Post 4

This post is inspired by Kelly Dirkman's April 5th post titled, "Effigy Mounds".

The main points contained within Kelly's post are sound, and do make an excellent argument in regard to the spirtuality of these indian tribes. It is not my intent to disagree with this or pick apart any aspect of her idea. This post awakened ideas that connected the ways in which the indian mounds were created to the way modern society and religion exist. In my mind Catholicism was the most exclusively connected.

Kelly wrote, "the symbols on their pottery is like the effigy mounds they created", which is also mentioned within the reading. This relates so well to modern day Christianity. We have crosses on necklaces, "WWJD" emblems on car bumpers, and even churches that are shaped like a dove from an ariel view. Like the indian mounds, the churches and day to day items revolve around symbols that come from the core of our spirituality (Not to say that every one is christian. It seems to be the same with all religions). We visualize the cross so much that it has been ingrained into soceity in every aspect. The indians that created these mounds seem to have had the same sort of thing happening.

Kelly also wrote, "The fact that mounds in different areas were aligned similarly gave way to a suggestion of a shaman going to different tribes to oversee construction". To me this is much like the Catholics. They have Bishops, Cardinals, and a Pope. There is a group of people that oversee each individual component of the Catholic Church.

I want to thank Kelly for bringing this together for me. Like the indians, today religion is still passed down. Maybe these ways were passed down to us from a pot?