| THE MOUND BUILDERS OF BURLINGTON WISCONSIN CONTACT ME THE MOUND BUILDERS - WHO WERE THEY? Mary Sutherland Copyright 2005 HAS HISTORY BEEN REVISED ? NEW MEXICO : A stone in a dry creek bed in New Mexico, discovered by early settlers in the region, is one of the most amazing archaeological discoveries in the Western Hemisphere. It contains engraved on its flank the entire Ten Commandments written in ancient Hebrew script! Who put it there? Who wrote the incredible inscription of the TEN COMMANDMENTS in an ancient Hebrew dialect? In his new book The Origins and Empire of Ancient Israel, author-historian Steven M. Collins points out that the “Las Lunas Stone” inscription in archaic Hebrew was written in the Hebrew letters of the style of the Moabite Stone, dated to about 1,000 B.C. This would place the writing on the stone to the time of the kingdom of ancient Israel under its most affluent and powerful king, Solomon, who reigned from 1014 B.C. to 974 B.C. OHIO: Ancient artifact bearing an old Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments unearthed in Ohio in 1860. The tablet also includes a scene of an individual – Moses – carved into the front of the tablet in considerable detail, holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments. This artifact was discovered in an ancient burial mound. PENNSYLVANIA: Literally hundreds of inscribed Phoenician, Celtic and Basque stone grave markers have been found in Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, dated to 800-600 B.C., over 2,000 years before the fateful voyage of Columbus! TEXAS: One proof of this fact is an inscription in ancient Ogam and Libyan – the language of Egyptian merchantmen – found near the Rio Grande River of Texas. The inscription states than an Egyptian-Libyan king by the name of Shishonq visited North America a number of times. It is translated as, “A crew of Shishonq the king took shelter in this place of concealment.” Interestingly, the Bible itself mentions a king of Egypt by the name of “Shishak” (“Shishonq”) who invaded the Kingdom of Judah during the time of Rehoboam, son of Solomon, after the kingdom of Israel separated from allegiance to the throne of David. Shishak was no doubt an ally of Jeroboam, the king of Israel, at that time. He was a mighty king and plundered the Temple and riches of the kingdom of Judah (see I Kings 14:25-26). NEW HAMPSHIRE: More evidence of early Hebrew-Phoenician presence in North America hundreds of years before Christ was found in New England. At Mystery Hill, named for the “mystery” concerning the origin of the site, in North Salem, New Hampshire, a large temple observatory site of about twenty acres was discovered by early colonial settlers. It included shrines with dedications to the god Baal, a Phoenician-Canaanite deity condemned by the God of Israel. Dr. Barry Fell dated these inscriptions to about 800-600 B.C., a time of apostasy in ancient Israel. Radio-carbon dating of the site, however, indicates it was also inhabited back to the second millennium before Christ. Such a site dedicated to Baal should be expected, since most of the kings of Israel, after David and Solomon, worshipped Baal and the Babylonian pantheon, including Astarte (Easter), and Tammuz. IOWA: Evidence found in a burial mound found in 1877 near Davenport, Iowa. The ancient stele contains join inscriptions in three ancient languages – Iberian-Punic [related to Phoenician/Hebrew], Egyptian, and ancient Libyan. Why these three languages? During the time of King Solomon of Israel, the leading world alliance of the time was a triple alliance consisting of Israel-Phoenicia, Egypt, and Libya! “The date is unlikely to be earlier than about 800 B.C., for we do not know of Iberian or Libyan inscriptions earlier than this date. . . . It seems clear that Iberian and Punic speakers were living in Iowa in the 9th century B.C.” (Fell, America B.C., page 268). The Iowa stele indicates that the “triple alliance” begun in the days of Solomon, between Israel, Phoenicia, and Egypt/Libya, continued on into the 800s B.C. It probably lasted until Israel was carried away into captivity in 721 B.C. by the growing Assyrian empire. The Bible states plainly that the northern kingdom of Israel, ruled by Ahab, was still “in bed” with Phoenicia during his reign, around 850 B.C. Ahab married the daughter of Hiram, king of Tyre, a woman by the name of Jezebel, a priestess of the Baal-Astarte abomination. The Jewish encyclopedia tells us that Ahab was a very powerful king – one of the four greatest kings of all history! According to the Targum Sheni, four kings reigned over the entire world – and these did NOT include Alexander the Great. They were in order: Solomon, Ahab, Nebuchadnezzar, and Cyrus of Persia. The Aggagah declares that Ahab was one of three or four kings who will have no portion in the world to come (Sanhedrin 10.2). Over the gates of Samaria he placed the inscription: “Ahab denies the God of Israel.” Influenced by his wife Jezebel, he became an enthusiastic idolater like none before him. He left no hilltop in Israel without an idol before which he bowed. He substituted the names of idols for the divine Name of God in the Torah. Ahab is said to have ruled over the “whole world” and “his dominion extended over 252 kingdoms” (Encyclopedia Judaica, “Ahab,” vol.1, p.439). Thus during the 800s, Israel was still a very powerful kingdom, and the triple alliance forged by Solomon with Phoenicia and Egypt was still going strong, in the hands of Ahab. An inscription noting this alliance, by being in three languages of the three kingdoms, found in Davenport, Iowa, attests to the fact of this continuing and powerful entente. Ahab was a worldly despot whose wickedness was only surpassed by his foolishness. Nevertheless, he was still the most powerful monarch in the world during his time, and the triple alliance brought Israel great wealth and might. Writes Steve Collins: “A date of 800-700 B.C. for this stele confirms that the triple alliance of Israel, Egypt and Phoenicia lasted long after the lifetime of King Solomon. The Bible records that the ten tribes of Israel forsook worshiping the Creator God after Solomon’s death, and adopted the religious customs of Egypt, Tyre and Sidon. Biblical accounts show that Israel and Phoenicia were still very closely allied during the reign of King Ahab of Israel (circa 850 B.C.), and there is no evidence that their alliance suffered a breach until approximately 721 B.C., when Israel ceased to be a nation in the Mideast. . . . Therefore the Iowa stele showing that these ancient nations were still working together around 800 B.C. in the New World is consistent with biblical accounts” (ibid., p.212). NEW YORK: In addition to these discoveries, another stele exhibiting the ancient Egyptian-Libyan script was unearthed on Long Island, New York. Dr. Barry Fell states that it also probably dates to around the ninth century B.C. OKLAHOMA: Still another amazing discovery was made in Oklahoma, where another stele was found which contained references to the gods Baal and Ra, with an inscription which was “an extract from the Hymn to the Aton by Pharaoh Akhnaton.” Although the dating of Akhnation is purported to be in the 13th century B.C., new Egyptian dynastic dating methods indicate he was much closer to 800 B.C. It is believed that Akhnaton was Solomon. This Oklahoma stele is written in Iberian-Punic, a language descended from Phoenician-Hebrew, and Barry Fell declares that it is “scarcely older than 800 B.C.” (see Collins, p.212, Fell, America B.C., p.159). Evidence suggests mound builders of North American placed Temples at locations that form an interlocking grid matrix producing geometric patterns in the shape of five pointed stars. These Mound Builders were the unknown or I should say now forgotten forces that influenced the development of the Native Americans. The later Indian burial mounds of North America could have been built over pre-existing remnants of a long lost knowledge. This has been the case of most conquering cultures throughout the ages. Ancient North American mounds stand unarguably before humanity challenging all to accept the simplicity of their achievements. Accurately mapping the Americas, the mound builders placed Temples at locations that form interlocking grids. By connecting the dots of these ancient Indian burial mound sites, the map begins to reveal an organized grid. The mounds produce geometric patterns in the shape of five pointed stars. Uncovering the great mysteries of the Mounds and the site grids may be the the greatest discovery of the millennia . The belief of a vanished raced dominated popular and scientific discussions of the origins of the mounds. Although scholars were trying to push the theories of American Indians as the builders of the mounds, many people refused to believe this 'new' theory and it wasn't until our recent time of in the mid-nineteenth century did the 'new' theory become accepted. Today only a few even know of this past belief. It was Albert Gallatin, founder of the American Ethnological Society of New York and Wisconsin naturalist that pushed this unpopular position. However, Caleb Atwater published Description of the Antiquities in the State of Ohio and other Western States (1820) and advanced the idea that the mounds were built by a culture much more advanced than the American Indians. Josiah Priest, 'Antiquities and Discoveries of the West', argued that the mounds were built by the Lost Tribes of Israel, wandering Egyptians, Greeks and other groups unassociated with the American Indian. William Pidgeon's ' Tradition of De-Coo-Dah' (1858) , states that the De-Coo-Dah told him of an ancient race of mound building people who were much more numerous than the present Indians. Wisconsin and King Soloman's Temple In the 11th chapter of Genesis we read about the building of the tower at Babel, and then in verse 8 it says, "So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city" According to the Book of Mormons, after the Genesis Flood , during the time of 'The Tower of Babel, a group sailed from the Region of the Tower of Babel to North America . This group of people s were the JAREDITES THE BATTLE OF CUMMORAH The First Battle of Cummorah According to Mormon History , the JAREDITES had divided into two warring camps —one righteous, the other unrighteous. Their armies (2 million men each) fight to the last man on the Hill Ramah (which is also the Hill Cummorah and which is now located in Western New York State). A man named Ether hides the records of his people (gold plates). The Second Battle of Cummorah and the Nephites About the time the JAREDITES are fighting their war of annihilation, another band leaves the Middle East and sails to the Americas. These are the NEPHITES. They multiply and divide into two seperate groups; the white skinned race of Nephites and a dark skinned race of Lamanites. A group of Nephites (called the LIMHITES) who had broken away from the main body of Nephites migrate to the area near the Hill Cummorah. They find the golden plates of the Jaredites. Later they are reunited with the main body of Nephites and add the Jaredite plates to the main body of plates A thousand years after the Jaredite battle on the Hill Ramah, the Nephites and Lamanites battle their way Northward until they arrive at the same hill (now called Cummorah). They also fight to the last Nephite warrior. The Lamanites who survive will become the NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS . After the Final Battle, a man named Moroni buries the gold plate records of his people in the hill. The Mormons 'claim' he returns as the Angel Moroni and leads Joseph Smith to the plates (1823) In the Spanish histories of the Sea Powers there is a strange gap between the Lydians (1149-1101 B.C.) and the THRACIANS (970-884 B.C.) which, according to Herman Hoeh was "deliberately inserted in this list. It is similar to attempts elsewhere to expurgate any record of the PELASGIANS, who were the HEBREWS of the Kingdom of Israel. The missing item should be: Pelasgians 131 1101-970 "This list indicates that the Hebrews became dominant in Spain at the time the Lydians resettled in the Grecian world in 1101" (Compendium Of World History. Vol. II. Pasadena, CA: Ambassador College. 1963. P. 125). KING SOLOMONS TEMPLE AND NORTH AMERICA Another interesting fact about this period of time is the dates of the Pelasgian influence in Spain -- 1101-970 B.C. If you haven't realized it already, this was the time-frame of DAVID AND SOLOMON'S REIGN IN ISRAEL! David was at the height of his power, and there was no nation left with the means to challenge him. His attention now turned to his personal goal of building a great temple to honor the God of Israel. While God did not allow David to actually build the Temple, he was allowed to make preparations for its construction that was carried out during the reign of his son Solomon. These preparations, the Bible reveals, were prodigious indeed! With vast war booty and tribute payments pouring in from vassal nations, David was now able to access the raw materials he needed for the Temple project -- using the help of his PHOENICIAN AND PELASGIAN allies. David's prodigious Temple preparations and his instructions to Solomon are recorded in I Chronicles 22: 1-16. Relates Steve M. Collins -- David accumulated "great stores of iron for nails and clamps" (RSV), showing that what secular historians have called the "IRON AGEe" was well under way by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. The Iron may have very well been mined here in WISCONSIN . He also accumulated "bronze in quantities beyond weighing," (RSV) so David also accumulated massive stockpiles of copper ores -MICHIGAN- and refined copper products for Solomon to utilize in his reign. He also amassed much cedar wood through his alliance with the city-states of Tyre and Sidon. The harvesting of timber would again account for the desolate plains , void of timber, in North America. In the course of his wars, David had collected large amounts of gold and silver from tributary nations, and verse 14 quotes David as summing up his temple preparations with these words: "With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone too have I provided." (RSV). -- The "Lost" Ten Tribes of Israel...Found!, p. 24. This brings to mind one very obvious question -- WHERE did all this copper ore come from? Since the amounts of gold and silver were weighed ("a hundred thousand talents of gold" and "a million talents of silver"), the copper and iron stockpiles obviously had to far exceed the precious metals stockpiles to be considered "beyond weighing." How many millions of talents of iron and copper ores, then, were amassed to reach an amount "beyond weighing"? Apparently such a vast amount of copper and iron ores could not have all come from sources that were indigenous to Israel. However, since David was on friendly terms with the Phoenician city-states of Tyre and Sidon, he could have had the Phoenician merchant ships import the ores from overseas. "Phoenician (or Canaanite) ships dominated the commerce of the Mediterranean Sea. KING SOLOMON AND THE HARVESTING OF NORTH AMERICA In the book Bronze Age America, the late Dr. Barry Fell (Professor Emeritus of Harvard University) records that copper trading between ancient North America and the Old World was extant prior to and DURING THE REIGN OF KING DAVID! "His book cites evidence from ancient inscriptions that Norse kings carried on a copper trade with the New World in the St. Lawrence River as early as 1700 B.C., seven centuries prior to the reign of King David over Israel" There is, clear evidence that David's allies, the Canaanite Phoenicians, were included in the New World copper trade and that some of David's huge stockpile of copper ore came from the Phoenician's North American trading routes. Notes Barry Fell -- Around the northern shore of Lake Superior, and on the adjacent Ile Royale, there are approximately 5,000 ancient copper mine workings. In 1953 and 1956 Professor Roy Drier led two Michigan Mining and Technology expeditions to the sites. Charcoal found at the base of the ancient mining pits yielded radio carbon dates indicating that the mines had been operated between 2000 B.C. and 1000 B.C...The most conservative estimates by mining engineers show that at least 500 million pounds of metallic copper were removed over that time span, and there is no evidence as to what became of it. Bronze Age America. NY: Wallaby, 1976. P. 261. Since radio carbon dating can be inaccurate in this time frame, we should lower the dates. However, it would still fall into the time of King David and Solomon's reigns over Israel. Since the mining operations at these North American sites were taking place during the reigns of David and Solomon, it is more than likely that part of this Lake Superior copper was used to satisfy David's voracious appetite for raw copper for the Temple. The biggest customers for copper and other raw materials in the world of the time were King David and Israel and, later, King Solomon. It is well-known that Solomon's building projects went far beyond anything that David himself envisioned -- so the demand upon the available world sources of raw materials during their reigns must have been huge indeed! The local mines could not have supplied all the ore required at the time. With this in mind, it is significant that these ancient Lake Superior copper mines were worked to exhaustion during the reign of King Solomon, meaning that they were producing during the time that David was stockpiling copper ore "beyond calculation" for the CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALME.! "Since the North American copper mines had been known to the Old World for centuries before David lived, and since there is evidence that Phoenician ships called at ancient North American ports, the means to transport Lake Superior copper ores to King David of Israel did exist" . Following is an copper artifact found in one of the mounds. Note the Israelite characteristics and feather The Bible states that ancient Israel, under King David, was stockpiling massive quantities of copper ore around 1,000 B.C. Sources also confirm that the North American copper mines ran out of ore during the reign of Solomon. The connection between the two is quite obvious: most of the ancient North American copper ore was shipped to ancient Israel and used for the construction of the Temple and later projects of Solomon. Note on Barry Fell : Barry Fell was a scholar of high standing at one of the world's most imposing academic institutions, Fell endeavored to bring a scientist's objective discipline to the process of identifying mysterious alphabetic scripts and pictographs, translating them from their ancient languages, and interpreting their meaning in the context of their surroundings. CONTINUED IS THIS THE HISTORY OF THE MOUNDS YOU WANT LEFT FOR YOU CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN SAVE THE MOUNDS TODAY FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATION. 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| The first mound area is at the Fischer Park 30326 Durand Ave (Hwy 11) Off Browns Lake . The Native Americans called Browns Lake - 'Lake of the Shining Arrow' There are no markers whatsoever to give reference to the beautiful mounds in the park! What pleasure people could take in the mounds - if they only knew.. |
| This second mound is located off Browns Lake on Hwy W . This one seems to have been used several times. One as an 'ancient' mound - then a Native American Burial Mound - then a cemetery dating early 1800's. When we first started reporting this cemetery, it was unkept with broken tombstones. Since then it has been cleaned with the broken tombstones removed. Unfortunately, no markers were set to mark the graves of which had the tombstones removed. As the story goes, the remains of the Native Americans were damaged and discarded as they made way for the new wave of tenants . This seems to be one of the higher points overlooking Burlington . *Mounds all around the Browns Lake Area. No Markers indicating Mounds are here . |
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