Syncretism, Not Animism: Evidence for Middle Eastern Roots of Native American Religious Practices

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Syncretism, Not Animism Evidence for Middle Eastern Roots of Native American Religions Donald Panther-Yates Sandy, Utah March 31, 2011

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Syncretism, Not Animism

Evidence for Middle Eastern Roots

of Native American ReligionsDonald Panther-Yates

Sandy, UtahMarch 31, 2011

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What Was Their Religion?

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Hopi House, Grand Canyon National Park

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Hultkrantz’s Characteristics

• Hunting ceremonies • Agricultural ceremonies• Visions and dreams• Animal totems • Shaman or medicine man• Offerings made to spirits (animism)

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Grave Creek Mound, West Virginia

The book that buried the myth: Robert Silverberg’s Mound Builders of Ancient America (1968)

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Grave Creek Stone

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Grave Creek Stone – West VirginiaCelt-Iberian astrological text – Spain

Iberia, Not Siberia

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Bat Creek Stone

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Los Lunas Decalogue Stone

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Religious Artifacts and Evidence

• Human remains, burial assemblages

• Religious buildings and sites• Sacred landscapes• Religious iconography, symbols, ethnographic analogy

• Common artifact classes (idols, paraphernalia, etc.)

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Spider Rock

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Marija Gimbutas, Archeologist of the Mother

Goddess

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Language of the Goddess• Chevron and V as Bird Goddess• Zig-zag and M Sign for Nurturer

• Meander and Waterbirds• Breasts of the Bird Goddess• Streams• Eyes of the Goddess (Owl)• Open Mouth of the Goddess

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Language of the Goddess - 2

• Giver of Crafts: Spinning, Weaving, Metallurgy and Music

• The Ram, Animal of the Bird Goddess

• Net Motif• Tri-Line and Power of Three• Vulva and Birth• Deer and Bear as Primeval Mothers

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Language of the Goddess - 3

• Snake• Earth Mother• Power of Two• Male Gods and Daimones• Symbols of Death• Egg• Columns of Life• Regenerative Vulva: Triangle, Hourglass

• Bird’s Claws

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Language of the Goddess - 4

• Ship of Renewal• Frog, Hedgehog and Fish•Bull, Bee and Butterfly• Spiral, Lunar Cycle, Snake Coil, Hook and Axe

• Opposed Spirals, Whirls, Comb, Brush

• Hands and Feet of the Goddess• Standing Stones and Circles

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Mississippian Tri-Line Double Swirl

AlabamaArkansas

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Newgrange Neolithic Passage Tomb

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Hawaii Kentucky

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England Finland

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Adena Cultural Area in Ohio

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Cup and ring in Georgia

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Mississippian Old Woman Italian Neolithic Goddess figurine

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Missouri Deer Woman Lithuanian Elk Doe Cult Staffc. 3200 BCE

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Kentucky Stiff White LadyFrom Bulgaria Stiff Nude from Phoenicia

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Woman Frog

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Trade CircleTrade Circle• Transactions in sign language• A trade director• Barter only, no money• WYSIWYG• All sales final• Very just and equitable

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Tennessee Crete

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Phoenician Weight in Tennessee

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Symbols of Phoenicia and Crete

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Lake Superior Crete

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Cumberland River, Kentucky

Hermas

Greece

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Cherokee Paint Clan MaskNorth Carolina

Masks

Phoenicia

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Bull, Bee and Butterfly Attributes of the Goddess

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Bull, Bee and Butterfly Attributes of the Goddess

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Minoan Bee Cut-Out?

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Bird Goddess Cut-Out?

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Another Symbol of the Goddess?

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And Another?

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Bull Flower Designs

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Mississippian Religious Medal

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Goddess Fertility Amulet

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Harbor at Carthage

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Phoenician Ship

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Cherokee Paint ClanCherokee Paint Clan

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Anomalous Cherokee DNA Studies

• Haplogroup X• North African U, T• Iberian H• Jewish J, K• Anatolian N• Haplogroup B• Haplogroup L• Male haplogroups T and J

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Evidence for Persistence of the Name

• KHNAI• Kanaai• Conoy river and tribe

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Continuity of Admixed Populations

• Sea Peoples, Hohokam, Hopi, Fremont

• Carthaginians• Celt-Iberians (Tartessians)• Copper Trade and Adena, Hopewell• Cherokee (Paint People)• Conoy and Saponi/Haliwah• Arabs and Berbers in Southeast• Melungeons

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Overcoming the Thresholds of Evidentiary Proof

• Occam’s Razor• Popular, Not Professional• Carl Sagan’s Rule• Singularity of Site• Not Invented Here• Kensington Stone Effect (no garbage)

• No DNA Trail• Political and Racist Biases• The elephant in the room

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One man’s Mede is another man’s

Persian.

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Origin of Goddess Religion

1. Middle East and Old Europe in Upper Palaeolithic (35,000 to 10,000 years ago)…and across the Bering Straits?

2. South of Ohio Valley at beginning of Poverty Point and Adena Cultures about 1800 BCE … or Minoan Crete (fell 1600)?

3. Tartessian and Celt-Iberian influence at beginning of Adena about 1000 BCE (same time as rise of Phoenicia)


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