Head 'um up ...

        Black and white T.V. was an amazement during my childhood days of the late 1950's. Watching the outside world move about the inside world of your living room was an astonishing adventure.

        Now, "Rawhide" was one of my all-time favorites. When all those "cowpokes" had filled their stomachs around that morning campfire, they called to one another that it was about time to herd all those pesky, cows together and, move on down the trail. "Head 'um up ..., move 'um out" came the jingle ... "Rawhide"! Since 1959, this saying has come to my mind on the many occasions when it was about my time to move on down the trails of life.

        Such is this genealogy time of my ancestors. They have been grouped together as a large heard of folks, mulling about the fields of time, just after the black death of the 1350s. Many of the recent posts have discussed a thought process which huddles the folks into cluster groups by Y-DNA. This would make my own ancestor's Y-DNA a little easier to follow along the future trails (branches) of the family tree. Clarification was the need. Celtic, to become Welsh, to become my surname JONES, the point of descent it is. A bit of mixture here and, a bit of mixture there but, hey, ... "Head 'um up ... move 'um out"!

mentalis mastication

                                                       MATTER :

                                                                           A  ... Substance ...

                                                                           A  ... Subject ...

                                                                           A  ... Something ...

                                                                           A  ... Situation ...

                                                                           A  ... Substratum ...

                                                                           An .. Event ...

                                                                           An .. Element ...

                                                                           An .. Inquiry ...

                                                                           And ... like me ...

                                                                                       occupies space and has weight !

                                                                           

                                                                            

Compare Or Contrast III

        Conceptualizing the four huddle groups as presented beginning post 27, June 2025 is discussed. The first picture shown was to help visualize the players of the cultural groups being organized. The Norman French (red marker) 11, July 2025, the Saxon group (orange marker), the Church group (blue marker) 15, July 2025 and, my DNA ancestors the Celtics (green marker) 20 July 2025, were all discussed with comments regarding a similar topic surrounding each huddle group. 

       The first table to demonstrate a way to compare and/or contrast the cultural group for the similar topics was shown 26, July 2025 giving four columns and, 3 rows of the topics. Additional topics where then added by comments on each huddle group window. A second compare or contrast table was then shown, 3 September 2025, adding six rows to the figure.

       Well, here's the third figure giving another "compare or contrast" table to help understand some of the huddle groups dynamics. Take it away!

       Now, 4 columns and 9 rows! Compare or contrast it is? For other comments: see [Norman French 8 September, Saxon 10 September, Church 11 September, and Celtic 12 September 2025!]

THINGS

                        What does it matter?

                                   - OR -

                        What does it antimatter?

   

                        Neither here nor there? 

                        A "will-o' the-wisp"?

                        Flip a coin?

                        Heads I win, Tails you lose?                        

Rights To Land Ownership

         The land you had settled and, the earth that surrounded this location, was a key dynamic involved between all the huddle groups being considered during this window of time. "Seisin" was the word for "legal possession of property". A "messuage" was the house and yard. A "virgate" was the land unit which could support a family. [These were terms that applied during this timeframe.] 

         Just what right did you have to claim ownership? Now, each team of players had their individual views about such topics! Let's see now.

         The Norman French, hereafter generally referred to as the Normans, began their claim on a promise. A single fellow who became known as "The Conqueror" started things off with the intentions and, the stated intent, to follow the last will of a relative named Edward (The Confessor). 

         The Saxons, hereafter generally called Anglo-Saxons, claimed their rights because of broken promises. Those initial island dwellers failed to keep their "promises made" to pay appropriately for all those helpers who were at first invited to the island. Broken promises to become the cause of our rights.

         The "Church" players held their rights by invitation. You come, you preach and, you convert, this will give you the rights to a parish among us. Pasturing and a pasture to be included. What a deal!

         The Celtic huddle groups began their rights through the agnostic system. Rights by inheritance through male descent. Lineage to the ninth generation by names please, was the accepted standard for your status as proprietor to land and earth. 

      

          

Nothing Left

        Recently, rediscovering a long-forgotten item from my childhood days at Granny Ewen's house, that brough smiles to my face. Remembering this, gastric juices producing, mouthwatering phenomena, just had to show a scan of this memory and, the memory of all the cookies along the way.

       Would bet that most folks from my own Jones surname ancestors had similar cookie jar memory's. However, at some point along the many hallways of time, we had to purchase our own cookies! What we chewed and, how much we chewed [that mastication process] was of our own choosing. A variety of options produced out of a whole bunch of different kitchens.

       Now the kitchens were of all sorts and kinds, often bring that mastication process for many from the stomachs to the minds. Say what! From the gastric juices to the thought juices. Well for me, my thought juices did take a more active role and, by my high school physics cookies' days (1968), the concept of "matter" did seem to matter a bit more then chocolate chips. 

       It was only a few years later that my college physics days (1971) announced "We are now introducing a new and very important type of process in which a 'fundamental' particle changes into other fundamental particles. This is often called a fundamental process" [p. 648 Physics Book, by K.R. Atkins]. Can't get much clearer than that in mental mastication.

       Well have we finally done it. All those particles and antiparticles. Now we are down to that photon and antiphoton throwing darts at one another. Matter and antimatter spinning away as the last cookie in our cookies jar? By now, old BIG -A- would be turning over in his grave!

        VOID ... in the cookies jar?

Into The Void

       My reading today led me to the following quote which seems much appropriate for the cosmos. It gives the name Pope which I believe is Sir Thomas Pope the founder of Trinity College, Oxford.

       This quote is taken from my reading source "American Dictionary Of The English Language" by Noah Webster, 1828. It was under the word for "VOID" which was my exploration of the day. Getting past "The New STRONG'S Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible" [Largest Print Strong's for me] which on p.1489 states ... "the earth was without form and v .....Gen 1:2    922". 

       The 922 gives the reference number for the Hebrew word for void found on p. 17 [of the Hebrew section] given as  bo' -hoo "from an unused root (mean, to be empty)". Now, old Noah would add "not occupied with any visible matter". Well, there you have about got it. Then my quote of old Pope.

            "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, and fills all the mighty void of sense".

                                                                                                                                Pope

        Into my void indeed it is.