Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England: What I Look For In The Stones
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- What makes a stone row an Effigy Work? Bringing a page from his notebooks to life, join stone site investigator Mike Luoma as he gives us a look at several of the designs he sees in stone rows around New England, as he looks into what could be ancient Indigenous stonework.
More a short demonstration than a discussion of underlying concepts, Mike shares his sketches of six different stone row design elements, each followed by multiple examples found in his explorations around New England. The repetition of form perhaps shows us that these are, indeed, designed elements.
These design elements, together in various combinations, seem to reflect Great Serpent and/or Underwater Panther stories and imagery from Indigenous cultures in what's now North America and beyond, and suggest some of these stone rows could be ancient Indigenous-built effigy works rather than later settler- or farmer-built stone walls.
With video nods to the work of James Mavor & Byron Dix (MANITOU - 1989) and Curtiss Hoffman (Stone Prayers - 2018), Mike credits researcher Tim MacSweeney (wakinguponturtl...) with opening his eyes to the possibilities of effigy works in the stone rows, and shares some of Tim's photo-illustrated overlays on Mike's photos. MacSweeney is also thanked in the credits.
Special Thanks and credit as well to Amanda Riani, who has shown Mike to several of the Massachusetts locations seen in this presentation.
Aside from Tim MacSweeney's photo-illustrations and Indigenous and other portrayals of Great Serpents and Underwater Panthers (fully credited below), illustrations are by Mike Luoma, from his notebooks, and most other photos and video footage is shot and edited by Mike. He also wrote, narrated and produced the finished video presentation.
Music is by Kevin MacLeod. Official Music Credit:
Silver Flame by Kevin MacLeod
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Image Credits:
Ojibwe Chignebik at Darkwater Lake
Photo Credit: Michael Furtman, in Discovering Rock Art (Ring Creek 2016) by Thor Conway.
Horned Serpent in San Rafael, Utah
Photo Credit: From Wikimedia: Horned Serpent in a Barrier Canyon Style Petroglyph, Western San Rafael Swell region of Utah, USA. Date 6 July 2007. By Brian C. Lee.
Chickasaw Horned Serpent
Photo Credit: Chickasaw TV/Chickasaw Nation.
Underwater Panther
Photo Credit: Public Domain. From the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center library.
Great Serpent Avanyu
Photo Credit: From The Diurnal Path of the Sun… 2011. By Mathiowetz, Michael Dean. P 1329. Mural by San Ildefonso artist Wo-Peen depicting the horned and feathered serpent Avanyu. (after Dunn 1968: 318, fig. 114).
New Mexico Horned Serpent
Photo Credit: From Wikimedia: Rock Art (Pony Hills and Cook's Peak, New Mexico) Image Information: El Paso Archive. Photo by E.Kay Luther.
Serpent_à_plumes_Chichen_Itza
Photo Credit: From Wikimedia, Public Domain. Feathered snake, ancient post-classic era, 900 - 1250 CE, limestone. From Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico. Musée du quai Branly. By Jebulon.
Chinese Dragon
Photo Credit: Public Domain.
Loch Ness Monster “Nessie”
Photo Credit: Daily Mail. Hoaxed photo of the Loch Ness Monster from 21 April 1934. Author disputed, but was originally published under the claimed authorship of Robert Kenneth Wilson.
Vermont Lake Monsters mascot Champ
Photo Credit: From Wikipedia. Public Domain.
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Tim MacSweeney Rattlesnake Eye
Photo Credit: From Waking Up on Turtle Island. Photo by Cascavel1.
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What a great video! I'm can't praise your work enough! Thank you!!!!!
Thank you very much
I have an ancient Native Indian Stone wall here in Westport MA and one of the remarkable rocks is a head of a turtle in white quartz .
Thank you for the great footage, excellent narration.
Thank you, Mike!
I often see these things.
I grew up in an area with similar bushland.
There are giant boulder near my home, scattered in twos and threes a distance apart.
There's a very spiritual feeling in this area.
I read Vatican Assassin! The small snakes of Vt definitely live and hunt around rock walls. I definitely need to look closer at the rock walls for these eye formations! Thanks.
Hi Mike, hey I was looking up at the Stars awhile ago and had a thought about these serpantine rocks. Here goes. Presently we use Polaris as our North Star. But 2,800 years ago we used Thuban as our be guiding star. Thuban is in the Draco System. Draco is a serpant. So, you see where I'm going with this?
The idea of sacred enduring stone relics is intriguing
Thanks for your help Mike!
You've come across precession, eh? Yes, this has been considered and studied for quite some time, Timber. Some suggest there is a connection. I'm not sure there is a correlation, but there may be. Glenn Kreisberg's book "Spirits In Stone" opens with a section on a site he's been stewarding on Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, New York, where he discovered that the large stone structures he found there seemed to mirror that constellation on the ground. Although we don't know what the ancient Indigenous interpreted it as, as Draco was a European interpretation. There's also a section in Glenn's book by a dowser who found Indigenous stonework follows underground water, both the stonework in the northeast and at places like Chaco Canyon. Some of those tribes which have shared insights into the stonework say it was created for Balance. It may be by following underground water (Underworld) and by being oriented to something in the heavens (Skyworld), stone constructs in Ourworld somehow pulled the three together...
Any in Maine? Interesting video. Thank you.
As I used to walk through the woods as a kid I would see these stone walls and the narrative was that colonials had to move the stones to make a field for planting. As usual I took it for granted. I never wanted to move the stones. I never wanted to reconstruct it. something told me don't touch . Now I know why these are sacred Stones walls.
Totally excellent video!! This is what I've been talking about for many years now!! I'm glad people are "getting it". But there is much more in the walls, there are "words", "stories", information. I believe the walls themselves show a certain high level of organization. Great work Mike!!! This really is well done, thank you!!
Thank you, Dave!
Thanks again Mike!
You're welcome - thank you, Craig!
Hmm. 🤔
I live in Gloucester, MA and there's stone walls everywhere in the back woods. They look like they were used a dividers; I've always wondered about them. Great video!
The soil in the NE is very rocky as the settlers soon found out, because they could not plow the land… they had to get rid of them by collecting them in long rows. It was hard work and usually done by ox carts.
@@Slo-ryde Oh interesting! Yah that makes sense - thanks for the reply.