WELCOME  TO

ANCIENT  LIGHTS   

     
   
(formerly ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com)  
     

A Collaborative Celebration of Western Heritage

in Early America and Ancient Crete
  

     --- What’s Here? ---

Native & Early America
   

Time Line 1
After the Ice: Northeast American Land
& First Peoples
 
Stone-works, Corn & Calendars
 
Time Line 2
The Transatlantic, 1400s - 1621
 
The Medlyn Site
A Connecticut Native Scholar’s Dig,
by Fox Running
 
Gosnold, 1602
Edited by Karle Schlieff
 
Transatlantic Ways Before
Pilgrim Arrival
 
Time Line 3
1621-1624:  Transatlantic Ways
& 'Pilgrim' Departures
 
Meet Thomas Morton of
Merrymount, 1624-1630
 
New English Canaan, Book II:
'A Description of the Beauty of the Country,
with her Natural Endowments' (1637)
 
Discover America's First Poet
in English
 
Reading the Revels
The Riddle of May Day in 'New English Canaan'
 
Merrymount:  A True Adventure Comedy
(screenplay for a someday-film)
 
The Maypole of Merrymount:  A Young Reader's Story of Early America
*** ILLUSTRATOR WANTED! ***
 
Revels at Merrymount Today
and, a First American Poet Petition
 
Time Line 4
1630 Through The Pequot War
 
Mystic Fiasco:  How the Indians Won
The Pequot War
 
Still Here
Native New England Today
 
NATIVE & EARLY AMERICAN SOURCES
 
ANCIENT LIGHTS FILM ARCHIVE
Morton (1992), Nani (2000),
Rare Interviews, Clips & More!
 
MAYPOLE HILL
An Early American Discussion Forum
 
 
 

Minoan Crete
   

Calendar House  Home Page

 
1
Matching Discoveries

Clues to a Knossos Calendric Cycle

2
Into the Labyrinth

The Bull-Leap Fresco, & Elements
of a Minoan Great Year Calendar

3
Sign & Countersign

The Fresco Border’s
Lunar/Solar Operations

4
Forms of Time

Seasons, X, Great Year
& Saros, Relatives

5
Astronomy & Sacred Animals

Problems, Politics
& Symbols of the Cycle

6
Griffin & Labrys

Guides to the Journey Beyond

7
Kinship & Cosmology

Great Year Signs
& Festivals in New Palace Times

8
Calendar & Kingship

A Labyrinth to Contain the Minotaur

9
Continuities

From Crete & Cyprus to Palestine

Coda:
Curiosities, & Marshack’s
Critical Review

SOURCES
Cited & Suggested

    

   
   
   
Ariadne’s Brother:
A Novel on the Fall of
Bronze Age Crete

(1996)
   
    
   
People of the Sea:
A Novel of the Promised Land

(In Progress)
 
   
    
THE WEST COURTYARD
A Minoan Discussion Forum

 

AND

Dr. Jack Dempsey: Writer, Editor, Historian & Producer

Editing & Freelance Services                   Books, Films & Reviews

     
Dedications:

The Eve Wilkowitz Murder, & Family Veterans of World War II