{"id":20131,"date":"2019-05-10T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20131"},"modified":"2019-05-10T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T00:14:13","slug":"nanyou-ji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20131","title":{"rendered":"N\u00e1ny\u00f3u J\u00ec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-or-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Journey to the South<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20066\">posted earlier<\/a> about my encounter with macaws in the context of Mimbres culture and how it seemed to offer a framework to structure a New Mexico to Chihuahua bike ride around. I&#8217;ve spent the morning reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/24712728?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">RITUAL CHANGE AND THE DISTANT: MESOAMERICAN ICONOGRAPHY, SCARLET MACAWS, AND GREAT KIVAS IN THE MIMBRES REGION OF SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO<\/a> and 1) my mind is blown and 2) it&#8217;s an incredible framework and needs to be a longer ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Mimbres macaw bowl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/46904202905\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/46904202905_8540c278c8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mimbres macaw bowl\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Enlarge the photo and check out the bowl with the macaws and people &#8211; note the info on the tag!<\/p>\n<p>The paper argues, well, I&#8217;ll let them say it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20132 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capture.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>given that women are most often depicted handling macaws, was this a woman&#8217;s quest to the south?<\/li>\n<li>I was thinking trade routes, but trade &#8211; perhaps turquoise for birds or something similar- may not have been the point. It may have been about esoteric knowledge and the birds that symbolized it with nothing given in exchange except religious alleigance.<\/li>\n<li>the Hopi have a story of Tiyo, who journeyed south and returned with ritual knowledge of the Snake Dance &#8211; another case of &#8216;listen to what the people tell you about their history&#8217;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;n going to keep investigating , but this is exciting stuff! And for those who didn&#8217;t recognize it immediately, the title is a riff on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journey_to_the_West\">Journey to the West<\/a>. &#8220;The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the &#8220;Western Regions&#8221;, that is, Central Asia and India, to obtain Buddhist sacred texts (sutras) and returned after many trials and much suffering.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journey_to_the_West\">*<\/a> Appropriate, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-or- Journey to the South I posted earlier about my encounter with macaws in the context of Mimbres culture and how it seemed to offer a framework to structure a New Mexico to Chihuahua bike ride around. I&#8217;ve spent the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[342,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-bike-ride","category-nomadics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5eH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20140,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}