated stuff...metaphysics/physics...the spirals of our ears is to focus sound vibrations in the air...our nose shape for scents...Renfroe with a lead off double....bottom of ?...two outs...home run...:"outa here!...Matt Thaiss two run knock...Royals 6. Angels 8...bottom of eighth!...Terry has moments...bit sloppy accidentally...to top of ninth...hit by pitch...lead off runner on...oh, a Home Run by the Royals...over the yellow line?...review...a double...one run scored...runner on third...weird ruling..."error on the throw"...one down...base hit...Royals 8, Angels 8...bases loaded...Royals 11, Angels 8...to bottom of ninth..,how many sounds there are!...how many scents!!!...Trout up...K...Ohtani up...ground out..."and the ballgame is over"...

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DavidDavid