SilentFeathers Sacred Pathways

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My wife and I took a ride to the Etowah Indian Mounds this weekend that are at Cartersville, Georgia. These mounds are majestic and also a very sacred place. The main mound is one of the largest mounds found that still remains intact in the United States.

(Note: All the trees on the mounds died 4 years ago due to drought and have been removed).

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Here's a little history about them:

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"The last pre-historic cultural development in North America was the Mississippian Culture, thriving from approximately 800 AD until the arrival of European explorers. The Mississippian Culture spanned from Wisconsin and Minnesota in the north, through Georgia to the south, and westward into the Great Plains. These people enjoyed an intricate system of trading, were accomplished craftsmen, and practiced sophisticated religious beliefs.

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Chief Priests governed their fortified towns. These leaders lived in temples atop large earthen mounds overlooking a central ceremonial plaza. Lesser leaders might also live on mounds, but the tallest would be for the temple of the Chief Priest. Upon the death of the Chief Priest, his temple would be destroyed and another layer of earth would be added for his successor. Ones social standing would be reflected in how close his home was to the plaza."

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I had the feeling and believe that these mounds pre-date what the historians are telling us, I strongly sense that they are way older than a mere thousand years old.

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I'm usually a little hesitant about walking on certain sacred ground or sites, but I did go up on top of the largest mound here and spent a little time on it. I felt quite comfortable and many spirits were flowing up there. I said a little prayer and enjoyed the moment, and the view.

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One of the first things I immediately noticed as I got to the top of this mound was that off in the distance (5 miles away), you could see one of the largest power plants in the southeast. It was a very strange feeling and such a contrast as you reach the top of such an ancient structure and see in the distance such a huge high tech power plant. It really gave you a sense of the different way humans are now living compared to when this mound was erected. It was if I was standing in one world and being surrounded by or seeing another. It was a very strange feeling, to say the least.

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There are also 2 large stone statues that were found at the bottom of one of the smaller mounds that are in the museum there. They are quite unique looking and as I looked at them I got a sense of something way more than we could ever understand or know about the people that built these mounds. The statutes almost look Mayan in a way and the craftsmanship of them look way more sophisticated than being carved with a couple of flint knives and sticks, the only tools historians say these people had at the time.

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Sometimes you can't believe some of the things you are told about our past (or most things) and really need to follow your gut, or more importantly, your heart.

Thank you Great One for blessing me with this experience, Aho!

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Note: I will post all the photos I took here in the photo gallery in an album titled ?Etowah Indian Mounds?.

SilentFeathers 8-7-2010

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It was a true honor and blessing to see these sacred mounds and to walk this sacred ground.

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About 15 years ago a friend of mine in Wisconsin found an albino fawn laying along side the road after the mother was hit and killed by a car. The mother was also an albino deer. My friend took these pictures and sent them to me while she had this fawn in her care and was nursing it back to health. She eventually took this fawn to an animal refuge/reserve and it was released back into the wild and lived the rest of its life out.

Below are a couple pictures of the fawn that my friend sent me right after she found the fawn and had it at her home....

Today someone sent me this video news clip of a PBS special about a whole herd of albino deer in Wisconsin that are known as the Ghost Deer of Wisconsin. I found it quite fascinating and wanted to share this with everyone!

I couldn't embed the video as this site doesn't support the format, but the link will take you straight to the webpage where you can play the video. Enjoy!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=inwi10s22a3q81f

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The really strange thing about this is that I was born in Wisconsin and remember seeing an albino buck where I was staying when I couldn't of been 18 to 24 months old. My mother died when I was 18 months old and my father had a friend of his taking care of me when he was at work. They lived in the woods of northern Wisconsin and I actually remember watching this huge ablino buck eating at their bird feeder. I used to stand behind a curtain on a low window ledge and watch this deer. I even remember the deer coming up to the window and looking at me and actually licking the window near my face.

Years later when I was 10 or 12 years old I asked my dad about this deer, thinking that this memory was just a dream or some form of creation in my own mind. My dad told me that this old buck was well known in the area and that the people that were taking care of me were basically it's parents and always fed it and protected it since it was a fawn. It was well known to all the hunters in the area at the time and an agreement was made by everyone not to ever shoot it.

My dad also told me that when he used to come and pick me up after work, there were several instances when they couldn't find me right away, but always knew where to look. He said I basically stayed on that window ledge most of the time waiting for or watching that deer! He couldn't believe that I remembered that deer considering I was so young at the time.

My dad also told me that his friends watching me told him on several occasions that this deer would come up to the window and bump the window with its nose trying to get me too move, I don't remember this, but I am sure it is quite possible.

My dads friends nickname was actually "Whity" due to this deer. I actually remember Whity's wife more than whity himself, actually I remember the deer more than either of them......isn't it strange how this could be?????

Talk about some big and strange medicine at an early age!

Some of you know that I have been away for the last few days and this is one of the places I spent a day at, specifically Thursday, March 18, 2010.

My wife and I are very blessed and fortunate to be able to take this trip this week to Nevada/Arizona considering the bad economy and tight financial situation we are in. Although this has set us back a bit, it was a much-needed trip, mentally and spiritually. Due to the tight financial issue we had to do quite alot in 48hrs, !!!! We spent all day Wednesday at the Grand Canyon, but I want to write about the day we spent on Thursday March 18, at the Moapa Indian Reservation and The Valley of Fire.

The Valley of Fire was just as or more majestic that the Grand Canyon. The Ancient Pueblo called the Anasazi held the Valley of Fire in Nevada very sacred from about 300BC until about 1150AD, when they suddenly disappeared. It is my feeling that peoples before them and after them frequented this 35,000 plus acre valley. For being out in the middle of the Mojave Desert I was quite surprised at the marvelous place. The Mojave is beautiful regardless, but in this valley, Mother Earth has seemed to push her inner beauty to the surface, which scientifically is what is actually happening out there.

The peoples before and after the Anasazi obviously held this place very sacred and probably visited this place for spiritual reasons only. The valley is loaded with desert medicine plants of all kinds, wildlife, and MUCH evidence of the mother and father (Mother Earth and Father Creator). Certain areas may have been used for sacred hunting grounds as the history books tell us too. My personal feelings though are that this place was spiritually BIG MEDICINE, and still is. There really is no evidence of any permanent residence of any peoples there at any time, just evidence that it was visited only. 

One place in particular I felt was a very ancient large ceremonial center used by several different waves of peoples throughout thousands of years. It was loaded with hundreds of petroglyphs, and seemed to be in the center of things so to speak. My first impression was that it was a spiritual center.... and also a hall (mountain) of records, a library in a sense. I've seen and also studied petroglyphs over the years and some of these there were older than 300BC. Matter of fact, in my opinion, much older. I felt a large span of time and history there, generations upon generations.

The beautiful fiery red mountains that rise from the dessert floor here are alive in many ways obvious to the human eye and sprit. Everywhere I looked I seen spiritual faces of every living thing imaginable looking back at me. It was quite the feeling to be there!

I posted a photo album in the gallery of some pictures I took there to share with everyone. Take a look at them and tell me what you see!?!? If you’re ever in this area of Las Vegas, Nevada, you have to go see this! Its 50 miles North of Vegas and I wish I would of had a few days to just camp there...maybe I'll wander out that way again sometime!

SilentFeathers....