Heilgestein

ball stone

Alberta Ribstones

https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0111

The Viking Ribstones are very hard quartzite boulders which have been modified by aboriginal people. They pecked two kinds of marks into the boulder surface: grooves and pits. The grooves are thought to represent the backbone and ribs of the buffalo. The circular pits or "cupules" may have been carved in imitation of the pock-marked surface of the Iron Creek Meteorite which was the aboriginal peoples greatest and most venerated monument to "Old Man Buffalo" the spirit protector of the buffalo herds.

Aboriginal peoples left offerings of meat, tobacco, or beads at ribstones to acquire luck in hunting and to give thanks to "Old Man Buffalo". Only nine ribstone sites are known to exist in Alberta. These are among the rarest types of archaeological sites present within the Province. All other known ribstone sites have been disturbed. In most cases the ribstones themselves have been removed. The Viking Ribstones are one of the few monumental carvings remaining from ancient times which can be viewed in their original natural setting.

https://prairiepeople.blog/2016/12/12/a-sacred-site-the-buffalo-ribstones-by-viking/

There are also several round holes on each stone. Some people have suggested that these holes represent wounds and were carved to allow bullets or arrows to pass through the stones without harming the spirit animal within. Another theory is that the holes are the result of repeated pounding done to replicate the sound of a running herd as part of a pre-hunt ceremony. A third explanation that has been put forward is that the holes on these and other ribstones were made to resemble the rock-mocked surface of the Iron Creek Meteorite or Manitou Stone. Said by some to be the original ribstone, this meteorite – the largest ever found in Canada – fell to the earth only 40 km southeast of the Viking site and remained there until 1866.

 

IRON 'PURE AS POSSIBLE, AND SONOROUS AS AN ANVIL

The Fox Indians believed that the manitou dwelled in the stones of the sweat lodge. On heating the stove, the heat of the fire made manitou to come out from its place in the stones. Then it proceeds out of the stones when water is sprinkled on them. It comes out in the steam and enters the body. It moves all over inside the body, driving out everything that inflicts pain. Before the manitou returns to the stone, it imparts some of its nature to the body. That is why one feels so well after having been in the sweat lodge.

Canada's Iron Creek meteorite, a 320 lb (145 kg) Group IIIAB medium octahedrite iron, was long venerated by the First Nations in Alberta as their sacred Manitou Stone, but it was taken without authority from them by Methodist missionaries in 1866. That began the meteorite's long odyssey, as it was transferred first to the Methodist Mission in Victoria (now Pakan) Alberta; then to the Red River Mission in Winnipeg, Manitoba; then to the Wesleyan Methodist Church's Mission Rooms in Toronto, Ontario; then to Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario; then to the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario; then to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; and finally to the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum) in Edmonton. In recent years, a First Nations movement to repatriate the meteorite to a place near its original find site has been initiated.

Strawstack Hill where the Iron Creek Meteorite once rested can be seen from the site of the Viking ribstones. Indeed, this hilltop provides an incredible view of the surrounding area and would have made a great place to scout out the movements of buffalo herds. This is probably why this location was chosen for these sacred stones. A sad story in the Cree community tells of how after the buffalo herds had been all but wiped out, a group of Cree gathered on the site to try and find some buffalo to feed their people. Unable to see any, they died from hunger and disease.

http://ancientamerica.com/exploring-americas-earliest-rock-art-jack-steinbring-2/

https://forums.arrowheads.com/forum/general-discussion-gc5/fossils-paleontology-old-bones-gc30/79394-ammonites-buffalo-stones

http://rocksstonesdust.com/essays/garneau.html 

https://twitter.com/rudkindave/status/786652996302233600

Some times there was paint marks upon it.

Reclining Bear used the term in the general sense meaning the people of those three tribes.  Continuing, he said:
“This stone is a big one.  It is a little distance from the water of the Cannon Ball.  It is as big as a log house, where it stands.  It has many marks upon it.  The marks are made by the spirits.  When we came near to it, we sung songs and acted very respectfully then.  We camped on the water and not too near it.
Then when we were ready, some old man carried a pipe to it.  He carried the stem in both hands in front of his body.  He extended it toward the sky and toward the holy stone then.  There he sat down and smoked with four draws through it.  He placed the pipe there.  He poured out some tobacco there.  He sung a good song then.  He wanted plenty of buffalo and he wanted the people to live a long time.  He sung that way.  He went away from there.
The next day he went again.  When he went again there were other marks upon the stone.  Some good men would tell what they meant to the people.  Some times there was paint marks upon it.  The marks were made by spirits.
They were never the same marks like they were before.  It told us what to do.  It said when to strike the enemy.  It told where the buffalo had gone to.  If the people did like it said, they were all right.
One time it sung a song with words.  We saw an old woman walk into it one time.  She went right in it.  She was gone.  It is very holy.  It was there when we came across the Missouri.  I think it had been an Arikara stone.  I think they found it first.  The put things there, too.  No one would strike an enemy around that place.  Every one was safe there.  There were always many presents there.  There were weapons and things to eat and valuable cloth on sticks.  There were buffalo heads there, too, for meat to come around.  It is very holy.  It is there yet.  I do not want to talk much about it.”

iniskim

Buffalo Calling Stone (Iniskim)

Galt Museum

 http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/iniskim-buffalo-calling-stones.html 

 

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/The-First-Buffalo-Stone-Blackfoot.html 

 

http://www.storybud.org/buffalo_stone_see_and_hear.htm 

 

 

stone stackers

“This movement of stones, whilst it may seem benign, is eroding the nationally protected archaeological features of the site as well as its local distinctiveness. We would encourage visitors to take only photographs of, and to leave only footprints at, this very precious and unique site.”

Puff Puff Pass // Happy New Year

westray whale

https://soundcloud.com/royalanthropologicalinst/2016-huxley-memorial-lecture-by-margaret-lock

Eileen Agar

stones bones conchology

Vampyroteuthis

How can humans en- trust their acquired information to inanimate objects like paper or stone? It is well known that these objects are subject to the second law of thermodynamics, according to which they must decompose and be forgotten. In his abyss, where everything is mired in sedimentation and where everything is submerged in fluid, the impermanence and unreliability of all inanimate materials in fact become more apparent than on the relatively dead surface of the continents, where bleached bones can lie around for centuries. And yet, the laughable error that has led to human art may not only be laughed at – insofar as Vampyroteuthis is capable of laughing – but also deserves to be properly considered. 

angelo stone

cushion mace

regret stones / contaminants

model parts isolated & left behind: contaminants in the powder
regret stones left behind on the journey

noguchi yard

softbank applegreen

engraved semi precious stones

http://antiboredom.github.io/baabaa/index.html

Porphyrogennetos

...touch through the colour

Porphýra, the Purple Chamber, a pavilion of the Great Palace of Constantinople): no child born anywhere else could legitimately be called Porphyrogénnētos. This pavilion was a free-standing building in the Great Palace complex in Constantinople. As the Porphyrogennētē Anna Komnena described it, the room rested on one of the Palace's many terraces, overlooking the Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus Strait, "where the stone oxen and the lions stand" (i.e. the Boukoleon Palace), and was in the form of a perfect square from floor to ceiling, with the latter ending in a pyramid. Its walls, floor and ceiling were completely veneered with imperial porphyry, which was "generally of a purple colour throughout, but with white spots like sand sprinkled over it

//www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/people/Imperial%20Porphyry;%20its%20special%20qualities%20which%20influenced%20its%20form,%20function%20and%20use%20in%20antiquity.pdfThe 


mud-purple feeds on rotting slime and the seaweed-purple on seaweed, both being of a very common quality. A better kind is the reef-purple, collected on the reefs of the sea, though this also is lighter and softer as well. The pebble-purple is named after a pebble in the sea, and is remarkably suitable for purple dyes; and far the best for these is the melting-purple, that is, one fed on a varying kind of mud. Purples are taken in a sort of little lobster-pot of fine ply thrown into deep water. These contain bait, cockles that close with a snap, as we observe that mussels do. These when half-killed but put back into the sea gape greedily as they revive and attract the purples, which go for them with outstretched tongues. But the cockles when pricked by their spike shut up and nip the creatures nibbling them. So the purples hang suspended because of their greed and are lifted out of the water.

natural history IX

oxacan purpura dyeing - milking the shellfish

The official fasces and axes of Rome clear a path, and it also marks the honourable estate of boyhood; it distinguishes the senate from the knighthood, it is called in to secure the favour of the gods; and it adds radiance to every garment, while in a triumphal robe it is blended with gold. Consequently even the mad lust for the purple may be excused; but what is the cause of the prices paid for purple-shells, which have an unhealthy odour when used for dye and a gloomy tinge in their radiance resembling an angry sea?

http://www.masseiana.org/pliny.htm#BOOK%20IX

http://www.kremer-pigmente.com/media/files_public/36010e.pdf 

forlorn

 

Origin myths of the Tontemboan of Minahassa, Sulawesi: One says that "a stone once stuck out of the ground somewhere in the east. When the sun rose the stone became hot and sweated. The sweat became a lump which finally burst, giving birth to Lumimu'ut, the ancestress of the Tontemboan. Another account states that there was once a stone as large as a house in the middle of the sea. The waves played over it, and after a time a crow emerged. The stone then sweated, and out came Lumimu'ut.

"According to a Toumpakewa version, a sky-being made the earth and caused all things to grow. It happened one day that the south wind was blowing, so that a large mass of foam was carried by the waves and finally left high and dry on the shore. Day after day the sun shone upon the foam, till it began to move and work itself deeper into the sand. Finally it gave birth to a youth. One day when walking this youth came to the mouth of a river, where he heard the sound of a child crying in a heap of stones. He listened and said, " Per- haps it is some one who lives here ". He looked for the weeping child, and saw that a small girl had sweated out of a stone, to which her navel-string was still attached. He cut the navel-string with a bamboo knife. He married the girl, whose name
was Lumimu'ut, for she had sweated out of the stone, or Kariso."

https://archive.org/stream/megalithiccultur00perruoft/megalithiccultur00perruoft_djvu.txthttps://archive.org/stream/megalithiccultur00perruoft/megalithiccultur00perruoft_djvu.txt

millions of years

night falls on the preceding scene

Children of the Stones

Children of the Stones is a television drama for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network in January and February 1977.


I've dug holes in water for fish