[yWleIJm4]

sigini -

thank you for sharing that link. while i am not of native american heritage, i have long held there ways in high regard.

currently i live near cherokee, nc - this is the home of the eastern band of the cherokee indians. i look to establish links with some of the cherokee people...

i grew up near cahokia, illinois - there is a huge site called cahokia mounds. i was fortunate enough to have gone on several class trips and toured the site. later in life i came to learn that the mound builders were extensive throughout north america and this kept my interest alive.

one thing that always stuck with me from those visits were the "wood henges". from memory, there was evidence that there were like 4 or 5 of these, for lack of a better word, "interacting".

i am curious as to whether these wood henges and the medicine wheels in your link are one in the same. additionally, how similar are they to other native "calendar" systems?

another item that has recently drawn my curiosity is the birdman tablet. i used to have a reproduction as a child. i wonder, could this be "the source" of their information, similar to say, quetzalcoatl?

for anyone interested, here is a link to the website:

www.cahokiamounds.com

thanks again,

art

[ringsarcle]

great thread, gang-

so much of our past has been trampled , buried, erased, etc. for whatever reason we may only speculate. re-learning what we already know, deep inside on some level, , allows the dance, though interrupted, to continue. as more validation of our collective past brilliance comes back to the light of awareness, may we embrace this knowledge, and continue our dance on into a shining future...

the following short vid explains some of this lost knowledge for further study-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=honf9gyv_ju

bob

[anderriter]

dear friends,

we are the children of a sun...

a sun of god...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ikoruxybapo

sacred earth
http://youtube.com/watch?v=np8whytfqzy

be well, be love.

david

[adolfadsermens]

david,
thanks for these videos. i think you will like this article about the significance and information about the medicine wheels.
"led by the findings of the anthropologists and archaeologists, astronomers grew increasingly interested in the many wheels found in alberta. the more they studied the wheels, the more they found remarkable signs that the ancient natives had even a greater understanding of the cosmos than earlier believed.

with no written language, the ancients were experts at obtaining information from previous wisdom carriers. the medicine pipe individuals had highly self trained memories and exacting methods of tracking the sun, moon, stars and planets.

they were taught the "sky marks" and patterns and marked them, using the medicine wheels to track their movements across the skies using the rawhide strips and rocks. further investigation proved that the line through the hub aligns with the summer solstice sunrise. the probability of this being a chance occurrence is one in four thousand indicating the validity of the true expertise of the water piper holders."

http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/blac...kexcerpts.html