Babylonian Swastikas as Sun Symbols to the Missouri Sioux Hopewell

Babylonian Swastikas as Sun Symbols to the Missouri Sioux Hopewell

The Swastika as a sun symbol dates to the Bronze Age was introduced to the Sioux Hopewell by Eastern Mediterranean metal traders.  Note that the 5 holes represent another Bronze Age sun symbol of the Sun Cross.  

History of Dunklin County, Missouri 1896

     The mounds and other ancient earthworks constructed by these people are abundant in Southeastern Missouri. Some are quite large, but the greater part of them are small and inconspicuous.

     Along nearly all of the watercourses that are large enough to be navigated by a canoe, the mounds are almost invariably found, so that when one places himself in such position as to command the grandest river scenery he is almost sure to discover that he is standing upon one of these ancient tunnels, or in close proximity thereto. The human skeletons, with skulls differing from those of the Indians that are found in these mounds, are usually accompanied by pottery and various ornaments and utensils showing considerable mechanical skill.

Their axes were of stone, and their military works were such as a people would erect who had just passed to the pastoral state of society from that dependent alone from hunting and fishing. They were no doubt idolaters, and it has been conjectured that the sun was the object of their adoration. The mounds were generally built in a situation affording a view of the rising sun; when enclosed in walls their gateways were toward the east and finally, medals have been found representing the sun rays of light. Dunklin County is an especially rich field for archaeologists. Situated on the farm of C.V. Langdon, one mile south of Cotton Plant, is one of the largest mounds in the county, adjoining are smaller ones.

      In the north part, and, in fact, nearly all over the county at comparatively short distances, these mounds are very noticeable. Extra large-sized human bones, skulls, earthen pots, rude ornaments, and various implements have been exhumed from many of these mounds.

Babylonian Queen Semiramis and Ohio's Serpent Mound

Babylonian Queen Semiramis and Ohio's Serpent Mound

   This is a story of a little-known character in the Bible who had an influence on the religious canons of the mound building culture of the Ohio Valley as well as our own. Her ways were the Ohio mound-builders ways, and are now our are ways. Her name was Semiramis, mother and eventual wife of Nimrod, ruler of Babylon. It was not her armies that conquered forthcoming cultures, but the assimilation of the ancient Babylonian belief system.

   The religion, originated by Cush and Nimrod, was the beginning of pagan polytheism in the post-flood age: the worship of many gods. The serpent, sun, and fire became their symbols for the pagan gods. The serpent, sun, and fire are the three most common elements visible in the Ohio Valley burial mounds and earthworks.

   The story of Semiramis begins In year 3,000 B.C., she was a woman who would not only be the Queen of Babylon but the Queen of the Heavens. Throughout history, she would be known by other names, Ishtar, Easter, Ashtoreth, and Astarte. Semiramis was the wife of Cush and mother or Nimrod; most famous for the construction of the tower of Babylon. After Cush loses power, Semiramis refused to let go of her power and did the unthinkable, she married her son, Nimrod.

   The marriage was short-lived when one of the sons of Noah, Shem with 72 co-conspirators murdered Nimrod, cut him into little pieces and distributed his parts across the lands. Semiramis hold on the throne was in jeopardy and so she acted implementing a two-part strategy. First, she made popular the cult of Astrology based on the 12 houses of the Zodiac. Each house containing 3 gods with 36 gods in total.

The Babylonians worshiped the sun, moon, planets and the stars. The Zodiac they created is the same as used today along with our modern calendar and geometry. the Babylonians using the sexagesimal (base-60) number system from which comes 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 360 (60×6) degrees in a circle and 60 degrees in each angle of an equilateral triangle etc.

    This brings us to the famous effigy mound in Ohio that has all the elements of the serpent, sun, and fire along with both solar and lunar alignments.

    The egg within the mound may have been a place of sacrifice to the child Tammuz. Found in burial mounds around the Serpent Mound were headless skeletons that may have been the victims of human sacrifice. There were also fire scorched stones within the egg along with the stone monolith that highly suggests that it was used as an altar.

Stone altar found within the “egg” of the Serpent Mound.