Sumerian Roots of the Dakota Sioux Hopewell Mound Builders Gods
There is a degree of ambiguity in assigning shapes to represent different gods. I believe that contacts with eastern Mediterranean peoples influenced many of the attributes of the gods or even the gods themselves. The fact that the Sioux had major and minor gods appears to have its roots in Sumerian and Babylonia religions. One thing is certain and that is that these large earthworks were constructed to be seen from the air by the deity. There has been little or no work by academia in trying to decipher the codex of the Hopewell's shapes and effigies within their earthwork complex. While not a perfect fit, Sioux's 8 gods conform to the perceived meaning of the various earthwork complexes and I believe provides overwhelming evidence that the "Hopewell" were Sioux Indians.
Sioux Indians Tell of a Former Giant Race Destroyed by The Great Spirit
History of Fremont County, Iowa - 1881 In 1875 a huge human skeleton was unearthed at a brick-yard about one mile east of Hamburg at a depth of fourteen feet from the surface of the earth. The bones were for the most part in an advanced state of decay but the teeth were well preserved. The remains are believed to be those of a giant at least eight feet in height. The teeth were worn down almost to the jaw-bone, which fact indicated that the "mighty men of renown" must have lived in the days mentioned by the old Indians who formerly lived in the vicinity of Hamburg. "Long ago," said they, "our fathers used to ride across the Missouri river here on their ponies, for the water was very shallow. The eastern margin of the river then was at the foot of the high bluff (at Hamburg) and the river itself was very wide. But there were so many bad men among our fathers in those days and they engaged in so many wars that the Great Spirit cursed the waters of the river (the Missouri) and caused it to run in a narrower and deeper channel, so that the tribes, could not cross and fight and kill one another. After that our fathers lived till their feet were worn off with walking and their teeth worn down with eating." Many other bones of extinct giant animals and men have been found in the same locality where the skeleton before was described."
Native American Concurred That A Giant Race Once Roamed North America
Giant Skeleton with Infant Uncovered in Iowa by Road Crew
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) August 17, 1897 WORKMEN UNEARTH SKELETONS An Indian Giant and Infant Turned Up at Burlington Burlington, Iowa, Aug. 17 - A remarkable find was made by workman excavating for the road around North Main street bluff yesterday. They turned up the complete skeleton of an Indian and an infant. The former was a giant at least seven feet tall. With the skeleton were found a silver armlet, a spear head, pipe, knives, beads, a bridle bit and a quantity of silver and copper ornaments.
Large Sioux Indian Skeleton Uncovered in Burial Mound in Southern Illinois
Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894 On the spur of the ridge upon which the Welch mounds of Brown county, hereafter noticed, are situated and about midway between them and Chambersburg, in Pike county, is a group of circular mounds, possibly the work of another people than those who built the effigies. They are mainly on the farm of Mr. W. A. Hume, who assisted in opening eight of them, of which but two are specifically noticed here...
The other, situated on the point of a commanding bluff, was also conical in form, 50 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. The outer layer consisted of sandy soil, 2 feet thick, filled with slightly decayed skeletons, probably Indians of intrusive burials. The earth of the main portion of this mound was very fine yellowish sand which shoveled like ashes and was everywhere, to the depth of from 2 to 4 feet, as full of human skeletons as could well be stowed away in it, even to two and three tiers. Among these were a number of bones not together as skeletons, but mingled in confusion and probably from scaffolds or other localities. Excepting one, which was rather more than seven feet long, these skeletons appeared to be of medium size and many of them much decayed.
