Pictures of the Mounds

Haywire · Pictures of the Mounds

Here are a couple of pictures of the mounds that I have on my farm. I have never dug into any of them or have a desire too. They could just be dirt mounds I'm not sure. There are about 8 of them in about a 4 acre area. The first picture is of a PATH I created after I moved here. This picture is headed South. Some of the mounds are on the West side of this PATH.

This is where I go to meditate and feel the earth. I find so much peace and calm here.

What do you think?

Haywire

BooBoo

I agree Jacquie. The reason why I asked about directions is that I felt it was important to whomever buried them(?) It was done with care.

PS: Need to ask.....are the other sites in a north/south direction too?

horsefeathers

My daughter looked at some land here in Arkansas and it had similiar mounds on it. What she was told was it was from Indian tribes that had passed thru. They mounded the dirt up to set there tepee on. Don't really know, that's just what she was told.
Pam

Haywire

The Indian theory could be correct. My farm name is Shawnee Creek which is a creek that runs thru the back of my property. It was named after the Shawnee Indians. There are more mounds that head north to south closer to the creek. These mounds are a bit north of the creek.

Haywire

Sage/Debs

It feels very Indian like to me also. I wish I were better able to feel more about the "grave". Go with Pammy...she's probably better than I with this. My first impression was so female but it could well be a female mourning energy or even your energy I felt.

Shirley

If they are burial mounds your state might have a statute to protect them and may give you an exemption from property taxes for that portion of your land as well.

BooBoo

You might look at the old records at the county courthouse for more info on your property. I'm surprised I haven't found more info on Indian burial customs, but I do remember that the direction of how they place the dead is very important.

BooBoo

Just found this with a google search for Shawnee Burial Customs --
I KNEW that the directions were important.......but your mounds are not in the RIGHT directions, according to this.....
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Shawnee burial practices changed very little throughout their history. Certain practices changed over time and varied among their divisions, but in many details Shawnee mortuary practices remained the same. The body of the deceased was kept covered inside the dwelling for half a day after death; then it was prepared for burial by the blood kin. The kin chose a funeral leader and two or three corpse handlers who also served as gravediggers. None of the gravediggers could be related to the deceased nor be of the same name group. The funeral rites lasted four days and included purification rites, burial addresses, feasts, vigils, and condolence ceremonies.
Graves were dug about four feet deep and had an east-west orientation. The interior of the grave was sometimes lined with stone slabs,( in New Manchester, W.Va., I have seen this) but most references indicate that wood and bark were used. The body was wrapped in a skin or covered with bark. Poles were laid across the top of the grave, bark was laid over the poles, and the earth taken from the grave was piled over the bark covering. A grave house made of logs or bark was erected over the grave. No cemeteries existed prior to 1830; most graves were dug near the dwellings.