Showing posts with label bird effigy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird effigy. Show all posts

Friday, July 14, 2023

Mound Builder's Bird Effigy within a Circular Earthwork at the Yost Works in Perry County, Ohio. Solar Alignment?

 Mound Builder's Bird Effigy within a Circular Earthwork at the Yost Works in Perry County, Ohio. Solar Alignment?


The Yost Works in Perry County, Ohio had both solar and lunar alignments. The bird effigy is reminiscent of the Newark Earthworks that too have both solar and lunar alignments along with a bird effigy.




This type of bird effigy within a circular work is common within the earthworks around Ohio and especially around Newark, Ohio. In the ancient world the bird is symbolic of "transition," in this case, it would represent the transition of the solstices or 18.6-year lunar procession. For more photos of the Yost Works in Perry County, Ohio including the bird effigy www.nephilimgiants.net : Wilson Effigy Mound Located South of Newark, Ohio "Address Restricted"


Unfortunately, the undergrowth in mid-March had already begun when I photographed this work. However, after inspecting the bird effigy it appears to be intact. This work is off to the side of a larger earthwork that has been obliterated by the plow.  There are a few sections of the larger work that are slightly visible.  Wayne May from Ancient American Magazine and Richard Moats. Richard Moats in the expert on this site. Wayne May used "Witchy Sticks" to find the obliterated ancient walls and a few of the burial mounds and burials. Richard Moats confirmed the accuracy of Wayne May's work with the "rods."  It is a method I am practicing with for future mound trips.  After witnessing this I am convinced of the energy fields that emanate from these sites



Thursday, January 26, 2023

Osage Hopewell Bird Effigies: The Newark, Ohio Circle Decoded

 

Osage Hopewell Bird Effigies: The Newark, Ohio Circle Decoded






In the center of the large circular earthwork at Newark is a bird effigy that is pointed to the gateway that is aligned to the May 1st, sunrise.  May 1 represents the beginning of life in the spring. It is from the birds that the Osage Sioux received their souls and bodies as they ascended from the lower to upper worlds.


From the gateway of the circle, looking back at the bird effigy.

     The journey of the Osage Sioux people began at a point below the lowest upper world, on the left side of the chart. Then the people had neither human bodies nor souls, though they existed in some unknown manner.
 They ascended from the lowest upper world, on the left, to the highest. There they obtained human souls in the bodies of birds, according to Sadeki¢e. ʞahiʞe-waʇayiñʞa said that there they met a male red bird, to whom they appealed for aid.  This was distinct from the female Red Bird, who gave them human bodies. They descended to the first world, and from that they traveled until they alighted on the red oak tree. The ground was covered with grass and other kinds of vegetation. Then the paths of the people separated: some marched on the left, being the peace gentes that could not take life; they subsisted on roots &c.; while those on the right killed animals. By and by the gentes exchanged commodities.


Osage drawing of their journey from the lower to upper world