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Simple corniform signs: Mont Bégo
Further to the north of Mont Bégo in the Valcomonica petroglyph megasite, can be seen dated corniform signs from the neolithic e.g. the 'roche de la Baita'. As with Mont Bégo, corniform signs can also be seen here linked with yokes - forming an early representation of a 'living tractor' - the kind that will have also been employed for ploughing and during the movement of erratic monoliths, trees and megaliths. Whilst most of the glyphs around the Mont Bégo site are certainly Bronze age, it must be very difficult to say categorically that certain of the more simple examples are not neolithic, with the rule of thumb being that heavily simplified schematic glyphs are neolithic with representational details arriving for the chalcolithic and Bronze age. Thus the above simple signs need to be seen in contrast with more detailed corniform signs (see below). They may be of the later date, they may not. They may have exactly the same 'meaning' as more complicated corniforms - they may not.
The importance of the corniform sign to Mont Bégo cannot be underestimated, and there is a statistic that if you factor out unformed marks and scratches and only count 'symbols' and 'representations', then corniforms make up close to 80% of all petroglyphs. Seeing the wide variety of expression within the category of corniform, and it can be said that the ideas associated with the corniform symbol were taken by a diverse population to a zone above the agricultural line and onto bleak but mesmerising geological spaces. Mont Bégo, with it's Vallée des Merveilles and Vallée de Fontanalba was a focus for corniform 'cow signs' and understanding the dynamic range of these signs seems to be a task. For the record, there are plentiful examples of small pecks and scratches, and even when these are included, the statistic for corniforms runs to 46% of the 30,000 or so petroglyphs.
Top left: two corniform signs. See how there is no hint of a 'real' structure: these are not direct descriptions of a subject be it a cow-form hut, a stretching skin, a cow's scull, a cow, a tool (with the horns tipped inwards the would not make a pitch fork) or cow/human spirit - the lines seem to have starting to drift towards raw symbols.
Top right : The corniform has an appearance of a jubilant humanoid. Under are two 'rouelles' or spoked 'suns'. One has six 'rays' and the other five. Others similar signs can be seen with eight spokes. These are vivid but neither systematic or common to the Mont Bégo site, so however simple and eye catching they may appear, they do not seem to be representative of the site's 'zeitgeist'. The variety of the number of branches suggests to me an informal sign and not a rigorous symbol of, for example, a sun deity. Further to the north in the Valcamonica rock art site, there are seemingly indubitable sun-like petroglyph symbols with the 'rays attached to a central circle dated to the neolithic. These seem to be more conclusively suns, and the above radiants may simply be expressive and jubilant decorations associated with decorated cows and festivals. If they are aligned to a sun God then the position on the rock is small and to the side, so subordinate. With the 'corniform' on the verge of 'dancing', a description of 'festival' and joy on the corner of a vast petrogliphic surface may be a coherent explanation. As with the image top left, excluding a neolithic date for these signs would seem to me to be difficult even though they are surrounded by multiple petroglyphs that are know to be bronze age.
Lower left : It is very easy to see that two methods were used to produce this image. 'Pecking' and then 'scratching' with no great innovations from the great paleolithic rock art site of the Coa valley. The rock surface is very hard, and today pecking might involve a hole punch and a hammer - no great change, just a need for a sharp wrist action and eye concentration. The scratching is not always present (some may also be from historical visitors) and involves a repeated action to break the peaks between the pecks and in so doing creating a unified image. This mix of technique may have repeated on a larger scale during the late prehistoric periods for regional earthworks. Studies of some large earthworks show that ditches were first made as a series of pits and then broken through to create the large ditch enclosures we can see today. There are many surfaces where the best way to dig a pit is by driving down many deep holes using a weighted pole with a chiseled end. Adding water can speed up the process by creating shatter pressures and colloids that squirt out on their own. Messy but fast. Once a series of vertical perforations has been made, these can be broken through by levering a large pole, with the rubble of the pit removed. Two pits next to each other in the envisaged line of, let's say, a henge ditch, with the dividing wall battered down and antler picks used to clean up the ruts and imperfections. Today, predictive calculations for the time taken to make prehistoric earthworks are often made using only the final antler picks - as if you cook for one hundred using only a serving spoon - which can lead to dramatic statistics and truly vast numbers of hours required. This can make prehistory look like a repetitive and gruelling adventure in space-time or, force it to approach some of slave based monuments of early civilisation.
Lower right : A purely abstract sign again with humanoid overtones - a certain joy. The curling of the horns suggests an animal like a mouflon or a goat rather than a cow. Around Mont Bégo there are rare glyphs that I did not manage to photograph that are understood to be of goats. As with Soay sheep, the mouflon is an archaic variety - an early variety of sheep that has returned to the wild. They are easy to see today and unlike Isards, they retain a slight domestication and can wait to have their picture taken while still looking very wild. A very small corniform is also present top left of this image.
In conclusion, within the category of corniform there may be two qualitatively different glyphs with the above examples within the 'simple signs' group.
AJM 12.2.19
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The sign at St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Launching, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The cemetery was established in 1820, and abandoned in 1860.
Right up the Central and Northern coasts of Queensland, signs like this are very common warnings of the dangers of swimming, more so in the summer months in the warm waters of the tropics. Of course, there are also the other signs warning of crocodiles.
The marine stingers are the commonly fatal sea wasp or box jellyfish as well as the tiny irakandji which is also a jellyfish like creature. Many beaches have stinger nets but as I understand it, these cannot guarantee stingers stay out, especially the tiny irakandjis. Full body suits made of lycra or similar material are also used by swimmers, particularly out of the Great Barrier Reef.
Box jellyfish can inflict terrible wounds and can and are quickly lethal. Not a species to play around with. Irakandjis can also be lethal, especially if the person stung experiences an adverse allergic reaction. Both are extremely painful.
It has been noticed that as waters warm with rising global temperatures, the irakandjis in particular are moving south.
This sign is at one of the beaches in the northern suburbs of Townsville.
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What began as a tranquil June sunrise became a brief fiery daybreak behind the directional signs at Scenic Hudson's Esopus Meadows Preserve.
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BedZZZ Express and Thomas Bros. Formal Wear are both businesses on Jackson Ave. Like the hay bale on Hwy 6, I pass these signs every time I come back into town on the weekends. And I always get a kick out of the messages they put up. More details (and sports-related sign messages, if that’s more of your thing) in the link above
If I had to rank these… pumpkin spice mattresses is always a yearly favorite. Unfortunately I was unable to find an image of another seasonal one, “Our mattresses are 100% not haunted.” The mattress store is currently running “stimmie specials,” too. They have a Twitter account if you’re interested. Thomas Bros. also has a Facebook page
The lamentation of summer heat refusing to disappear is a fun annual pastime of Mississippians. I thought the missing letter tuxes trick was clever, too. The two on the far right are both quarantine-related. I echo the formalwear shop’s message wholeheartedly. Compared to the past three years, my parking lot this year has been so very pleasant! I’ve gone from being unable to find a parking space during Rush Week and dealing with a parade of buses on Thirsty Thursday, to having free reign of spaces and watching tumbleweeds flow through
Music recommendations:
1. Like Nobody Else (Mountain View Remix) – My Darkest Days 🔥
2. Enid – Barenaked Ladies
3. Man’s Man – Elle King
4. This Town – OAR
5. Hurricane – Collective Soul
6. Big Time – Peter Gabriel
7. Underwater – Switchfoot
8. Forty or Fifty – Spin Doctors
9. Over My Head (Cable Car) – Fray
10. Talk Shows on Mute – Incubus
11. Bliss – Buckcherry
12. Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me – “Weird Al” Yankovic
13. Stars – Arrows to Athens (…which my iPod is playing right now. Weird!)
14. Honey, I’m Good. – Andy Grammer
15. Tonight Tonight Tonight – Genesis 🔥
16. Slip – Lit
17. Ghosts – Jake Owen
18. Born Like This – Three Days Grace
19. 15 Minute Flame – Poets of the Fall
20. My Generation – Who
21. This House is Not for Sale – Bon Jovi
22. All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow
23. Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good) – Sugarland (HYDR)
24. Good Grief – Bastille 🔥
25. Irresistible Force – Jane’s Addiction
26. Home by the Sea – Genesis
27. The Abyss – Three Days Grace
28. Breathe Out – Rob Thomas
29. Footsteps (Acoustic) – Pop Evil
30. Up All Night – Blink-182
31. Party in the CIA – “Weird Al” Yankovic
32. Another Day – Seven Circle Sunrise
33. Bent – Matchbox Twenty
34. Short Change Hero – Heavy
35. Won’t Back Down (Bring You Hell Remix) – Fuel
36. Move Your Body – My Darkest Days 🔥
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4609 S. Ashland - Tasemkin Furniture went out of business several years before this photo. Within a few years the sign would be about 80% covered by cruddy cladding.
Group signing up for what I believe was prepaid phone cards at the Masskara Festival Bacolod City, Philippines
In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sail the oceans for the benefit of mankind; in the water that God sends down from the sky, and revives the earth with it after it had died, and scatters in it all kinds of creatures; in the changing of the winds, and the clouds disposed between the sky and the earth; are signs for people who understand.
Holy Quran 2-164
The OT-1 heads down the old Bucksport Branch to Orrington with empty dirt cars. They are passing M.P. 3, which is the South Brewer Yard Limits, which at one time served the Eastern Fine Paper mill.
Signs warning of the bridge over the Mitchell River at Iguana Creek, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
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