It's possible I'm wrong, or, if I'm on to something, not exactly accurate. I don't think it's a coincidence that it intersects on the map that I posted, but I am essentially guessing at what that means.
The reason I don't think it's just a coincidence that the celestial pole crosses over Wisconsin in the map I posted is because of 1) how important the concept of the "world tree" and "axis mundi" was to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex religion (aka Mound Builders), and 2) how important and uniquely significant Southeastern Wisconsin was to those same people. We know the area had unique significance because this is where the mounds change from the usual conical mounds found all across North America, to animal and human shaped effigy mounds who face the Milky Way's rise point.
Most Mound Builder imagery focuses on cosmology... Mound Builder iconography portrayed the cosmos in three levels. The Above World, the Middle World (Earth) and the Under(water)world . These three worlds were connected by an Axis Mundi, usually portrayed as a cedar tree or a striped pole reaching from the Under World to the Over World.
The fact that the celestial pole intersects with Wisconsin on the map I posted must have something to do with why the Mound Builders named the area Root [Chippecotton] and Pike [Kenosha], but I am not educated enough to understand what that really means.
You might be onto something here. I have wondered before if images selected for Wikipedia are used for comms and symbolism.
Being someone interested in astronomy (though hardly even an amateur) I don't see the anything to the theory that the celestial pole itself goes through Racine -- it's the imaginary point in the sky directly above the actual pole. But someone can correct me if they see something I don't.
It's possible I'm wrong, or, if I'm on to something, not exactly accurate. I don't think it's a coincidence that it intersects on the map that I posted, but I am essentially guessing at what that means.
The reason I don't think it's just a coincidence that the celestial pole crosses over Wisconsin in the map I posted is because of 1) how important the concept of the "world tree" and "axis mundi" was to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex religion (aka Mound Builders), and 2) how important and uniquely significant Southeastern Wisconsin was to those same people. We know the area had unique significance because this is where the mounds change from the usual conical mounds found all across North America, to animal and human shaped effigy mounds who face the Milky Way's rise point.
Most Mound Builder imagery focuses on cosmology... Mound Builder iconography portrayed the cosmos in three levels. The Above World, the Middle World (Earth) and the Under(water)world . These three worlds were connected by an Axis Mundi, usually portrayed as a cedar tree or a striped pole reaching from the Under World to the Over World.
The fact that the celestial pole intersects with Wisconsin on the map I posted must have something to do with why the Mound Builders named the area Root [Chippecotton] and Pike [Kenosha], but I am not educated enough to understand what that really means.
You might be onto something here. I have wondered before if images selected for Wikipedia are used for comms and symbolism.
Being someone interested in astronomy (though hardly even an amateur) I don't see the anything to the theory that the celestial pole itself goes through Racine -- it's the imaginary point in the sky directly above the actual pole. But someone can correct me if they see something I don't.