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Review of Scott Wolter's Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers (Part 3)

10/10/2013

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Do you remember the old Tootsie Roll jingle? Whatever it is I think I see / Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me. It seems that Scott Wolter has revised this somewhat: Whatever it is I think I see / Becomes a Templar conspiracy. At least that’s the lesson I’m taking away from Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: Mysteries of the Hooked X®. The only other lesson I’ve gleaned so far comes from Wolter’s discussion of stone clitorises, buildings which symbolically orgasm, sunlight as divine penis, speculation on the Virgin Mary’s sex life, contemplation of trans-Atlantic couplings, and of course the “Hooked X®” as depicting the actual act of impregnation of Mary Magdalene. The man has sex on the brain and seems to have invented an entire Gnostic-Dualist sacred feminine ancient cult to justify his ideas about sexual liberation.

As we enter the third part of this review, we turn to Native Americans, who, for the first time, come in for the full Wolter treatment. Because this chapter has the greatest concentration of new material, I will devote today’s entire review to it.

Chapter 7: Native Americans
This chapter opens with Wolter complaining that academics don’t give enough respect and credit to Native Americans “as a resource of knowledge.” This comes from a man who systematically refused to engage Native American perspectives in America Unearthed, who reassigns their history and heritage to outside cultures, and who engaged not a whit with contemporary scholarship on Native American history and beliefs. His most recent academic source on Native culture in this book is from 1950, with all but one of his other academic sources on Native people coming from the nineteenth century. I know because I read the bibliography of the book first.

But mostly he likes to cite Wikipedia. Oh, and he also cites “Google Books” as a source for several points, rather than the texts linked via Google Books—with whole strings of Google Books URL paths pasted into the notes. This shouldn’t surprise me; he sources several photographs to that well-known photographer, “Internet,” whose work is second in popularity only to that most widely-cited of ancient authors, “Ibid,” of whom H. P. Lovecraft wrote the definitive biography.

(Note to Scott Wolter: The preceding sentence is a joke lest you start citing Ibid’s definitive contribution to Templar literature.)

Enough digression; on to the chapter. The chapter starts off badly with Wolter asserting that Manifest Destiny was a government policy, which it was not—it was a media-driven propaganda line. He claims Manifest Destiny was used to cover up pre-Columbian white colonies by cleansing the country of archaeological anomalies while exterminating Native Americans. Wolter assures us that he has met Native Americans and that they confided to him in secret that they know the truth about “early visitors,” that these visitors were white, and that prophecies “compel them” to tell everyone the truth about white visitation. I, too, have known Native Americans (I went to school with some Senecas, and one of my archaeology professors worked closely with the Cayugas, whose elders I have spoken with at length in the past), and they would have told me if they had secret prophecies. Apparently northeastern tribes must not be privy to these amazing Templar prophecies. No, those are conveniently local to Minnesota, where Wolter lives.

Wolter then introduces us to William Mann, who claims unrecognized Algonquin ancestry. He is also a Freemason and writes novels about the Templar-Native American connection. He tells Wolter that his novels are all true but he pretends they are fiction so that an unnamed cabal, presumably the Masons, won’t retaliate against him for revealing that the Templars discovered how to measure longitude and therefore mapped America. Mann claims that the Templars controlled the seas down to 1450 as the “most advanced” navy in the world. Remember, the Templars had been disbanded for nearly 150 years at that point and never had an ocean-going fleet. Mann claims that the Algonquin symbol of a white eagle with a red leather strip is Templar because the Templar colors are white and red. Do you know what else is white and red? The flag of Austria, Santa Claus, peppermint candy canes, the Red Cross flag, Switzerland’s flag, Japan’s flag, Canada’s flag, non-Templar crusaders’ clothes, San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet, the Cat in the Hat’s hat, the Cardinals baseball team, etc. etc. etc. Are they all conspirators, too? Wait... later in the book Wolter in fact does say that Canada adopted its flag due to Templar color coding.

Mann’s novel contains material derived nearly verbatim from Frederick J. Pohl’s Henry Sinclair claims from the 1950s and 1960s—particularly the 1398 date and the alleged (and demonstrably falsified) similarities to the Mi’kmaq god Glooscap—and it’s therefore not an independent source of Native truth. To this Mann adds Laurence Gardner’s speculation about the “Jewish” origins of the ruling houses of Europe, designed to tie them to the Bloodline of Christ, though he leaves out the menstrual blood-drinking aliens Gardner favored.

Wolter then compares Masonic ceremonies to the Mide’win (or Mide’) ceremonies, which Mann explained to Wolter in 2012. I have dealt with these already at great length. Derived from 1920s-era Masonic speculation, the claim is faulty because the Mide’win ritual is devoted to training initiates in the use of healing plants, something absent from Masonic practice. Further, Mide’ has four degrees to Masonry’s traditional three, and Mide’ accepts both women and men, unlike Masonry. Mann asserts that Blue Lodge Masonry originally had four degrees, but I can find no support for this in the published literature, only in occult and conspiracy books. When Wolter claims that both Mide’win and Freemasons require the initiate to pay fees to advance to the next degree, this is also false; most Masonic lodges have a one-time initiation fee payable before the first degree, not at every degree along the way (that’s Scientology).

Using old ethnographic accounts of exogamy whereby the Native tribes of Minnesota intermarried (a necessity to avoid inbreeding found in tribal cultures around the world), Wolter and Mann extrapolate to claim this makes “plausible” that the tribes also married off their women to the all-powerful Templars.

Wolter and Mann conclude that because the Templars and Natives were so interconnected that the Templars must have buried the Kensington Rune Stone with the participation of the Native Americans in a Masonic ceremony. Wolter wonders why no Templar-Natives “exercised” the “land claim” to all of the Mississippi watershed, and he concludes that there is a second half to the Kensington Rune Stone that is buried elsewhere, claiming still more land in secret code.

Based on Wikipedia entries (seriously), Wolter claims that the Templars brought the Cross of Lorraine with them to America after being awarded the cross by Baldwin II in 1099. Not even the Wikipedia page cited claims that. The Templars were not founded until 1120 and endorsed by the Church in 1129; Wolter has misread the historical background on the Wikipedia page, which talks about the First Crusade of 1099 capturing Jerusalem, which set up the conditions that eventually required defenders for the conquered territory. The Templars adopted a red cross in 1147, but the papal bull authorizing it does not describe the cross; most historians believe that several different crosses were used, but the exclusive or primary use of the patriarchal cross (later called the Cross of Lorraine) is a historical fiction from the modern Masonic Templarism, adopted by conspiracy theorists as truth. The claim originates in a mistake made by the French writer André Favin, and the Masonic Templars adopted it from that source. Wolter takes it over from there, accepting the Masonic history as legitimate despite two centuries of scholarship to the contrary. Wolter then babbles on about Jesus conspiracies based on his own misreading of Wikipedia as stating Baldwin II granted the Lorraine Cross to the Templars two decades before their founding (which, of course, as a temporal ruler he could not do for a papal order, never mind that he died 16 years before the Templars started using cross symbols).

One would think that if the Templars were the heart and soul of your theory, you’d at least try to learn something about them from sources other than Wikipedia.

So to bring this ’round to Native Americans, Wolter notes that many tribes use crosses with two crossbars; he calls all of these crosses of Lorraine and attributes them to early contact with Knights Templar, whom he has not shown to have actually used said cross. Nevertheless, this cross is a sacred symbol of the Jesus Bloodline (but wasn’t that the Hooked X® and the AVM—they have so many symbols for a secret cult!) in which the tiny extra bar is Jesus’ kid or something. Based on the name of the cross, Wolter assigns it to the House of Lorraine (represented today by the last surviving Habsburgs), tracing the family’s origins to the seventh century, and thus “proving” that they sponsored the expedition to deposit lead artifacts with proto-Templar codes in Tucson, Arizona.

Not to spoil the fun, but the Cross of Lorraine only gained its name and association with Lorraine in 1477, when adopted by Rene II; it had previously been the Cross of Anjou and it is shared by more than 160 noble families—quite the conspiracy! They all got it from the East during the Crusades. It is not older than that in the West.

Wolter then asserts that Nabisco, the American Cancer Society, and Exxon use the Cross of Lorraine and are therefore part of the Jesus-Habsburg-Templar conspiracy. I suppose we should add the entire Greek Orthodox Church, whose cross this also is. He repeats the America Unearthed claim that Exxon’s logo represents the Atlantic Ocean with its blue stripe and a westward Templar journey in its double cross leaning to the left as formed by the two X’s.

He next moves on to everyone’s favorite tribe, the Mandan, whom Wolter does not actually go to meet even though they are still alive. Instead, he relies on George Catlin’s Victorian-era traveler’s tales (he was a painter, not an ethnologist) to claim that the Mandans were Gnostic dualists because Catlin identified a Good Spirit and Evil Spirit in their religion. Catlin was wrong; the “Evil Spirit” was rather the “Lone Man,” creator of civilization, and the “Good Spirit” the “First Creator” who made the physical world. Wolter, who on America Unearthed declared the Mandan Welsh, now concurs with Catlin that the Mandan are a remnant white population of wandering Hebrews, which he supports with Atlantis-believing lawyer Henrietta Mertz’s claims that the Mandan Okipa ceremony exactly parallels the Biblical story of Moses on Mt. Sinai. Amazingly, I don’t remember Exodus featuring groups of young men impaled on wooden skewers and suspended with heavy weights from the lodge roof until they passed out from pain. Of course Wolter doesn’t know anything about Okipa that Mertz and Catlin didn’t tell him, and both of them, operating under the belief that the Mandans were Hebrews, skewed their interpretation to support parallels. Wolter, citing Wikipedia, asserts that “some” say the Mandan were intentionally eradicated with smallpox-laced blankets, implying this was done to hide their connection to the now Egyptian-Hebrew-Gnostic-Habsburg-Templar-Freemason-US Government-Exxon-REMAX-Nabisco conspiracy. The “some” is actually one person: Ward Churchill, the controversial non-historian whose work his own university has declared fraudulent myths. No mainstream historian accepts the smallpox blanket story, which Churchill imported to the Mandan smallpox outbreak of 1837 from the 1763 Siege of Fort Pitt, where there is more evidence for their use. Wolter knows this, of course, because it’s on the Wikipedia page, and he chose to fudge it anyway.

Next Wolter discusses Native American “alliances” with Templars and Freemasons. In a maddeningly obscure bit of writing, Wolter’s own inability to craft a clear sentence has made it impossible to determine the origin of what he claims is an Ojibwa prophecy. It sounds to me like it was told in person to Wolter within the past twelve months, which means that it is worthless as a historical record since it is clearly contaminated with alternative history claims from the internet:

Their people were to leave the cities and go into the wilderness, because the Christians were coming and it wasn’t going to be good. The Templars warned them of the impending arrival, but they already knew about the Spanish incursions to the south and it was only a matter of time before they brought their oppressive religion to the rest of the continent.

Remember: Just pages ago Wolter was arguing that Native people couldn’t tell Aryans from pagan gods and we are to read nebulous lore about “white” people as Templars; but now they are called by name. Obviously, this prophecy has been rewritten by modern hands.

Wolter says this story is confirmed by an Assiniboine elder who repeated the Templar warning and said that this occurred in the time “that the Masonic United Grand Lodge in England underwent significant changes” to add Native American rituals from the Mide’win. We are to believe that the same Native people who did not know of Masonry in the ethnographic reports Wolter just cited as proof of a connection to ancient Masonry somehow were apprised of internal organizational changes in the English lodges? Or is Wolter so poor an author that he meant that Wolter connected these ideas but his sentences simply lack meaning?

I note that these “prophecies” fail to support Wolter’s radio claims that they describe a Templar invasion of Cahokia.

Wolter just drops these nuggets as steaming lumps with no explanation or explication—in fact he never actually says that the two Native Americans actually spoke to him. Then he moves on to Panama to discuss the “White Indians” of Darien—a favorite topic of Mormons, Neo-Nazis, and white supremacists. Wolter here relies on the work of R. O. Marsh, who in the 1930s declared them Caucasians, yet earlier reports from the 1800s very clearly state that “Their skins are not of such a white as those of fair people among Europeans, with some tincture of blush or sanguine complexion; neither yet is their complexion like that of our (British) paler people, but it is rather a milk-white, lighter than the color of any Europeans, and much like that of a milk-horse.” They were so recognized from the 1600s. The writer of the above also witnessed births of these white children to dark-colored women and confirmed that no European had been present to father the child. Their skins were so sensitive that they avoided sunlight and were active mainly at night. In short, most thought they were albinos, and no one thought they were European until the racial theorists of the 1920 tried to fit them on a chart where value correlated with the paleness of one’s skin. It was the height of scientific racism.

Wolter dismisses albinism as impossible because two light-skinned Darien natives brought back to the U.S. in 1925 by Marsh were not traditional albinos but blonde-haired white people with green eyes. Albinos’ eyes are red. Wolter similarly states that there is no scientific evidence that they are genetic abnormalities, but Wolter here is ignorant of the literature; geneticist Reginald G. Harris studied them and determined that the “white” Indians were identical to other Natives in every respect except the skin and hair color. Later studies confirmed that a dominant genetic mutation associated with incomplete albinism was responsible, as Margot Lynn Iverson reported in her 2007 dissertation Blood Types: A History of Genetic Studies of Native Americans, 1920-1955. Wolter is ignorant of or ignores this material because he wants these Natives to be spontaneously-regenerating Europeans who somehow pop magically from Native wombs or else are the world’s most inbred people, having maintained their white skins for five centuries or more with barely a few dozen individuals.

Wolter claims, on Marsh’s authority, that the Natives of Panama speak a language that is “Aryan” and not “Mongoloid,” which relies on outdate linguistic ideas discredited many decades ago as well as a willingness to assume that any coincidence of sounds in a language is proof of its identity, in this case somehow both Sanskrit in structure and Norse in vocabulary.

Incidentally, the academics Wolter accuses of conspiracy and of suppressing Marsh’s work actually did no such thing, as an article in the 1926 American Journal of Physical Anthropology shows. The journal reported that the American Association for the Advancement of Science called for the U.S. government to demand Panama (then under de facto U.S. control) establish a reservation for the “white” Indians of Darien in order to preserve their unique genetics from “destructive infusions of low-caste mixed white and negro blood.” Ah, the 1920s, when the only question was how racist can you be! The only dispute was whether the uniquely white Indians were special for being Aryan pioneers or a spontaneously generating white race—hardly the conspiracy to suppress the truth Wolter claims.

Wolter discusses Panamanian pottery with a red and blue cross that he claims is identical to the Templar red cross and therefore proves, because it was allegedly discovered on the Pacific coast (which cannot be confirmed since Wolter saw it in a treasure hunter’s house) that the Templars therefore circumnavigated the Americas. That the cross is an incredibly simple and nearly universal human symbol is apparently less important than the conspiracy that can be woven from it.

I nearly threw the book across the room when I read that Wolter assigned Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, to his Cistercian-Templar cult and learned of Quetzalcoatl not from Aztec mythology or even from Spanish documents or from anthropological sources but instead from Manley P. Hall, the occultist who believed he was one of a race of immortal cultists who secretly control history. Hall, writing in 1928, adopted the demonstrably false Spanish claims that Quetzalcoatl was a white man, something that the Spanish imposed on Aztec beliefs for propaganda purposes and which cannot be demonstrated from Aztec documents or pre-Conquest art. Wolter, of course, also fails to understand the differences between the Maya and the Aztecs and declares Quetzalcoatl Mayan when he is in fact Aztec; Kukulkan was the Mayan equivalent.

He doesn’t stop there but decides that the appearance of a serpent on the forehead of a tumbaga mask pendant makes it an Egyptian uraeus and thus proves contact between the two cultures. On another he finds a two-headed bird that tells him that the statue must be connected to the double-headed eagle of Freemasonry. I guess that would also mean that the imperial governments of Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire were in on it, along with the modern governments of Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and more. (They all use or used double-headed eagles.) The symbol only entered Masonry when Frederick the Great bestowed it on Masons in Prussia; he did so because it was on his own personal coat of arms, given him by the Habsburgs as an imperial vassal, and he was the head of Prussian Masonry. The symbol is found as far back as the Hittites and flew on the banners of the Saracens whom the Knights Templar fought. Are the Saracens part of the conspiracy, too?

The Colombian example, if genuine, is older than Masonry’s; if I had to guess, I’d say that, like other double eagles found in South America, it’s post-Conquest and is the Habsburg bird. I can’t say though since I have no way of dating the statue from a photograph.

Wolter sees a Colombian sculpture (consistently misspelled as Columbian) depicting some sort of Native ritual, and he declares it identical to the Mide’win ritual based on the appearance of an owl and four poles, which he says also appear in Mide’win ritual based on a single 1833 drawing. I hate to break it to him, but the bird in the Colombian sculpture is not an owl. It’s a parrot as is obvious from the oversized beak and wing stripes not found in owls.

Wolter asserts that ancient Colombian human figure statues are so anatomically correct that he can determine that they represent circumcised males in the Egyptian style. Not to get too technical, but when fully erect, the uncircumcised penis’s foreskin does not hang over the penis head as Wolter seems to think; the stylized Colombian sculpture is not detailed enough to depict the differences between circumcised and uncircumcised erect penises; at this level of detail, the differences would only be noticeable in a flaccid penis. I’d post pictures, but I trust that readers have all seen a penis (their own or others’) at some point in life.

He then declares a relatively recent statue of a Colombian human-crocodile hybrid god a depiction of the hippopotamus-headed Egyptian goddess Tawaret because he cannot tell the difference between a crocodile and a hippopotamus.

He concludes the chapter by declaring (in softer words) that Native peoples were not smart enough to learn how to work with precious metals and therefore must have been taught by white people from Egypt or Europe. His evidence is that some objects have twelve points or twelve animals or some other connection to twelve, which is “likely” the zodiac’s twelve constellations—even though Native peoples do not follow Greco-Babylonian astrology.

Next time: We’ll finish the book with the Great Oreo Cookie Conspiracy!

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Irna link
10/10/2013 08:28:18 am

Hi Jason, thanks for the link to Ibid's biography, it's excellent! :)
As for Wolter, I'm speechless...

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Shawn Flynn
10/10/2013 08:44:50 am

I wonder how easy it is to just come up with conspiracy theories like this, cause I'd love to cut into this cash cow. That cash cow obviously is a Hindu or Sumerian or Taoist god or something that is the patron of a dairy industry cabal that control Dairy Queen.

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Brent
10/10/2013 09:20:48 am

Have you (or Scott Wolter) ever played Assassin's Creed? Because there are a LOT of similarities. Not so much with the Native American interbreeding and whatnot, but it just kinda strikes me.

The main difference is that Assassin's Creed's Templar-Alien plot is somehow both more coherent and more believable...

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Shawn Flynn
10/10/2013 11:40:11 am

I've actually mentioned that before, I think we should check Wolter for hidden blades.

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Brent
10/15/2013 08:30:28 am

HA! Now I dearly want him to end an episode by taking a Leap of Faith off of some landmark somewhere.

You know, now that I think of it though, I wonder if the Assassin's Creed games have added to receptiveness of younger males' minds when it comes to things like Templar conspiracies, etc. I would bet good money it has, at least to some degree.

Scott Hamilton
10/10/2013 09:54:31 am

I've always wondered what people like Wolter think is the reasoning behind the secret cabal leaving symbols all over the place. The only logical explanation I can think of is that the Templars have always been run by the Riddler.

I wonder if Wolter goes as far as Vigilant Citizen, who one some level thinks that the Illuminati;s symbols are real working magic.

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BigMike
10/10/2013 04:52:47 pm

I do agree that it's amazing how these "secret" societies seem to leave signs and symbols EVERYWHERE. I mean what would a secret society be without those big neon signs everywhere (literally neon signs in some cases, according to Wolter... *cough* Exxon *cough) pointing to their existence and involvement in just about everything.

I don't know, if I were trying to run a secret society I would at least TRY to, you know, keep it secret. that means no signs, no symbols, no codes hidden in plain sight...

Seriously, I know five-year-old children who can keep secrets better than these alleged "secret" societies. And five-year-olds, by and large, have no volume control. Even when attempting to whisper.

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The Other J.
10/11/2013 06:12:46 am

Granted, one angle of conspiratorial thought is that the secret rulers of the world are somehow obligated or forced to present publicly-available symbols of themselves. It's part of the game, like embedding Masonic symbols in Washington, D.C.'s street plan. (I've heard this a few times, I think the last time from Jim Marrs).

Not that they bother to explain WHY they would have to leave evidence of themselves all over the place, except to make those who recognize such symbols the special saviors of the race or something.

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Titus pullo
10/10/2013 11:01:52 am

Well old John Boehner brought a knife to a gin fight. The wall street party continues ..money printing to prop up the elites and Goldman Sachs...liberty never, goodies from the govt forever

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Thane
10/10/2013 11:51:58 am

Gee, do you think Nabisco, Exxon, and the other corporations Wolter believe are part of the Templar-Sinclair conspiracy are going to war with P&G? After all, we all know they are Satanists. I mean, just look at their logo!

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp

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Shane Sullivan
10/10/2013 12:52:44 pm

"Wolter assures us that he has met Native Americans and that they confided to him in secret that they know the truth about "early visitors,” that these visitors were white, and that prophecies “compel them” to tell everyone the truth about white visitation."

"Wolter then compares Masonic ceremonies to the Mide’win (or Mide’) ceremonies, which Mann explained to Wolter in 2012."

I guess my dad's stepfather, step-grandmother, step-aunt, half-brother, and half-sister, all Ojibwe, neglected to pass these tidbits along. Guess they're pretty tight-lipped.

"Their people were to leave the cities and go into the wilderness, because the Christians were coming and it wasn’t going to be good. The Templars warned them of the impending arrival, but they already knew about the Spanish incursions to the south and it was only a matter of time before they brought their oppressive religion to the rest of the continent."

As I said the other day, the story is that the instructions to move west were received in the form of a *spirit vision*. I guess the Templars were able to project images of themselves into other peoples' heads.

"He then declares a relatively recent statue of a Colombian human-crocodile hybrid god a depiction of the hippopotamus-headed Egyptian goddess Tawaret because he cannot tell the difference between a crocodile and a hippopotamus."

Well that's just sloppy work on Wolter's part; he should have said it was the Egyptian god Sobek, who actually was depicted as part-crocodile.

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The Other J.
10/11/2013 06:17:26 am

Shane, you're from Wisconsin, right? My wife's grandfather was also Ojibwe from Wisconsin, and he her dad, my wife, and her dad's half-brother also all failed to mention this secret history. Who do I trust, Wolter or my wife? The plot thickens...

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Shane Sullivan
10/11/2013 01:20:30 pm

Yep, I'm from Wisconsin, and so was my grandpa (he was born on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation). Maybe if he had been from Minnesota, he would have privy to Scott Wolter's mystical psychic Templar secrets.

Shane Sullivan
10/11/2013 01:22:36 pm

Er, would have *been* privy.

Jean Stone
10/10/2013 02:33:00 pm

"San Francisco’s Red and White Fleet"

I rode that today, clearly that makes me part of the conspiracy somehow. Where do I go to get initiated? Will chanting be necessary?

Had to finally post to say that. Been reading your blog for a few months now. Every time I see something like this I'm reminded of Foucault's Pendulum, which I thought was supposed to belong in the fiction section...

Anyhow, you do great work Jason. Thanks for taking the time to read/watch all this nonsense and do the research these people can't or won't.

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Varika
10/10/2013 04:27:12 pm

Tsk! You didn't mention the single most famous example of a red and white logo in the world, Jason: Coca-Cola! Surely they, of all companies, MUST be the Illuminati; they're recognized in just about every nation on Earth, after all, and they DID start out with a mind-altering substance in their product.

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Only Me
10/15/2013 12:13:57 pm

What about Waldo? Like Wolter's proto-Templar-Cistercian-Templar-Freemason-Sinclair-Holy Bloodline-Global Conspiracy, someone's always trying to find him.

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Jason Colavito link
10/15/2013 12:47:58 pm

And he also wears the red-and-white "Templar" colors! Obviously he's a symbol for the esoteric searching needed to uncover Templar truths.

Alice Kehoe
10/10/2013 06:44:54 pm

Sorry to nit-pick this most excellent review --so kind to save us the burden of reading a book-- but the painter was George CATLIN. Perhaps you have a dear daughter named Caitlin?

And "steaming lumps" must be what I pick up in a plastic bag when I take the dog for his walk.

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Jason Colavito link
10/10/2013 11:26:15 pm

No, Wolter's book spells it wrong and I stupidly failed to look it up before writing this. I'll fix it.

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Eugene
7/21/2015 08:14:24 pm

Really? You wrote before you researched?
Hmmm :)

Harry
10/11/2013 12:29:26 am

Obsessed with stone clitorises? Now I know where the "o" in Wolter comes from!

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Gunn link
10/11/2013 04:27:55 am

This is getting worse. Any time the message on the KRS is added to, it gets worse. Now we have a 2nd runestone to look for?

I'm still trying to find a Templar connection, just to be a tad loyal to who originally got me into this debate, but I don't see one for sure. I see Swedes. I don't doubt the possibility of proto-post-Templars being involved, through decent of genealogy or information or both, but I don't see any conclusive proof. I had given too much credence to the idea that the hooked X belonged to the Templars. Well, the hooked X may yet hold answers and clues about the identity of the 1362 expedition.

Mixing in all this other nonsense is very disheartening to me. Wolter wants to be credited with renewing interest in the KRS as being a credible stone document, yet then he perverts his involvement with loads of "esoteric" knowledge. The bottom line to me is that he seems confused, and he keeps adding in more nonsense into the alternative history debates. He's fast losing whatever credibility he had, and making things worse for both himself and the KRS. In retrospection, I think he has crossed over from doing the KRS good (popularity of subject), to now doing the KRS harm. All the weird speculations surrounding the poor KRS are like a cyclone of fog making it more and more difficult to see the simple, the very simple truth. Is the simple message not enough to try and understand?

People here know that my main mission over the past several months was to show how stoneholes found in this region were not for mooring ships, and that the traditional Viking Age ended a quarter of a millennium before the carving of the KRS. I've tried my utmost to clear these two issues up, for the very sake of the KRS itself. Meanwhile, I'm watching this fog swirling around it, at times seeming to get worse. I blame Wolter for some of this.

As for Wm Mann, I like some of his ideas about grid-work and the value of iron. If he separated out the bloodline nonsense, his work would be more credible. I do believe a sort of mapping had taken place by the time of the KRS, especially since I discovered a straight line connecting Duluth, Runestone Hill, and the Whetstone River in SD, where there is an abundance of "Scandivavian medieval" evidences...in my opinion. It looks like compass work. Shooting an isthmus...something I learned in NCO School in the Army.

After reading Mann's book about Templar meridians, the part that sticks most in my mind is that he called iron "Templar treasure." This reminds me of the iron object I found more than a foot below the surface of the ground after a storm felled a tree at Runestone Hill. The object was found a mere underhand toss from where the KRS was discovered...also amongst tree roots.

I just got back from an adventure to SD yesterday. I think I discovered a travesty at a local museum. Something, a rock with a basketball-sized carved hole in it is being passed off as Native American or Viking. I did some investigating by going to the site, and what I found is quite amazing. I have to upload and compress some photos, then I'm going to put them on a new page on my website. Somehow, what you will see has everything to do with the discussion at hand. (By the way, I uploaded the Copper Harbor bear carving and some Newport Tower photos showing old-looking initials, plus Westford Knight photos." I'll try to get these new photos up before day's end.)

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Cathleen Anderson
10/11/2013 06:18:14 am

This is so long it may be hard to pinpoint errors.

So to bring this ’round to Native Americans, Wolter notes that many tribes use crosses with two crossbars; he calls all of these crosses of Lorraine and attributes them to early contact with Knights Templar, whom he has not shown to have actually used said cross. Nevertheless, this cross is a sacred symbol of the Jesus Bloodline (but wasn’t that the Hooked X® and the AVM—many they have so many symbols for a secret cult!) in which the tiny extra bar is Jesus’ kid or something. Based on the name of the cross, Wolter assigns it to the House of Lorraine (represented today by the last surviving Habsburgs), tracing the family’s origins to the seventh century, and thus “proving” that they sponsored the expedition to deposit lead artifacts with proto-Templar codes in Tucson, Arizona.

The part of this paragraph that says 'many, they have so many,,,' that is one to many 'many's.

That was the only one that jumped out at me.

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Jason Colavito link
10/11/2013 06:48:27 am

Fixed.

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The Other J.
10/11/2013 06:25:43 am

Forgive me if I'm missing something here, because all of these threads are a little difficult to follow. But isn't the claim that the Templars were in the New World before the Spanish, and that Columbus was "late to the party"? If that's the case, then the following statement has another problem to address:

"Their people were to leave the cities and go into the wilderness, because the Christians were coming and it wasn’t going to be good. The Templars warned them of the impending arrival, but they already knew about the Spanish incursions to the south and it was only a matter of time before they brought their oppressive religion to the rest of the continent."

This suggests the Spanish were in the New World before the Templars, since the people in question "already knew about the Spanish incursions to the south." Am I reading this correctly, and is that an inconsistency, or is the timeline accounted for in some other way? Is the suggestion that the Templars were already established before the Spanish arrived, but displaced the Ojibwe after the Spanish occupied the southwest? Or am I just wasting my time by nit-picking and looking for consistency?

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Jason Colavito link
10/11/2013 06:41:13 am

As I understand it, the idea is supposed to be (though neither Wolter nor the Ojibwa elder say this) that the Templars had established some kind of colony in America staffed by Templar-Native interracial offspring and that they had some secret pipeline to Europe whereby they learned of European colonization efforts. This specific prophecy supposedly warned the Ojibwa to flee from French forces under Champlain.

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Gunn
10/12/2013 12:10:28 am

Those French are tricky. I once read conspiracy material that suggested the Jesuits are the final authority, before and now. It's funny that we hear of a warning to the Ojibwa to flee Frenchmen, yet it are Frenchmen who later became the famous voyagers, practically living with the Ojibwa.

In the past, I read a very old accounting of Father Hennepin's visit to the Twin Cities area of MN. In fact, the accounting was in his own words, from the late 1600's, translated. I was struck by the fact that he spent several months in captivity, without much mention about his exact wanderings-around. Why did he come here? As a Jesuit, was he under an obligation to find something? Stoneholes? Ha! H! Uh-oh, this reminds me of someone's musings about the Lewis & Clark expedition.

By the way, I'm a quarter French, out of Colonial Canada. Cousinau. (Nothing against the French.)

Res Ipsa
1/24/2014 02:05:49 pm

Jason, I LOVE the site and these reviews. This site may be more addictive than TV Tropes. I do have one minor connection. Lodge 19 in Minneapolis does require a fee for each of the three levels. (So they have told me.) Nothing in the range of Scientology, however, and it goes to . . . drumroll please . . . purchasing materials for the ceremonies.

I'll have to ask whether they are shaking their head at Mr. Wolter or laughing at his ideas . . .

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        • Erich von Däniken
        • Robert Temple
        • Giorgio Tsoukalos
        • David Childress
      • Blunders in the Sky
      • The Case of the False Quotes
      • Alternative Authors' Quote Fraud
      • David Childress & the Aliens
      • Faking Ancient Art in Uzbekistan
      • Intimations of Persecution
      • Zecharia Sitchin's World
      • Jesus' Alien Ancestors?
      • Extraterrestrial Evolution?
    • Collection: Skeptic Magazine >
      • America Before Review
      • Native American Discovery of Europe
      • Interview: Scott Sigler
      • Golden Fleeced
      • Oh the Horror
      • Discovery of America
      • Supernatural Television
      • Review of Civilization One
      • Who Lost the Middle Ages
      • Charioteer of the Gods
    • Collection: Ancient History >
      • Prehistoric Nuclear War
      • The China Syndrome
      • Atlantis, Mu, and the Maya
      • Easter Island Exposed
      • Who Built the Sphinx?
      • Who Built the Great Pyramid?
      • Archaeological Cover Up?
    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
    • Free Classic Pseudohistory eBooks
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