Creation
Giants of the Dawn (G.O.D.S.)
The Peacemaker
The Measure
Comparison
The Warrior
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Listen children to a story that was told to us long ago,
About a kingdom on a mountain and valley folk below.
On the mountain was a treasure buried deep beneath a stone,
so the valley people swore they would have it for their own.
So the people of the valley sent a message up the hill
demanding all the buried treasure, everything or they will kill.
Came an answer from the kingdom,
With our brothers we will share all the secrets of this mountain
and the treasure buried there.
Now the valley became enraged with anger;
Shouting “mount your horses and draw your swords!”
And they killed the mountain people just to claim their reward.
There they stood beside the treasure on the mountain bloodied red
to turn the stone to find beneath it another stone,
on which “Peace on Earth” was all it read.
(Adopted from a Vietnam era song, the origin of which is still unknown)
Based upon an ancient Native American story passed down from one generation
to the next.
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I love the quote about Peace through Strength from Ultron:
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Is that a project you’re working on?
That song was also used as the theme from Billy Jack. A 70’s movie that was definitely a product of it’s time. Been quite a bit since I saw it but the song has stuck with me all the while.
It is a project based upon a Native American story.
Comanches
Chief Rolling Thunder of the Comanches, a tribe from the Great Plains, gave the following account of an ancient race of white giants in 1857: “Innumerable moons ago, a race of white men, 10 feet high, and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living, here inhabited a large range of country, extending from the rising to the setting sun. Their fortifications crowned the summits of the mountains, protecting their populous cities situated in the intervening valleys.
Innumerable moons ago, a race of white men, 10 feet high, and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living, here inhabited a large range of country.
— Chief Rolling Thunder
“They excelled every other nation which was flourished, either before or since, in all manner of cunning handicraft—were brave and warlike—ruling over the land they had wrested from its ancient possessors with a high and haughty hand. Compared with them the palefaces of the present day were pygmies, in both art and arms. …”
The chief explained that when this race forgot justice and mercy and became too proud, the Great Spirit wiped it out and all that was left of their society were the mounds still visible on the tablelands. This account was documented by Dr. Donald “Panther” Yates, a researcher and author of books on Native American history, on his blog.
The encounter took place during their migration to the East from the Great Northern Plains.
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My dad was very much into native American Indian history. Visited a large number of the mounds in Louisiana, where he lived, and had an extensive collection of arrowheads and artifacts that he had found himself.
Supposedly some of the Louisiana mounds pre-date the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge. Interesting stuff.
In understanding how the face of the Earth changes over time, I often wonder how the land appeared back then. When was that time in history.
My first thoughts were of the Great Inland Seaway.
Since the great plains were mentioned, it must have been after that epoch.
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That should probably range sometime about 4000+ years ago.