Where can I find info about the American Indians' belief that a concscience was a triangle-shaped object?
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I don't know. I see a lot of idians down at the liquor store, you might want to check there.
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It seems to be a toss up between ancient Hindu scripture or some of the earliest Egyptian writings like the book of the dead.\n\nThe Hindu stuff is fascinating. It sounds like the same things that the quantum physics guys are saying. Makes you wonder how the Hindus knew this stuff 4000 years ago.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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Wikipedia is a very good start for this. This page summarizes the beliefs behind many different creation myths. It is sorted by culture / ethnic group / religion and provides external sourcing.
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1. An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest. \n2. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element: “The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy” (Philip Weiss). \n3. A structure or feature not normally present but visible as a result of an external agent or action, such as one seen in a microscopic specimen after fixation, or in an image produced by radiology or electrocardiography.
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You need to be less lazy and actually Google around for some articles on this. \n\nThere are also plenty of physical anthropology sites usually out of universities that can answer this for you.\n\nYou can use wikipedia as a way to find other more valid sources but I wouldn't use it as a source itself because it's not peer reviewed.
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I have the perfect site for you to look up the information you  are looking for. It has myths listed from Aboriginal tribes up to the latest urban mythology. I am sure you will find this link most useful for your studies.
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Sorry Richard, my search didn't turn up much.\nArtifact-An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.\nAnthropologists cite early pre-homo sapiens people as being tool using so it would reason that there is an artifact from 1-2 million years ago.  The Paleolithic Age (1 million years ago to 10,000 BCE, besides being a huge rnage of time, saw the first humans and with them the ability to pass on knowledge through the development of language.  These early humans were true hunter gathers andmost artifacts pertain to this seeking of food(Idaho link below).  The end of the Paleolithic  age also saw the start of religions in the world and one can find artifacts suggesting early religions (japan link below)\n\nJapan-http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news194.htm\nIdaho-http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1120314&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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A non-Indian would usually fail to see any spiritual connection. I lived for many years where there were many mounds, I don't remember ever hearing of any comments about them "spiritually".
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There's not terribly much out there on the web.  This is what I could find:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=chibcha+%28religion%2C+god%2C+goddess%2C+myth%2C+mythology%2C+folklore%2C+folktales%29&btnG=Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=muisca+%28religion%2C+god%2C+goddess%2C+myth%2C+mythology%2C+folklore%2C+folktales%29&btnG=Search\n\nThis book is out-of-print, but there seems to be one used available on Amazon: \n"Some folk-tales of the Chibcha Nation" by Malbone W Graham\n\nThere are more (also out-of-print) books listed at Amazon if you search for "Chibcha" or "Muisca," but they are all in Spanish.
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The word you are looking for is telekinesis. As for whether it really exists, I expect if anyone had scientific proof of it, it would create quite a stir and you wouldn't have to go digging here to find evidence of it. Neat idea, though. I sure tried to move things with my mind plenty of times as a kid...
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We see impossible things just fine.\n\nIt's not that our mind can't see them, it's just that we can't comprehend them - we have no idea what it is we're seeing because we have no idea how we should be putting those images to ideas.\n\nWhen the Native Americans saw the ships Columbus was in, they would first have seen the sails, and been confused by what was going on.  When they saw that they were boats, they would have understood - "these are big boats, like the ones we use to sail around the island."  Remember, Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola.\n\nAt any rate, whoever told you that the Indians on Hispaniola couldn't see the boats was wrong.
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While aliens and Bigfoot are among the many myths, folklore and "believe it or not" there are both photos, ancient markings, historical statements and personal account of both.\n\nAborigine Paintings dipicted many forms of figures not of human formations. The most obvious clues to an extraterrestrial visit long ago are found in the drawings of ancient cultures. One such drawing is located inside a cave in Kimberly Mountain, a peak on the western side of Australia. Haunting the surface of the cave walls are paintings of several beings with round heads and huge black eyes. Calling the figures in the paintings the Wondjina, the Aborigines consider the beings extremely sacred. The Wondjina, originally drawn in some period between ten thousand to thirty thousand years ago, bear little resemblance to any known earth creature. However, the Wondjina slightly resemble the gray type of aliens reported today by alleged alien abductees. The Wondjina and the Grays look similiar because they both have large, black eyes and a pear-shaped head. Therefore, it is possible that the Wondjina are actually aliens seen by the Aborigines a long time ago. \n\nIn the Sahara desert, another strange figure painted on the wall of a cave, the "Great Martian God", is located in the Tassili mountains. It was called the "Great Martian God" because it resembled Martians found in comic books. Discovered by Henri Lhote on an expedition after World War II into the mountains, the Martian, along with similiar nearby drawings depicting space men are drawn in a much larger scale than the nearby drawings of people, animals, and ones of Egyptian influence. \n\nA small but continuously growing body of physical evidence now exists, in addition to documented visual encounters. This evidence includes: photographs and casts of footprints and handprints, with some of the casts determined by dermal ridge experts to be of unknown primate origin; hair samples found in association with encounters that scientists have determined to be of unknown primate origin; and recorded vocalizations that expert bioacoustics analysts have determined to be of unknown primate origin.\n\nNative American cultures are also rich with related anecdotes pertaining to encounters extending back hundreds of years. Indeed, anthropologists have determined that tribes throughout the continent had names for these creatures such as Nalusa Falaya (Choctaw), Tsiatko (Puyallup/Nisqually), Skookum (Chinook), Windigo (Ojibway), Omah (Yurok), Bukwas (Kwakwaka'wakw), and many others.\n\nRegardless of the credence accorded the myths and legends of Native Americans, the Texas Bigfoot Research Center maintains that the body of contemporary sighting reports, ecological patterns and relationships arising from the study of those reports, along with the physical evidence that has accumulated during the last fifty years, and our own personal observations while in the field, all serve to indicate the existence of a living species that has yet to be documented.\n\nSo maybe it is a matter of what you want to believe.  Much study and wonder has been done to document the proof, or non-exsistance of many things...........\n\nAliens, Bigfoot, Heaven, Hell, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Soul mates, the Tooth fairy, Unicorns and Christ have been under fire for years.\n\nWhich is most likely to exsist?  Belief, wonder, discovery, faith, culture or science?\n\nI would say that all things have the possibility to exsist with the understanding that all things could be fictitious.
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There is a wonderful website I am attaching much of the contents.  Remember this is why Gallileo went on trial.  Columbus was almost denied money because the bible was of course correct.  Columbus was able to find a passage in the Apocrypha that says the Earth is a sphere and that is why he went to the New World.  This includes flatness, geocentrism, solar movement, the blue stuff above us (the ceiling often translated as the firmament literally the arched vault(as in object like the Romans built) in Hebrew), Earth stability and so on.  The shape of the Earth is about 1/5th of the way down.\n\nThe mobility of the sun\nThe most important biblical quote supporting a geocentric universe can be found in the Book of Joshua. This will be used as the starting point for our scriptural cosmology.\n\nJoshua 10:12-13\nThen spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.\n\nThe miracle of Joshua appears again as a reference in The Book of Habakkuk.\n\nHabakkuk 3:11\nThe sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.\n\nThe evidence in support of a geocentric model is overwhelming here. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. He did not order the earth to cease rotating nor did he qualify his statement with the divine knowledge that the sun was merely made to appear stationary. The sun was commanded to stand still because it is the sun that moves. Descriptions of its motion can be rather poetic.\n\nPsalms 19:4-6\nyet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs his course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.\n\nEcclesiastes 1:5\nThe sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.\n\nThe stability of the earth\nOn the other side of the geocentric coin, if the sun moves then the earth must not move. There are a few passages which more-or-less forbid the motion of the earth.\n\n1 Chronicles 16:30\ntremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.\n\nPsalms 93:1\nThe Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.\n\nPsalms 96:10\nSay among the nations, "The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."\n\nIn addition, the notion of an earth with a "foundation" is quite common. This leads one to conclude that the earth is quite stable.\n\n2 Samuel 22:16\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.\n\nPsalms 18:15\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.\n\nPsalms 102:25\nOf old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.\n\nProverbs 8:27-29\nWhen he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,\n\nIsaiah 48:13\nMy hand laid out the foundation of the earth, and my right hand s
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here you go\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Strange-Unexplained-Happenings-Nature-Science/dp/0810397803\n\nor \n\nhttp://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/e66778f591b9666aa19afeb4da09e526.html
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I remember reading this somewhere.  It was/is a Native American religion but, I don't remember the name.  I think it starts with an S though.  Anyway,  homosexuals were considered less than gods but more than human.  Sorry I don't have more information on it.
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Hope this helps\n\n\nhttp://argyll.epsb.ca/jreed/math9/strand3/triangle_congruent.htm\n\nhttp://mathforum.org/geopow/fullsolutions/102596.solutions.html or www.mathforum.org
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No American Indians are not myth.  They are of the human species just like you.  They are not extinct.\n\nThis is what the Smithsonian Institue says:\nThe American Indians are physically Mongoloids and thus must have originated in eastern Asia. The differences in appearance of the various New World tribes in recent times are due to (1) the initial variability of their Asian ancestors; (2) adaptations over several millennia to varied New World environments; and (3) different degrees of mixing in post-Columbian times with people of European, African, and Asian origins. Differences from their relatives in northeastern Asia are also due to changes in the latter populations after the separation. \n\nBering Strait, where the Eastern and Western Hemispheres face one another across a narrow strip of water, is the most likely place for migrating groups to have crossed into the New World. There is not sufficient evidence for immigration via other routes before the Norse arrivals in Greenland and Newfoundland about A.D. 1,000, and if indeed any other early voyages occurred, they were insignificant for the origins and composition of New World populations. \n\nJust when the Paleo-Indians--the first inhabitants of the Americas--entered the Americas is still under investigation. The prevailing theory calls for bands of interior hunters passing over the Bering Land Bridge, when sea levels were as much as 300 feet below at the end of the last Ice Age, and preceding through an "ice-free corridor" between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets to reach unglaciated lands to the south. Another theory calls for a coastal movement along the southern edge of the Land Bridge by early sea-adapted peoples. Certainly Paleo-Indians were well established south of the ice sheet by 12,000 years ago. Yet those probably were not the first arrivals. Sites and artifacts claimed to be older than this are gaining acceptance, but anything dated older than about 14,000 years ago, the date when rising sea levels submerged with Bering Land Bridge, separating Asia from the Americas, is still regarded with skepticism. However, some scholars do feel that humans were in North America at least by 20,000-25,000 years ago.\n\nAt no time, however, was the peopling of the New World a mass movement of people. More likely it was a trickle of small groups or bands entering from Asia over thousands of years. Among the last to arrive were the ancestors of the Eskimos who, settling along the Arctic coasts, effectively ended the migrations.