| One of the northern derivatives of Hopewell of | | | | earth energy to build or flow in some manner |
| interest to a few scholars is the anomalous Effigy | | | | enhancing or guarding the people. Their ancestral |
| Mound culture of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The | | | | forefathers who are often dug up and moved in |
| remains attract attention because of the range of | | | | the Iroquois or eastern regions mimics practices |
| animal forms represented by the low effigy | | | | carried on around the world. [There is a genetic |
| mounds. There are sometimes burials at the "vital" | | | | energy and spiritual reality that psychology has |
| points - hips, head or heart area - of the animals, | | | | shown to exist between family members |
| but there is only the simplest of grave | | | | separated at birth (Harvard) and especially 'twins' |
| goods.{How these nature worship spiritual guide | | | | (Minnesota's University).]} The groups may contain |
| representations can be talked about as | | | | dozens of mounds...In New York, Ritchie (1965) |
| "anomalous" is beyond me. The Serpent Mound | | | | identifies Hopewell in the artifacts and mounds of |
| near Cincinnati is a key worldwide astrological | | | | the Squawkie Hill phase; earlier, he had |
| figure. The Nazca Line effigies of animals are well | | | | incorporated this phase in his Point Peninsula |
| known. The Dragon Project and other ley line and | | | | culture series. Griffin (1964) also notes the |
| Gaian concepts of earth energy and center point | | | | Hopewellian content of the New York finds. |
| location of the Mayan urban and pyramid | | | | Furthermore, he mentions the extension of |
| complexes are definitely related. Stonehenge is | | | | dentate rocker stamping on pottery well beyond |
| recently shown connected to the Serpent Mound | | | | the appearance of other Hopewell traits and also |
| and certain astrological or astronomical | | | | comments on the blurring or fading of the |
| observations are discussed in Ancient American | | | | Hopewell complex after about A.D. 250.{It was |
| magazine. Vortexes of energy are obvious in | | | | almost completely gone by 500 AD. This is an |
| places like Sedona, Arizona. The Giza main | | | | important time in world history. The Ostrogothic |
| pyramid is on such a vortex and some people talk | | | | disappearance from Italy that led to major |
| about time warp effects there. But we must | | | | fortifications in South America as discovered by |
| remember most archaeologists like their academic | | | | Gene Savoy after this time when Jennings wrote |
| brethren the psychiatrists, don't believe in psychic | | | | this book might also have led to the end of the |
| visions, soulful interpretations and other spiritual | | | | Hopewell cultural control. We know Roman statues |
| things that all early people on earth clearly knew | | | | were found in Mexico with a 99% archaeological |
| very well.What good is there in denial of what | | | | certainty according to University of Calgary |
| others did or used as central to their lives, even if | | | | Professor Emeritus David Kelley. But few scholars |
| 'science' of this variety was right? They aren't | | | | have drawn any connection even with the huge |
| right anyway, but please ask this question of the | | | | forts in South America. Probably it is pure |
| scholars who are interpreting these important | | | | co-incidence. But when you know the Visigoths |
| cultural artifacts. Why avoid the actual beliefs of | | | | are Merovingian related and the people like |
| the people? The reason to locate the burial in | | | | Dagobert had a trepanned skull as well as other |
| points where the energy is collected relates to | | | | things we will lay before you later you might think |
| the cult of the individual involved and their tribal | | | | it less a co-incidence. The influx of Keltic |
| guide, as well as to their sex and specific power | | | | 'Red-Heads' from the Taklamakand Desert near |
| ally. It is part of many less dramatic rituals such | | | | the present Great Wall occurred at this time too, |
| as the Star of David and the pentagram.}Burials | | | | according to Prof. Covey of Wake Forest |
| are either flexed or bundle types. The link with | | | | University, and Professor Joan Price of the |
| Hopewell is found in ceramics and in the interest in | | | | American Archaeological Institute.}This is about |
| raptors and certain mammals. At one group, | | | | the time the southern derivatives began to |
| Sny-Magill (now a national monument in Iowa), | | | | appear and the cultures of the Middle West and |
| Beaublein (1953) thought two mounds of the | | | | East developed stronger regional differences, with |
| group to be Hopewellian in construction and | | | | many local sequences replacing the more uniform |
| content. McKern has reported several sites of the | | | | culture characteristic of Hopewell dominance. Even |
| Effigy culture (McKern 1928; 1930), as well as the | | | | so, as in the widespread dentate pottery |
| Wisconsin Hopewell - locally called the | | | | decoration, vestiges of Hopewell ancestry can be |
| Trempealeau (McKern 1931). Jennings (1965a) and | | | | noted. In New York, for example, the |
| Rowe (1956) have attempted summaries of the | | | | development of late Point Peninsula into Owasco |
| Effigy culture. The sites often lie on ridges | | | | and even historic Iroquois can be tied through a |
| overlooking a stream valley. The mounds take | | | | few traits to Hopewell (Griffin 1964).The Owasco |
| about a dozen shapes: conical, biconical, oval, linear, | | | | culture of New York, accepted as being ancestral |
| panther, bear, bird (goose, raptor), deer, buffalo | | | | to the Iroquois, is dated at A.D. 1000 to 1300.... |
| (?), turtle, lizard, wolf, or fox, and beaver. These | | | | Farming tools included elk-scapula hoes, as well as |
| are arranged in clusters or lines with no regularity | | | | two types of flint hoe. Food-storage pits are |
| as to the forms depicted; the linear and conical | | | | common in some sites.Author of Diverse Druids |
| ones are mixed with the effigies. {Likely no | | | | More of my work is available at World-Mysteries. |
| relation to guides or spirits but rather to allow | | | | |