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| Artifact Formed in Part From Meteorite Metal. Source: See ScienceAletrt link below. |
Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.
A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not out of metal from beneath the ground, but with iron from meteorites that fell from the sky.
The discovery, led by now-retired head of conservation at the National Archeological Museum Spain, Salvador Rovira-Llorens, was revealed in a paper published in January, and suggests that metalworking technology and techniques were far more advanced than we thought in Iberia more than 3,000 years ago.
The Treasure of Villena, as the cache of 66 mostly gold object is known, was discovered more than 60 years ago in 1963 in what is now Alicante in Spain, and has since come to be regarded as one of the most important examples of Bronze Age goldsmithing in the Iberian Peninsula, and the whole of Europe...
Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in an Ancient Treasure Stash : ScienceAlert
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| Cache of Ceramic Coins Discovered. Source: See the History Blog link below. |
A large cache of ceramic coins made as currency in Japan in the last month of World War II has been discovered in a warehouse in Kyoto. Counting is still ongoing, but the estimated quantity is 500,000 coins in 15 wooden boxes both loose and in bags. They are known as maboroshi (meaning phantom or illusory) coins because they were destroyed en masse at the end of the war, so finding half a million of them is unprecedented...
In July 1945, less than a month before the end of the war, ceramic coins began to be mass-produced in Kyoto and Seto. About 15 million coins were made before production ended abruptly with the surrender of Imperial Japan on August 15th, 1945. The inventory of ceramic coinage was destroyed before entering circulation. That’s why they’re known as “phantom coins.” The entire sen denomination was discontinued after the war, and the last metal coins were taken out of circulation in 1953...
“Phantom” WWII ceramic coins found in Kyoto warehouse – The History Blog
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Sunday the football games were on TV. And last week we had the election. All the anticipation, preparation, predictions, discussion, and then the outcome was determined. There was a concluding decision. It was a win/lose moment. And as much discussion as there was after the fact, it was decided and done. It was too late to go back and change what was done and how things actually played out.
In retrospect, there might be celebration or sadness about the outcome, but then the reflection begins. People try to make sense out of how things went down. Others might try to make excesses instead of leaning anything from the experience. They don't want to face the reality.
It made me think of the many activities, sports being an excellent example, that are constructed to come down to a clear win/lose outcome after a process or battle. And yet humans seem to want to avoid thinking that their life is like that. They do not want to think their life concludes with a final decision - especially if it could possibly be a decision they don't like. They don't want to be judged, especially if they have that intuitively know that the decision shouldn't be a good one for them. When there is a deep the realization that the judgment should not be good, there is a similarly great need to deny that there will be a judgement.
I'm not saying right here right now that there is or isn't. I'm just noticing that so many human activities, created by human nature and imagination, are in that form. It seems those activities, some of which are inherently trivial, such as sports, could on a be in the image or form of the nature of life.
Why is it that human consciousness so often and naturally creates activities in that end in a final judgement, but humans have such a hard time accepting the same type of form fitting their worldly lives. Again, I think the answer is clear.
Some might say that our ideas of the sacred are formed solely by the human imagination. Or others might say that the various human activities reflect the structure of the sacred because the sacred is their source.
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On a related note...
For the Maya, the game was known as Pok-A-Tok and was played as far back as 1400 BCE. The game was more than a competition—a symbolic reenactment of the eternal struggle between life and death, chaos and order. The Maya believed that the game held cosmic significance, representing the constant battle between the forces of the underworld and the gods of the sky. According to Maya cosmology, the game’s results could even influence their daily lives, including fertility, harvests, and prosperity....Here is the link for more about that.
Mexico’s Ancient Maya and Aztec Ball Games: Sacred Sports That Live On - LatinAmerican Post
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| Source: surfguru.com. |
The high tides will be exceptionally high today.
Another storm could develop from a system in the tropics.