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Macro Mondays - theme of June 7, 2021: Board Game Pieces
Pieces of a German board game called "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (= Man, Don't Get Angry!)
similar to LUDO / Pachisi / Parcheesi
En.Wikipedia - "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht"
width of this image: about 6 cm (the pieces are 1.4 cm wide and 2 cm high)
Happy Macro Monday
For Macro Mondays: Member's Choice: Games or Game Pieces
This is a German game "Mensch ärgere dich nicht"
"Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" is a German board game (but not a German-style board game), developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908.
The game was issued in 1914 and sold about 70 million copies. It is a cross and circle game with the circle collapsed onto the cross, similar to the Indian game Pachisi, the Colombian game Parqués, the American games Parcheesi and Trouble, and the English game Ludo. Source Wikipedia
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No modeling clay involved this time. These are stacked "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" game pieces a millisecond (or so) before the tower tumbled down. "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (Man, don't get angry!") is a German board game classic based on the Indian game Pachisi and the English game Ludo. It was developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908 and has been sold over 90 Million times since then. I wanted to skip at first, because I'm not really a board game player, and thus also don't really have any board games – except a small box of travel games bought for... a previous Macro Mondays "game" theme. Of course :) I still had no idea what to do with the fairly boring-looking game pieces, but noticed that the plastic cones were hollow – which makes them stackable. So the attempt here obviously was to capture the game pieces tower in the moment of the fall. To make the tower fall, I've used a toothpick which I've retouched with the clone-stamp later in PS. I made a few beginner's mistakes using the Oly's "Pro Capture" mode, but the picture turned out quite nicely anyways, so up it goes :) The height of the stacked game piece tower was 4,5 cm / 1,7 inches, so, together with the reflection and the negative space above the yellow cone, the frame, which I've also cropped quite considerably, should be well within the 3 inches limit.
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, stay safe and healthy!
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- for Flickr group 'Macro Mondays', theme: 'Board Game Pieces
Board Game pieces of Pachisi / Ludo / Parcheesi / Ludo / Mensch ärgere Dich nicht / Mens erger je niet / Parchis / etc.
- The game goes back to an old Indian game called Pachisi, which is still known today. Moreover, it is very common in Sri Lanka ('pahada kolya'), Malaysia ('dhola'), Myanmar ('pasit', 'chwe-pyit-thi' or 'ansah-pyit-thi'), Iran ('pachis'), as well as in Arabic countries ('parchis').
- The game is also very similar to the Colombian game Parqués, the American games Parcheesi and Trouble, and the English game Ludo.
- Finally, through the Moors, it was brought to Spain, and thus to Europe.
- "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" is a German board game, developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908.
C etait dans cette cour da Pachisi, nom donné à un jeu auquel se livrait Akbar. On ne voit pas ici le damier en forme de croix au centre de la cour. La légende prétend que l'empereur utilisaient des femmes esclaves en guise de pions.
Légende ou pas , ou "truc de guides "......
... is a German board game developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908.
About: A peg is sent back to the "out" field when another peg lands on it, similar to the game #Sorry! (with the circle collapsed onto the cross), the Indian game #Pachisi, the Colombian game #Parqués, the American games #Parcheesi, and the English game #Ludo.
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for: #MacroMondays – #Member’sChoice:GamesorGamePieces
28. Nov. 2017
Happy MM Everyone !
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Trojan Chess?
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Royalty, politics, sports, power (stay in or get it), be the winner. People plot intrigues or cheat to achieve their goals and get what they want. Not only people, because science has found numerous examples of tricking or play-acting in the animal world, especially among birds and primates. So it's a universal behaviour pattern.
So how about this little intrigue/cheat: pawnish, lowly "Man, Don't Get Angry" (MDGA) game pieces, entering the royal playing field of the noblest games of all, ready to silently take over the place of the true king, queen, and their acolytes. Man, will they be angry once they realise what just happened. Will they? I'd say, "Power to the People" and game on ;) It's the season of the Pawns. Maybe this is also just another variant of suicide chess (in German, it's Räuberschach, "robbers' chess"), the only chess I ever played successfully.
I was ready to skip. I'm not a huge fan of board games, although I always quite enjoyed Scrabble, Monopoly, and Trivial Pursuit. And of course, we played "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (MDGA, which was inspired by Ludo and Pachisi) and a game called Malefiz (another descendant of Pachisi) when I was little. "I don't like board games" also means that there are none at home. Other than the very basic compendium of games I bought (you guessed it) for our last "game pieces" theme. It comes with three puzzle-like cardboard game board pieces (one sticks them together like puzzle pieces to get the whole game board – a simplistic game in itself, if you like). One side has a chess board print (used as background), the other the classic MDGA design, and game pieces for the latter and also for checkers. And chess pieces? There are none, which is a bit of a bummer.
None of the components is special in any way, which made me think of either skipping or buying a board game with interesting game pieces (a stupid idea). But then I remembered my old, truly vintage travel/pocket chess. It's a "De La Rue & Cos. Improved Pocket Chess Board With Chess Men Complete". It's foldable like a book, made of very sturdy cardboard, and the game board part has slots under each square where you can put in the cardboard "chess men" for each move. I thought I'd hide the wooden game pieces behind the cardboard chess pieces of the vintage pocket chess: "Trojan horse style". Theme participation ensured, money saved :)
Size info: The wooden MDGA pieces are 2,5 cm/0,98 inches tall, and the entire scene has a width of 6,5 cm/2,55 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
A macro photo of a popular table game in Spain (parchís) that is similar to pachisi.
For the group Macro Mondays: Games People Play.
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Una foto macro de un juego de mesa bastante popular en España (el parchís), que es similar al "pachisi".
Para el grupo Macro Mondays: Juegos a los que juega la gente.
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“The beginning is always today.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
taken for the group "52 in 2023 challenge": #1 = beginning
Welcome, 2023 !
One of the first images with the old manual Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 that belongs to my husband. Together with the Nikon FE it travelled with him through India for a few months some decades ago, so it has seen quite a bit of the world : ))
I think it's somehow fitting that I took a photo of a German board game with it that goes back to an old Indian game called Pachisi. It's similar to Ludo and is called "Mensch-ärgere-Dich-nicht" (don't get angry) here.
I have cleaned some of my husband's and my dad's old lenses lately and might use one or the other in the coming months.
Happy New Year !
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Herzlich willkommen, 2023 !
Eines der ersten Fotos, das ich mit dem (alten) manuellen Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 gemacht habe, das meinem Mann gehört und mit dem er vor einigen Jahrzehnten - zusammen mit der Nikon FE - für einige Monate durch Indien reiste ... es hat also schon einiges von der Welt gesehen : ))
Ich habe in letzter Zeit einige alte Objektive von meinem Mann und meinem Vater gereinigt und werde vielleicht das eine oder andere in den kommenden Monaten verwenden, soweit ich entsprechende Adapter habe
Für die Gruppe "52 in 2023 Challenge" - Thema: Anfang / Beginn
Frohes neues Jahr ... und ja: Mensch ärgere dich nicht !
Ludo is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, but simpler.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “colourful” was chosen by Andrew, ajhaysom.
I had thought to do a photo using brightly coloured buttons for the theme, so I was going through my button box when I came across an almost complete set of Ludo tokens. They quickly became my choice for my photo instead of the buttons because of their simplicity, the rage of ways I could set them and of course for their wonderful primary colours!
Ludo /ˈluːdoʊ/, /ˈljuː-/ (from Latin ludo, "I play") is a board game for two to four[2] players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, but simpler. The game and its variants are popular in many countries and under various names.
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Mensch ärgere dich nicht is a German board game, developed by Josef Friedrich Schmidt in 1907/1908.
The game was issued in 1914 and sold about 70 million copies. It is a cross and circle game with the circle collapsed onto the cross, similar to the Indian game Pachisi, the Colombian game Parqués, the American games Parcheesi and Trouble, and the English game Ludo.
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Dominos and dice are used in playing various games.Interesting facts about dominoes and dice:
Dominoes evolved from dice. In fact, the numbers in a standard double-six domino set represent all the rolls of two six-sided dice.
Dominoes are believed to have originated in China (in the 12th century, though Egyptian or Arabian origins are also theorized. Dominoes appeared in Italy in the early eighteenth century, and spread to the rest of Europe throughout the remainder of the 1700's, becoming one of the most popular games in both family parlors and pubs alike.
Dot: Each domino contains some number of "dots", usually from 0 to 6, but up to 18 in some sets.
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Dice, in various forms, have been played by humans for millenia. Ancient dice have been found in Egyptian tombs, Chinese burial chambers, and in remains from civilizations around the world.
Dice are simple and elegant gaming implements, available in a wide variety of sizes and colors, and made from a large assortment of materials. They're inexpensive, extremely portable, and familiar to almost everyone.
Six-sided cubes are currently the most common form, but dice of other shapes and number of sides are also available. Dice are the main piece of equipment in a number of family games, as well as gambling games such as Craps. In addition, dice are used in numerous board games such as Backgammon, Pachisi, Monopoly, and many more, bringing a necessary element of chance to gameplay.
El Pachisi es un juego originario de la India, en donde nació en el siglo XVI.
El parchís es una variación de este juego, como lo son el parcheesi, el ludo o el parqués. El tablero actual de forma de cruz es tan solo una representación del original, que no fue otro que el jardín del emperador Akbar el Grande. El centro del tablero representa el trono en que se colocaba el emperador en el centro del patio. Por su parte, las fichas eran las muchachas indias más bellas que se movían de casilla en casilla y se disputaban el honor de jugar para el emperador. Los dados que decidían la suerte de los participantes consistían en cauríes, conchas de moluscos que contaban un punto si caían con el hueco hacia arriba.
El nombre del parchís proviene de la palabra pacisi, que significa veinticinco en hindi, ya que veinticinco era el máximo resultado posible que se podía obtener al lanzar las conchas que hacían las veces de dados.
Ludo (from Latin ludus, "game") is a simple board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. The game is a simplification of the traditional Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi, and it originally appeared in 1896. The game was patented in England. In the Caribbean, where the game is popular, it is usually called Ludi. In Sweden, the game is called "Fia".
Built by Emperor Akbar between 1571 and 1585 in honor of Salim Chishti, a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti order, Fatehpur Sikri was the capital of the Mughal empire for 14 years. One of the best examples of a Mug hal walled city, with defined areas and imposing gateways, its architecture is a blend of Hindu and Islamic styles, and reflects Akbar's secular vision as well as his type of governance. The city was abandoned, some say for lack of water, in 1585, and many of its treasures were plundered.
The Diwan-i-Khas (Hall of Private Audience), found at the northern end of the Pachisi Courtyard (to your right), is a two-storey building with corner kiosks. It is a single room with a unique circular throne platform. A debating chamber, Akbar would spend long hours here in discussion with Christians, Jains, Buddhists, Hindus and Parsis. They would sit along the walls of the balcony connected to the Throne Pillar by screened ‘bridges’, while courtiers could listen to the discussions from the ground floor.
It looks nothing special from the outside, but the interior is dominated by a magnificently carved stone central column. This pillar flares to create a flat-topped plinth linked to the four corners of the room by narrow stone bridges. From this plinth Akbar is believed to have debated with scholars and ministers who stood at the ends of the four bridges.
The hall is a unique fusion of different architectural styles and religious motifs – the pillar is lotus shaped (a Hindu and Buddhist motif), the Royal Umbrella ( chhattri) is Hindu, and the Tree of Life, Islamic. The bottom of the pillar is carved in four tiers; Muslim, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist designs. The Throne Pillar can be approached by steps from the outside although there is no access to the upper floor. The design of the Hall deliberately followed the archaic universal pattern of establishing a hallowed spot from which spiritual influence could radiate. In his later years, Akbar developed a mystical cult around himself that saw him as being semi-divine.
Ludo is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, but simpler. -- Wiki
This quarantine time has given us a lot of time to spend time with family and we have re-discovered the love for this old game. Spending quality time with family is the key. Stay safe stay home and spend beautiful time with beloved family.
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The game their playing is "Pachisi" or a variation of it. Pachisi is an ancient Indian board game that dates back to the 6th century. It involves the use of dice and four pieces that each player moves around the board. The game has gained popularity worldwide under various names, including "Ludo" in the modern context. Ludo is essentially a simplified version of Pachisi and is widely played as a family game. The game involves strategic movement based on the outcome of dice rolls.
Not all games are digital, and not all board games are Settlers. This round of LOADING... we bring you - *pm* Vintage Board Games: Pachisi
In days gone past, many people would paint or customize their own board games. These are vintage boards that were hand painted! Many of these boards were auctioned off and some were in museum galleries, all 5 relating to the circle and cross game known as Parchisi (Parcheesi in the United States)!
Each under 1LI as rezzed, link together for lower. Great way to spruce up a room and show your nerdom without being overt.
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Parchís is a Spanish board game which is an adaptation of the Indian game Pachisi. There are many games based on Pachisi in the world. One of them is called Ludo, which is the most likely these people are playing.
El Parchís es un juego de mesa español basado en el juego indio Pachisi. Hay muchos juegos basados en el Pachisi en el mundo. Uno de ellos se llama Ludo, el cual es el más probable al que estén jugando estas personas.
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Parcheesi is a brand name American adaptation of the Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi. Created in India perhaps as early as 500 AD, the board game is subtitled Royal Game of India because royalty played using color-costumed members of their harems as pieces on large outdoor boards. The game and its variants are known worldwide; for example, a similar game called Parchís is especially popular in Spain, and Parqués is a Colombian variant. A version is available in the United Kingdom under the name of Ludo. In the Netherlands, the game is available with the name Mens erger je niet.
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Chaupar is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in India. It is believed that both games were created around the 4th century. The board is made of wool or cloth, with wooden pawns and six cowry shells to be used to determine each player's move, although others distinguish chaupur from pachisi by the use of 3 tetrahedral (four sided) long dice. The game is usually played on a table or the floor.
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Pachisi is a cross and circle board game that originated in ancient India; it is described as the national game of India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells (a sea snail), with the number of shells landing aperture upwards indicating the number of places to move.
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Ludo is a simple board game for two to four players. Probably everybody has played Ludo before and knows how it works. The game and its variants are popular in many countries under various names: Pachisi, Sorry, Trouble or Fia.
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Fatehpur Sikri es una ciudad levantada por el emperador mogol Akbar entre 1571 y 1585, en el noroeste de India, a unos 35 km. de la ciudad de Agra.
Fue construida en honor del santo sufi Salin Chishti, que profetizó al emperador que tendría un hijo varón, pues solo había tenido hijas y no tenía un heredero.
Capital del imperio mogol durante 14 años, forma un bello ejemplo de ciudad amurallada mogol, con grandes zonas públicas y privadas. Se cree tuvo que ser abandonada, al parecer, por falta de agua, siendo luego saqueada y robados muchos de sus tesoros. Conserva aún su magnífica arquitectura mezcla de los estilos hindú e islámico.
En ella se pueden diferenciar dos zonas:
1) La civil, donde se encuentran los palacios y salas de audiencias. Donde destacan los siguientes edificios:
- Diwan-i-Am, un magnífico pabellón en un amplio patio que se utilizaba para las audiencias públicas del emperador.
- Diwan-i-Khas, pabellón de las audiencias privadas.
- Panch Mahal, un palacio-pabellón abierto de cinco alturas que domina el patio Pachisi, donde se cree que las reinas de Akbar y sus sirvientas se reunían para jugar al "parchis", de donde le viene el nombre.
- Pabellón de la Sultana Turca, donde los elaborados paneles del zócalo y las paredes bellamente tallados en piedra hace que la arenisca parezca un bello encaje en madera.
2) La religiosa, donde además de la gran mezquita Jama Masjid, destacan:
- La gran puerta Buland Darwaza, de 54 m. de altura, que fue construida por Akbar tras la conquista de la región del Gujarat en 1573 y que ha servido de inspiración para otras posteriores.
- La tumba de Sheikh Salim Chishti, una exquisita construcción en mármol blanco y celosías como bordados que rodean la tumba del santo.
- La Badshahi Darwaza, puerta real por donde subía el emperador para entrar en el complejo y encontrarse directamente con la mezquita al fondo.
Fatehpur Sikri es una ciudad levantada por el emperador mogol Akbar entre 1571 y 1585, en el noroeste de India, a unos 35 km. de la ciudad de Agra.
Fue construida en honor del santo sufi Salin Chishti, que profetizó al emperador que tendría un hijo varón, pues solo había tenido hijas y no tenía un heredero.
Capital del imperio mogol durante 14 años, forma un bello ejemplo de ciudad amurallada mogol, con grandes zonas públicas y privadas. Se cree tuvo que ser abandonada, al parecer, por falta de agua, siendo luego saqueada y robados muchos de sus tesoros. Conserva aún su magnífica arquitectura mezcla de los estilos hindú e islámico.
En ella se pueden diferenciar dos zonas:
1) La civil, donde se encuentran los palacios y salas de audiencias. Donde destacan los siguientes edificios:
- Diwan-i-Am, un magnífico pabellón en un amplio patio que se utilizaba para las audiencias públicas del emperador.
- Diwan-i-Khas, pabellón de las audiencias privadas.
- Panch Mahal, un palacio-pabellón abierto de cinco alturas que domina el patio Pachisi, donde se cree que las reinas de Akbar y sus sirvientas se reunían para jugar al "parchis", de donde le viene el nombre.
- Pabellón de la Sultana Turca, donde los elaborados paneles del zócalo y las paredes bellamente tallados en piedra hace que la arenisca parezca un bello encaje en madera.
2) La religiosa, donde además de la gran mezquita Jama Masjid, destacan:
- La gran puerta Buland Darwaza, de 54 m. de altura, que fue construida por Akbar tras la conquista de la región del Gujarat en 1573 y que ha servido de inspiración para otras posteriores.
- La tumba de Sheikh Salim Chishti, una exquisita construcción en mármol blanco y celosías como bordados que rodean la tumba del santo.
- La Badshahi Darwaza, puerta real por donde subía el emperador para entrar en el complejo y encontrarse directamente con la mezquita al fondo.
One rainy afternoon, with nothing else to do, the Uglies decided to play parcheesi. It didn't end well, with Jeero accusing Wage of cheating.
Icebat was in his own little world as usual, and claimed to have noticed nothing.
Many heated words later, Wage and Jeero are no longer talking to each other. Bad timing really, because a special little lady is about to make her appearance ...
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Packing five games in one, the Game Box is the perfect choice for any occasion! Thanks for your support! :D
Fatehpur Sikri es una ciudad levantada por el emperador mogol Akbar entre 1571 y 1585, en el noroeste de India, a unos 35 km. de la ciudad de Agra.
Fue construida en honor del santo sufi Salin Chishti, que profetizó al emperador que tendría un hijo varón, pues solo había tenido hijas y no tenía un heredero.
Capital del imperio mogol durante 14 años, forma un bello ejemplo de ciudad amurallada mogol, con grandes zonas públicas y privadas. Se cree tuvo que ser abandonada, al parecer, por falta de agua, siendo luego saqueada y robados muchos de sus tesoros. Conserva aún su magnífica arquitectura mezcla de los estilos hindú e islámico.
En ella se pueden diferenciar dos zonas:
1) La civil, donde se encuentran los palacios y salas de audiencias. Donde destacan los siguientes edificios:
- Diwan-i-Am, un magnífico pabellón en un amplio patio que se utilizaba para las audiencias públicas del emperador.
- Diwan-i-Khas, pabellón de las audiencias privadas.
- Panch Mahal, un palacio-pabellón abierto de cinco alturas que domina el patio Pachisi, donde se cree que las reinas de Akbar y sus sirvientas se reunían para jugar al "parchis", de donde le viene el nombre.
- Pabellón de la Sultana Turca, donde los elaborados paneles del zócalo y las paredes bellamente tallados en piedra hace que la arenisca parezca un bello encaje en madera.
2) La religiosa, donde además de la gran mezquita Jama Masjid, destacan:
- La gran puerta Buland Darwaza, de 54 m. de altura, que fue construida por Akbar tras la conquista de la región del Gujarat en 1573 y que ha servido de inspiración para otras posteriores.
- La tumba de Sheikh Salim Chishti, una exquisita construcción en mármol blanco y celosías como bordados que rodean la tumba del santo.
- La Badshahi Darwaza, puerta real por donde subía el emperador para entrar en el complejo y encontrarse directamente con la mezquita al fondo.
Details of the rock art station 'Vente Bourbon 3' found by D. Caldwell around 2014 (published 2015) - one of many important and pristine new stations found recently in the forest of Fontainebleau by this team.
By searching on the words 'Fontainebleau' and 'Mesolithic' it is possible to find a significant number of results pointing to a date calibration for this rock art style and area of upwards of 11,000 years. After the work of D.Cadwell et al, arguments are appearing for a Bronze age date of four of five thousand years ago.
The newly found stations like 'Vente Bourbon 3' adhere to the general style of rock art from the Fontainebleau region, even if some other stations are of a larger line scale. Typically there are many straight lines, triangles, crosses and grids. The lines seem closer to the 'V' shape profile typical of metal tools rather than the 'U' shape of stone tools, but as the hardness of the sandstone is unknown to me, and as many authors seem happy that they were made by mesolithic flints, I keep this observation open - if weighted to metal.
There are several categories where crosses appear:
- Late neolithic and chalcolithic: often integrated with cups or merging with canals. www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/47491604471/i...
- Christian: styles include Maltese, St Andrews, Greek, St Jean...
- Alphabetical: x(yz...). A "glyph" that goes beyond a pictogram into pure abstraction, gaining meaning via conventions of juxtaposition. Monograms need to be watched for, but are of a one-off style and do stand out when multiple examples exist.
- Doodle: +xX. Perhaps more hypothetical and modern than anything else, as lines in stone take repetition, sweat, application, and an effort that goes beyond the spirit of doodling, and its formal manifest - ornamentation: perhaps more suited to wood or paint.
- Fakes: petroglyphic artefacts potentially redirecting prehistory e.g. Pedra de les Creus, Dolmen del Barranc d'Espolla.
www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/47522221221/i...
- Pollisoir: whilst nearly all sharpening stones tend to be straight and often cleanly parallel lines, crossed sharpening canals should be considered when looking at the specific Fontainebleau's art.
- Game: 'Pachisi' is a cross game, but more regularly found are variants of 'Nine Men's Morris'... here crossed lines tend to be in squares and over-worn, so there is little chance of confusion. www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/38488292972/i...
- Political variants: (Iron cross, Swastika). Individuals such as Pepito Meijón need to be factored for, but as a rule the problems tend to be from people who are obsessed with a modern symbol backdating meaning onto a distant homologue.
Other crosses exist in living history and although these do not figure when looking at rock art, they do show how one glyph can change meaning according to context and take the emotional and episodic mind of man into vastly different vistas. One is the cross at the end of a written letter - a row of kisses filling a child's letter, a family contact after a first name or a cross from a lover who is far away. A second is the cross that is the signature of an illiterate - a feature of cinema narrative, humiliation and irony by those who wish to withhold a name. A last cross is well known by both children and pirates and is the mark on a map that dreams of treasure. On each example, when the cross has landed into context the mind follows and fills with detail and the idea of dictionary precision is left wanting.
There are two crosses on the 'Vente Bourdon 3" station and both have one splayed stem. I have rotated the above captures to display both splays to the top (see the site photo below for the original disposition). Even if one is a little deeper, both crosses are similar, and it is perhaps the case that neither falls easily into one of the above categories, and I will argue for an additional category of "woodfolk cross".
One of the crosses is deeper cut than the other glyphs. Despite this, the depth of cut does not seem to result from repeated return visits from multiple users. Christian and neolithic crosses are often over-written on multiple occasions, each with a slightly different emphasis, resulting in a rounded but careful average. Here the edges are sharp and the envelope line is of similar measure to other glyphs. There are plenty of religious and political wedged crosses, but here there is just one wedge stem and no need for the wedge stem to be in a direction (up...).
The cross is situated in a scrub/forest zone with poor soils when compared with the alluvials to the north and south. A setting between large rivers fed with debit from the high precipitation zone around and within the Alpes (Loire, Seine). Both river banks have deep histories and prehistories of significant populations.
Other glyphs from this rock art station seem to suggest a pillared stage with steps surely made of logs and split wood. From this relatively convincing representation, it might be possible to isolate other glyphs of Maypoles and tent poles - all made of wood, and these are covered in associated posts and in the relevant Flickr album. A last glyph may represent a rectangular pit-fire with rows of overhanging logs. A lifestyle of tents rather than permanent crofts will have scattered the archaeological residues of lifestyle that may otherwise have helped with date ranges.
Communities of people specialising in the exploitation and transformation of timber materials will attract an extra regional public interested in taking away products ...'onto the back of mules in exchange for a pig', 'floating ready-made posts, bows and adapted wood-frame down a river in exchange for flour' and so on. Drawing 'clients' in, and even offering a seasonal 'woodland festival' for potential and real clients; for company and companionship, and in honour of spiritual and cultural traditions, may be the optic that is described by the rock art of 'Vente Bourbon 3'.
Woodland festivals would change place as the forestry camps move to new copse and glade. New paths to new camps might be signalled by arboroglyphs or marker (knots, feathers, teasels and so on). If the festival's date back to the bronze age or Celtic years then they might have been fully 'advertised' and overt, if they were during Roman occupation, then they may have been codified and suitably 'lost in the woods', and if from the dark ages, the actions would be in reflection of local feudal influence - transparent or codified. The cut off date is the 10th century.
Changing wood efficiently into forms that are appealing to man can be helped by fire and water (including frost and ice) in addition to blade, wedge, lever and oxen. Blades can be on axes, chisels and, with time, miniaturised onto saws. Fire can burn away roots, wedges can split the hardest oak, axes and oxen can fell and position trees and so on. Knowing how much to burn before removing a trunk, branch or pole from a fire: to then shape - knowing to have enough water, and how to stop the water from quickly evaporating. Understanding how to 'read' the capacity of a tree and even encourage the life of a forest - these are woodland skills that can surpass those of crofters, shepherds and new generations of village and even towns-folk.
Copses, woods and forests can seem to be everywhere - even after the famous deforestations of late prehistory, and travelling to exchange for a product that is made from timber would require there to be either a gain of time or quality, or a level of social specialisation that resulted in a significant skill divergence between atrophying and 'high craft'. Cutting down a tree, shaping a post pole into a point, bending poles adapted for stretched material coracle boats; key structures for wicker-and-daub frame work; sharpening wooden spears or hardening wooden levers (as Odysseus), preparing shepherds crooks, bows, baskets and more - all examples of woodcrafts that tend to turn to dust with the passage of time, to the point where elements with common points of origin may not be easily clarified by xylologues. Flint tools travelled great distance - might high quality processed wooden materials have travelled short distances?
Red hot ends to trunk and branch need to be seriously extinguished prior to chisel work as apparent mat grey so often wants to rekindle. Pools of water would heat, and the hot waters, and their associated steams, might in turn help to bend poles into new directions. A cross-shaped pit would allow several mutually beneficial activities to coexist. A wedge shape to one arm of a cross-shaped pool would offer options for intermediate bending angles over 90 degrees. A wedge shaped slope would also allow persons to enter the pool to adjust items.
Making a cross shaped pool would require a knowledge of pit-fires, and well managed pit-fires could quickly become monolithic pools. Wet clay keeps great heat inside a designated shape, and high heat differentials cause cracks in stone and thus bedrock. Days of red-hot embers 'burn' and crack stone to a point where cracks can be exploited with wooden levers, wedges, heavy pounders and other tools. Once a cross-pool is made, the increases of efficiency from the asset might assure a quality of product that is unavailable to new farmers and shepherds. Any cracks in the pools' ground-rock can be filled with a horse-hair cob to make the 'cistern' water-tight. Just such a pool in a woodland festival might become a feature for rural peoples from either side of the Celtic period; peoples known to be interested in the spiritual and 'Epicurean' qualities of water. A long pit-fire can heat large river-stones to high temperatures and these might be transferred to a cleaned 'woodfolk-cross' (a name that seems simple and apt) to provide warm water bathing aside seasonal feast, dance and rite. This detail might put the cross at the centre of seasonal woodland festivals, with the festival either side of Celtic traditions.
Iron age woodcrafts and early medieval woodcrafts may use a wide range of blades, and sharpening these smaller blades on sandstone during moments of storm or relaxation might produce some polissoir trenches - so visible within the Fontainebleau rock art stations. That some of these lines drifted into doodle and play needs to be considered for some stations or some elements. That other Fontainebleau stations were purely representational - albeit with high schematic line, would be proud and human.
The 10th century saw the forest enveloped by Royal jurisdiction. The impact of this change in definition on monolithic vestiges is unknown, but may have been systematic and destructive. These hypothetical woodfolk were probably not literate, but seem to have become aware of the scale of letters. They seem to have shared with other cultures a desire to find pictograms that concisely sum up key cultural elements, and linking some 'glyph' elements with research into pictograms and even the phase-change into runes seems valid.
In certain rural areas it can be argued that the iron age spread into the early centuries of medieval, and it might be from this optic that I would want to tentatively place the Fontainebleau rock art of woodland folk and craft.
AJM 05.04.20
Ludo (from Latin ludo, "I play") is a board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. Like other cross and circle games, it is similar to the Indian Pachisi, but simpler. The game and its variants are popular in many countries under various names......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo_%28board_game%29
"Let the games begin": these are my own LAPEL PINS that I wore when I was in the banking business world and had to wear business suits every day. I started wearing unique lapel pins to offset the staid suits. I kept my "pins collection" and am glad that I did - for today's MM theme.
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Interestng facts about dominoes and dice:
Dominoes evolved from dice. In fact, the numbers in a standard double-six domino set represent all the rolls of two six-sided dice.
Dominoes are believed to have originated in China (in the 12th century, though Egyptian or Arabian origins are also theorized. Dominoes appeared in Italy in the early eighteenth century, and spread to the rest of Europe throughout the remainder of the 1700's, becoming one of the most popular games in both family parlors and pubs alike.
Dot: Each domino contains some number of "dots", usually from 0 to 6, but up to 18 in some sets.
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Dice, in various forms, have been played by humans for millenia. Ancient dice have been found in Egyptian tombs, Chinese burial chambers, and in remains from civilizations around the world.
Dice are simple and elegant gaming implements, available in a wide variety of sizes and colors, and made from a large assortment of materials. They're inexpensive, extremely portable, and familiar to almost everyone.
Six-sided cubes are currently the most common form, but dice of other shapes and number of sides are also available. Dice are the main piece of equipment in a number of family games, as well as gambling games such as Craps. In addition, dice are used in numerous board games such as Backgammon, Pachisi, Monopoly, and many more, bringing a necessary element of chance to gameplay.
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India.
Agra District.
Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city itself was founded as the capital of Mughal Empire in 1571 by Emperor Akbar, serving this role from 1571 to 1585, when Akbar abandoned it due to a campaign in Punjab and was later completely abandoned in 1610.
The name of the city is derived from the village called Sikri which occupied the spot before. An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) excavation from 1999-2000 indicated that there was a habitation, temples and commercial centres here before Akbar built his capital.
Anup Talao was built by Raja Anup Singh Sikarwar A ornamental pool with a central platform and four bridges leading up to it. Some of the important buildings of the royal enclave are surround by it including, Khwabgah (House of Dreams) Akbar's residence, Panch Mahal, a five-storey palace, Diwan-i-Khas(Hall of Private Audience), Ankh Michauli and the Astrologer's Seat, in the south-west corner of the Pachisi Court.
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Fatehpur Sikri es una ciudad levantada por el emperador mogol Akbar entre 1571 y 1585, en el noroeste de India, a unos 35 km. de la ciudad de Agra.
Fue construida en honor del santo sufi Salin Chishti, que profetizó al emperador que tendría un hijo varón, pues solo había tenido hijas y no tenía un heredero.
Capital del imperio mogol durante 14 años, forma un bello ejemplo de ciudad amurallada mogol, con grandes zonas públicas y privadas. Se cree tuvo que ser abandonada, al parecer, por falta de agua, siendo luego saqueada y robados muchos de sus tesoros. Conserva aún su magnífica arquitectura mezcla de los estilos hindú e islámico.
En ella se pueden diferenciar dos zonas:
1) La civil, donde se encuentran los palacios y salas de audiencias. Donde destacan los siguientes edificios:
- Diwan-i-Am, un magnífico pabellón en un amplio patio que se utilizaba para las audiencias públicas del emperador.
- Diwan-i-Khas, pabellón de las audiencias privadas.
- Panch Mahal, un palacio-pabellón abierto de cinco alturas que domina el patio Pachisi, donde se cree que las reinas de Akbar y sus sirvientas se reunían para jugar al "parchis", de donde le viene el nombre.
- Pabellón de la Sultana Turca, donde los elaborados paneles del zócalo y las paredes bellamente tallados en piedra hace que la arenisca parezca un bello encaje en madera.
2) La religiosa, donde además de la gran mezquita Jama Masjid, destacan:
- La gran puerta Buland Darwaza, de 54 m. de altura, que fue construida por Akbar tras la conquista de la región del Gujarat en 1573 y que ha servido de inspiración para otras posteriores.
- La tumba de Sheikh Salim Chishti, una exquisita construcción en mármol blanco y celosías como bordados que rodean la tumba del santo.
- La Badshahi Darwaza, puerta real por donde subía el emperador para entrar en el complejo y encontrarse directamente con la mezquita al fondo.