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As Above So Below: Indigenous Astronomy And The Meaning Of America’s Ancient Mounds
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Trigger warning—this conversation has the potential to make you mad. It also has the potential to wake you up. It carries great medicine, if you let it. If you are uninterested in such an affair, move on. If you are open and your heart is willing to see the many-selves dancing about, take a gander.
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In this episode of God Is Red, we walk through Taylor Keen’s (Omaha / Cherokee) book, Rediscovering Turtle Island: Chapter 8, Indigenous Archeoastronomy!
Taylor’s words show how sacred geometry and, at times, sacred algebra structure places like the Newark Earthworks and Serpent Mound with the Stars. This conversation also faces the reckoning: why interest in Indigenous wisdom often fades when it challenges modern agriculture, settler myths, or Jeffersonian nostalgia. We compare Old World sites like Avebury with Turtle Island’s sacred geography / mounds to dissolve the myth that life travels in only one direction. And we look ahead to Taylor’s next book on Picture Cave
If you’re up to rethink “civilization,” astronomy, and what it means to be related with land and sky, jump in! Then share your take, leave a review, and subscribe so more listeners can find these stories and the living science written in earth.
Listen to Chapter 1 of Rediscovering Turtle Island
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Catch up on the God Is Red series!
An Unshod series of yarns with Omaha Storyteller, Taylor Keen exploring what it means to be truly human in the modern world.
Video of Taylor and my conversation!
