One day, I happened to look at the "Upton Chamber" drawing from Mavor & Dix and said to myself "Obviously probably the Great Snake - from the inside, in the Underworld where up is down, and high is low, a mirror of this world, and messages were sometimes written backward in caves so the spirits could read them."
I could be wrong...
And Then:
One day I happened to be looking at an illustration of Calendar One and said to myself, "The Giovanna Neudorfer illustration is upside down - and resembles the Frank G. Speck illustration of the Lenape Big House..."
I turned the image around, put north at the top, and lined the two images up side by side:I could be wrong...
Stone Chambers, Indians and Astronomy:
A Critique of Vermont's Stone Chambers
By Byron E. Dix and James W . Mavor, Jr.
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