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Lake Baikal and Myths of Creation: Primordial waters, Supernatural Creatures of water, and the Mounds of creation
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refPeople reached Lake Baikal Siberia around 25,000 years ago. They (to Damien) were likely Animistic Shamanists who were also heavily totemistic as well. Being animistic...
Shaman Rock, on Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Siberia, with a natural rock image that resembles a dragon. And is one of the “Nine Holy Sites of Asia.”
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refPeople may have first seen the Shaman Rock with the natural brown rock formation resembling a dragon between 30,000 to 25,000 years ago.ref "On the western side of the surface of the back of the...
Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, Isthmo-Colombians, and Incas: their differences and similarities, Origins, DNA, Languages, Cultures, Religions, and Gods
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref“To assume that the Aztecs conquered the Mayans is incorrect for multiple reasons. The Aztecs and the Mayan were two distinct cultures of indigenous people.” ref "The haplogroup frequencies...
Pre-contact: distribution of North, Central, and South American language families and their Deities/Paganism or Religious/Spiritual beliefs like Shamanism/or “medicine people”
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art refNorth America Area (with Deities/paganism and Shamanism/or "medicine people") Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit languages The Algic: Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok languages Siouan–Catawban languages...
The Intersex Rights Movement: 60% used the term Intersex and the label DSD “disorders of sex development” had only 3% support in defining their sex characteristics
ref, ref, ref Intersex people can identify their Gender as: Male, Female, Trans, third gender, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Etc. “Being non-binary is also not the same as being intersex; most intersex people identify as either male or female.” ref Intersex people can...
Isthmo-Colombian Area (portions of Central and South America) mainly by Chibchan languages and Seats of Power
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Art and info adapted from: Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies) by Colin...