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ANCIENT
AMERICAN * ISSUE #29
Ancient Ohio's Great Hopewell Highway ©
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The Great Pyramid of Cheops (yellow) appears in scale with
the Newark circle-octagon to demonstrate an almost eerie commonality
of (1) area, (2) meas- urement and (3) angularity between the
two sites. With its earthen walls (in green) at full thickness,
the pyramid is wholly contained by the great circle. Similarly,
yet in a more linear fashion, twin Great Pyramids hypothetically
placed side-by-side would nicely span the twin circles, leaving
little footage between them (2). Then (3), the angle of true
north off the central axis, is very close, if not the same as
the slope of the Great Pyramid, i.e. between 51.5 and 52 degrees.
(Hamilton-Mason, after Thomas and Marshall). The mythical Great
Turtle (4) as a computer-enhanced version of a ceremonial terrapin
found in Ohio's Cresap Mound works in green. |
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The shell engraving of a proposed water spider (5)
found in Perry County, Missouri. Note the bowl on the back holding
a Native American symbol for the sun: the cross. This figure
was apparently widely known among pre-columbian Americans, as
it was also discovered in New Madrid, (Missouri), Etowah, (Georgia),
and on shell gorgets in Alabama. A similar figure was also found
at Spiro Oklahoma with a cross in the middle of its back and
a hand-motif around the outside. (Hamilton-Mason) The spider
figure situated beneath a geometric version of the Newark earthworks
coincides with Native American myths of the celestial Grandmother
Spider. The crypto-geometric circles form a web-like pattern
supporting her frame, which is itself based upon the earthworks
(in green). Moreover, the central axis resembles a thread spun
off her spinneret, taking perhaps signifying an aligned beam
of moonlight, (figure edited and computer enhanced by Patricia
Mason).
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