The Dreaded Hammonasset Imaginary Line

   Almost against my will, I’m reading a recent publication gifted to me by a friend, almost against my will, - and not too long into it, there it is again! The Dreaded Hammonasset Imaginary Line, connecting certain places to this and that, and eventually to an advanced ancient and unknown worldwide megalithic culture that “diffused” across the planet, just like Donovan was singing about in that song about Atlantis.

   Mythical Atlantis.

https://www.atlantis-scout.de/atlantis_donovan.htm

    

   Odd that the record company artwork for the jacket for the single 45rpm features a swastika, right??

    Here's a little bit of nationalistic psuedohistory, used by a particular branch of pseudoarchaeology, that troubles me when people start talking about Atlantis, and a made-up "race" of people: “Homo atlanticus was a white, ancient Aryan race that came from Atlantis...Popular television series like Ancient Aliens and Secrets of the Dead continue to explore the Tiwanaku-Atlantis connection. Bestselling books by Erich von Däniken and Graham Hancock go further, attributing the construction of Tiwanaku to ancient extraterrestrial beings.

     Though it may be hard to stomach, the survival of the Atlantis myth is certainly not surprising. Plato’s Lost City has proven both timeless and universal in the western imagination. Its timelessness lies in its capacity to reveal the mysteries of human origins; its universal appeal, in its unlimited imaginary potential. And lest we forget: the legend of Atlantis evolved alongside dangerous theories of race that reinforced white supremacy for Aryan nationalists and Bolivian creoles alike. Attributing the construction of Tiwanaku to ancient extraterrestrial beings only perpetuates this nefarious myth. When we wonder if Tiwanaku was built by Atlanteans or by Aliens, those assumptions are based on the same twisted logic that drove men like Díaz, Posnansky, and Kiss: that Andean peoples could not have built Tiwanaku.

     And that’s the greatest myth of all.”

From “Andean Atlantis: Race, Science and the Nazi Occult in Bolivia”

By Matthew Gildner – Published June 5, 2013

http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/andean-atlantis-race-science-and-the-nazi-occult-in-bolivia

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10450231/The-Nazis-were-not-just-evil-but-barmy.html

    Eventually someone, if it hasn't already happened, is going to connect one silly line or other to Atlantis, "where ever she may be." Or the Antarctic ice cap will melt to reveal the lost city with all it's UFO landing sites and German U-boats equipped with Egyptian microwave ovens, proving me wrong, resulting in even more books and TV shows:

    But back to that book and that imaginary line people seem to like so much: My friend wanted me to see this particular photo in this particular book. This particular imaginary line never seemed to be in my particular yard before, at the junction of my road and Bethlehem Road:

     I’m thinking that I would have missed so much following an imaginary line instead of following real rows of stones, Snaking across the Landscape. The originator of this Hammonasset Line Hypothesis believes “(t)he line passes a notch in this large ridge (somewhere) and crosses Cheshire and Waterbury. It continues to Mount Tom, which is located just west of Litchfield and then crosses over into New York State passing by Red Hook to the Catskills by Hunter (Mountain). There is a large standing stone on the line just before Hunter that is called the Devil’s Tombstone... There seems to be some common threads along this line. There seems to be some complex about every three miles. The complexes are north of the line such as cairn fields. Some stonewalls are at the end at the line. The line does not seem to be a set width; it appears to vary in width. The actual solstice sunset line should be moving in a southern direction at this time due to precession. This means that the line from the past is located northward from the current sunset line. Some walls and marking boulders point to 70° magnetic northeast, the summer solstice sunrise.”

   From: http://www.neara.org/images/pdf/Hammonasset01.pdf

http://www.neara.org/images/pdf/Hammonasset02.pdf

http://www.neara.org/images/PAUL/tturtle.jpg

http://articles.courant.com/2010-12-20/news/hc-hammonasset-line-solstice-1215-20101220_1_summer-solstice-native-americans-stone-structures

    “The line does not seem to be a set width; it appears to vary in width.” I’ll agree with that, propose a corrected version if you want to find some Connecticut Indigenous Stonework, a line wide enough to include this large Indian Rock Garden from pre-contact times:

You'd be better off listening to the Landscape Speak for Itself, learning about the ways Indigenous Peoples "tended the wild" with controlled burns, following streams and rivers, from the high places to the low, to each ecological resource zone (combination Church and Garden) surrounded by a protective spirit being that resembles a rattlesnake, sometimes with horns, sometimes with feathers, composed of stone...