Sunday, February 26, 2023

More "Stone Wall" Dissent (Weir Farm Nat. Park, CT)

“Evaluations of qusuqaniyutôkansh (“stone walls”) by parties who do not test their hypotheses against Northeast Algonquian cosmology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Rituals of Renewal on Ceremonial Stone Landscapes are doing, at best, only 3% of an investigation.” - Sherlock Stones 

   Ceremonial Stone Landscape features are briefly discussed on some recent video from the Park. 

    https://www.nps.gov/wefa/learn/photosmultimedia/virtual-tours.htm

   However, I'm not sure they are being correctly identified, investigated, or preserved at Weir Farm...

   Part of the problem is the rebuilding of the "stone walls" which has a long history at the Weir Farm, rather than the conservation of the original "stone walls:"


I looked for a good image to attach to that sketch for hours this morning, and finally found it on one of those virtual tours, one that shows the original undulating rows of stones snaking across the fields:
 I did have to reverse the image to make it work:



A little more:




And of course there's this image below that might be a good fit rather the Serpent with the 7th Scale at a different preserve in Bethlehem CT I used above since it shares a few similar distinguishing characteristics - and it at Weir Farm: 




  "Exploring Stone Walls" seems to repeat some Stone Wall Mythology which I've read and don't agree with in a book entitled "Exploring Stone Walls," coincidentally enough... 

1 comment:

  1. Need a good author to get the conversation started, who can write about the differences between NA stone walls and the repeated "Stone Wall Mythology" of our modern times.

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