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