Posted on 08/01/2010 7:01:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A stone effigy monument, in the shape of a Blackfoot creator god named Napi, has been discovered in southern Alberta -- south of the Red Deer River near the hamlet of Finnegan.
The Blackfoot are a people that have inhabited the prairies since ancient times. The effigy dates to somewhere between AD 1000 and AD 1500. It would have been constructed before the time of European contact.
Napi is a deity credited with creating the Blackfoot people and the landscape they inhabit. "According to Blackfoot tradition he's like the creator," said archaeologist Meaghan Porter, who investigated the site.
She said that the image is "made out of rocks and it's in the outline of a man -- it has arms and a torso, head and legs as well as genitalia." It's roughly five meters by five meters long. The rocks are about the size of a fist, they have a mix of black, grey and tan colours. Porter doesn't think these colours were chosen deliberately "I think that's just the rocks that were available," she said.
Some of the rocks have been fire-broken...
Only nine stone effigies like this have been documented in all of Alberta...
Archaeologists have found other sites near the area. One of them is a camp, located about one kilometre away, which is about 400 meters by 400 meters in size. Archaeologists found bone remains, hearths, more fire broken rock and even obsidian -- material that comes from a volcano.
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I’m fascinated by the creation stories of the various Native American tribes.
“...as well as genitalia.” It’s roughly five meters by five meters long.”
Wow.
The first “Blackfoot” I met was a young Frenchman who’s family had owned a vinyard in Algiers, before Charles de Gaulle turned it back to the Arabs. They were called “blackfeet” because they were paramilitary and wore black combat boots (and carried weapons as well as implements).
He stayed with my family for about 6 weeks one summer as an exchange student. From there he wound up in Australia.
He and his family were bitter of how they lost their vinyards, they received little compensation and it was years before it happened.
Ping-eh
I don't see any of the three.
Judging from the diagram the dude does have some big stones.
Thanks TF.
It must be like those 3d posters of about ten years ago.
Treehorn: People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone—
Dude: On you, maybe.
Napi?
Napolitano?
Nope. Stevie Wonder, Napi headed boy
Cool pictogram.
“five meters long”
They called this god `Tripod’.
This looks way to random to be meaningful. They may as well look for angels on the plains of Kansas.
The Blackfeet were tough bastards. They held off the Lakota, Crow and other tribes from their lands, and were the tribe most feared by the Mountain Men.
The Blackfeet were tough bastards. They held off the Lakota, Crow and other tribes from their lands, and were the tribe most feared by the Mountain Men.
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They must have been tough indeed, to turn back a series of rivals like those.
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