Ancient Stone Monument to Napi Discovered on Canadian Prairies

Thanks. Very interesting article. Is it possible that these stones reflect the arrangement of stars that comprise the constellation Orion who likewise was frequently interpreted in myth as a great hunter/warrior?

Thanks Doug, no astronomical relationship has been suggested for this monument. However there is a claim, made a little awhile back, that another stone monument in Alberta may have functioned as a sort of sun temple. Needless to say it hasn't got much support among archaeologists.

Very astute inquiry Doug. Does it look like Orion to you? It would frankly be odd if it didn't depict stars, wouldn't it? Who else would their Creator God be, or come from? "As on Earth as it is in heaven."

Don't know I agree with this statement: "The Blackfoot are a people that have inhabited the prairies since ancient times.[agreed] The effigy dates to somewhere between AD 1000 and AD 1500. [agreed] It would have been constructed before the time of European contact." Not sure about that, unless you mean "late contact" after the Dark Ages. And even then, the arctic people roamed freely.

There is very compelling evidence that a Canadian Inuit tribe uses the same words for their boats as a Siberian clan. This is showing contact over 12,000 years ago from Siberia. [meaning other "Otzi's" were out roaming around northern Europe/Asia/America at least 7,000 years before he was] Yes, Russia east of the Urals is not considered "Europe", but they are one land mass.

So I doubt seriously there was no contact from "Europe" or Asia or Africa for that matter. Non-modern human hominids have sailed the seas for one million + years, maybe more. Let's all give our ancestors some credit, and drop this 1820s "caveman" mindset by using newly discovered evidence. The ancients could go anywhere in the world by circling the arctic and dropping down using stars as guides. And they did, leaving stone markers and megaliths of their presence. "Lexiline.com" will get your knowledge started on these ancient Earth Explorers, aka Argonauts.

Guarantee they made contact. Walking, sailing, rowing, whatever a modern human today could do if taken back in their times, they did better.

Neandertals were twice as strong as a modern human, with a larger cranium capacity....Who do you think "Sampson" was?{and how ancient is this tale when a hominid "superman" doesn't want his hair(y) body shaved/cut?) How about Hercules? Achilles? These "half-god sons"? Half of an ancient hominid/Cro-Magnon offspring? Or even a Homo Erectus/Sapien cross? I can give links to 4 different "modern" humans now established by DNA proof.

We now know of at least 5 or 6 different human/hominids living @ 12,000 years ago, even possibly a few pockets of homo erectus!...think they never met? Yes, they did. Just last month DNA proof of Sapien Sapien and Neandertal interbreeding. And please, do not forget: yes, the DNA shows @ 3% of modern humans are Neandertal. But the FIRST ones were 50/50.

God-like strength. In fact, the translation of "Giant" from many old languages, Hebrew included, can just as easily be translated as "Mighty Man." Think about it. "Giant people evolved pale from lack of sun, isolated by 10,000 years of ice, walking back down to a region that had already thawed and evolved into more modern humans...what would you call these super strong, pale giants? Did it happen that way? And, if they were "kings and gods" would you try to do everything to preserve the "bloodline?" They had no clue about genetics? Please.

Check the "palette of Narmer" housed in the Louvre. It's easily found online. Narmer, Nimrod, Naram Sin, all the same guy. Look closely: he is a Viking. The First "Mighty Man" King, depicted smiting his enemies, towering over them. Yes, I understand courtly propaganda. But check it out: he knows something: he invented/refined the first 12 month calendar! He is "killing" the 13th "warrior." 12 remain "alive." (months). Explorers needed navigation devices and calculations. For instance, the "Celtic Cross." With "degree" notches on the wheel.

Astronomical, the emphasis on that in the ancient world is not stressed enough, right Doug?

What I found very interesting was this: "A stone effigy monument, in the shape of a Blackfoot creator god named Napi, has been discovered in southern Alberta – south of the Red Deer River near the hamlet of Finnegan.

One day Old Man determined that he would make a woman and a child; so he formed them both – the woman and the child, her son – of clay. After he had moulded the clay in human shape, he said to the clay, "You must be people” ...

They walked down to the river with their Maker, and then he told them that his name was Na'pi, - Old Man."

This very strongly resembles the Egyptian Creator god "Ptah" (Buddha), that fashioned his people on a potter's wheel, and of "Adamu" (Adam/Mud), another early "God" of the Egyptians....."Na'pi"......I'm going to look to see if there isn't some related Egyptian name of Ptah. He was an odd little fellow too, depicted as born in a lotus flower in Egypt, very possibly a foreign god brought to Egypt immediately after the Ice Age receded, and folks from Eurasia migrated back south....to Egypt and India.
An Indo-European god. Elf-like depictions.

I do know of another very early god, possibly a "Creator" god in Egypt: Hapi. Let's see if there is any link to Hapi and Ptah. Thanks for the article! And many thanks for the illustration!!

No, I was incorrect, it was not the Creator God Ptah that fashioned man from clay, it was his cohort Khnum. Ptah Created the air, the water, the lessor gods, Khnum created mankind. Khnum was the Potter God. Interestingly, like Na'pi, he lived by a river (the Nile, on an island), and curiously an inscription has him invoking "Hapy(i)" to smile upon the land.

http://www.kemet.org/glossary/khnum.html

Na'pi.

Hmmm, now this is a curious coincidence: The Egyptian Creator god Ptah had a "strange" son. One he created by lightening into a heifer. In other words, a child born of a virgin. A bull child. Herodotus tells the tale, and keep in mind: this ritual went on for THOUSANDS OF YEARS and THOUSANDS of these bullgods were found mummified.

His name? (N)Apis. And like I said above, Ptah's Creator god buddy Khnum would cast invocations to "Hapy", or "Api."

Ptah: [The Apis bull was his sacred animal, more of a representation of his soul on earth who gave fertility and rebirth to the people.

The bull's main sanctuary was near the temple of Ptah in Mennefer, near the bull's embalming house where he became linked to Osiris after death. Herodotus wrote that the Apis bull was conceived from a bolt of lightning, it was black with a while diamond on his forehead, the image of a vulture on his back, double hairs on his tail and a scarab mark under his tongue. The lightning was thought by the Egyptians to be Ptah in the form of a celestial fire, who mated with a heifer. With a creation god as his father, the bull was believed to be a fertility symbol.]

Btw, Herodotus also stated the bull would be ritually slaughtered by one of the priests by being stabbed in the side......

I have always thought ancient explorers would first sail up big rivers when they encountered new places....M ISSI (I)SSI PPI....looks like someone was naming that river after their (M)other Goddess Isis, and their Creator god (P)tah.....I'm sure of it.

Why do Archaeologists ignore what is staring them in the face? Given the historical importance in all past cultures of the constellations, why wouldn't that be the initial assumption rather than a poo-poo wave off as unlikely?

Or 'Mississippi' could be the English spelling of the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River"), which involves a lot fewer assumptions...