the big Appalachian sky
When I think of the Appalachian mountains, I usually think of North Carolina, Virginia or Tennessee. However, this weekend Jane and I headed down to Fort Mountain State Park in North Georgia for two nights of glorious camping. Saturday, we spent the day with Tom Blue Wolf from Earth Keepers at a sweat lodge ceremony.
Sunday, Jane and I hiked to the overlook trail. The picture above is from the west overlook.
Along the trail are the mysterious remains of a stone wall that was built thousands of years ago by an unknown source. The plaques on the wall tell different stories, one about the Creek peoples attacking the moon-eyed men that built the wall. The moon-eyed men couldn’t see during certain phases of the moon and were easily destroyed during one of these phases. Also, the wall could have been built by the Welsh Prince Madoc who discovered America in 1170. Tom Blue Wolf says that the wall is part of an ancient observatory built by the Creek peoples, stretching all the way to Arkansas. But unlike our observatories where we look at the stars, men would lay along the wall and allow the stars to see us. Like the starlight that travels to Earth from dead stars millenia ago, after our death, after being in the observatory, our light travels onward for eternity.
Regardless of the reason for the wall, the view from the park is beautiful.
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