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Re: Native Americans and Meteorites - Part 1 of 6
Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
> Jeanne wrote:
>
> > I was also wondering if your book mentions anything about Native
> > American usage of Canyon Diablo irons for tools, amulets or other
> > spiritual items.
>
> Hello Jeanne and List,
>
> Now, here is what I culled from BURKE:
>
> BURKE J.G. (1986) Cosmic Debris - Meteorites in History, pp. 223-225:
>
> Thus, there is now considerable doubt that the black stone of the Ka'ba
> is a meteorite. Whether or not the stones worshiped by the Greeks and
> Romans were meteorites is also a question, since none of these objects
> have survived the centuries. There are only the considerable number of
> legends. In contrast, archaeologists, explorers, and farmers have found
> about a dozen meteorites of fragments of meteorites in North America in
> circumstances which indicate that they were worshiped, venerated, or at
> least prized, but for most, no legend exists. Two of these are
> pallasites; the rest are irons. What is intriguing is that for most, the
> degree of corrosion gives evidence of a very long terrestrial age,
> meaning that the falls occurred thousands of years before Indian natives
> populated North America. The Morito iron, which the Indians of
> Chihuahua, Mexico, venerated in pre-Columbian times, probably fell
> within the last two thousand years, according to Buchwald, and may,
> therefore, have been witnessed. There are only a few clues as to why the
> meteorites were venerated, and one can only surmise why the natives
> believed that the objects in question had fallen from the sky.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
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