The Ancient Ones: Mesoamericans, Man Corn, & Quetzalcoatl in the Heart of Chaco Canyon
The Anasazi Revisited
After two and a half years of learning even more about the Anasazi through books, lectures, and by visiting even more sites, I have gained new insight into the people of the Four Corners that so fascinate the world.
In this episode I offer extensive evidence for the direct influence of Mesoamericans in relation to the Chaco Canyon Anasazi. I cover Teotihuacan, the Toltecs, the Feathered Serpent Cult, the Maya, the Caddo, Cahokia, and of course, the Anasazi. I discuss the Great Houses, a new theory on kivas, the pole flying Voladores ceremony, fertilizer in Chaco Canyon, Macaws, turquoise, Human Sacrifice, the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl, Our Lord the Flayed One Xipe Totec, and obviously, Man Corn. Aka, Cannibalism. But that just scratches the surface of this nearly five hour episode.
I weave the tale from Mesoamerica, to the Four Corners, and then over to the Mississippi River Valley before bringing it all back to the American Southwest. Platform mounds, temples, the Toltec tecpatl heart carving knife, shields, chocolate, and more help connect the dots between the various North and Central American cultures.
I present evidence of a lot of violence, a lot of connection, and a lot of theories as I paint the complete picture for y’all of the Chacoan Anasazi of the American Southwest.
White Sands National Park in New Mexico where the Pole Scraping was recently discovered.
Turquoise bead I found at the Dittert Site and LEFT THERE, unfortunately.
Macaw petroglyph at Petroglyph National Monument
Kiva
THE PYRAMID INSIDE CHACO CANYON
Bird eating a man pictograph at Petrified Forest National Park. There are other interesting petroglyphs on this rock called Newspaper Rock.
Selected Sources:
Anasazi America by David E Stuart
Man Corn by Christy Turner
Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America by Timothy Pauketat
The Scarlet Macaw Clan Migration: Chaco Canyon Anasazi - Paquimé by Richard Fisher
The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy
Southwest Seminars Lectures by Steve Lekson, Robert Weiner, Donna Glowacki, & others
Parallel roads, solstice and sacred geography at the Gasco Site: a Chacoan ritual landscape by Robert S. Weiner, Richard A. Friedman & John R. Stein
Ritual Objects as Cultural Capital A Comparison between the Mixtec- Zapotec, Aztatlán, and Casas Grandes Cultural Co- traditions by John M. D. Pohl
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Shield Bearing Warriors On the Northwestern Plains by David Moyer
Ancient Pueblo Used Conch Shell-trumpets for Communication by Mike Milligan
The Mystery of the Stone Towers, "Saturday Evening Post." By Hibben (1949) "American Antiquity.”
Murder in the Gallina Country by Hibben
A History of Cacao in West Mexico: Implications for Mesoamerica and U.S. Southwest Connections [in Journal of Archaeological Research] By Michael Mathiowetz
Written on the Landscape Film
Chaco Canyon Project Films
Using ground-penetrating radar to re-evaluate the Chetro Ketl field area in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico by Jennie O Sturm
A Macaw Breeding Center Supplied Prehistoric Americans With Prized Plumage by Katherine J. Wu for Smithsonian Mag
LARGO-GALLINA TOWERS: AN EXPLANATION by James Mackey and R. C. Green
https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2023/03/horned-serpent.html
With help from my dear friends Matt Fooks, Scott Jaquith, and the Paranormalist