Whangtown Stone Chambers-- Part II (of VII) Proof that the Stone Chamber is Sacred

Anyone that appreciates stone chambers will tell you that many of them are sacred. However, are there other barometers we can use to determine whether the Whangtown Stone Chamber was once used for spiritual, or sacred purposes?

There are certainly tools to gauge the sacredness of a place.

Water Vein. There is a water vein running down the center of  the chamber as the picture below shows. 

Staff marks the Water Line.

It is only recently that I have begun dowsing for water at sacred areas. but am fairly confident that there is a water vein bisecting the chamber and running outside. The direction of water flow within the vein is going away from the stone chamber. Bill tells me that the chamber can be wet and that water runs into it, not out of it. But we are talking about a water line below the surface.

What I forgot to do while I was there was to check where the water vein began. A subsequent map dowsing of the picture tells me that the water line begins at the end of the chamber.

My impression is that water domes, or what they call blind springs form in response to prayer/meditation/ceremonty and not water lines. A water dome is water that attempts to bubble to the surface of the earth from below in response to good deeds/thoughts and stops below it reaches the surface and forms a dome. Water veins break from the side of the dome and may rise to the surface as a holy spring. While I feel confident about the water line, I would not be surprised if I was wrong.

All said and done water domes are a very positive sign and indicative the positive, or spiritual activities took place above at some point in time.

The staffs mark the water line inside the stone chamber. It appears that the water line is shallow and begins at the end of the chamber.

 The Vibe As I always say its all about the vibe. As I noted in Vortices and Spirals a positive vibe is an indication that good things, or spiritual activities took place at a location. We leave imprints of our thoughts and deeds wherever we go. These imprints have a morality to them, which a geomancer can gauge. A spiritual fingerprint of sorts.

The problem with using the vibe is that what once was a sacred place has been subsequently desecrated. Unfortunately as I noted in Part I the Whangtown mound has subsequently become a place frequently by the curious and thrill seekers. Archaeologists may have done digs there. And most certainly all sorts of innuendo from Celtic explorers, to UFO's, to a haunted place. All this sours the vibe and turns it negative.

You need to act in a sacred manner when visiting a sacred sites. Keep your thoughts and actions positive while there. Fortunately Bill tells me he has been there to experience several winter solstices; and the search of the web shows he is not alone. This helps reinvigorate and counter the negativity.

Pepper is sitting on a large stone slab about 30 feet in front of the Whangtown Stone Chamber.

The vibe was positive, to maybe slightly positive within the stone chamber.  Most space is neutral at best.

As another guage I looked at locations at the periphery of the sacred stone chamber. The back of the chamber, an area probably less frequented by people, had a slightly positive vibe. Whereas the stone in the picture above had a positive vibe. These areas less frequented by people tell me that the stone chamber was used for spiritual, or healing purposes.

Archeoastronomy. Bill tells me that the chamber opening aligns with the winter solstice; an indication that it was used for holy purposes. Archeoastronomy examines how people in the past looked at the sky and how they created stone and other structures to experience such.

I am not an archeoastronomer, but take Bill at his word. This does not necessarily mean that the purpose of the stone chamber was to solely experience the solstice. There are other things at work there which I shall write about subsequently that give even stronger indications of the spiritual nature of the stone chamber.

Conclusion. These three indicators give weight to the belief that the stone chamber was used for spiritual purposes. As I just noted above there are other things at work that I will write about subsequently that will give further credence to the sacred nature of the main stone chamber at Whangtown.

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Whangtown Stone Chambers, Part III(of VII)--The Stone Pile

Serpent Mound (Ohio, Pennsylvania) Trip and Survey; Part 2

Serpent Mound, in Peebles, Ohio is the world's largest effigy mound, it is  in the shape of snake. The serpent  is a 1,348 foot long earthen mound approximately 3 feet high consisting of several layers:
Top Layer--Sod
˜Next--Dark soil,
Next---Yellow clay and stones
Bottom layer--Gray clay or decomposed rock. 

Source AFK to Serpent Mound Tail--upper left, Head/Jaws around egg--upper right

There has been considerable debate over whether it was constructed by the Hopewell or the Adena. Recent archeological research points to the Adena as it is estimated to be more than 2,000 years old (New Radiocarbon Dates Suggest Serpent Mound is More Than 2,000 Years Old,  History Got it Wrong: Scientists Now Say Serpent Mound as Old as Aristotle .) So we can assume it was constructed by the Adena.

We may also assume that it is an Adena ceremonial site as no skeletons were ever found buried in it. There are very few Adena ceremonial sites left standing, as many were destroyed by treasure hunters and farmers. What few Adena mounds are left standing are burial sites.

Clearly Serpent Mound is a ceremonial site as you can feel the earth energies exuding from the serpent. Unfortunately, the vibe is not the greatest as the site was desecrated over the intervening years. And while kudos' go out to the Professor Putnam, Harvaard University and the Ohio Historical Society for rescuing the "physical structure", the "spiritual space" of the serpent continues to be disrespected. As I have noted on this blog and wrote about in detail in Vortices and Spirals, our thoughts linger and are retained wherever we go; we leave imprints on the land. If the thoughts are loving, focused on the divine the encourage and bolster similar in others, if they are focused on the material, worse yet, violence--it is not good.

While many do visit with solemness, pray/meditate and do ceremony and spread tobacco and perform other spiritual practices as we did, most don't. The focus is on the physical and not on the spiritual presence there and the way it affects your being. Sad. Particularly sad because I imagine that many cried for a vision there, prayed to great Spirit, gave thanks, prayed for others and more and those thoughts were once very powerful there and lingered in the ether beckoning others to do the same. VERY SAD!!!

Here are some pics:

We used the area in front of marker below as our Welcome Circle; smudging, prayers, ceremony and spreading tobacco.

View from the tower facing the head.

View from the tower of the tail. 

Looking towards the head. Dogs allowed as long as they are on a leash. Pepper and Jaeda Bear got pretty rev'ed up from the earth energies.

One of the turns in the serpent.

What many consider to be the egg, near the jaws of the serpent. Behind me is a bench we meditated on and said prayers.

Looking from the head back to the tail. Notice the tower.

Looking to the head on the other side of the tower.

The tail and the overlook.

The tail.

  

The paved path provides for a nice contemplative walk.

Place Matters—Murder returns to the same place in my hood (Eastwood)

Murder struck my neighborhood this summer at the 2800 block of James Street in the Eastwood section of Syracuse. What made this murder so disheartening was that a murder had occurred at the exact same location 7 years earlier in 2008.While Eastwood has had its share of violence, murders are a rare event. I don’t believe that there was another killing in Eastwood between 2007-2015.

The fact that an act of violence would occur at the exact same place is not that surprising. The land retains an imprint, or memory, of what transpires at a particular place. If it is a very emotional event then the imprint will be much stronger.

Imprints like all thoughts encourage repetitive thinking, or behavior. Think of an earworm, a song, you could not get out of your mind. So it is with land imprints, they encourage and beckon us to repeat what has happened before at a particular place.

In Vortices and Spirals (page 21) I tell of an experience noted British archeologist and dowser TC Lethbridge had while collecting seaweed with his wife in Ladram Bay in England. Because the space gave them a queasy and uneasy feeling they decided to investigate the cliff above. While on the cliff they felt as though someone put a thought into their mind to jump off . Lethbridge felt that they were picking up the thoughts of someone that either jumped off the cliff, or wanted to. He also noted that five other people experienced the same urge, or thought, to jump off while at the cliff.

No doubt the murderers in Eastwood were in some way drawn to the 2800 block of James Street.

Land imprints encourage us to repeat the actions, or thoughts, that occurred at a particular place. That is why it is so critical to clean up places where violence or other bad actions occur—otherwise the violence that transpired there will reoccur again and get stronger with each incident. I did go to the prayer vigil held by Mother’s Against Violence in  2008; but unfortunately missed the one in 2015. I have since prayed for the space on several occasions.

Place matters—work to clean up places of violence and bad acts close to your home. Understand also that if you treat a space as being sacred it will bring out the divine in everyone that comes in contact with it. Spread the LOVE, MAKE SPACE SACRED!