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ANCIENT  LIGHTS   

     
   
(formerly ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com)  
     

A Collaborative Celebration of Western Heritage

in Early America and Ancient Crete
  

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Native & Early America
   

Time Line 1
After the Ice: Northeast American Land
& First Peoples
 
2010 Keynote Address on
Native New England Ecology
 
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
 
2004 Keynote Address on
the 1623 "Weymouth Massacre"
 
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
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Revels at Merrymount Today
and Governor Deval Patrick's Proclamation:
May 1st is Thomas Morton Day in Massachusetts!
 
Time Line 4
1630 Through The Pequot War
 
Mystic Fiasco:
How the Indians Won The Pequot War
 
First Rhode Island
An African-American Regiment
in the American Revolution
 
Still Here
Native New England Today,
Support Parole for Iron Thunderhorse,
& Poems by Little Owl
 
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:
Homer's Calendar,
Classical 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

 

 

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