Traveling around North America, one can find all sorts of different cultural and ecological visions that date back quite a little ways.
At some point, I'd like to compare stunning locales like the Acoma Pueblo (pictured here -- with the Spanish Catholic San Esteban del Rey mission church, ca. 1629 -- by Ansel Adams, 1941; it still looks this way now, only in color) . . . continuously inhabited since about 1150 C.E. / A.D. . . . .
. . . and the Ephrata Cloister (in Pennsylvania) that dates back to 1732 . . . with the last surviving community member dying just this past July . . .
. . . and the Isleta Pueblo, started in the 1300s -- with Spanish Catholic flavor subsequently added via the San Agustín de la Isleta Mission (1612+) -- near the banks of the Rio Grande / Río Bravo del Norte . . .
My question, dear readers: is there an ancient locale or "place of the old ones" you know of near you, or within a day's journey?
Today's Rune: Joy.
3 comments:
The French quarter is definitly an older site. I don't know about any older than that within a day's drive.
The ancient places within yourself are a lifetimes journey that goes by in less than a days worth of time it would seem.
I'm w/Charles, of course, but besides that, our own hometown, "Abita Springs" used to be a Choctaw village ("Abita" is corrupted Choctaw; "ibetap" = stream.)
Back in Canada I was close to Brock's Monument in Queenston, where the Canadians, Indians, etc. turned the Americans BACK during the war of 1812.
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