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Path of Souls
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people need to understand what the old
ones believed about death and why they
believe such things it has been said
that we came from the stars and that we
will return there we will go back to the
Stars it's the great mystery it is the
place from where we came and the place
we are destined to
go we will all go there someday but time
war and disease have made us forget it
it is time to [Music]
[Music] remember
remember
these are the most visible remnants of
America's ancient mound builders they
made hundreds of thousands of Mounds
some of them were pyramid shaped and
others were massive conical [Music]
heaps the largest pyramid shaped Mounds
were as tall as 10-story buildings with
a base larger than the great pyramidic Giza
Giza [Music]
the mound builders also construct
thousands of Earth and Effigy Mounds
depicting various
animals and they made thousands of
complex geometric Earthworks that defy simple
simple
descriptions the largest and most
complex geometric Earthworks in the
world were made by these enigmatic
people thousands of years [Music]
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ago the first Mounds in America were
constructed nearly 6,000 years ago but
about 3,000 years ago the practice of
mound building increased to astonishing
levels many of their dead were cremated
and buried in simple conical Mounds
these burial mounds were sometimes
erected over special Mortuary buildings
where the dead were prepared and given
ceremonies to send them on their
way the buildings were usually burned
when the bodies were cremated and the
mound was made on top of the ashes then
another Mortuary building was made and
the process was repeated these Mounds
time some of the Dead especially those
of the elite ruling classes and the
priests and the shaman were placed in
elaborate Stone tombs with huge Mounds
erected over them they put the most
important people in the stone tombs and
sometimes arranged the remains of those
who served them in circular patterns
like wheel [Music]
[Music]
spokes the elite were often described as
Giants a hereditary class of rulers and
Priests who were 7 to 8 feet tall over
30 of them have been found in Mounds
constructed several thousand years ago
their origin is a mystery but it's close
to being
solved in the 1800s and 1900s tens of
thousands of America's Mounds were
excavated the skeletal remains of the
Dead were often displayed in museums and
millions of artifacts were found with
burials many artifacts displayed
incredible symbols that have long been a
complete mystery to
archaeologists symbols of crosses
circles snakes feathered serpents Raptor
Birds Fork dyes and people dressed as
various animals were found on
artifacts single bones were often
depicted on artifacts along with
wide-eyed skulls and skulls with
fire-like protrusions coming from the
mouth but one of the most interesting
symbols found on many burial Goods is
the vast majority of these symbols were
found at Mound complexes in the South
initially the symbols were attributed to
a southern death cult today it is known
as the Southeastern ceremonial [Music]
complex the true meaning of the symbols
was long thought by archaeologists to be
an insolvable mystery
but starting in the 1990s an annual
Workshop was held at Texas State
University by a large group of
archaeologists anthropologists and
ethnography experts they found the
answers they sought but astonishingly
the answers were found primarily in
books from the 1700s and
1800s books that were ignored by modern
archaeologists who had focused on
Excavating and collecting burial mounds
my ancestors had shame in medicine men
and Medicine women holy people who knew
the secrets of life and death when the
white man came most of our people died
or were forced to move many have
forgotten the
secrets many no longer cared they only
wanted to [Music]
[Music]
survive some of the old ones told the
whites the secrets
the whites wrote it down in books books
Time the mystery starts with our mother
earth the substance from which all
things are made all things are alive all
things contain the spirit from the
mother the soil the trees the plants the
Rocks the waters the animal of the
forest even the air we breathe all
things have [Music]
[Music]
Spirit we live in the middle world all
objects in the world come from the
Earth but there is also a world above in
the sky and a world
below each of these worlds has great
powers and they are connected together
by a great pole our shame and Medicine
people can move through these worlds
using rituals to gain knowledge and
understanding the power of the upper and
lower worlds also use this poll to
influence and enter our middle
world when a body is formed from the
earth it has a Living spirit that is
given to it by the Earth in your world
you call it the Life Soul This Life Soul
makes the body move and gives it energy
but it has no mind no memory our
ancestors showed it as a bone or
skull but there is another Soul one that
first came from the sky world it is what
you would call a free
Soul it has memory it has Free Will and
it is what many people would see as our
true Soul when we die
the free Soul leaves the body the old on
showed it is fire coming from the
skull the free soul will stay near its
body for a time after the person
dies but in 3 days it must take a sacred
Journey during this time the body with
its life Soul still clinging to its
bones must be handled with Care by the
living for some whoever died the body is
prepared by removing the Flesh and the
bones are eventually burned this Burning
Returns the Life Soul Back to the earth
when this is done the life soul and its
together when this ceremony takes place
matters much it must take place in the
winter so bones are sometimes stored by
the dead one's family until win time for the
the
ceremony sometimes the body of a dead
leader would be prepared and placed in a
tomb without being burned this meant at
a later time the free soul and Life Soul
of this person could
rejoin it meant that this person might
return to this world [Music]
someday the ideas revealed in these
beliefs incorporate the possibility of
reincarnation and are quite similar to
those of ancient Egyptians and other ancient
ancient [Music]
[Music]
cultures the origin of the death Journey
ideas is another mystery many modern
archaeologists and historical
researchers such as Britain's Andrew
Collins believe that the saluan culture
from Europe may have brought these ideas
to the Americas as early as 19,000 years ago
ago
Collins thinks that the beliefs about
the death Journey emerged when the
signis constellation served as the North
Pole star some 18,000 to 19,000 years
ago The Cremation of the Dead is often
seen as a way of returning the flesh to
its origin and thereby releasing the
soul from its imprisonment in physical
matter the soul is then released to
Source when the free Soul starts its
Journey from its body it goes to the
west where there are trials and task on
the Journey to the West but after a few
days the free Soul reaches a vast body
of water the water is the surface of the
underworld in the summer the underworld
is ruled by a feathered serpent who
flies in the sky in the South he is made
of stars and has a giant red eye in the
winter he goes back to the underworld
where he does not need wings so he is a
giant snake or a water [Music]
[Music] Panther
Panther
the constellation of Scorpius is now
known to be the Native American
depiction of The Feathered Serpent the
bright red star and terries served as
the Serpent's eye Scorpius is visible in
the nighttime Southern sky in the summer
but in the winter the constellation
doesn't rise above the Horizon the
mountain builders believed that the free
soul needed to make its journey in the
winter so that the feathered serpent
wasn't watching and
listening when the free Soul stands at
the water's edge it waits to the early
morning when a large hand is seen to
fall in the Western sky the soul must
Jump into the Sky or it will roam in the
Westlands forever as a ghost when the
hand is about to fall The Soul makes a
leap into a special spot in the palm of
the hand many people say it is an ie but
it is an oie a slit in the sky that
leads to the path of souls some call
this opening the hand
star there are several legends about the
hand in the sky and the OG in its Palm
some tribal stories relate that in the
distant past a set of twins tried to
block the OG one of them had his hand
cut off at the wrist his hand was placed
in the sky as a warning to others the
severed wrist of the hand is formed by
the three belt stars of the
constellation of Orion the thumb and
fingers of the hand are outlined by
various stars in the constellation and
the OG is actually Orion's nebula the
ancient Maya also believed that Orion's
nebula was a portal into the sky calling
it shil baba but reaching this portal
some tribes saw the henstar and the yogi
as a Spider Woman she can grab the soul
of those who lack courage or those who
don't reach the oi some of these souls
are cast into the underworld and some
are cast back to the Earth to live again
and correct their
errors but those who make the jump to
the yogi are soon moved to the true Ro
path the path of souls the river of
Souls and the Wolf Trail are all the
same thing it is a stream of stars that
moves across the sky when the spirit
makes it to the yogie and unto the path
it falls safely into the underworld
where it will arise the next night to
start the final [Music]
[Music] Journey
Journey
when the hand constellation Falls below
the Horizon in the early morning hours
the Milky Way is seen as a horizontal
band across the sky in the winter months
it descends like a wall falling below
the Horizon just as the sun rises the
Milky Way is the path of Souls and it is
believed that the stars of the Milky Way
are Souls making the journey the soul
has Many Adventures and trials on the
path these Adventures test the strength
and goodness of the Soul if the soul
stumbles and falls it can fall back to
the Earth or fall into the underworld to
be lost for all time but if the soul
passes these tests he reaches a split in
the road a place where it must decide to
go one way or the other one path is a
dead end where the soul is trapped the
other path leads on it is here where the
path splits the soul has its final test
a large creature stands most of us
believe it is a large bird an eagle
falcon or hog the bird judges the soul
on his bravery and
goodness it sees how well the soul
served its people and how it dealt with
its enemies those who fail this test are
blotted from existence they are erased
from the world their memories and
thoughts or blotted
out but those who pass the test are
allowed to pass through a great opening
in the sky world to join with their
ancestors who made the same Journey long
ago in the past this hole in the sky was
in the north where all revolved around
it now it is in the top of the sky
dome the spot on the path of souls where
there are two different ways to go is
located at the dark rift of the Milky
Way it was at this spot where the soul
had to choose a direction and also where
the soul encountered a creature serving
as a judge the judge described in tribal
lore as an adversary to the soul was at
the constellation of signis located at
the beginning of the dark rift the
actual portal into the sky world the
portal to the afterlife was probably the
star denb the brightest star of signis
many symbols that were once interpreted
as Sun worship iconography are now known
to represent the fork of the Milky Way
at the dark rift and the hole at the
center representing denb the fork was
depicted on many artifacts and on body
tattoos and face painting several key
artifacts that were found in Mounds show
all the elements of the death Journey
these beliefs are sacred knowledge
forgotten we are a conquered people a
forgotten people a people who have been
pushed from our land and made to forget
our ways there is truth in our ways and
our true destiny is revealed in the death
death
Journey it is time to remember
time to remember where we came from and
where we will [Music]
[Music] [Laughter]
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