You did your weights today and have begun working in the yard. On Facebook you are opening an new category of friends – those who knew your students and walked the same halls you did, most were acquaintances and all have been recommending by former students which is the reason for the category in the first place.
You would be best forming a schematic of the Land of the Dead from something already classically known, a general base for the plan. See what you can find online. However, you are heading into town for a shopping at Big and Tall as you have a coupon, and lunch at Potbelly’s which is down the street. Later. Post. – Amorella
Lunch and a couple of shirt purchases then a ride up I-71 and onto SR 350 where you parked at the Twin Mounds in Fort Ancient (Ohio Historical Society site). One mound is west of 350 and the other, where you are parked, is south of 350, both are about fifteen feet from the road. Sacred territory to ancient peoples. Mid-afternoon of a very pleasant Fall day, blue sky and yellow to orange leaves on the many surrounding trees.
Maybe I could have the River follow the mound sites. No wireless out here to check. Relatively quiet. Carol is reading a new novel titled, Miracle Cure by Harlan Conan. She goes through a novel or two a week in the Winter. Maybe I could make the River the shape of a pine tree or a maple or oak – a natural shape rather than classical – Virgil, Dante or Milton – I can’t think of anyone else off hand. I could google ‘mythological lands of the dead’ for ideas.
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Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from 1000-1750 CE among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in areas of modern-day Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Southeastern Indiana and Western West Virginia. They were a maize based agricultural society who lived in sedentary villages and built ceremonial platform mounds. The Fort Ancient culture was once thought to have been an expansion of the Mississippian cultures. It is now accepted as an independently developed culture descended from the Hopewell culture (100 BCE–500 CE).
Wikipedia
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Published July 20, 2010
Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2,000-year-old ceremonial site.
Among their latest finds: Like Stonehenge, the Ohio timber circles were likely used to mark astronomical events such as the summer solstice.
Formally called Moorehead Circle but nicknamed "Woodhenge" by non-archaeologists, the site was once a leafless forest of wooden posts. Laid out in a peculiar pattern of concentric, but incomplete, rings, the site is about 200 feet (57 meters) wide.
Today only rock-filled postholes remain, surrounded by the enigmatic earthworks of Fort Ancient State Memorial. Some are thousands of feet long and all were built by Indians of the pre-agricultural Hopewell culture, the dominant culture in midwestern and eastern North America from about A.D. 1 to 900.
This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle's layout and found that Ohio's Woodhenge may have even more in common with the United Kingdom's Stonehenge than thought—specifically, an apparently intentional astronomical alignment.
The software "allows us to stitch together various kinds of geographical data, including aerial photographs and excavation plans and even digital photographs," explained excavation leader Robert Riordan, an archaeologist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
The researchers had known, for example, that an opening in the rings; a nearby, human-made enclosure; stone mounds; and a gateway in a nearby earthen wall are all aligned.
But the model revealed that the alignment is such that, during the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice – the longest day of the year – the sun appears to rise in the gateway, as seen from the center of the circle, Riordan said. In much the same way, and on the same day, the sun appears to rise alongside Stonehenge's outlying Heel Stone, casting a beam on the monument's central altar.
National Geographic – 20 July 10 – Woodhenge -- online
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Later, you are sitting at the Kroger lot on King’s Mill Road less than a half mile west from the Mason/Kings Island exit off I-71. Remember the River is vertical and the shape of ‘infinity’ [8]as a symbol. You are thinking of making it horizontal also with the River crossing itself twice. Simple enough for a conversational piece.
Straight on, from a distance it would have the appearance of a plus sign [+]. X marks the spot, boy. I can easily work with that. – Amorella.
What about all the other Dead who have heartsansoulsanminds? Are the marsupial-humanoids on the same vertical plane as the human’s? What is the difference? Who gets there first? Do the souls enter (swim) in from the River’s double cross? Is the River really turbulent at that area? Or, is this the calm where the spring rises and forms the River?
Think of the ‘double cross’ as a propeller on a plane (pun intended) – metaphysics rather than physics. Time for supper and the news. Later or tomorrow, boy. Post. – Amorella.
You are ‘cranking’ my imagination, Amorella.
Boy, you arrived home from Kroger’s and worked in the yard and cleaned the garage. Not the dimension needed for some inline speculation.
One dust pile to another, Amorella.
You know next to nothing, boy. – Post.
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