Horned Creature and other possible effigies with quartz, other piles, near Parker Village

I walked some more in the woods near Parker Village, Westford, MA and thought I saw something burial like and a few broken down piles. The quartz in this one...
...caught my eye:
Then I crossed a wall into a large wall enclosed rectangle/parallelogram with perhaps 50 rock piles scattered around. This one was still pretty intact:
But the real gem was this "Horned Creature" that I showed a little video of before (here). I have to show what I can of this since it is the best example I have seen.
Here is the front view. The "head" is quite symmetric as is the pile.
Here is the back view with a detail of the neck:
Look how the pile thins down in the "neck". By the way this creature is facing roughly west.

Now let's take a look at the pile that is visible in the background three pictures ago. It also has some symmetry and a piece of quartz. It seems to be following the horned creature.
If that is another "head" facing us, then this creature has quartz at its belly area rather than its neck. Here is the detail:
There were certainly plenty of other piles here also worth studying more than I did. Here a scene looking west:
I have to run. This ends the marathon site reporting - I am caught up.

"Horned Creatures"

 A Horned Creature from 2008, and some H.R. Schoolcraft illustrations from the late 1800s: 

https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/04/horned-creature-and-other-possible.html

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/04/horned-creature-effigy.html

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100576185

Some Horns from James Mooney too:

FFC looks at the "Horned Creature" from Westford

I took FFC to see the rock pile I found a few weeks back.I pointed out the horned head and the quartz in the neck:FFC pointed out that the rock above the niche(lower left part of the pile) was a tail:
I payed more attention to a rock pile that sits a few feet behind the Horned Creature. Here is a view over the second pile back towards the first.
In detail this is also a bit like an effigy, with a head to the lower left:FFC said it looked like an eye but to me it looks like a smaller creature following the first horned one, there is a stunning piece of quartz in its belly:Cleaned:Pretty rich symbolism if it is not just my imagination.

Uktena - a horned creature with a diamond forehead

From a blog called "Ruminations from the distant hills".

Interesting picture of a fish weir and some modern rock piles in the river. But this line caught my attention:

..."Uktena, in case you’ve not seen one lately, is a monstrous snake, as big around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, a bright, blazing crest like a diamond on its forehead"



Just yesterday I was wondering if any Native American mythin includes a horned monster with something white on its head. Because that "horned creature" [click here] looked to me to be part of a myth construction. So I looked up Uktena online. Here is a representative result. It seems that this particular version of the "horned serpent" is a Cherokee one and, of course, suburban Westford is not the Cherokee area.

Uktena/Great Horned Serpents

    There's a lot I'm pondering about Stone Uktenas, big and small, and Great Red Horned Serpents and the Three Tiered Worlds they travel through right now, waiting for the publication of a report that includes some Petrogylphs of the same that really tie in to what I'm thinking to really make it complete. So just for now, here's two pictures to compare, one from Peter in MA from 2008 and one from CT just yesterday:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/04/horned-creature-and-other-possible.html

   Hint: Think of "Bison-like" horns" as PWAX pointed out in 2008 in MA and I didn't see until yesterday at the end of a row of stones at a place I've been a regular visitor to since the early 1970's in CT. Norman Muller, Peter and I also once stopped at this very spot for just a little while back in 1998, by the way, the sound of the Upper Falls mixing with the sound the wind makes in the trees...

Horned Creature Effigy

Another Uktena?

While lost under the direction-less overcast sky, at the Flagg Hill Conservation Land in Stowe, I finally stumbled across some familiar looking rock piles and was able to orient myself and get back back out in the right direction. While I was at this familiar site, I visited my favorite pile in there which, in the past, I thought was like a turtle. I remember looking at this with Dan Boudillion years ago. But I see more today than I did in the past, and noticed the ligher quartz rock behind the "head" This is a lot like the "Horned Creature" without the horns. See for example the discussion of Uktena here (scroll down). Here is a closeup: And a nearby companion pile: I think there is significance to that. This is a pattern I have seen three times: here, in Westford, and maybe also here.

Horned Serpent Petroglyph

Tim McSweeney sent me this link, to Kevin Callahan's Minnesota petroglyph web page:

http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/RA.html

If you scroll down you'll see a pretty clear representation of a horned serpent.

Hmm, the link stopped working. Here is an excerpt:
According to Tim's notes this creature was connected to healing.

Kat and Jipijka’maq

Image from: http://www.dozay.com/paintings/63/?iframe=true&width=850&height=460 

It's where I found the first stanza of the poem that is missing from the fact sheet - Tim

“...(I)t is believed among the Mi’kmaq people that in order to have a successful hunt or fishing expedition, one must make an offering to the creator. This offering is referred to as Pagetunowwedoomkawa’ (Propser 2001, p.18). A portion of the poem Legend of Glooscap’s Door briefly describes eels as Pagetunowwedoomkawa’:

There is a doorway to Glooscap’s domain

Where you throw dry punk and fish

For his fire and food.

But you must not enter

Though you may leave a gift on stone

Waiting to feel goodness.

This is the way the legend goes

So the Micmac elders say.

At Cape Dolphin near Big Brads d’Or

There is a hole through a cliff

It is Glooscap’s door.

And on the outside a flat stone

It is his table.

The Indians on a hunt leave on table

Tobacco and eels.

This brings them luck, so the story goes

The legend lives on

The Mi’kmaq share a long cultural history with Kat. Petroglyphs in Nova Scotia’s Kejimkujik National Park located in Southwest Nova Scotia suggest the presence of the water creature Jipijka’maq - the Great Horned Serpent (Whitehead 1990). Examples of these petroglyphs are shown on this page. The one on the left portrays a Mi’kmaq man and woman in a canoe in the presence of a serpent.

The Mi’kmaq believe Jipijka’maq is the eel. There are many similarities between Jipijka’maq and Kat. For example, it is said Jipijka’maq travel “about under the earth in their snake shapes...and sometimes they come up to the Earth World and carve great ruts in the land as they move across it” (Holmes-Whitehead 1988, p.4). In addition, a special distinction is made between snakes and Jipijka’maq. In the legend Miskwekepu’j contents of a bag is described as containing both “...snake bones and jipijka’m bones…” (Holmes-Whitehead 1988, p.13).

Another similarity exists between Kat and Jipijka’maq behaviour when traveling over land. Kat when traveling over land will leave behind it a trail of skimogan (slime). This trail of skimogan enables Kat to reach its destination to the next water source. Each Kat would contribute its slime to this trail and go as far as its slime enabled it to. In turn, the next eel would continue the trail by depositing more slime along the trail. The Jipika’maq on the other hand would carve great ruts in the land as it moved across it. These ruts are referred to as the “track of the serpent people” (Holmes-Whitehead 1988, p.44).

Another connection Kat has to Kejimkujik National Park are the remains of the stone eel weirs located along the various rivers in the park. Traditionally the Mi’kmaq used these weirs to catch eels and other types of fish The Mi’kmaq had to carefully choose where to construct these weirs due to the great deal of man power and time that was involved in their construction. Where to construct and when to use the weirs required a detailed knowledge of the local area and of various types of fish and their behaviours. Evidence of this type demonstrates the Mi’kmaq relationship to fish and other beings have been in existence for a long time. Located on the next page is a map of Kejimkujik National Park showing a blown up picture of a stone weir located on the Mersey River…”

From: “The Mi’kmaq Relat ionship with Kat (American Eel)” by: Kerry Prosper, Community Research Coordinator and Mary Jane Paulette, Research Assistant

http://www.mystfx.ca/research/srsf/researchreports1/FactSheets/Factsheet7.pdf

A search for images of Cape Dolphin reveals this photo: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6196887.jpg