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November 26, 2012 · 9:55 am

Blog Log

“Twin Peaks: Pilot (#1.1)” (1990)

FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: Who’s the lady with the log?
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: We call her the Log Lady.
The Log Lady: Shhhhhhh!

Hollowed out log crossing the center of SoSo Village’s main open space. Little people use to live in it. Are they still in the area by chance?

Although I didn’t plan the alignment, the log points directly toward a recently sprouted giant mushroom. Giant mushroom… little people… opposites me thinks.

Looking back through the log, we also see it is directly aligned with the golden Trojan warrior at the heart of SoSo Village on its opposite side. This is yet another “accident”.

My Blog Log definitely saw something.

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http://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/history/galesburg/nehemiah_goes_west.asp

Future City.

We…

… better talk, Hucka D. After all, it’s not every day you find a Super City (smiles).

Hucka D.:

Mossmen were there[ indeed]. Cultural Center and Military Center. Jutting rock near top was called The Protector — this was the military base. Rock with caves was the cultural center. Together they formed a Supersity. Supersity it was[ indeed again].

bb:

Was the sacred hoop at the top of the rocks also present in Supersity?

Hucka D.:

Yes indeed again and again once more indeedy. (pause)

bb:

The sacred hoop was there first??

Hucka D.:

Ummm.

bb:

Both? Before and after I mean?

Hucka D.:

You must rebuild Supersity and find out. Not the new Supersity as much as the old. The Mossmen moved to the new one after The Fall. Fall is almost over, however.

bb:

I suppose the sacred hoop holds specific clues to the Mossmen’s culture and art and history.

Hucka D.:

Mossmen were at the *center*. Humans all around, but Mossmen were green[ and in the middle].

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Hucka D.:

It’s not that the protectors lacked culture. It was that it wasn’t their focus. But the cultural ones needed protection, see.

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http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/08/just-in-romney-says-hell-kill-arts-funding.html

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“They had to abandon Supersity because it was just beyond[ north of] the protectate limits[ Frank Park boundaries]. So they moved their operations in that area west.”

bb:

Was it a *fort*, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

Yes and no. Half fort, half arts center. The arts center came later. Developed from art seed money provided by a central government. Before this, that part of Supersity was a dangerous spot. Romney has it wrong… had it wrong. We sent Sandy to make sure the right man in the right place. Right?

bb:

Suppose. But, oh yes, as far as the right man being in place now. (super smile)

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“Supersity was cut off[ from Frank Park]. Like Romney would have cut off arts funding from the government had he been elected. It is one and same.”

Hucka D.:

Someone in the past made that decision[ about the Frank Park line]. Someone in the present made the decision to build that road, that dead end road. Someone newer made the decision to build the sacred hoop. The sacred hoop heals by moving all toward a center again. This center is the mossman culture. Mossmen restored. They just had to move a bit west.

bb:

It wasn’t the same[ though].

Hucka D.:

Not really.

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“We can protect that small part, Hucka D.”

Hucka D.:

How?

bb:

Toy avatars. Marble[ races]. We can move it and revitalize.

Hucka D.:

Retrace[ you mean]. You can’t really re-create what happened there before. But, yes, a door has been opened. The sacred hoop opened the door to the past. The creators of the sacred hoop weren’t exactly conscious of this but that’s what they did. The sacred hoop is right at the top of the rocks, at the top of Supersity or what was once called this. You have a door, a window at least, into the past. You can see back again. This is a very valuable place, then. You must take advantage as you can.

bb:

Maybe the Mossmen knew about the X-Spot Gallery of Pietmond. Maybe that’s what that X on the rock in the upper section of Supersity meant… means?

Hucka D.:

That is *their* window to the *future*. Future City.

Supersity 02

(continued from Supersity 01)

The medicine wheel/sacred hoop located just above the Supersity rocks at the end of a dead end dirt road contains two main parts: a circumference marked by 51 “ground” rocks (some with additional rocks on top) and a central configuration (cairn) containing about 10 more rocks. I prefer the term sacred hoop for this set-up, as there are no “spokes” of sorts connecting inner and outer rocks. The crystalinks article on the Indian medicine wheel has this to say:

Medicine wheels were constructed by laying stones in a particular pattern on the ground. Most medicine wheels follow the basic pattern of having a center cairn of stones, and surrounding that would be an outer ring of stones, then there would be “spokes”, or lines of rocks, coming out the cairn.

Almost all medicine wheels would have at least two of the three elements mentioned above (the center cairn, the outer ring, and the spokes), but beyond that there were many variations on this basic design, and every wheel found has been unique and has had its own style and eccentricities.

In the case of our Supersity medicine wheel or sacred hoop, we also have each of the 4 cardinal directions on the outer circle — east, west, north and south — delinated or accented by rocks on top of rocks, ribbons, or, as in the case below, by a bird feather, perhaps an eagle’s feather.

Here we have the central cairn of stones containing a number of interesting items, including 3 conjoined ribbons colored red, green and blue — actually more of a magenta, cyan, and indigo respectively in looking at the picture again (hard to tell the exact hue because of the shadows, though). These are the same type of ribbons that we find amongst the outer rocks.

Zooming into the cairn reveals a niche next to the pinned ribbons harboring a US quarter with a Hawaiian seal on the reverse side (reverse side up), a pink cluster of crystals, exact nature unknown for now, and some partially burned plant incense, also of unknown type. It almost appears to be fungii (?)

Let’s move back to the circumference of rocks and the 4 marked directions. I don’t carry a compass while hiking, so I’m not sure what each direction would be — if they are aligned in this way. But we can certainly guess that these 4 cardinal directions are implied, for the markings follow the traditional coloring for medicine wheels, or white…

… red…

… and then this feather already pictured above substituting for a black ribbon, which we’ll talk about more below. And when I returned the following week, there was a yellow ribbon pinned by rocks marking the last cardinal direction, although I didn’t take a picture of it during this particular visit. It would lie on the far side of the circle in the picture below, or opposite the feather in the foreground pictured at the first of this post.

So compare here for the markings of a traditional medicine wheel.

The above picture of the Supersity sacred hoop would then correspond directly with the following arrangement of colors (which, although usually red, yellow, black and white, varied in exact placement in respect to each other):

Below we have some details of other rocks in the same area as the Supersity sacred hoop but not a part of the hoop itself.

And now we return to the black ribbon, which as you can see by the picture below has either been placed outside the circumference of rocks for some purpose by its makers, or dislodged from an original placement within these rocks, which would logically be where the feather is on the near side of the circle (see 1st picture in this post). Interesting questions arise either way.

I would return to the Supersity Sacred Hoop both days of the following weekend so I’ll save more speculation of that amazing find for future posts (!).

It was a chilly but sunny day for Frank Park exploring.

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November 26, 2012 · 8:44 am

Supersity 01

“What a find!” I thought at the time. A Supersity indeed. It was rather large rocks below another (flat) platform area on a ridge I am fond of focusing on during my trips around Frank and Herman Parks this Fall. But just later on, I realized this was a “mere” substitute for what the Mossmen planned as an actual “super city”, building up from the location of a nearby old fort.

A gathering of white-ish rocks from the platform area mentioned above. I suppose you could classify this as another small rock art event, or part of one.

Hard to see from this photo, but the rocks pictured at the beginning of this post are dead center, and seemed to be aligned (yet more alignments!) with a type of path leading toward them starting from an opposite ridge.

But now we move into several photos from the *real* location of Supersity in all likelihood, and I promise to go back asap for more snapshots this weekend. This “X” marked on a rock drew my attention and I decided to chronicle its seeming oddity, which appears to be man-made. X marks the spot, after all..

There are two main groups of rocks in Supersity, the above shot coming from the higher of the two and the below picture that of a prominent jutting rock in the lower group. Supersity itself lies just beyond the northern boundary of Frank Park, and thus in unprotected regions, susceptible to future development. In several ways this reminds me of Mocksity from the Baker Blinker Blog, similarly in a rock cluster and lying just beyond the harboring areas of Frank Park, again to the north. And it’s rumoured that famed mossman Gene Fade was a resident of *both* burgs, which seems super important, blog-wise. Fade dwelt more in the lower part of Supersity, or in the cultural zone existing atop an extensive (to the toy avatars) fissure cave system. By this point in his life, Fade was a rather full blown artist, and here met fellow artisan Karoz Blogger, a faceter and also polisher of gems.

This is a Supersity fissure cave, but from the upper group of rocks, more a militant enclave. The rock this fissure is found is called Protector Rock by the people of Supersity, perhaps in step with the militia type it helps to shelter. Again, I’ll get more pictures asap.

Little people certainly existed in this long passageway at some point, but my feeling is that they are toy avatars themselves, probably mossmen. So what that implies is there were 2 groups of mossmen forming Supersity as a whole, the artist types and the military or more rules governed types, the latter a carryover from the old fort days. But that’s not to say the upper rocks lacked culture; it’s just that wasn’t the primary focus, unlike the lower rock dwellers (like Karoz and Gene Fade).

And now we move to *Future City*. When I returned home, I discovered that what I shockingly found at the end of a dead end dirt road just above the Supersity rocks is called a sacred hoop, a variation of an Indian medicine wheel. Details of what this is can be found through links I’ve already provided in this post below.