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| BURLINGTON MOUND BUILDERS By Mary Sutherland Copyright 2004 Any reproduction of following material is forbidden and protected under copyright law EXCERPT FROM BURLINGTON MOUND BUILDERS : EARTHS ENERGY GRID AND LEY LINES In order to understand the importance of the discoveries here in Wisconsin concerning the Ancient Mound Builders, underground tunnels, paranormal phenomenon and the mounds themselves we must first understand what links them all together..the Earth Energy Grid. Simply put Energy. The Earth Energy Grid is the earth’s electromagnetic field that envelops our planet with a geometric pattern of magnetic lines of force. It is an invisible web of energy that crisscrosses the planet very similar to the acupuncture meridians of our own body. The major energy pathways of which the energy travels are commonly referred to as ‘ley lines’. Where these ley lines intersect, an energy eddy or vortex occurs. These are the ‘earth chakras’ or ‘power points’. The power points are similar to electrical switches or energy transducers spreading around the planet in the precise geometry of an ‘icosadecahedron’. Sacred sites of the Ancient Ones built their structures from pyramids to stone circles to mounds. These structures worked much like that of the old radio with a crystal transmitter or receiver..and they were all ‘tuned’ to particular electromagnetic frequencies, still working today as well as they did when originally built. In the 1960's the earth grid was re-discovered by three Russian scientists who seeking a link to earth energy patterns and significant places in history. The precise geometry they found in the shape of a dodecahedron linked , which caused author John Mitchell to note: "A great scientific instrument lies sprawled over the entire surface of the globe.” It was during this time, we were to be given proof, for those with the sight to see, that there had to have been a worldwide culture that was not only highly advanced intellectually, but had the understanding of the earth energies and also had the technological know how to harness earth and stellar energies. We should also note, at the present day, we are only now beginning to understand what these Ancient Ones had already known and utilized. As research progresses it is beginning to emerge that these tuned ancient structures were like antennae of radio towers that could be energized as sonic receptor sites according to a graduated dial of master transmissions. Modern grid researchers like mathematician Captain Bruce Cathie (Ret.) in New Zealand are convinced that some kind of ancient high technology utilized the frequency transmission capabilities of the earth’s oscillating electromagnetic grid.. These transceiver sites and structures were somehow calibrated in terms of a master electromagnetic spectrum geared to consciousness and life-support needs of humans and biosphere. Each site was an interactive energy switch point, an energy vortex, that could both receive and transmit resonant frequencies through the local web system. The early 20th century researchers Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla were forced underground after remarkable public demonstrations of how to tap ‘free energy’ from the oscillating earth field. The vested interests of the day were horrified and acted quickly to stifle this knowledge of the earth grid. As science today pats their backs on their latest discoveries, they refuse to acknowledge that their discoveries are only what we refer to as ‘re-discoveries’ of lost technology..technology of the ‘gods’ of ancient times. I dare to say, that millions of years ago, before 'modern' man (Adamic Man) , an ancient race with high intelligence, advanced technology and aerospace capabilities lived on earth. Great earth catastrophes wiped out much of this race , mutated some and drove many more underground. (Later in this book, I will go into depth about the underground tunnels and cities of where they escaped and found refuge). While waiting out the effects of what an ancient nuclear war created on the surface, man went back to a more natural or should I say 'simplistic' culture. By the time they re-surfaced or returned from distance planets the Age of Man had changed. Knowledge was lost and the old technology and way of life was gone. Man had to start over. ..as they had done before, during previous Ages. All through history, we have stories from around the world of this ancient culture. The aboriginal elders of NSW North Coast Bundjalung tribe give us the history of the coming seven tribes in ancient days who came from a destroyed homeland in the heavens. These people built a system of pyramids, containing giant crystals, that encircled the world to create a nourishing and protective energy field. Bundjalung elders even refer to a large pyramid hidden in rainforest of northern New South Wales. A major cycle is nearly finished. New things are about to begin. Some expect the final event to take place in the year 2012. Learning the wisdom, survival techniques and technology of the Ancient Ones is now at a crucial peak. It is now a matter of survival. The ancient and revered art of ‘grid engineering’ not only provides a deep insight into the evolutionary cycles but describes how to reprogram the local electromagnetic spectrum to reactivate the earth grid and restore the earth to the legendary ‘paradise’ that existed before ‘the fall’. So, there you have it. One quick lesson in what may be the most important lesson you learn for the preparation of yours and your children’s future survival. Earth grid research or ‘ley hunting’ has become a modern-day quest for enigmatic clues of ancient culture and science on this worldwide grid pattern. Some of the major power points encircling the earth are the Bermuda Triangle, Mt. Shasta, Giza Pyramid. The one I am researching is the area of Burlington WI, not far from the pyramid found in Rock Lake, WI and the ancient ruins of Atzalan, WI . This area has a high amount of ancient burial mounds and is very active in paranormal activities. While digging through Navoo Illinois Mormon Temple archives, I discovered that the historic district of Burlington had been built over twenty seven burial mounds. Digging deeper in back issues of the local newspaper, I discovered an article claiming skeletal remains were found while digging foundations at the now Tops Museum, JLS Vacuum, Kreins Color Bar, the Old Mill. Although it is highly illegal to disturb these mounds and burial sites , we have those in the area that are still destroying and building apartments, restaurants and homes over these sacred grounds. Apparently they feel if they keep quiet about it and not report the skeletal remains being uncovered they can get away with it. But as you learn of the energies and begin to understand how our ancestors still protect these sacred sites you will learn, as I have, that they will answer for their disrespect and dishonesty. It is only a matter of time. For this reason, I leave this in the hands of those more qualified than I. I marvel at the hypocrisy of the people practicing their religions based on ‘faith’ alone, while they ‘demand’ proof of any idea that does not fit within their established doctrines. Why is it so hard for people to accept that prophecy and angelic visitations is still going on today. There is the recurring tradition of ancient and indigenous peoples around the globe who describe communication with ‘gods’ and the comings and goings of ‘angels’ or ‘higher light beings’ at these power places. The Jews were not the only tribe that had strange things happening on the mountain top and bushes bursting into flame. As a matter of fact, we have a video taken here at our center with a fire flashing out of the invisible world. Although we could not see it with our eyes, it was recorded on tape as I videoed a client. Another client came to my office with an account of her and a family member watching a fire burning behind her refrigerator in the Boners Lake area outside of Burlington. This was a metaphysical fire , much like that of the burning bush of Moses. Why is it that we can believe the story of the burning bush of Moses, but find it so hard to believe that the same type of metaphysical events are real today? This area, at one time, was known as the ‘Place of the Healing Waters’. Where the location of the healing waters is has either been lost or hidden by what the aborigines call the Adnamatna, which are the caretakers of the magic in the land. We lovingly call them the ‘giants’ but give them respect for being very powerful and no one to mess with. Our socially accepted ‘norms’ or acts are determined based on ‘facts’ that are ‘presented’ to us. Unfortunately the ‘facts’ given to us are and have been revised to suit the attitudes of the prevailing paradigms. What was accepted yesterday , may not be the accepted today. Although we pride ourselves in being a ‘free’ society, there are ‘elitists’ groups that own and control the very media and societies we live in..and Burlington is no exception to this rule. Peal away the skin of the onion and you will find our world is controlled by popes, kings, presidents, professors, spiritual leaders, and secret brotherhoods. On the surface, Burlington Wisconsin is Hometown, USA, but what lies below the surface is another story..a story local historians don’t write about..nor do they want written about. It is an occult town with many secrets. Secrets of the Mounds and their builders , mysterious vortexes , inter-dimensional portals and the underground tunnels system that weave underneath it’s surface. It is the ‘Promised land’ or ‘The New Jerusalem’. Voree , which is part of Burlington, is the Promised Land or The New Jerusalem. It is the place of the Gathering for the Mormon people during the End Times. I have often asked myself , ‘why did they chose the Burlington area as one of the gathering places?’. Lately, I have come to believe that it is because of the underground tunnels. The Native Americans tell that their people were saved by going down into the tunnels. If the Cycles do repeat themselves and great catastrophes plague the earth, these tunnels would provide a safe refuge. In the early church periodicals from Zion, Kirtland, Far West, and Nauvoo, gathering was emphasized over 1000 times, whereas the endowment was mentioned only about 150 times.” The numbers are similarly proportioned in the scriptures. Surely, it is important to live in sacred places. “We believe in the gathering of God’s people to Zion (Jerusalem in Israel and New Jerusalem in Jackson County, Missouri), or to one of its stakes (historically Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; and Voree, Wisconsin), or to the Islands of the Great Lakes where God’s literal kingdom was established in 1850. Voree has a special promise of peace and refuge, and in keeping with that prophecy there has never been persecution there. Instead of gathering to stakes of Zion, other Mormons now put stakes among the gentiles, for convenience, and never mention gathering to a sacred city.” Prophet Strang claimed to have found the Brass Plates outside of Burlington, off what is now called Mormon Road . According to Prophet Strang, he found these plates buried in a grave, held in the arms of giant. The plates bore strange writings that he was later to decipher. "The Angel of the Lord came unto me, James, on the first day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-five, and the light shined about him above the brightness of the sun, and he showed unto me the plates of the sealed record, and he gave into my hands the Urim and Thummim. And out of the light came the voice of the Lord saying . . . Go to the place which the Angel of the presence shall show thee, and there shalt thou dig for the record of my people in whose possession thou dwellest. Take with thee faithful witnesses . . . And while I was yet in the Spirit, the Angel of the Lord took me away to the hill in the east of Walworth, against White River in Voree, and there he showed unto me the record buried under an oak tree as large as the body of a large man; it was enclosed in an earthen casement, and buried in the ground as deep as to a man's waist; and I beheld it as a man can see a light stone in clear water, for I saw it by Urim and Thummim; and I returned the Urim and Thummim to the Angel of the Lord, and he departed out of sight." Voree Herald, January 1846; Zion's Reveille, 25 March and 1 April 1847; and Gospel Herald, 4 May 1848: The Mormon Road area is very active with paranormal activities. We have frequent reports of people claiming to have experienced phenomenon such as inter-dimensional doorways or windows opening showing them images of past events and ghostly apparitions. Occultism can be found in the architecture of the Burlington buildings..old and new alike. Since the 1800's the magical practice of symbology has been practiced here. Even the Mormon name hints at the occult. Mormo is the King of the Ghouls or the Living Dead. Symbology is also practiced by the Freemasons and Scottish rite free masonry. Metaphysically, symbols have been employed to communicate hidden mystical messages. For practitioners of the occult, these symbols are tools specifically used in wielding supernatural powers and in communicating their various doctrines. These symbols can be many centuries old, yet their meanings remain the same. Although in this Age we may not 'know' the meanings, it in no way negates their significance. Manly P. Hall, one of the most influential occultist of the last century, wrote this of symbols, "They are centers of a mighty force, figures pregnant with an awful power…" (Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, p. 356). Many of the Burlington runes are linked to the Sun and Moon. Runes are letters used in the earliest Germanic and Nordic alphabets. It’s a modification of Roman or Greek characters and was used from about the third century. Jack Tresidder, author of the Dictionary of Symbols, wrote, The linking of specific runes to the sun, moon and other sky gods, and the art of funerary rune carvings, led to the belief that runes embodied supernatural powers ¾ to protect, to avenge and particularly to foretell the future. (p. 173). Expanding this idea further, The Complete Book of Amulets and Talismans reports, The runes of the Scandinavians were believed to possess great magical qualities, and they were used commonly in the preparation of spells…. Some of the runic letters and signs are so powerful, tradition warns the uninitiated against trying to perform any feat of magic with them. From 1880 to the 1940's an entire sub-culture of Germanic esoteric orders emerged. Occultism flourished! Theosophy, Freemasonry, Mormonism, Rosicrucianism, neo-templar orders, Hermetic orders, and a variety of other occult societies competed for membership and influence, each claiming to hold the secrets of the universe. According to The Occult Roots of Nazism (New York University Press), runes were also used for their magical properties in divination, the casting of lots, invocations and the preparation of amulets and charms. Thus each individual rune possessed its own name and symbolism over and above its phonetic and literary value. Today, runes are evident in New Age shops, occult books, movies, and television shows. J.R.R. Tolkien’s massive Lord of the Rings trilogy contains numerous references to magical runes. Mr. Tolkien was, however, a very real expert on ancient Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Nordic languages. Therefore, it’s no surprise that he incorporated runes and a variety other mythical elements into his literature. The magical element is almost always connected with a part of nature or life. The Forces of Nature are non-discriminating. The runes can thus be used for good or evil and the power of the spell can last indefinitely..sometimes eternally. My question has always been, ‘What are the runes and symbols of Burlington, Wisconsin used for?’ Although I have not an answer for that, I do know that combining the symbology with the vortexes has created an immense supernatural force and has made Burlington Wisconsin one of the most active paranormal spots in the United States . The earth grid, energy points, paranormal, tunnels, inner cities, mounds, the mound builders and Burlington Wisconsin are all inter-connected to a universal force, The earth is powered by a life force that emits electro-magnetic energies. She is a live breathing entity of which we are part of. Her blood is her energy . Her veins carry the energy which are the ley lines, mentioned earlier. Her heart is the center of the earth . And her chakras are energy points found where her veins cross over in the form of a cross (+). These energy points are the gateways or doorways to the inter-dimensional worlds. Burlington lies on one of these points. It not only affects the area but its people. Paranormal spots are caused by rifts. As a rule, major ley lines don’t cross each other. When they do , the cross section is called a nexus point. At this intersection, rifts are formed, which is a tear in reality. The size of the rift would be in accordance to the stress of the reality of the environment around the nexus point proportional to the ley lines that cross. To simplify this statement, let me explain it this way. If two small ley lines crossed in a remote locations, a small rift, if any, would appear. However, an area such as Stonehenge that has a number of very strong major lines crossing it and numerous minor ones tend to create larger and even multiple rifts. Frequency of rift openings is determined by the relative strength of the nexus point. If a strong magical nexus exists, the chance to split reality occurs more frequently. We have found several very strong rift openings in the Burlington area. One is near Browns Lake, another off Mormon Road, another near Honey Creek, Rochester, Bong Recreational Area and Eagle Lake. THE MOUNDS There were more mounds in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America. At one time, Wisconsin had between 15,000 and 20,000 mounds. Now only approximately 4,000 remain and with the amount of highway and new home construction going on the remaining mounds are being drastically reduced. The effigy mounds in Wisconsin were sometimes over a thousand feet long, and were found in the forms of birds, dogs, snakes, bears, panthers, buffalo, men, fish, turtles and some that the ‘Pre-Columbian inhabitants’ would have known nothing about , such as the elephant and the horse. In Celtic mythology, the ancient mounds or sidhe were portals to the other world, accessed by astral flight or perhaps in the case of UFOs ..actual travel within an electromagnetic field with the ley lines converging, making an inter-dimensional vortex These ancient mounds and the ‘other worlds’ are referenced in Greek mythology. It is written ‘After the war between the Titans and Olympians, Hades and his two brothers decided to divide the universe between them. Zeus receive the sky or Olympus, Poseidon became lord of the sea, while Hades ruled the Underworld. The mound builders placed monoliths, dolmens and henges (gateways) at locations that form interlocking grids. By connecting the mound sites on a map, a pattern develops revealing geometric patterns in the shape of five pointed stars . They also seem to map out star constellations . Chambered mounds, comprised of alternating rock (inorganic) and soil, (organic) are ‘orgone’ accumulators and concentrate energy, some emit sound waves, while others blank them out. These frequencies may have a positive effect on the bio-rhythms of someone within the chamber or enhance altered states of consciousness. “The key energy meridians, were employed by ancient priest-scientists as a musical system to stabilize the tectonic plates of the planet...” From the mother earth "the way of the Word" or "the power of the Word", the ancient priests used the language of Light to tune the planet like a giant harmonic bell.” Nikola Tesla stated, "All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether." He sensed the universe was composed of a symphony of alternating currents with the harmonies played on a vast range of octaves. To explore the whole range of electrical vibration , he believed, would bring one closer to an understanding of the cosmic symphony. The bible gives us a clue to Tesla’s theory in Genesis , ‘In the beginning was the ‘Word’. Sages are very aware of the cosmic symphony and meditate on the universal sound. George Russel wrote of an experience he had in the Chamber of Newgrange in 1897. As he spoke, he paused before a great mound overgrown with trees, and around it silver clear in the moonlight were immense stones piled, the remains of an original circle, and there was a dark low narrow entrance leading within - He took Con by the hand and in an instant they were standing in a lofty, cross shaped cave, built roughly of huge stones. "This was my palace. In days past many a one plucked here the purple flower of magic and the fruit of the tree of life......” And even as he spoke, a light began to glow and to pervade the cave, and to obliterate the stone walls and the antique hieroglyphics engraven thereon, and to melt the earthen floor into itself like a fiery sun suddenly uprisen within the world, and there was everywhere a wandering ecstasy of sound; light and sound were one; light had a voice.....“I am Aengus, men call me young. I am the sunlight in the heart, moonlight in the mind; I am the light at the end of every dream....I will make you immortal; for my palace opens into the Gardens of the Sun." When the Tuatha De Dannan were defeated by the Gaels and exiled beneath the mounds the Good God, the Daghda, assigned each one a sidhe. These sidhe, barrows or hillocks, were each a doorway to an underground realm of inexhaustible splendour and delight. The ‘front door’ to Avalon, appears to be Glastonbury Tor. Beneath lay fairy palaces and Dagda's was Brugh na Boyne, (Newgrange) Llyr was given, sidh Fionnachaidh, Bodb Derg received Sidh Bodb, south of Galway and so on, the spots are still known to the Irish. It was from this time that the Gaelic gods received the name Aes Sidhe, the 'People of the Hills' every god, or fairy is a Fer-Sidhe, a 'man of the hill,' and every goddess a Bean-Sidhe, a 'woman of the hills.' Admiral Richard E. Byrd, famous for his legendary flight to the ‘land beyond the poles’, claimed that the higher beings (Arianni) reside in the Inner-Earth and are capable of interstellar flight and must be in communication with others of their kind on hollow planets in the solar system. He believed that the ones we now call ‘gods’, the ancient ones, are in fact the highly technically advanced and civilized race living within our earth today. This may account for why not only is there high paranormal activity around the ancient mounds but in most cases there are also UFO sightings. The Mounds are eternally sacred places and connect us to the land and the supernatural. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Euro-American explorers traveled westward along Wisconsin’s rivers and trails. As they paddled and walked they encountered areas where the earth was sculpted into birds, animals and even people. Amazed, but unsure what to make of their discovery, they drew maps and wrote reports for newspapers, scientific journals and even Congress. Soon the Wisconsin Territory had become famous for its mysterious effigies. Alas, many of the mounds were destroyed by people digging them up in the hopes of finding valuable objects to sell. Other mounds were simply in the way— seen as a nuisance - in the path of roads, railroads, houses and quarries. Some were carted away by gardeners and bridge-builders who wanted to use the earth they were made of for fill. BURIAL SITE PROTECTION LAW OF 1985 "Thanks to the introduction of new state and Federal laws, Wisconsin’s remaining mounds have now been protected. According to the Burial Site Protection Law of 1985, Wisconsin progressively defined all Native American mounds as human burial places. The law protects them from disturbance and destruction, as it does for all cemeteries and family plots. Unfortunately, most do not report the destruction of the mounds. Construction workers are given orders to keep their mouths shut and continue their excavation of the site, bulldozing through the graves , destroying artifacts. This recently happened on Hwy 50 outside of Burlington. While excavating the land for the bypass, a native American village was uncovered. It held an archeological treasure chest full of wonderful artifacts. The discovery was reported and archeologists did come out to filter through and collect as much as they could. BUT, they were given 30 days to complete their archeological dig and collection of artifacts. At that time, they were to leave and let the construction crew continue their work. After the 30 day time line was completed, the crew bulldozed their way through and paved over what was left of any evidence of the history of these people. Sadly.. the history beneath Hwy 50 is now lost to us forever. Lesson learned..although we have laws to protect our ancient ones..if they are not enforced, they are useless! And..as time goes by and the remains of our past are lost or destroyed, we fall deeper and deeper into the pits of ignorance of our past and the ways of our ancestors. THE MOUND BUILDERS History was changed to keep us blinded to who we were and what we could be. Digging into our archives of antiquities we can finally begin to understand the importance of the earth mounds and the people that built them. Although little evidence remains of the Mound Builders, through the documentation of C.W. Butterfield’s research, we are able to get a glimpse into our past. Although there is some information that I don’t necessarily agree with, at least we are able to get an insight of history according to this one researcher in 1879. History of Wisconsin, by C.W. Butterfield, Wisconsin Antiquities Copyright 1879 , The Western Historical Company, Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington D.C. “The first explorers of the valleys of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi and its tributaries seem not to have noticed, to any considerable extent, the existence within these vast areas of monuments of an ‘extinct’ race. Gradually, however, as the tide of emigration broke through the barriers of the Alleghanies and spread in a widely extended flow over what are now the states of the Northwest, these prehistoric vestiges attracted more and more the attention of the curious and the learned, until, at the present time, almost every person is presumed to have some general knowledge, not only of their existence, but of some of their striking peculiarities. Unfortunately, these signs of a long since departed people are fast disappearing by the never ceasing operations of the elements, and the constant encroachments of civilization. The earliest notices of the animal and vegetable kingdom of this region are to be found in its rocks; but Wisconsin’s earliest records of men can only be traced in here and there a crumbing earth-work, in the fragment of a skeleton, or in a few stone and copper implements - dim and shadowy relics of their handicraft. The ancient dwellers in these valleys, whose history is lost in the lapse of ages, are designated, usually, as the MOUND BUILDERS; not that building mounds was probably their distinctive employment, but that such artificial elevations of the earth are, to a great extent, the only evidences remaining of their actually occupation of the country. As to the origin of these people, all knowledge must, possibly, continue to rest upon conjecture alone. Nor were the habitations of this race confined to the territory of which Wisconsin now forms a part. At one time, they must have been located in many ulterior regions. The earth-works , tumuli, or ‘mounds’, as they are generally designated, are usually symmetrically raised and often inclosed in mathematical figures, such as the square, the octagon, and the circle, with long lines of circumvallation. Besides these earth-works, there are pits dug in the solid rock; rubbish heaps formed in the prosecution of mining operations; and a variety of implements and utensils, wrought in copper or stone, or molded in clay. Whence came the inhabitants who left these evidences to succeeding generations? In other words, who were the Mound Builders? Did they migrate from the Old World, or is their origin to be sought for elsewhere? And as to their manners and customs and civilizations - what of these things? Was the race finally swept from the New World to give place to the Red men, or was it the one from which the latter descended? These momentous questions are left for the ethnologist, the archeologist and the antiquarian of the future to answer - if they can. In closures and mounds of the prehistoric people, it is generally believed, constituted but parts of one system; the former being , in the main, intended for purposes of defense or religion; the latter, for sacrifice, for temple sites, for burial places, or for observatories. In selecting sites for many of these earth-works, the Mound Builders appear to have been influenced by motives which prompt civilized men to choose localities for their great marts; hence, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities of the West are founded on the ruins of pre-existing structures. River terraces and river bottoms seem to have been the favorite places for these earth works. In such localities the natural advantages of the country could be made available with much less trouble than in portions of the country lying at a distance from water courses. In Wisconsin, therefore, as in other parts, the same general idea of selecting points contiguous to the principal natural thoroughfares is found to have prevailed with the Mound Builders; for their works are seen in the basin of the Fox River of the Illinois, in that of Rock River and its branches, in the valley of Fox River of Green Bay , in that of Wisconsin, as well as near the waters of the Mississippi. While a few circumvallations and immense mounds, such as are common to certain other portions of the United States, are discoverable in Wisconsin, yet by far the largest number of earthworks have one peculiarity not observable, except in a few instances, outside the State. This characteristic is a very striking one. The fact is revealed that they are imitative in form - under the general name of ‘animal mounds’ although some are in the similitude of trees, some of war clubs, others of tobacco pipes. Generally, these figures are in groups, though sometimes they are seen alone. For what purpose these earth works were heaped up - they rise above the surface two, four and sometimes six feet - or what particular uses they were intended to subserve, is unknown. It is, however, safe to affirm that they had some significance. A number resemble the bear; a few, the buffalo; others, the raccoon. Lizards, turtles and even tadpoles, are outlined in the forms of some. The war eagle, and the war club has each its representative. All this, of course, could not have been a mere happening - the work of chance. The sizes of these mounds are as various as their forms. One near Cassville, in Grant County, very complete in its representation of an animal, supposed to be of the elephant species, was found, upon measurement, to have a total length of one hundred and thirty-five feet. Another in Sauk County, quite perfect in its resemblance to the form of a man, was of equal length, a veritable colossus; prone, it is true, and soon to disappear, if it has not already been destroyed, by ravages of a superior civilization. In portions of Wisconsin, as well as in a few places outside the State, are found earth works of another kind, but quite as remarkable as the ‘animal mounds’ which, for their supposed use, have been styled ‘garden beds.’ They are ridges, or beds, about six inches in height and four feet in width, ranged, with much apparent method, in parallel rows, sometimes rectangular in shape, sometimes of various but regular and symmetrical curves, and occupying fields of tent to a hundred acres. The Mound Builders have left many relics, besides their earthworks, to attest their presence in Wisconsin in the ages past. Scattered widely are found stone and copper axes, spear-heads, and arrow-heads, also various other implements - evidently their handiwork. As these articles are frequently discovered many feet beneath the surface, it argues a high antiquity for the artificers. Whether they had the skill to mold their copper implements is doubtful. Such as plainly show the work of hammering, indicate an art beyond that possessed by the Red men who peopled America upon its first discovery by the Europeans. In a few instances, fragments of human skulls have been found so well preserved as to enable a comparison to be drawn between the crania of the ancient race and those of modern ones; the results, however, of these comparisons throw little, if any, light upon ‘the dark backward and abysm’ of mound building times. The evidences of an extinct people of superior intelligence is very strikingly exhibited in the ancient copper mines of the Lake Superior region. Here are to be found excavations in the solid rock; heaps of rubble and dirt; copper utensils fashioned into knives, chisels, and spear and arrow-heads; stone hammers; wooden bowls and shovels; props and levers for raising and supporting the mass copper; and ladders for ascending and descending the pits. These mines were probably worked by people not only inhabiting what is now the State of Wisconsin, but found in many places, even as far away as the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, wrought into various implements and utensils. But there are no traces in Wisconsin of a ‘copper age’ succeeding a ‘stone age’, discernable in any prehistoric relics. They all refer alike to one age - the indefinite past; to one people - the Mound Builders. “ Butterfield was correct in his observation that an advanced culture, other than the Native American Indian, mined copper in the Great Lakes area. The Menomonie Indian tradition also speaks of fair skinned mariners who had come in the past to “dig out the shiny bones” of the Earth Mother. Wisconsin author and editor-in-chief of Ancient American Magazine , Frank Joseph, in his book, Survivors of Atlantis proposes that these people were Atlanteans, which would fit with my theory..if you take into consideration that these same Atlanteans were the ones that brought the technology and knowledge to the Egyptians. In Survivors of Atlantis Frank Joseph provides an in-depth study of the Atlantean war and the intimate connections it had with the last of four great cosmic catastrophes generated by the cyclical return of a comet and its debris. This quartet of natural disasters was followed by mass migrations recorded in the histories of such diverse peoples as the Incas of Peru, the Celtic Irish, the Classical Greeks, and the Aztecs of Mexico. These cosmic catastrophes could be the reason for the underground tunnels and cities that are found around the world. It only makes sense to me that to protect ourselves from these type of disasters, going underground would be the logical measures for safety. For more information on the purchase of this book contact Mary Sutherland |
| LIZARD MOUNDS Southeastern Wisconsin From West Bend, WI go northeast on Route 144 and follow the signs. Park closed from November 15 to April 15 Thirty-one effigy mounds depicting animal and geometric shapes, this mystical site is renown as the most significant effigy site on the face of North America. Used as burial mounds; each individual burial place depicting the vital organs of the power animal that had protected and guided that individual during the course of the incarnation. AZTALAN Southeastern Wisconsin I-94 between Milwaukee and Madison guides you to the Lake Mills exit; take Water Street leaving town and follow signs to the park. Ancient city where the scholars and philosophers of the day (best guess last occupation began around 1100 A. D.) gathered to build their own "research library in progress". These remains are evidence of the extraordinary capital, including Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, conical mounds and an incredible three mile stone aqueduct to Rock Lake (additionally important as a power site |
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