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The JYT's hatred for America is getting even more passionate. Today, they ran an article glorifying the savage injuns who pre-stole this great land of ours and urging people to visit the ruins:
Most of the ruins were, praise Jesus, destroyed to make way for civilization:
But some still stand and provide a pretext for multiculturalist propaganda:
But buried deep in the article is the real agenda:
In short, Monks Mound is an ancient heathen temple. In persuading unsuspecting travelers to visit the ruins, the JYT is luring them into involving themselves in ancient paganism.
Ancient Midwest
THE earthworks left behind by the long vanished civilizations of the Midwest are harder to spot than the pueblos and kivas of Arizona and New Mexico. For a long time many of them were hidden in plain sight or dismissed as little more than heaps of soil. But the more today’s archaeologists learn about the Midwestern mounds, the more intriguing is the picture that emerges from 1,000 or more years ago: a city with thousands of people just a few miles from present-day St. Louis, a 1,348-foot earthen serpent that points to the summer solstice, artifacts made of materials that could only have arrived over lengthy trade routes.
THE earthworks left behind by the long vanished civilizations of the Midwest are harder to spot than the pueblos and kivas of Arizona and New Mexico. For a long time many of them were hidden in plain sight or dismissed as little more than heaps of soil. But the more today’s archaeologists learn about the Midwestern mounds, the more intriguing is the picture that emerges from 1,000 or more years ago: a city with thousands of people just a few miles from present-day St. Louis, a 1,348-foot earthen serpent that points to the summer solstice, artifacts made of materials that could only have arrived over lengthy trade routes.
The mound builders lived over a wide area. But on a road trip of a few days in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, you can get a sampling of their work — and, along the way, find some modern-day diversions. Start from St. Louis, which early European settlers called Mound City because of the Indian constructions that were soon flattened to build the modern city.
MILE 9: CAHOKIA Inside the museum at this 2,200-acre site, a single sentence on a placard stopped me in my tracks: “One of the great cities of the world, Cahokia was larger than London in A.D. 1250.” More than 10,000 people — estimates range as high as 20,000 — are thought to have lived in the settlement between 1050 and 1200. Its most impressive feature now, Monks Mound, is the largest prehistoric earthwork in all of the Americas, covering more than 14 acres at its base. It stands 100 feet high and was built in a series of stages over a period close to 200 years. That’s probably more than 15 million basket loads of soil — dug out with clamshells, in case you were wondering.
A small stone tablet dug up in 1971 from Monks Mound and now on display in the museum suggests the myths or mysticism of the Cahokians: engraved on it is the figure of a man with falconlike features and an outstretched wing.