Sacred Black Hills

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As the seasons change the coloration of the hills change giving the appearance (in time lapse imagery) of a beating heart. Native Peoples refer to this unique geologic formation as 'the heart of all that is'. The heart of the Great American Plains, the Black Hills is 'THE' metal deposit on the continent. The massive conquest invasion of the west with iconographic miners is an indication of its rich mineralogical complexity. Gold, silver, uranium, copper, lead, lithium, bentonite clay, limestone, basalt, sandstone, and ... all mix into this alchemical brew. The 'Heart of All that Is' is an amalgam of the elements at the center of Lakota cosmology: Star Knowledge, and North America's Great Plains. As a geologic phenomenon the Black Hills is anomalous or different from the usual. In Alogonquin terms they have 'manitou'. Essentially the Black Hills are a metallic granite batholith that grew toward the sun from the surrounding lime sandstone clay overburden. In so many words, a simple battery/ generator/ coil/ armature/ spark... heart of all that is. Throughout the North American Continent granite plugs, the core of extinct volcanos, are centric points for land geometries. Many of these granite outcropping are considered sacred sites by native peoples. The Black Hills are one such sacred center. Granite is a piezoelectric rock. In other words it carries an electrical charge. Rooted to the planet's core the granite spires of the Black Hills reach from the depths of the earth to touch the sky, linking the seven dimensions. Another one of these granite plugs is located at the center of the Arkhom geometry in western Massachusetts. While the Arkhom geometry is more organized or static, the Black Hills exhibit a more vibrant , complex and concentrated growth dynamic, with a preponderance of the phi (1:1.618...) proportion in it's ceremonial landscape. Lakota Star Map ( see book -Lakota Star Knowledge by Ronald Goodman) identifies a Lakota system of living that followed 'the good red road'. This 'red road' refers to a pathway that can be seen both in the pattern of the stars and a ring of red clay that encompasses the Black Hills. To the Lakota the landscape is a mirror of celestial patterns Mt Harney = the Seven Dancers (Pleiades) Devil's Tower/Bear Lodge Mts. = Castor and Pollux. The Lakota Star Map, (R. Goodman) placed to overlay the sites associated with stars on the land is the green line and pent stars (see attached graphic). In this instance the Lakota Star Map matched the paired spots in four instances. A crucial piece is that the 'Raceway' around the Black Hills does not match the celestial raceway when geopositioned over corresponding sacred sites. Nor is the center, Pe Sla (Reynolds Prairie) positioned at the center of the star overlay as described in Lakota Star Knowledge. These correspondent disconnects don't worry me much as the symbolic and tangible sense of place qualities (discussed later in this article) more than make up for these deviations. Spiral of Sacred Sites The phi spiral shape (illustrated on accompanying graphic) was sized to connect Lakota sacred sites. The primary Star Knowledge sites are Pe Sla, Mt. Harney, Bear Butte, and Rock Butte (Gray Buffalo Horn Butte) or Devil's Tower. The Lakota speak of their circular ceremonial pathway around the Black Hills as being clockwise in direction. Visualizing this circular migrational 'good red road' as creating this phi spiral, one can understand the life breath that the Lakota ceremonial cycle instills in the land as they lived and prayed and danced. The phi proportion and the phi spiral is a common geometry and proportion found in nature. The conch nautilus shell is a phi spiral as well, the proportions of the human body are based on this proportion that 'IS' nature, the God number. Throughout the Lakota ceremonial cycle this proportion is instilled in the land as 'the people' followed the constellations from Winter Camp, to Pe Sla , to the center of the Black Hills, to Inyan Kara, to Stone Butte, completing the cycle at Bear Butte, the home of the Great Mystery. Thus, it is the total of the year that generates and sustains phi - life. Phi beings (Lakota) traveling the 'good red road' (a phi spiral) would generate a vital connection to the creative resonate field of the Black Hills. A co creation of life. The Purification Lodge As stated before, the Star Knowledge of the Lakota perceived this circle of stars as a mirror of the 'good red road' around the Black Hills. While not exactly matching this constellation pattern there are very solid connections with sites around the 'heart of all that is'. Symbolizing the road of life, Star Knowledge identifies this amalgam of stars also as representative of a purification lodge. While Lakota cosmology (as described in Goodmen's book) has Pe Sla as the center of this land based constellation, when overlaid point to point, the site geopositioned at the center of this star pattern is Inyan Kara. This relationship is quite appropriate. Inyan Kara is a sacred Butte on west side of the Black Hills. It is from here that the 'grandfathers' or central fire stones are gathered for the purification rites that precede the Sun Dance. Inyan Kara thus is corespondent to the fire pit's position at the center of the lodge. While not specifically part of the Star Knowledge teachings, Inyan Kara, from this overlay, is the center of the land constellation not Pe Sla at the center of the Black Hills. Inyan Kara's position also relates to the Crab Nebula, a star generating powerhouse, not unlike the glowing forms of the 'grandfathers' in the center of the purification lodge. The L Gate Another geometric feature discovered is depicted on the graphic is the dodecagon or 12 pointed star. This geometric identifies Bear Butte as a center in relation to other sacred sites arrayed 60 degrees apart from this epicenter. The number twelve has many attributes that speak volumes about the importance of the 13th point Bear Butte. Briefly twelve symbolizes the universe in its cyclical revolution in space and time. In this geometric, Bear Butte is a pivot point of a right angle generated by the sites Rock Butte, Bear Butte and Mt Harney. In esoteric geometry or sacred geometry this is called an L gate, a doorway to spirit consciousness. This being the case, Bear Butte, as the Star Teaching states, is where one can go to be close to the Great Mystery and coalesce the years' ceremonies into a whole. Further this L is proportioned close to Phi 1:1.618... further reinforcing the life giving nature of 'the heart of all that is'. Harmonic Rings Typically one finds geographic features that cogenerate the greater resonant field of the geometric by marking the first radius. In the case of the Black Hills, the initializing point marks the first radius from Mount Harney to Bear Butte. Thus the ceremonies performed in this holy landscape would carry out to the full extend of the geometry. In this instance the microcosm of the Great Plains macrocosm. Located at the center of North America's great plains, the Black Hills are a center point for two distinct (perhaps more) circular patterns in the land. One having a near phi proportion to the other. Again 'LIFE'! Please note that these rings of the Black Hills link with the expanding rings of the continental harmonic suggesting an energized dynamic interplay. Five Elements Ingredients for a delicious stone soup -one can add the flavors of the 5 elements of Feng Shui and the associated land shapes and have a geomancy field day with the interrelationship of the elements in these hills and caves. The Black Hills has one of the largest, and most varied, concentrations of precious metals in the Americas. The metal deposit alone could generate a resonant field. We have learned from the ancients that Gold is a metal that links the inter dimensional grids. This was the main reason for a gold chalice, gold ring, gold Buddha, and why Incan rulers hoarded it. The Black Hills is a place that is all about the interplay between spirit and matter. Through the ceremonial cycles of the Lakota year, this interplay was brought into collective consciousness... as above so below. It is the very breath of life that blows out of the wind caves, gulps from the sink holes and flows from the many springs of these hollowed hills. Transcontinental Alignment Of further excitement, there is an alignment of Mount Shasta in California, the Grand Teton in Wyoming, the Black Hills (Mount Harney) and the Arkhom Base alignment through the Mohawk River Valley, Shelburne Falls and Boston coursing around the world through the West coast of Africa, central Australia, and Hawaii. An aboriginal ley alignment... A 'main line' from the heart! Suffice to say the Black Hills are a very important sacred site. I have undertaken this study on the request of Chief Arvol Looking Horse http://www.worldpeaceday.com and http://www.wolakota.org and http://www.dreamkeepers.net. I would like to stress that the above are my early discoveries and that I look forward to expanding upon them. They are not the last word or even a very knowledgeable word, on the respected sacred Black Hills and Lakota Star Knowledge. Personally I can't wait to make a pilgrimage to these sacred hills of the Great Mystery. Mitakuye Oyasin ! Peter Champoux
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THE BLACK HILLS - AMERICA'S SACRED SITE

What follows are initial findings on the Black Hills cosmological landscape of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Peoples as requested by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe.

This is not meant as a complete study on the lay of these lands or conclusive in any way. If anyone has anecdotes about the Black Hills, it would be great to hear from you - as place speaks through our collective experience. This is a developing understanding and your insight might offer further clues on the subject that is just briefly introduced in the following draft.

In total the Black Hills resemble a heart - from an eagle's point of view. As the seasons change the coloration of the hills change giving the appearance (in time lapse imagery) of a beating heart. Native Peoples refer to this unique geologic formation as 'the heart of all that is'.

The heart of the Great American Plains, the Black Hills is 'THE' metal deposit on the continent. The massive conquest invasion of the west with iconographic miners is an indication of its rich mineralogical complexity. Gold, silver, uranium, copper, lead, lithium, bentonite clay, limestone, basalt, sandstone, and ... all mix into this alchemical brew.

The 'Heart of All that Is' is an amalgam of the elements at the center of Lakota cosmology: Star Knowledge, and North America's Great Plains. As a geologic phenomenon the Black Hills is anomalous or different from the usual. In Alogonquin terms they have 'manitou'. Essentially the Black Hills are a metallic granite batholith that grew toward the sun from the surrounding lime sandstone clay overburden. In so many words, a simple battery/ generator/ coil/ armature/ spark... heart of all that is.

Throughout the North American Continent granite plugs, the core of extinct volcanos, are centric points for land geometries. Many of these granite outcropping are considered sacred sites by native peoples. The Black Hills are one such sacred center. Granite is a piezoelectric rock. In other words it carries an electrical charge. Rooted to the planet's core the granite spires of the Black Hills reach from the depths of the earth to touch the sky, linking the seven dimensions. Another one of these granite plugs is located at the center of the Arkhom geometry in western Massachusetts. While the Arkhom geometry is more organized or static, the Black Hills exhibit a more vibrant , complex and concentrated growth dynamic, with a preponderance of the phi (1:1.618...) proportion in it's ceremonial landscape.

Lakota Star Map ( see book -Lakota Star Knowledge by Ronald Goodman) identifies a Lakota system of living that followed 'the good red road'. This 'red road' refers to a pathway that can be seen both in the pattern of the stars and a ring of red clay that encompasses the Black Hills. To the Lakota the landscape is a mirror of celestial patterns

Mt Harney = the Seven Dancers (Pleiades)

Devil's Tower/Bear Lodge Mts. = Castor and Pollux.

The Lakota Star Map, (R. Goodman) placed to overlay the sites associated with stars on the land is the green line and pent stars (see attached graphic). In this instance the Lakota Star Map matched the paired spots in four instances. A crucial piece is that the 'Raceway' around the Black Hills does not match the celestial raceway when geopositioned over corresponding sacred sites. Nor is the center, Pe Sla (Reynolds Prairie) positioned at the center of the star overlay as described in Lakota Star Knowledge. These correspondent disconnects don't worry me much as the symbolic and tangible sense of place qualities (discussed later in this article) more than make up for these deviations.

Spiral of Sacred Sites

The phi spiral shape (illustrated on accompanying graphic) was sized to connect Lakota sacred sites. The primary Star Knowledge sites are Pe Sla, Mt. Harney, Bear Butte, and Rock Butte (Gray Buffalo Horn Butte) or Devil's Tower. The Lakota speak of their circular ceremonial pathway around the Black Hills as being clockwise in direction. Visualizing this circular migrational 'good red road' as creating this phi spiral, one can understand the life breath that the Lakota ceremonial cycle instills in the land as they lived and prayed and danced.

The phi proportion and the phi spiral is a common geometry and proportion found in nature. The conch nautilus shell is a phi spiral as well, the proportions of the human body are based on this proportion that 'IS' nature, the God number.

Throughout the Lakota ceremonial cycle this proportion is instilled in the land as 'the people' followed the constellations from Winter Camp, to Pe Sla , to the center of the Black Hills, to Inyan Kara, to Stone Butte, completing the cycle at Bear Butte, the home of the Great Mystery.

Thus, it is the total of the year that generates and sustains phi - life. Phi beings (Lakota) traveling the 'good red road' (a phi spiral) would generate a vital connection to the creative resonate field of the Black Hills. A co creation of life.

The Purification Lodge

As stated before, the Star Knowledge of the Lakota perceived this circle of stars as a mirror of the 'good red road' around the Black Hills. While not exactly matching this constellation pattern there are very solid connections with sites around the 'heart of all that is'. Symbolizing the road of life, Star Knowledge identifies this amalgam of stars also as representative of a purification lodge. While Lakota cosmology (as described in Goodmen's book) has Pe Sla as the center of this land based constellation, when overlaid point to point, the site geopositioned at the center of this star pattern is Inyan Kara.

This relationship is quite appropriate. Inyan Kara is a sacred Butte on west side of the Black Hills. It is from here that the 'grandfathers' or central fire stones are gathered for the purification rites that precede the Sun Dance. Inyan Kara thus is corespondent to the fire pit's position at the center of the lodge. While not specifically part of the Star Knowledge teachings, Inyan Kara, from this overlay, is the center of the land constellation not Pe Sla at the center of the Black Hills. Inyan Kara's position also relates to the Crab Nebula, a star generating powerhouse, not unlike the glowing forms of the 'grandfathers' in the center of the purification lodge.

The L Gate

Another geometric feature discovered is depicted on the graphic is the dodecagon or 12 pointed star. This geometric identifies Bear Butte as a center in relation to other sacred sites arrayed 60 degrees apart from this epicenter. The number twelve has many attributes that speak volumes about the importance of the 13th point Bear Butte. Briefly twelve symbolizes the universe in its cyclical revolution in space and time. In this geometric, Bear Butte is a pivot point of a right angle generated by the sites Rock Butte, Bear Butte and Mt Harney. In esoteric geometry or sacred geometry this is called an L gate, a doorway to spirit consciousness. This being the case, Bear Butte, as the Star Teaching states, is where one can go to be close to the Great Mystery and coalesce the years' ceremonies into a whole. Further this L is proportioned close to Phi 1:1.618... further reinforcing the life giving nature of 'the heart of all that is'.

Harmonic Rings

Typically one finds geographic features that cogenerate the greater resonant field of the geometric by marking the first radius. In the case of the Black Hills, the initializing point marks the first radius from Mount Harney to Bear Butte. Thus the ceremonies performed in this holy landscape would carry out to the full extend of the geometry. In this instance the microcosm of the Great Plains macrocosm. Located at the center of North America's great plains, the Black Hills are a center point for two distinct (perhaps more) circular patterns in the land. One having a near phi proportion to the other. Again 'LIFE'! Please note that these rings of the Black Hills link with the expanding rings of the continental harmonic suggesting an energized dynamic interplay.

Five Elements

Ingredients for a delicious stone soup -one can add the flavors of the 5 elements of Feng Shui and the associated land shapes and have a geomancy field day with the interrelationship of the elements in these hills and caves. The Black Hills has one of the largest, and most varied, concentrations of precious metals in the Americas. The metal deposit alone could generate a resonant field.

We have learned from the ancients that Gold is a metal that links the inter dimensional grids. This was the main reason for a gold chalice, gold ring, gold Buddha, and why Incan rulers hoarded it.

The Black Hills is a place that is all about the interplay between spirit and matter. Through the ceremonial cycles of the Lakota year, this interplay was brought into collective consciousness... as above so below. It is the very breath of life that blows out of the wind caves, gulps from the sink holes and flows from the many springs of these hollowed hills.

Transcontinental Alignment

Of further excitement, there is an alignment of Mount Shasta in California, the Grand Teton in Wyoming, the Black Hills (Mount Harney) and the Arkhom Base alignment through the Mohawk River Valley, Shelburne Falls and Boston coursing around the world through the West coast of Africa, central Australia, and Hawaii. An aboriginal ley alignment... A 'main line' from the heart!

Suffice to say the Black Hills are a very important sacred site. I have undertaken this study on the request of Chief Arvol Looking Horse http://www.worldpeaceday.com and http://www.wolakota.org and http://www.dreamkeepers.net.

I would like to stress that the above are my early discoveries and that I look forward to expanding upon them. They are not the last word or even a very knowledgeable word, on the respected sacred Black Hills and Lakota Star Knowledge. Personally I can't wait to make a pilgrimage to these sacred hills of the Great Mystery.

Mitakuye Oyasin !

Peter Champoux

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