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Thursday, April 30, 2020

What's Inside a Burial Mound? A Look at an Illinois Dakota Sioux Hopewell Mound

What's Inside a Burial Mound? A Look at an Illinois Dakota Sioux Hopewell Mound


This is the excavation of the  Ethel R. Wilson Mound 6 was located in White County, Illinois. The burial mound was excavated in 1950 by the Illinois State Museum

The burial mound was 90 feet in diameter. and 13 feet in height. Carbon dating revealed that the mound was constructed about 200 B.C.

The six burial included one woman.  All of the skeletons had grave good included, included with their burials that were cut bear jaws and platform pipes.


Platform pipes that are associated with the later Dakota Sioux were included with all the burial along with a few conches shells.













Tuesday, May 22, 2018

“Golgothas” of the Mandans: Legacy of the Hopewell Mound Builders

 “Golgothas” of the Mandans: Legacy of the Hopewell Mound Builders

With evidence that the Mandan were in the Ohio Valley burying there dead in mounds, the Golgothas give valuable insight into Ohio Hopewell.
“Golgothas” of the Mandans: Legacy of the Ohio Mound Builders
   There are several of these golgothas, or circles of twenty or thirty feet in diameter, and in the center of each ring or circle is a little mound of three feet high, on which uniformly rest two buffalo skulls (a male and female), and in the center of the little mound is erected “a medicine pole,” of about twenty feet high, supporting many curious articles of mystery and superstition, which they supposedly have the power of guarding and protecting this sacred arrangement.
   Here, then, to this strange place do these people again resort to evince their further affections for the dead, not in groans and lamentations, however, for several years have cured the anguish, but fond affection and endearments are here renewed, and conversations are here held and cherished with the dead. Each one of these skulls is placed upon a bunch of wild sage, which has been pulled and placed under it. The wife knows, by some mark or resemblance, the skull of her husband or her child which lies in this group, and they're seldom passes a day that she does not visit it with a dish of the best-cooked food that her wigwam affords, which she sets before the skull at night, and returns for the dish in the morning. As soon as it is discovered that the sage on which the skull rests is beginning to decay, the woman cuts a fresh bunch and places the skull carefully upon it, removing that which was under it.
   Independent of the above-named duties, which draw the women to this spot, they visit it from inclination and linger upon it to hold converse and company with the dead. There is scarcely an hour in a pleasant day but more or less of these women may be seen sitting or lying by the skull of their child or husband, talking to it in the most pleasant and endearing language that they can use (as they were wont to do in former days), and seemingly getting an answer back.


Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The 8 Gods and Goddesses of the Dakota Sioux are Symbolized with the Ohio Hopewell Mound Builder's Earthworks



The 8 Deities of the Sioux Indians and the Ohio Hopewell Earthworks

Wankan Tanka - The Great Spirit that created everything. He governs all.



The number 8 is prevalent in the Ohio Hopewell earthworks. The octagon at Newark was constructed to venerate these gods.


The center column represents the Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka.  He symbolized here as the Tree of Life.  The 4 earthen columns on each side represent the 8 lesser deities.



Wi -  The most powerful Sun god
Shkan - The sky god
Maka - The Earth Mother
Inyan - Rock and immovable things

Hanwi - Goddess of the Moon - wife of Wi

Tate -  god of the winds
Wohpe - The falling star or meteor
Wakinyan - Thunderbird


Wi, The Sun God, was represented by circular earthworks or henges.



Maka, The Earth Mother was represented by the square. The largest circle may represent Shkan, the sky god


Stone walls on hilltop ceremonial works were dedicated to Inyan



Tate was the god of the 4 winds.



Wohpe - The falling star or meteor



Wakinyan - Thunderbird