ArtifactArtifice:OTI::pics,notes:::7/21/2023

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Yin Yang Dot

Step Fret Triangle

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See also: Notitia Dignitatum § Depictions

Shield pattern of the Western Roman infantry unit Armigeri Defensores Seniores (ca. AD 430)^[8]

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]

The interlocking design is found in artifacts of the European Iron Age.^[6][36] Similar interlocking designs are found in the Americas: Xicalcoliuhqui.

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]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu

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https://www.google.com/search?q=moche+feather+step+fret+hermeneutics&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS914US914&sxsrf=AB5stBiuZ1VO7Erw_RZpsZ9QDAr8LPUwag%3A1689993696147&ei=4EG7ZK6

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314623

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Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

         Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;

And, happy melodist, unwearied,

         For ever piping songs for ever new;

More happy love! more happy, happy love!

         For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,

                For ever panting, and for ever young;

All breathing human passion far above,

         That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,

                A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Ode on a Grecian Urn 

BY JOHN KEATS

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn

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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... 

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DavidDavid 

Feathered Step Fret Crowns:OTI::pics,notes:::7/19/2023

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Moche Astronomy

Feather Moche Crowns

Exploring Ancient Skies

David H. Kelley, ‎Eugene F. Milone · 2005 · ‎Science

... 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 ...

https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/15927/chapter-abstract/170849842?redirectedFrom=fulltext

file:///C:/Users/cedarhawk/Downloads/Peruvian_Featherworks_Art_of_the_Precolumbian_Era%20(10).pdf

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/ceramics-of-ancient-america-multidisciplinary-approaches-yumi-park-huntington-dean-e-arnold-and-johanna-minich-editors-2018-university-press-of-florida-gainesville-xiii-370-pp-11000-hardcover-isbn-9780813056067/E0C9E35882982F

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!!!

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DavidDavid

Moses" Horns:OTI::pic,notes:::7/18/2023

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Hermeneutic

Moses Horns

Search: Xicalcoliuhqui hermeneutic

Search: poem hermeneutuc

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/34870/did-moses-have-horns-according-to-exodus-34

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/the-horns-of-moses/

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!

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DavidDavid

God L's Leg:OTI::pics,notes:::7/17/2023

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God L

Mayan artists skills

Korous

Lascaux

Laocoon

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_L#Name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n

https://medium.com/thesequence/10-essential-works-to-understand-pablo-picasso-6b46206c0d1a

https://egypt-museum.com/fragment-from-tomb-of-dancer   

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!!!

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DavidDavid

Anni Albers Textiles:OTI::pics,notes:::7/16/2023

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Anni Albers

Paul Klee

Krefeld Museum

Peruvian Textiles

Step Fret

Anni Albers

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.

https://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/771/anni-albers-and-ancient-american-textiles?0bbf55ceffc3073699d40c945ada9faf=0f0a240c1logss03jbo05up9o1

Pre-Columbian textile collection of the German Textile Museum Krefeld by Katalin Nagy

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=pctviii

Paul Klee

“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.”

https://www.nermanmuseum.org/exhibitions/2005-05-01-ancient-peruvian-textiles.html

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...

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DavidDavid

Search:poem greek key: OTI::notes, pic:::7/15/2023

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A Meander Through the Long History of the Greek Key Pattern

By Kiera Coffee on May 5, 2022

In the next leg of the Greek key journey, the pattern shows up in Central America around 900 BCE. The world is still a place where communication between disparate geographies—Central America, Greece, China—is unlikely.

So, the pattern may not have been passed from one of these cultures to the other, but somehow there it is in Mexico, at the Mitla ruins from 900 BCE.

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/greek-key-pattern

Josef Albers and the Pre-Columbian Artisan

JOAQUÍN BARRIENDOS

Found throughout North America, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region, the xicalcoliuhqui is a sophisticated abstract concept with no definite archeological meaning. This Nahuatl expression could be translated as “volute of the curcubit basin” (voluta de jícara). For some scholars it evokes aquatic elements such as waves and seashells or atmospheric phenomena such as storms, clouds, and hurricanes. For others, the cosmographic symbolism of the xicalcoliuhqui is closely linked to the underworld of Mictlán (or Mitla, in Spanish), the abode of the dead.

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Following this hypothesis, I argue that the Homages derive from the chromatic condensation of an abstract visual concept: the stepped-fret motif known as xicalcoliuhqui in Nahuatl.11 (fig. 03) This motif was for Albers the most eye-opening architectural element of the Oaxacan archaeological site Mitla, excavated by Alfonso Caso and Daniel Rubín de la Borbolla in 1934 – 35. Albers extensively photographed this motif and composed photomontages with the resulting images. (fig. 04) His Homages cannot be detached from his understanding of the motif as a grounded signifier; that is, as the spiritual gateway to the architectonic center of the pyramid, conceptually represented in the woven steps and rhythmic openings of this ancient abstract form.

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Thus it is unsurprising that after visiting Mitla and Monte Albán, among other places, Albers was amazed at the sophisticated nature of the activated negative space of the xicalcoliuhqui. As he states in his Harvard lecture:

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Joaquín Barriendos, stepped-fret motif scheme, 2017
Repository: Personal archive

There we can study again a very modern art problem. The relationship between active and passive, a certain proportion between positive and negative elements, a proportion very rare throughout all European and Oriental art work. … It teaches us a very high social philosophy, namely, real democracy in this way: Every part serves and at the same time is served

https://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/6263/josef-albers-and-the-pre-columbian-artisan

Archaeologists Uncovered Mythical Labyrinth Under Ancient Church

By Charlene Badasie | Updated 6 days ago

Evidence of an underground maze beneath the ancient ruins of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been unearthed by archaeologists. Previously thought to be a legend, this labyrinth is believed to be the gateway to the Zapotec underworld, Lyobaa, or “place of rest.” The ancient people of Zapotec considered it to be a sacred place.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/ancient-ruins-labyrinth-mexico.html

Years later, when Romans conquered the territory, Herod Philip rebuilt the city and named it after hThe Turing Test Poetry Fest is a poetry competition where humans pretend to be artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence pretends to be human."...

Maldonado is being a pest...Astros with another run...Astros 5, Angels 3...for sometime, AI vs Human...anyway, I thought to search; poem greek key, and search: poem Xicalcoliuhqui...:"Xicalcoliuhqui" is Aztec name for step fret-twisted gourd...aaand just those two searches brought up quick too real marvels!...first, a mash up about Greek Key and all the other meanders from around the world, and over time...the other, a paper about Joseph Albers, the artist, and the interest he had in step frets at Mitla...in 1939 he noted the motif's distribution thru out the Americas, he also noted the Mesoamerican artisans use of "negative space", negative space an artistic term for finding form in the background spaces...this a kinda reach, but the Andeans saw animal forms in the dark places between the stars of the Milky Way...it's contour rivalry...puns...innuendo...imputation...I just saw that word in a talkitup about "Did Jesus go to Hell?"...apparently Hell has different neighborhoods, one a kinda waiting zone for the saved, and this where Jesus went, briefly...apparently, Jesus had a kinda itinerary list to check off!...I dunno...in the news, are the caves discovered under the Church above  the ruined Mitla Temple...actually , it was known they were there, the early Friars described it as the entrance to Hell...and sealed it up...I just came home from the Thrift Store with an underwater camera housing, and anxious to see what it is for...really pretty just to look at...fourteen bucks...Angels hit a home run, Adele?...Astros 9, Angels 5...Ohtani up...K......bbk...it's an Olympus housing, went with a particular Olympus model camera, twenty years ago!...one more Angels run...Astros 9, Angels 6...time was one got a Nikonos, or a housing for a DSLR camera, and underwater lights, at great expense...now, I have two of the Canon underwater point and shoots, my favorites, for snap shots in any weather...OHHH!...a home run by Moutakis!...Angels have scored six times in the inning...Astros 9, Angels 9...and a dream to go on snorkling, or even scuba diving, adventures with them...that Olympus set up, I could take out into the surf line to take pics of waves, and surfers, skim boarders...seen this done...to top of eighth...Astros with two runs...Astros 11, Angels 9...story has it the archaeologists will go into the caverns in September...top of ninth...Astros 12, Angels 9...Albers is a very well known artist, and his wife too in textiles...somewhere I read he'd noted the step fret in Peru textiles, but he was before the finding of the Moche tombs...there the step fret triangle identical to the step fret triangle at Mitla...old posts have this...to bottom of ninth...oh, trying to paste I've made a mess...Ohtani waps a home run!...Astros 11, Angels 10...paste was about the Cave of Pan at Caesarea in Israel, another gate to Hell, one that Jesus admonished his disciples to cover up..., or some such...I don't know what happened to the post's opening, "Notes...Game on"...paste deleted it...now, no one out...now, the ninth...runners at second and first...passed ball...Astros 12, Angels 11...Maldonado dogged it?...runners on second and third no one out...ground out...Angels up against the best reliever in the game...base hit...Astros 12, Angels 12..to top of tenth, extra innings...the beginning section had a long bit about how I do binary searches, how I arrived at search: poem greek key...I will write that up again...stuff useful to know when doing web searches..fly out caught in foul territory...Astro runner advance to third...Dusty Baker a great manager...K...two down...pop out...to bottom of tenth...Astros dog a put out at second...Astros 12, Angels 13..."put a halo over this one!!!"

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DavidDavid

Tropisms:OTI::pics,notes:::7/4/2023

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Star Wars New Republic

Clone Wars Season 3, Episode 15

Star Wars New Republic emblem

from May/June Archaeology cover-mosaic found under sea

Pelta

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pelta

Tropism

...the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.

Trope

...a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

Ken Auster

(in my collection)

https://lpapa.org/auster-2018/

Note:  Happy Fourth!...Game on...on the radio...Angels at Padres...bottom of third...no score...Ohtani pitching...top of fourth...aaand, no Trout...fractured hamate bone in his wrist-months to heal...big blow to Angels playoff hopes...happened last night in Angels loss...Angels 2, Padres 10...went to game Saturday, and hoped to get giveaway Bobble Heads, Trout and Ohtani together...heck...now, after last night, last time they might be together!...likely Angels won't be in the hunt come September now, and Ohtani will hit the free market...what a disaster over a little hamate fracture, small but ominous as so many things go on there in the hand-nerves, tendons and such...Ohtani flies out...one out...Rendon up...neighborhood smells like gunpowder....illegal fireworks popular...thought is the new roof removes the Old House from danger...the shingles held up for 70 years or so...oh, now Rendon goes down from foul...I found the artist who painted the Hotel Laguna painting-Ken Auster-1949-2016..."in a way it reminds you of Trout"...Rendon helped off the field, can't finish his at bat...Trout couldn't finish his...Moustakis ground out...Double Bobble of Trout and Ohtani instant collectable, over a hundred dollars on ebay, and going up...the Auster painting is a collectable too!...more about sometime...been binge watching Star Wars Clone Wars, the cartoon character series...it's getting hard to distinguish cartoons from grown up movies!...don't know, maybe that's how it always has been...all movies cartoonish...but Clone Wars addresses real world stuff...oh, Padres with a two out double and two runs...Angels 0, Padres 2...with two out, Ohtani walked two...someone check on Ohtani!...a mound visit...Escobar dogs an easy grounder...misfortune dogging the Angels...each Clone War episode is it's own story against the bigger story of the New Republic against the Separatists...the Dark Side Empire is in decline but its remnants are hidden in the Separatists and the Republic...the Republic keeps getting blindsided, not knowing whence the betrayals-it's the top Senator, Palpatine(?) ...notable parallels with on going war in Ukraine!...Renfore hits a homerun...Angels 1, Padres 2....creators of Clone Wars lift a lot form current events...been meaning to study the youtube breakdowns and easter egg hunts...they lift too from World of Warcraft, and Stargate...bad guys in WOW associate with a sickly green color-skin, vapors, lakes-just so in Clone Wars...Stargate had these violin sounds linked to the villian...one high bow stroke...a pause...then a low stroke...just so in Clone Wars...such subtleties!...then there is the New Republics Logo...I've noted before it is a Pelta, with an embellishment...readsaid it is a Rising Phoenix rebirth motif...another Ohtani walk, and a Wallach passed ball put runner on second...no one out...base hit...runners first and third...need a mound visit to Ohtani!....he got out of the last inning jam, now he's right back in one, no one out!...bottom of fifth...that Republic Pelta very like the Peltas on the cover of May/June Archaeology...K, one down...now, in the last Clone Wars episode I just watched, the heroes, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Snips/Ashoka, get kidnapped by the very heart of the force-an old sorcerer with two rival children, a daughter, the light side, and a son, the dark side...they seek "the chosen one", which is a trope-the search for the chosen one!, and they think it is Anakin-Darth Vader to be...Clone Wars is a prequel to the plots of the first three Star Wars Movies...Star Wars fans have to read and watch everything, cartoons, books, movies, interviews, reviews, to stay abreast of things-somewhat like being a baseball fan!!!...Anakin has glimmering of his future as Darth Vader, so the Clone Wars interweaves...the Old Greek plays had this feature...from the Trojan War, stories sprang-prequals and sequals!...Ohtani grounds out...to bottom of sixth...WOW is all about these interwoven before and after times...I haven't played it in a long time, too much to catch up on!...Ohtani still on the mound...anyway, the Force Sorcerer resides in an out of time and place environment encapsulated in a verticle twinned pyramid...in twenty four hours the landscape cycles through all four seasons...Padres with a home run...Angels 1, Padres 4...still no mound visit...and another home run...fire Neven!...geez...Angels 1, Padres 5....next, a wild pitch..."now they are going to take a look at Shohei"...ya think?....the Sorcerers castle has all kinds of motifs...a Zodiac high in the background sky....and in one scene is a stylized  yin yang...soooo, the script writers are referencing...and trying to fill out what the "Force: is...Ohtani done...Loope in relief...somewhere youtube has a breakdown of this episode, episodes 3...brb...Season 3, Episode Fifteen...force fielders anchorites...Science Fiction is operatic!...but then, so is Mythology...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6cHXBhLnM   ...link links one snip..."review" is in the comments...Ohtani with a blister...Rendon a contusion...Reyes in for Loope...another Padres run...Angels 1, Padres 6...runners at corners...one more Padres run...Angels 1, Padres 7...bottom of eighth...I thought to do a kids' book of "tropisms"...thinking that made me think of "trope"..."Trope" the Force?...Forces?...the old gods and goddesses of Myth often represent some force of Nature...they can be big and blunt like a falling rock, but more likely small things, like a cold lemonade on a hot day...and the curio  is, can a motif, and emblem, be "tropic"?...seems so, and an intricated complicated Universe it is!...now, I couldn't decipher the signature on the Laguna Hotel painting...I asked around...no luck...directed to appraisers, I thought that will be too much money...sooo, I set it aside...content with having it hanging on the the living room wall...but then, I was cleaning my room-total turbulence-and found a business card from the Auster Gallery in Laguna Beach, his signature on the card like on the painting for a logo, an emblem...I must have picked it up when I joined LAPAPA, in their gallery, but had no memory of it...but that card identified the painting...go figure!...Auster made instruction videos, and I'm eager to get them...he was onto things I pursue too...something of Fragonard in the brushwork...at the OCC swap meet this weekend, I go to exercise my legs, a small framed print of Girl Reading a Book by Fragonard...how much?...Five dollars...Two!, I offered...It's new...I have a bigger one already, no thanks...and I do, I found that one at the swap meet the week before...Girl Reading a Book a favorite, tale of it back in the blog somewhere...Angels batting in top of ninth...Adel with a double?...he was called up from triple A...soon, Angels team might be all triple As!...Angels with bases loaded...it's like Angels 2, Padres 8?...top of ninth?...oh, Angels 4!, Padres 8...Fletcher at the plate...bad call K...fump...Moniak up..."That's horrible"...W...Angels 5, Padres 8...Ward up...ground out, 4-3...Angels 5, Padres 8...

:)

DavidDavid