It is carved & painted in the bluffs above the river near St. Louis
Personally, I am not convinced it is of American Indian origin
Posted on 07/10/2003 5:56:52 PM PDT by blam
It is carved & painted in the bluffs above the river near St. Louis
Personally, I am not convinced it is of American Indian origin
No but, here it is.
Always wondered about the red dragon and the white dragon, who hasn't. Perhaps it was alchemical before the Arabs invented alchemy, perhaps it was astronomical, perhaps both. There were dragons elsewhere in the world, too, China had them and still does for one.
Yup. Also, most anthropologists accept a death date for King Arthur of 535-545AD. I find it interesting that King Arthur's fathers name is Pendragon.(More dragons)
Nor am I. It looks more like a medieval European drawing of a mythical beast.
There was much more traffic between Europe and North America before Columbus, and even before the Vikings, than most people realize.
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I do like this sort of thing, you just cant make a living with it
My dads farmland was a major camping area for both the Illini & the Kickapoo (& probably some others) after a major storm we can still walk the fields & find all sorts of arrowheads, axes, spears, etc - but nothing like the colection our old neighbor had
He had some spearheads that looked like what you would see in the movie "ZULU" that he had found in the field my dad owns now
When I was young he told me all the good places to look for artifacts, & I didn't pay much attention & now I wish I had
The western author Louis L'Amour was doing research in this field when he unfortunatley passed away. I have talked to several people who have tried to get access to his research, but they have been unsuccessful.
Seeing that info would be a great find, i know from reading his western novels that his research was meticulous, if he said a stream or a cave or any geographic feature was somewhere (in a novel), it is really there - I have followed several of the trails he described while on vacations, every nook & cranny he described is there, including locations with ancient cliff drawings, artifacts, etc.
I bought about a five tract of land down here, it was an old pecan orchard that had overgrown terribly. As I was clearing it off, I kept noticing a number of mounds and was thinking INDIAN MOUNDS! I did some checking and discovered that the mounds were horse graves from years and years prior. I do have some 7,000 year old wood though, lol.
"The inscription on a plaque placed alongside Mobile Bay in 1953 by the Daughters of the American Revolution reads: "In memory of Prince Madog, a Welsh explorer who landed on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1170 and left behind, with the Indians, the Welsh language."
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