The Judaculla Rock on the other hand seems to be an isolated cultural motif. Unlike in North Carolina, these symbols are plentiful, and new engravings are being discovered frequently. And hundreds, if not thousands, of stones can be found engraved with identical cupmarks and cup and ring motifs to the Judaculla Rock.Ĭupmarks in Scotland, very similar to Judaculla Rock ( George Currie ) Menhirs, dolmens, henges and cromlechs dot the landscape. Scotland contains a wealth of prehistoric stonework. The Stone Symbols of ScotlandĪcross the Atlantic, many more of these strange stone symbols can be found. Indigenous people who have vague ancestral ties to a certain region have only myths and legends regarding the architects of their stonework, yet the mainstream experts will conclude otherwise: the ancestors of the indigenous people built these sites themselves. Then, in the same breath, the mainstream scholars make accusations of racial denigration while, I might say, hypocritically, they dismiss the oral tradition, imposing their own interpretations onto the culture. This academic contradiction crops up time and time again regarding anomalous megaliths and prehistoric cultures. However, the Cherokee themselves do not claim to have made the symbols. Scholars insist it was the Cherokee who made the petroglyphs, and add that to suggest otherwise is offensive. The Cherokee attributed him with superhuman strength and capabilities like flying or teleporting from mountaintop to mountaintop. They believed the seven-digit claw marks are his hand prints and a long, straight line drawn on the rock was a boundary: cross that, and they were impeding onto his hunting territory. According to their oral tradition, Judaculla was a slant-eyed giant with seven fingers who lived in the area, and the stone was his territorial marker. The Judaculla Rock and surrounding area was considered sacred to the Cherokee Native Americans before their displacement. Note the cupmarks, the “boundary line” bottom right, and the two claw prints top left (QueenOfFrogs / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) The Legend Of Judaculla The ancient Egyptians often made their precious scarab beetle amulets out of steatite, which is soapstone that is nearly one-hundred-percent talc. Combined with the ease with which the stone can be worked, this makes it ideal for making pipes, cooking vessels, and hearth liners. Soapstone absorbs heat, then radiates it slowly. Soapstone has been utilized by humans for thousands of years across many cultures due to its softness, the fact it is not porous, and its heat absorption. The symbols are tightly packed together and include many stick-like figures, two strange seven-digit hand/claw prints, thousands of “cup marks,” as well as many other carvings. The stone itself is a massive boulder of soapstone, and is covered in petroglyphs. The Judaculla Rock is the name locals give to an archaeological site in Jackson County, near the Caney Fork Creek, North Carolina. But the fact remains, somebody in the distant past carved the same motifs into stone on separate continents. Native Americans, Vikings, vanished races of giants, and early Christian explorers have all been proposed and rejected. Scholars and amateurs alike can only stare in wonder, scratching their heads and sputter myths and contradictory theories none of which have been satisfactorily explained. How can it be that the same symbols appear in both Prehistoric Scotland and North Carolina? These symbols whisper a cryptic message to us from a forgotten time. Across the proverbial pond, hidden in the great Appalachians of America’s North Carolina, a near identical stone sleeps near a mountain summit – the Judaculla Rock. Within the rolling green hills of Scotland, slumber thousands of ancient stones bejeweled with mysterious glyphs.
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