Cherokee National Treasure artist Martha Berry's bandoleer bag called, “Quantum Envy.”
There are two prevailing views about Cherokee origins. One is that the Cherokees are relative latecomers to Southern Appalachia. The other theory is that they have been there for thousands of years. Some historians believe that Cherokees came to Appalachia as late as the 13th century. Over time they moved into Muskogee Creek territory and settled on the sites of Muskogee mounds. Several Mississippian sites have been mis-attributed to the Cherokee, including Moundville and Etowah Mounds but are in fact Muskogee Creek. Pisgah Phase sites are associated with pre-contact Cherokee culture, and historic Cherokee villages featured artifacts with iconography from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
The other possibility is that Cherokee people have lived in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee for a far longer period of time. During the late Archaic and Woodland period, Indians in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambs quarters, pig weed, sunflowers and some native squash. People began building mounds, created new art forms such as shell gorgets, adopted new technologies, and followed an elaborate cycle of religious ceremonies. During the Mississippian Period (800 to 1500 CE), Cherokee ancestors developed a new variety of corn called eastern flint, which closely resembles modern corn. Corn was central to several religious ceremonies, especially the Green Corn Ceremony.
One account recorded in the late 18th century speaks of a "Moon-eyed people" who had lived in the Cherokee regions before they arrived. The group was described in 1797 by Colonel Leonard Marbury to Benjamin Smith Barton. According to Marbury, when the Cherokee arrived in the area they had encountered a "moon-eyed" people who could not see in the day-time.
There are two prevailing views about Cherokee origins. One is that the Cherokees are relative latecomers to Southern Appalachia. The other theory is that they have been there for thousands of years. Some historians believe that Cherokees came to Appalachia as late as the 13th century. Over time they moved into Muskogee Creek territory and settled on the sites of Muskogee mounds. Several Mississippian sites have been mis-attributed to the Cherokee, including Moundville and Etowah Mounds but are in fact Muskogee Creek. Pisgah Phase sites are associated with pre-contact Cherokee culture, and historic Cherokee villages featured artifacts with iconography from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
The other possibility is that Cherokee people have lived in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee for a far longer period of time. During the late Archaic and Woodland period, Indians in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambs quarters, pig weed, sunflowers and some native squash. People began building mounds, created new art forms such as shell gorgets, adopted new technologies, and followed an elaborate cycle of religious ceremonies. During the Mississippian Period (800 to 1500 CE), Cherokee ancestors developed a new variety of corn called eastern flint, which closely resembles modern corn. Corn was central to several religious ceremonies, especially the Green Corn Ceremony.
One account recorded in the late 18th century speaks of a "Moon-eyed people" who had lived in the Cherokee regions before they arrived. The group was described in 1797 by Colonel Leonard Marbury to Benjamin Smith Barton. According to Marbury, when the Cherokee arrived in the area they had encountered a "moon-eyed" people who could not see in the day-time.
CHICCHAN
Kin 5: Red Overtone Serpent
I empower in order to survive
Commanding instinct
I seal the store of life force
With the overtone tone of radiance
I am guided by the power of space.
Quetzalcoatl represents the morning and evening stars as well as the cycles of life, death and regeneration. Prepare now for death; the body is a garment of soul, put on at birth, and cast off when death occurs.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2015-2016.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Vishuddha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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