{"id":3922005,"date":"2025-09-18T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/4000-year-old-bronze-age-petroglyphs-in-sweden-became-the-sacred-symbols-of-georgias-creek-indians\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:03:40","slug":"4000-year-old-bronze-age-petroglyphs-in-sweden-became-the-sacred-symbols-of-georgias-creek-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/4000-year-old-bronze-age-petroglyphs-in-sweden-became-the-sacred-symbols-of-georgias-creek-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000 year old Bronze Age petroglyphs in Sweden became the sacred symbols of Georgia\u2019s Creek Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scandinavian Bronze Age art is found on most of the famous petroglyphic boulders in the Georgia Gold Belt . . . a mountainous region containing the purest gold in the world.\u00a0Most of Georgia\u2019s petroglyphs are believed to be contemporary with the Scandinavian Bronze Age, although some are definitely Maya or Arawak in origin.\u00a0Several of these symbols LATER became some of the earliest symbols in the Maya writing system.\u00a0 The most important symbols of the European Bronze Age such as the Sun Wheel, Great Sun (High King), Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Equinox, Solar Eclipse and phases of the moon are identical in Bronze Age Sweden and the writing system of Georgia\u2019s Creek Indians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life is indeed a box of chocolates.\u00a0On the morning after I graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology, I embarked on a 24-hour journey by jet and ferry to Landskrona, Sweden to work for its\u00a0Stadsarkitektkontoret\u00a0(City Architect\u2019s Office).\u00a0On the third day at work, my boss, Stadsarkitekt Gunnar Lydh, took me by boat to Ven Island in the Oresund Channel, which would be the location of my assigned project.\u00a0Ven was at the center of Scandinavian Bronze Age civilization and contains petroglyphs in the vicinity of St. Ibbs Kyrka . . . which was also the location of my project.<\/p>\n

I immediately noticed that all of the symbols on the boulders were also sacred symbols of the Creek Indians.\u00a0I am Creek.\u00a0This disturbing discovery has been at \u201cthe back of my head\u201d in the decades since then. \u00a0Even though I was mentored during my university years by two of the greatest archaeologists of the 20th century . . . Arthur Kelly of Georgia and Rom\u00e1n Pi\u00f1a Ch\u00e1n, Director of the\u00a0Museo Nacional de Antropologia de Mexico\u00a0. . . prehistoric architecture remained an avocation for most of my career.
\nThat situation changed in 2003 when six members of the National Council of the Muscogee-Creek Nation asked me to put aside my interest in Mesoamerica for awhile to concentrate on our own architectural heritage.\u00a0I carried out a series of projects for the next five years, which intensively researched the architectural, urban planning and cultural history of the Creek People.<\/p>\n

The whole question of ancient trans-Atlantic contacts and immigration is so filled with charlatans and speculations that I intentionally avoided discussion of the similarity between Scandinavian Bronze Age and Creek art until February 2017.\u00a0\u00a0Then it was unavoidable.<\/p>\n

\"Sun<\/p>\n

People of One Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

The People of One Fire<\/a><\/strong> was the original name of the \u201cCreek Indian Confederacy.\u201d \u00a0It is now an alliance of Muskogean professionals and professors, which was formed in 2006, to put the study of Muskogean cultural history back under the control of the descendants of the people, who created in those ancient towns, mounds, and artifacts.<\/p>\n

We were outraged that Georgia\u00a0archaeologists and state bureaucrats were literally being bribed by the casino money of North Carolina Cherokees to distort our history, create ludicrous interpretations of our town sites, etc. to fit the new myth of a Cherokee master race, who once occupied most of North America and built most of the mounds.\u00a0The original Georgia History textbook, used in public schools, emphasized the key role that the Creek Indians had in fostering the success of the Colony of Georgia and that many Creeks and colonists intermarried.\u00a0 The Cherokees were only mentioned briefly since they had no role in the colonial history of the Georgia and were only in Georgia for one generation after it became a state.\u00a0 2006 (new) Georgia History book has four chapters on the Cherokees and 1\/2 chapter on the Creeks.<\/p>\n

Cherokee Heritage Trails, a book published by UNC-Chapel Hill and co-authored by an anthropology professor there, literally states that the Cherokees were the first people to cultivate corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers, plus that they built all the mounds in a seven-state area of the Southeast.\u00a0An expensive documentary film, produced by the Eastern Band of Cherokees for PBS, states, \u201cThe Cherokees were the first people in the Americas and once occupied all of the Americas. They were the ancestors of the Aztecs and Mayas.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0The Eastern Band of Cherokees Cultural Preservation Office even had the audacity to use a gorget, excavated from Mound C at Etowah Mounds, Georgia by archaeologist Warren K. Moorehead, as their official logo.<\/p>\n

The truth that all indigenous Southeastern tribes know is that the Cherokees were a small tribe of Northern hunters-gatherers living in caves, who became the dominant players in the Native American slave trade.\u00a0 The Creeks are the only tribe in the Southeast, whose name for the Cherokees does not mean \u201cCave Dwellers.\u201d When given firearms by Virginia, the ancestors of the Cherokees moved southward in the late 1600s and wiped out all our towns in Tennessee and western North Carolina. \u201cCherokee\u201d was a Muskogean name, given them by the British. They are not even mentioned on any European map until 1715.<\/p>\n

The Tugaloo Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of POOF\u2019s current projects is the creation of a GIS map and digital files on all the stone structure and petroglyph sites in the Southeastern United States. These sites are particularly concentrated in North Georgia . . . more so than any other part of the United States.\u00a0The region also contains at least 12 stone-walled agricultural terrace complexes like what one sees in the Maya Highlands.<\/p>\n

The Tugaloo Stone is a quarried chunk of metamorphosed igneous rock, which has sat behind the Travelers Rest Inn near Toccoa, GA for at least 230 years. Prior to that it was a half mile away on the shore of the Tugaloo River, which is a tributary of the Savannah River. \u00a0For the past six decades, Travelers Rest has been a state historic site.
\nThe stone is covered with engravings, yet has generally been ignored by Georgia\u2019s archaeologists. \u00a0Archaeologist Terri Smith did do a sketch of the stone in 1979, but did not publish an interpretation.\u00a0What few comments one can find about the stone from Georgia archaeologists describe it as \u201cCherokee doodling of unknown meaning.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Actually, these contemporary archaeologists forgot that a very famous 20th century archaeologist, Joseph Caldwell, determined that Tugaloo was a very important proto-Creek town until a little after 1700 AD, when it was sacked and burned by Cherokee slave raiders.<\/p>\n

After returning home from digitally photographing the Tugaloo Stone, I examined the images with a program than enhances old maps and texts so they are legible.\u00a0I saw several more details that Smith\u2019s field sketch missed.\u00a0I don\u2019t know why she didn\u2019t use a camera to document the stone rather than field sketch it.\u00a0Then I rotated the images 180 degrees from whence they have been viewed for 230 years.<\/p>\n

OMG!\u00a0\u00a0Three Bronze Age ships and dozens of Bronze Age astronomical symbols were clearly visible.\u00a0Just to be sure, I sent my photos to several Bronze Age experts in Europe.\u00a0All confirmed my initial interpretation, but several assumed that the stone had been stolen by an American tourist and smuggled to Georgia.\u00a0They demanded that it be immediately returned to either Sweden or Denmark. \u00a0They were astounded when I informed them that the stone was found in the late 1780s in the ruins of an ancient Mound Builder town in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Since I still remember some Swedish, I could search online with Scandinavian keywords. This made possible the discovery of many more astonishing connections between my Creek-Uchee cultural heritage and Bronze Age Scandinavia. The most mind-boggling discovery online were the petroglyphs on a rock face in Nyk\u00f6pping, Sweden, near the Baltic Sea (Upper left section of composite images above).<\/p>\n

The Nyk\u00f6pping glyphs are quite similar in appearance to early Maya glyphs, but date from around 2,000 BC. The Maya writing system appeared around 250 BC. However, many of these symbols appear on the Track Rock Petroglyphs in the Georgia Mountains, which seem to date from around 1200-1000 BC . . . perhaps they are much older.
\nNote the Nyk\u00f6pping glyph, identified with a white arrow. This is the cartouche of a High King in Bronze Age Scandinavia, Proto-Creek Moundbuilder towns in Georgia and in the Maya writing system. Both the Creek and Maya names for this symbol translate as \u201cGreat Sun\u201d. Undoubtedly, that was also the title in Bronze Age Scandinavia, since the symbol is derived from the Scandinavian and later, Celtic symbol for the sun . . . a cross within a circle. The Creeks and Uchee call this cross-circle, the sacred fire.<\/p>\n

Many of the Nyk\u00f6pping glyphs are found on Boulder Six of the Track Rock Gap Petroglyphs in Georgia. Above them are four Itza Maya glyphs which mean,\u00a0Hene Mako ~ Ahau Kukulkan or Great Sun\u00a0~ Lord Quetzal-Serpent. Would you believe that the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists endorsed a report, which interpreted the Track Rock Petroglyphs as . . . \u201cgraffiti by bored Cherokee hunters\u201d ??? Track Rock Gap was in Creek territory until a treaty signed in 1785. And you wonder why Georgia\u2019s Native Americans are so appalled by the current fossilization of archaeology in that state?<\/p>\n

\"Ancient
Svenska kulturbilder<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How could this be?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since February 2017, I have tried to learn all I could about the Bronze Age in Scandinavia and Ireland.\u00a0The Georgia Mountains also contain petroglyphic boulders identical to those on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.\u00a0Major assistance was provided by a graduate assistant at Lund University\u2019s Department of Archaeology and Ancient History . . . near Landskrona.\u00a0She provided me with a chart, which provides the meanings of most of Sweden\u2019s Bronze Age symbols.\u00a0This enabled me to be the first person to be able to translate many of Georgia\u2019s petroglyphs.<\/p>\n

How could the same petroglyphs have the same meaning on both sides of the Atlantic?\u00a0How did petroglyphs in the Georgia Mountains become the earliest glyphs in the Olmec-Maya writing system a thousand years later?\u00a0The answers right now are in the realm of speculation.<\/p>\n

This is what we do know.\u00a0Georgia Uchee descendants from the Savannah River Basin show unexpectedly high levels of Sami (Lapp), Northwest Asian, Black Irish (pre-Gaelic), Basque and Scandinavian DNA test markers, but unexpectedly low levels of typical Amerindian DNA test markers.\u00a0In the past, these non-East Asiatic DNA markers were assumed to have been acquired by marriage with white colonists in recent times.\u00a0However, a closer analysis of some test subjects strongly suggests that the admixture occurred in ancient times.
\nThe Uchee (Yuchi) People of Georgia have consistently claimed to have crossed the Atlantic from the \u201cHome of Sun\u201d and first settled on the Lower Savannah River.\u00a0When they arrived, there was no one living in the region, but they could see the shell middens, shell rings and sand mounds of an earlier people.<\/p>\n

The Creeks called the Uchee, the Water People.\u00a0The Uchee prefer to call themselves, Tsoyaha, which means \u201cChildren of the Sun.\u201d\u00a0Uchee means the same and is pronounced the same as the Pre-Gaelic Irish word for water,\u00a0uisce.\u00a0\u00a0The Muskogee Creek word for water is\u00a0ue.\u00a0My ancestors, the Itzate Creeks, used the Itza Maya word for water. However, I am also part Savannah River Uchee.<\/p>\n

Southeast of Downtown Savannah is a cluster of very old and very large mounds, plus a 5,500-year-old man-made port and mound. Most of the mounds date from around 2300 BC to 800 BC.\u00a0However, Louisiana archaeologist, William C. Haag, radiocarbon dated the lowest level of the Bilbo Mound at 3,545 BC . . . making it the oldest architecture in North America.\u00a0\u00a0The Savannah River Basin also contains the oldest pottery in the Americas, north of the Amazon Basin \u2013 c. 2400 BC.<\/p>\n

The reason that you have not heard about the Bilbo Mound and the man-made port within which it sits, is that most Georgia archaeologists could not believe that anything built by their Indians could be so old.\u00a0Savannah archaeologist, Antonio Waring, watched Haag\u2019s work and knew the date to be accurate.\u00a0He tried to get the word out, but the Old Guard of archaeology squelched it.\u00a0Haag moved back to Louisiana and soon discovered the Poverty Point platform village.\u00a0Much of the rest of his life was devoted to Poverty Point.<\/p>\n

There are obviously many unanswered questions about the Scandinavian-Georgia Connection.\u00a0Nevertheless, one cannot obtain answers unless one asks questions.\u00a0Right now . . . the only people asking questions on this side of the Atlantic Ocean appears to be Georgia\u2019s Native Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Scandinavian Bronze Age art is found on most of the famous petroglyphic boulders in the Georgia Gold Belt . . . a mountainous region containing the purest gold in the world. Most of Georgia\u2019s petroglyphs are believed to be contemporary with the Scandinavian Bronze Age, although some are definitely Maya or Arawak in origin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}