Saturday, January 12, 2019

Cahokia, the City of the Sun


Cahokia is an ancient city in Southern Illinois that is also called the ‘City of the Sun’ (Heliopolis in Greek) and it is where an ancient pyramid stands that is called Monks Mound.  I learned that Southern Illinois is known as ‘little Egypt’ about a year ago and this place is one of the reasons why.  There is also a lake called the ‘Lake of Egypt’, a place called the ‘Goshen Settlement’ and a city called ‘Cairo’.  There are lots of burial mounds at Cahokia. Evidence has been found that the area called Cahokia was occupied as early as 1200 BC.  There is evidence of an ‘Old Copper Culture’ in the Great Lakes area that dates back to 5000 BC.

I like to study how the ancients kept solar time and at Cahokia there is an ancient wood henge that works similar to Stonehenge in England.  There is a museum on site that I also visited. It is a very interesting place to visit.  Reflected below are photo that I took on my visit.




Today, Cahokia Mounds is considered the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. Monks Mound is the largest structure and central focus of the city: a massive platform mound with four terraces, 10 stories tall, it is the largest man-made earthen mound north of Mexico.” From Wikipedia

The Pyramid called Monk’s Mound















Woodhenge at Cahokia


The people native to Cahokia used the sun to track time.  They built a wood henge to track solstices and equinoxes.












Cahokia Museum Artifacts


Below are pictures of artifacts that are in the Cahokia Museum.





Note:  rounded eyes is a Caucasian feature.




Conclusion


Only the descendants of Enoch would know how to build solar aligned Henges like the one here at Cahokia and England’s Stonehenge.

The inhabitants of North America and Europe both built mounds.  In Europe mounds are called Tumulus.  It appears that part of our early culture included mound building. Tumulus is a Latin word meaning ‘A heap of earth’, mound, hill, knoll, hillock, a barrow, or grave.  The word for tomb in Latin is tumba which is derived from the same root word as tumulus which means ‘to swell’. The word tumulus is in the Latin Vulgate 6 times and 24 times when you include the other forms of this word (tumulum, tumulos, tumulis, tumuli). Below are example verses that contain the word tumulus or an alternative form of this word in the Latin Vulgate of 382BC: 


And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they gathering stones together, made a heap [tumulus ], and they ate upon it.” DR Gen 31:46 (see Latin)

Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle. And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap [tumulus] for ever: it shall be built no more.” DR Deu 13:15-16 (see Latin)

Except the cities that were on hills [collis] and high places [tumulis, plural of tumulus], the rest Israel burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with fire.” DR Jos 11:13 (see Latin)

And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave [tumulum, singular from of tumulus] of Abner: and all the people also wept.” DR 2 Sam 3:32 (see Latin)

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves [tumulis, plural of tumulus], O my people.” DR Eze 37:13 (see Latin)

There are also over 200 burial mounds in the Colorado Desert that are called Intaglio which is an Italian word for burial mound.  The most well-known intaglios are the ones in Blythe, California which is located next to the Colorado River.

In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt, speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of the sun. In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof: It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them.” DR Isa 19:18-20

More information and sources:
Southern Illinois is little Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Illinois


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