Tuttle Turtle Step Gateway (Woodbury CT)

The Manitou Stone on the top of the rise caught my eye:

And then I remembered a winter day when I first noticed these stones on a boulder, just around the curve of this roadside row of stones:

   Nohham Rolf Cachat-Shilling in  A Quantitative Assessment of Stone Relics in a Western Massachusetts Town ( Massachusetts Archaeological Society 2016) designates "stones on a boulder" such as these as: “wawanaquassik ("honoring stones") ” and also mentions  “higher, boulder-based cairns (skuguisu káhtqwk: A type of "boulder-based cairn" aka an Emerging Serpent Effigy on a Boulder.).” 

In Part II of "A Quantative Assessment," Wâunonaqussuk are described as  "long, low boulder with many small, round stones on top “…boulders with many small, round stones on top. Those are prayers to the spirit of someone who died violently...There are also standing cairns on rocks {nípaü kodtonquag(kash)} . These are invested with prayers for the balance of the universe.”

wâunon, ‘honor’ + qussuk, ‘stone’ = Wâunonaqussuk: ‘honoring stone’

(Natick Nipmuc wâunonukhauónat – ‘to flatter,’ Trumbull 1903:202, verb stem wâunon- ‘honor’ + qussuk ‘stone’ = wâunonaqussuk – ‘honoring stone’ + quanash pl., also Narragansett wunnaumwâuonck – ‘faithfulness, truthfulness,’ wunna, ‘good,’ wáunen, ‘honor,’ + onk, abstract suffix, O’Brien 2005:37, Wawanaquas- sik, ‘place of many honoring stones,’- Nochpeem Mahikkaneuw/Wappinger, Ruttenber 1992b:373). 

He also mentions the Narragansett traditionally refer to as káhtôquwuk  as "stone groupings," citing Harris and Robinson  in Ancient Ceremonial Landscape and King Philip’s War. Northeast Anthropology (2015:140).

https://www.academia.edu/40876479/Assessing_Stone_Relics_in_Western_Massachusetts_Part_II_Patterns_of_Site_Distribution

On April 1st, 2022 (and this is no joke), I'll edit this to say:

   As I understand it, Káhtôquwuk  means, allegorically, a 'Stone Prayer.'

   A káhtôquwuk is a kind of stone pile, a kind of stone heap, something that is heaped high, ceremonially, religiously, prayerfully, by placing one stone above another stone.

    Káhtôquwukansh is the plural of “Stone Prayers.”

   Kahtoquwuk in Narragansett, kodtuquag in Massachusett, Kodtonquag in Nipmuk, and many more variations all mean "stones that have been stacked up."

   Nohham writes, “There are several types of kodtonquagkash (kodtuhquag in Massachusett), including effigies.  Most kodtonquagkash are not more than 2 m (6.56 feet) wide and less than 1.8 m. (5.9 feet) tall.  They are usually made in an organized manner, in several courses of stones, often turret-like in form atop a base boulder.  There are kodtonquagkash types that are built directly on the forest floor, on shallow bedrock or even no rock at all.” ~ http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/03/kahtoquwuk-stone-prayers.html

And there's the gateway into the Place, a Turtle Step:

 (But is it also a Snake's head?)

Yes, I was here before, probably going home from the place where they do Emissions Testing: 

http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2016/11/snowy-morning-photos.html