Archaeology and Spirit GuidesWritten by Robert Bruce Baird
One of northern derivatives of Hopewell of interest to a few scholars is anomalous Effigy Mound culture of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The remains attract attention because of range of animal forms represented by low effigy mounds. There are sometimes burials at "vital" points - hips, head or heart area - of animals, but there is only simplest of grave goods. {How these nature worship spiritual guide representations can be talked about as "anomalous" is beyond me. The Serpent Mound near Cincinnati is a key worldwide astrological figure. The Nazca Line effigies of animals are well known. The Dragon Project and other ley line and Gaian concepts of earth energy and center point location of Mayan urban and pyramid complexes are definitely related. Stonehenge is recently shown connected to Serpent Mound and certain astrological or astronomical observations are discussed in Ancient American magazine. Vortexes of energy are obvious in places like Sedona, Arizona. The Giza main pyramid is on such a vortex and some people talk about time warp effects there. But we must remember most archaeologists like their academic brethren psychiatrists, don't believe in psychic visions, soulful interpretations and other spiritual things that all early people on earth clearly knew very well. What good is there in denial of what others did or used as central to their lives, even if 'science' of this variety was right? They aren't right anyway, but please ask this question of scholars who are interpreting these important cultural artifacts. Why avoid actual beliefs of people? The reason to locate burial in points where energy is collected relates to cult of individual involved and their tribal guide, as well as to their sex and specific power ally. It is part of many less dramatic rituals such as Star of David and pentagram.} Burials are either flexed or bundle types. The link with Hopewell is found in ceramics and in interest in raptors and certain mammals. At one group, Sny-Magill (now a national monument in Iowa), Beaublein (1953) thought two mounds of group to be Hopewellian in construction and content. McKern has reported several sites of Effigy culture (McKern 1928; 1930), as well as Wisconsin Hopewell - locally called Trempealeau (McKern 1931). Jennings (1965a) and Rowe (1956) have attempted summaries of Effigy culture. The sites often lie on ridges overlooking a stream valley. The mounds take about a dozen shapes: conical, biconical, oval, linear, panther, bear, bird (goose, raptor), deer, buffalo (?), turtle, lizard, wolf, or fox, and beaver. These are arranged in clusters or lines with no regularity as to forms depicted; linear and conical ones are mixed with effigies. {Likely no relation to guides or spirits but rather to allow earth energy to build or flow in some manner enhancing or guarding people. Their ancestral forefathers who are often dug up and moved in Iroquois or eastern regions mimics practices carried on around world. [There is a genetic energy and spiritual reality that psychology has shown to exist between family members separated at birth (Harvard) and especially 'twins' (Minnesota's University).]} The groups may contain dozens of mounds...
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