{"id":1181,"date":"2011-10-11T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T02:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alyssahinton.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T00:57:32","slug":"town-creek-indian-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alyssahinton.com\/blog\/town-creek-indian-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT- Town Creek Indian Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past two years I have been participating in Town Creek Second Saturdays during the summer and Heritage Festival in September. This is a very special place with a very unique feeling to it. It is like a spa for the mind, body, heart and soul.\u00a0I always feel good there so I decided to write up some info about this place just to give a little context:<\/p>\n

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Town Creek Indian mound, a site in Mt. Gilead, NC \u00a0is composed of a single large platform mound with a surrounding village and palisade. It was primarily an astronomical and ceremonial site. Its main purpose was as an observatory for measuring time through solar and lunar alignments.\u00a0Town Creek was also a burial mound and was part of a wider agricultural civilization known as the \u201csoutheastern ceremonial complex\u201d consisting of a network of trading centers, temple towns and cities with pyramids. Most recently, from around 500 AD until European contact, a widespread and complex burial mound culture known as the Mississippian civilization flourished all over the region:<\/p>\n

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The summer and winter solstice were calculated here by the temple keepers who were mathematicians and knew how to track the cycles of stars, sun,\u00a0moon and planets that determined the sacred calendar and thus the ceremonial cycle. The pole in this photo is part of the giant sun dial that is Town Creek:<\/p>\n

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Me in front of the main gate entrance:<\/p>\n

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\nAs was often the case during mound building times in the southeastern states, Town Creek is purposefully situated by a river (flowing water) and on ground that contains lots of magnetite (iron). You can feel the good energy at Town Creek.<\/p>\n

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