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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Star-beings and stones: Origins and legends\, Chaos & Complex 
 Systems Seminar\, Herman Bender\, Freelance Geologist
DESCRIPTION:Native American myths\, legends and oral traditions are ri
 ch with stories of giant beings existing in ancient times. They all ta
 lk of giant Thunderers or Thunder-beings\, giant snakes and great Thun
 derbirds. Even the first humans were said to be giants\, some half man
 \, half animal. The Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) have a name for the giant b
 eings their ancestors encountered during the early migration to the gr
 asslands of the Great Plains. They called them haztova hotoxceo or “
 two-faced star people”.  Other Plains tribes such as the Black Feet\
 , Gros Ventres and Lakota have similar stories. 
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\nThese old storie
 s may have real world counterparts. Discovered in a prehistoric effigy
 -mound group (the Kolterman Mounds) in southeastern Wisconsin (USA) is
  a human-like petroform effigy with a serpentine body and wing-like ar
 ms known as the ‘Star-Being’. Configured in stone\, it is approxim
 ately 20 meters in length with a red colored\, bison-shaped headstone 
 aligned to face the summer solstice sunrise. However\, it is not a lon
 e or singular occurrence.  The ‘Star-Being’ is but one of two huma
 n-like petroforms effigies discovered in southeastern Wisconsin. There
  is another of almost the same size called the Starman which also has 
 a red-colored\, bison-shaped headstone aligned to face the summer sols
 tice sunrise.  Both the Starman and Star-Being petroform complexes are
  codified by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin as archeologica
 l sites of Archaic age.
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\nEach giant effigy appears to be a reflect
 ion of certain constellations and stars\, the ‘Star-Being’ a mirro
 r-image of the (western) constellations of Scorpius and Libra (with Sa
 gittarius)\; the Starman an almost exact representation of Taurus and 
 the Pleiades. Both giant effigies are estimated to be 3500-6000 years 
 old\, embodiments of ancient legends and traditions writ large in ston
 e and connected to ‘The People’ through ceremony and acts of cosmi
 c renewal.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4116
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