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Choctaw tribe’s Creation mythology and their Mound of Creation, Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Muskogean languages, and the Eagle dance
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “The Choctaws in ancient days found their home when the prophet sank the sacred red pole into a prehistoric mound (one they did not create) they had found alongside Nanih Wayah Creek, and it...
Indigenous Peoples in Brazil and the Amazon: Somewhat Similar Mythology and Religion (animism/totemism/shamanism/paganism), Languages, Clans, Chiefdoms, Axis Mundi (path to/from the sky, Cord/Pole, World Tree/Tree of Life, Mountain/Hill/Mound, etc.)
Damie Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref"Many Amerindian minority languages are spoken throughout Brazil, mostly in Northern Brazil. Indigenous languages with about 10,000 speakers or more are Ticuna (language isolate), Kaingang (Gean...
Indigenous Pre-Columbian Brazilian Shell Mounds and Amazonian Earthworks, Q-DNA migrations and the Spread of Culture and Religious thinking
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refExpansion of “Sambaqui” (Shell Mound) culture in Brazil, starting from 6000 BCE or 8,000 years ago - Video“At the site in the coastal city of Sao Luis had uncovered thousands of...
Water and Mythology: Water Deities and Creation
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refThe being in the top middle is Nammu “Nammu (also read Namma) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as a creator deity in the local theology of Eridu.” ref “Eridu was a...
12,000 years of climate changes that coincided/influenced culture impacts: periods and events in climate history; affecting seeming changes in places, people movements/behaviors, and culture persuasions
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refList of Periods and Events in Climate History * "12,800–11,500 years ago Younger Dryas sudden cold and dry period in Northern Hemisphere" ref "The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period in Earth's geologic...
Indigenous Religion and Monuments of the Land: Ancient Earthworks/Rockworks; Rings and Mounds in Canada
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refIndigenous Religion and Monuments of the Land: Ancient Earthworks/Rockworks; Rings and Mounds in Canada: *Rings, such as medicine wheels *Mounds, such as burial mounds, temple mounds, platform (like elite housing...