Scott Wolter: French Normans Carved Kensington Rune Stone, Knights Templar Caused Cahokia Collapse9/13/2013 You’ll be happy to know that after months of delays, I’ve finally been able to order a copy of Scott Wolter’s new book, From Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: Mysteries of the Hooked X®, which I should receive sometime next week. You can look forward to a thrilling chapter-by-chapter review of…what exactly? I’m not sure, but we’ll find out together. Wolter also gave a two-hour interview yesterday to Rita Louise of Just Energy Radio, an ancient astronaut theorist and a “medical intuitive” who promotes a wide range of “alternative” and New Age systems for cash. If you think, though, that I have time to sit through two hours of talk about the Kensington Rune Stone, you have another thing coming. I jumped around and listened to excerpts because I’ve heard most of what he had to say many, many times before. The complete interview is below followed by some thoughts. Things did not start off well when Wolter repeated his claims that scientists and scholars are ignoring him and his work and are conspiring to suppress the truth. As he later says, “Academics who quite frankly didn’t know what the heck they were talking about” are freezing out normal, everyday people who have something to say about lost white invaders of Minnesota. It’s nearly word-for-word identical to his recent interviews on other shows, and, frankly, it’s tiresome. “I found out there was apparently some paradigm in history that no one was there before Columbus,” he said, “and I didn’t know that that was the rule, and I broke the rule apparently.” Thus he reveals that his knowledge of history extends to 1950s textbooks and not much beyond. Obviously, Columbus never set foot in the United States, and it has been established since the 1960s (and widely believed before that) that the Vikings were the first Europeans to make landfall in North America. I’ll admit that his next claim is a new one on me. Pay careful attention to the sleight of hand here: Wolter claims that the Kensington Rune Stone (KRS) is in the Golden Ratio (!) and, in summarizing the text of the KRS, now claims that the Northmen listed on the stone are not Norse, but rather “I’m beginning to think it means Normans,” specifically “French” Normans. Oh, how clever. These Normans, of course, are the progenitors of the Santo Claro-St. Clair-Sinclair Holy Bloodline of Templar Kings, thus allowing Wolter to fold the KRS into his Templar conspiracy more fully. But it ought to be fairly obvious that the Anglo-French Normans were long and far removed from the Northmen who gave them their name. The KRS uses the word “norrmen,” while the Normans were typically called Norðmaðr and Norwegians could be either Norðmaðr or Norrœnn in Old Norse, Latinized as Nortmanni, and given as Normand in Swedish. Never mind that by 1362, thanks to the Hundred Years’ War, the Normans had come to self-identify as English, Scottish, French, Neapolitan, etc. and were no longer a distinct ethnic group, nor did any of them use Old Swedish or Old Norse, the language of the KRS, as their preferred language. But the linguistic arguments are irrelevant because Wolter wants to move the authors of the KRS from the north of Europe to its heartland where the Templars and the Sinclairs were in better evidence, all the more “evidence” for the Holy Bloodline “theory.” Thus, as Wolter “translates” the KRS, it now has sprouted “French” people privy to the secrets of the Hooked X®, since as we all know, the Normans conquered the Merovingians, who were the guardians of the Holy Blood in the conspiracy literature. Only by ejecting the Norse and making the Götlanders into servants of the Normans can the KRS become “proof” of Templar-Sinclair penetration of America in the name of claiming the Mississippi watershed for the Holy Bloodline Grail Kings. Based on who I’m convinced created this—well, first of all I know there’s more going on with this inscription than it appears to be on its face—there are codes embedded within it, there’s double-dating, and who knows what else. I think a lot of the inscription is probably allegory and code, and I don’t know if it would be a good idea to take it just as it reads. In short, the KRS does not support the Holy Bloodline theory as written, and it is only by rejecting everything about the stone that we can re-create it in the image of the Holy Bloodline and the Templars. This method of inquiry frees us from facts and allows us to fill the gap with fancy and fantasy in support of nearly any idea we wish to impose upon it. To wit: The stone is “evidence” of the “land acquisition” and “land claim” but we must also reject the actual words—including the specific word acquisition that Wolter used to spin the land claim yarn—to find the hidden Templar Bloodline conspiracy? Methinks one cannot have it both ways. Wolter also returned to his new favorite theme: The U.S. government is conspiring to hide the truth to maintain its legitimacy. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but I really believe that this all goes back to Manifest Destiny in this country. And what I mean by that is that there were a couple of tenets in that doctrine that basically set the precedent for what we’re dealing with today. One is that the Native Americans are savages, not Christians, and therefore it’s OK to persecute them because we’ve got to get rid of them and, you know, we want this land. The other things is there was nobody here prior to us, so this is virgin land free for the taking. Right? That’s basically what the two main tenets were. But let me ask you this: What do you think would happen along the way when you know they found a Kensington Rune Stone or a Bat Creek Stone or something that told them that somebody from the other side of the Pond was here before us? What does that do to Manifest Destiny? At this point Louise jumps in to say that such issues would threaten America because by “denying” Columbus, “they”—it is not clear if she meant Native Americans or Europeans—would say “we’ll just take our land back—ha, ha, ha, ha.” The “ha” was the anti-Americans sneering, not Louise giggling. Wolter replies by saying he thinks Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark had knowledge of “things like the Kensington Rune Stone.” Zebulon Pike, he said, was also in on the conspiracy to find and destroy “land claim stones” to secure America.
It makes my head hurt. We’ve been over this before, so I will spare you Wolter’s misunderstandings. Suffice it to say that Andrew Jackson endorsed the ancient white race theory in a speech to Congress, senators and representatives debated which white people were really here first, and every American and European government eagerly sought evidence of various ancient European colonies in America, which they trumpeted to all who could hear, as a way of justifying oppression of Native Americans—the “we were here first” argument. Manifest Destiny, incidentally, was more of a media strategy than anything; the government never formally adopted it as an official policy, and prominent politicians like U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, and (late in life) John Quincy Adams rejected it. Its most prominent use had nothing to do with taking land from Native Americans (whom all European powers agreed had no real right to it) but rather to take land from Mexico in the Mexican War! Wolter claims that America was the place where the Templars came to practice religious freedom, and he claims that they married Native Americans—which he says Native Americans told him themselves. He also believes this “truth” (that Native Americans are hybrid French-Scottish Templars) will “come out” because “it’s in the blood,” as in the DNA tests Steve St. Clair is doing, which Wolter hopes will prove that Sinclair DNA flows in Native American blood. Louise claims, and Wolter agrees, that Native Americans have “Jewish” blood. (The allegedly Jewish DNA is actually a DNA marker shared with populations of Siberian or Central Asian ancestry, as some Ashkenazi Jews and all Native Americans are.) Wolter adds that this is “the tip of the iceberg,” but that he can’t reveal the DNA results he’s been privy to, which supposedly show Native Americans are “really” European Holy Bloodline migrants. He says that “the internet” and “cell phones” will prevent academics from using a “nonsensical review process” to suppress these findings the way peer review suppressed earlier research. As the interview wheezes to a conclusion after almost half an hour of bashing academics, Wolter talks about Cahokia. He celebrates the city for Monk’s Mound, the earthen pyramid whose perimeter is larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Wolter claims that the Knights Templar are responsible for the collapse of Cahokia. He dismisses all scientific and archaeological explanations for the Mississippian collapse such as ecological degradation—calling them racist claims that Native people were too stupid to maintain their cities—and instead argues that his Native informants told him (700 years after the fact) that the Knights Templar warned the Native Americans that they (the Templars) were coming, so the Natives picked up and left to make way for the superior spiritual power of the Great White Hope. He says that the Natives had a prophecy that they had to “abandon their cities and go wild if they had any chance to survive” the coming of the Knights Templar. And this is the non-racist story. Wolter is upset that archaeologists scoffed at this theory. “You know what I say to them? Prove me wrong.” Cahokia was not suddenly abandoned in 1312 when the imaginary Templar fleet arrived. It began a long, slow decline, usually dated to around 1200, but was still occupied, at least partially, until about 1400. The Mississippian chiefdoms began to disintegrate in the 1200s—a century before the Templars “invaded” America. A similar collapse happened at Teotihuacan in Mexico around 500-600 CE, but I don’t see anyone claiming white visitors scared all the Native Mexicans away there.
40 Comments
Only Me
9/13/2013 07:59:48 am
Well, this will certainly work a particular believer into a lather.
Reply
Shane Sullivan
9/13/2013 12:00:15 pm
For that matter, I'm interested in seeing how Runestone enthusiasts will react- you know, the ones who really really want Minnesota to have been settled by "Vikings" (yeah, I know, actually post-Viking-age Scandinavians) and not Normans.
Reply
Gunn
9/15/2013 03:36:49 am
You speak of Wolter and Hell as though you aren't sitting next to him in that seat, yourself. Only Me, you lie on this blog, and you seem devilish enough to perhaps be wary of yourself. If I were you, I wouldn't trust my brain, because of this devilish influence.
Reply
Thane
9/13/2013 09:18:20 am
I really don't get this insistence that somehow "previous land claims" would mean anything to anyone.
Reply
mike fedele
9/13/2013 09:18:23 am
Wow..this is like the old TV show the X files...conspiracies on conspiracies...everything connected..jumps in logic..and so many theories that its hard to tie them all together in the end..it becomes a dense blob of nuianced assumptions and conjectures..building on each other...
Reply
9/13/2013 10:35:51 am
You know you're in deep when the "evidence" for your conspiracy is other conspiracies!
Reply
Thane
9/13/2013 01:21:25 pm
Foucault pendulum-ish, no?
Jonathan
9/13/2013 04:14:15 pm
"Foucault pendulum-ish, no?"
The Other J.
9/13/2013 04:15:07 pm
*thumbs up to Thane*
The Other J.
9/13/2013 09:24:16 am
Wolter argues non-specialists should be allowed to do archaeology and history as they see fit and have their findings be accepted. If only medicine were done that way, just imagine. If teachers could alter facts as deemed necessary, it'd be a hell of a lot easier teaching the rules of grammar and syntax.
Reply
9/13/2013 10:05:44 am
Not to mention that Manifest Destiny applied to the desert southwest, the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Oregon Territory--all areas that are NOT part of Wolter's "land claim."
Reply
J Garlow
8/26/2015 11:38:11 am
Did you know that the Doctrine of Discovery from papal bulls of the 15th century were upheld by the Supreme Court in case Johnson v. M'Intosh in 1823?
Reply
Gunn
9/13/2013 01:20:31 pm
I feel like today's my birthday, except that I'm trying to ignore them.
Reply
Gunn
9/13/2013 01:41:08 pm
To date, I believe this is the most accurate translation of the KRS we can find:
Reply
Isaac
9/13/2013 04:54:50 pm
Color me confused.
Reply
Clint Knapp
9/13/2013 06:14:34 pm
Clearly the Normans boat-jacked the Norse and stole some of their weapons so they could fight off those violent natives who murdered them, but their inexperience with the heavy Scandinavian weaponry would ultimately lead to their demise at the hands of those savages. Lucky for us, they had plenty of time to carve a stone about it in a language they also inexplicably borrowed...
Shane Sullivan
9/13/2013 06:25:32 pm
Clint, don't forget that the Normans, in addition to taking the time to carve the stone, also *encoded* it!
The Other J.
9/14/2013 12:13:24 am
The mystery will be what language the actual decoded message is in. Norman French? Old Norse? My bet is ancient Templar hobo symbols.
Isaac
9/14/2013 06:27:33 am
I don't think "Blog Rats" is a very flattering name, but in the newfangled tradition of groups of fans naming themselves (like the "Beliebers" or "Directioners") I propose that we fans of Jason Colavito who take to debating stuff in the comments refer to ourselves as "Argue-nauts"
Only Me
9/13/2013 10:23:04 pm
Since we're talking about the KRS again, I thought I'd share something I found you might find interesting. It relates to the stone holes you like to mention in conjunction with the KRS.
Reply
The Other J.
9/14/2013 12:19:54 am
Nice find. Here's an image of what that triangular tourmaline would look like: http://bit.ly/1918VCN
Thane
9/14/2013 04:43:46 am
That's pretty and I want one.
Gunn
9/14/2013 04:48:52 am
Only me, you're grasping at straws.
Only Me
9/14/2013 05:56:49 am
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...predictable as ever, Gunn.
Gunn
9/15/2013 03:46:17 am
Only Me, you're getting dumber and dumber on this blog. I wish you were smarter so I could reason with you, but it's hopeless. You're only adding unnecessary confusion with your simple-mindedness.
Gunn
9/18/2013 06:30:45 am
Just an update. I sent an email to a professor named Norrman who studies medieval times, for her input, if possible.
Reply
CFC
9/13/2013 02:05:03 pm
Jason - That's great that you are going to review the new Scott Wolter book chapter by chapter. We won't need to buy the book and can donate the money to you using your donate button!!! Sweet!!!
Reply
Dave Lewis
9/13/2013 04:02:10 pm
I've been listening to Coast to Coast AM for several years. I enjoy hearing fantastic stories, I don't believe any of it. It's entertainment.
Reply
Gunn
9/14/2013 04:38:44 am
I heard that Clint experienced an alien proctology exam...nothing was found, leaving the aliens to wonder what happened to all his crap. Well, slyly, we know. It was deposited here.
Reply
Only Me
9/16/2013 06:08:50 pm
One of the major questions I had about the KRS involved the assertion that it proclaimed a land grab. This is because the inscription has been translated many times. One of two popular translations has it stating the men were on a "journey of exploration", while Nielsen's states "(this?) acquisition journey".
Reply
Any thoughts? Dare I?
Reply
Only Me
9/17/2013 02:10:09 pm
Well, that answers why I couldn't look at the photos of the metal object you found. I've been trying to find anything that remotely resembles it, but so far the closest item I've found is a counter-weight for an old shop scale. Not really sure that would be used in the field.
Reply
Hey, you just got me to wonder whether or not the Norrmen were from Iceland, since they had a propensity for making holes in stones. In other words, did Swedes use stoneholes? Did those from Norway? I mentioned the Norrmen house in Finland, but what about stoneholes elsewhere, in Europe. I had read about Valdimar's comments before, in considering the uses of stoneholes, but I didn't give myself a strong enough nudge to consider Iceland as being the home of the 22 Northmen.
Reply
Only Me
9/18/2013 11:07:50 am
I'm thinking the term *Norrmen* was well understood. Norrmen is Swedish in origin, and at the time, Sweden was made of three lands: Gotaland, Svealand, NORRLAND. Since the people occupying these lands considered them to be separate, distinct homelands, it would make sense that the inscription makes the distinction between *Gotalanders* and *Norrmen*. This would be like modern day exploration/scientific parties, that list the team members by nationality.
Reply
Gunn
9/18/2013 02:29:41 pm
"Norrmen is Swedish in origin, and at the time, Sweden was made of three lands: Gotaland, Svealand, NORRLAND."
Reply
Only Me
9/18/2013 05:17:47 pm
Let me see if I can be clearer on the Norrland connection. I got my info from Wikipedia, but what caught my eye was the mention of tribes/peoples related to the Finns. You brought up Norrmen House, in *Finland*...connect one. Norrland was one part that made up modern Sweden, and according to ancestry.com, Norrmen was Swedish in origin...connect two. Svealand was the name of the land located between Gotaland and Norrland, and is the source of the modern name, Sweden, for the whole country...connect three. Gotaland, also known by its older name, Geatland (motherland of famed hero, Beowulf), was the last land, located south...CONNECT FOUR!
Reply
Thanks a lot of adding more information. I was greatly curious about this, though I'll admit the reason is that I intended to look for "Templar" or perhaps Cistercian connections to whomever the Norrmen were. Now, perhaps we can see what kind of actual Templar connections Old Sweden had...I mean, during the Crusades. I would like to find out the degree of "Templarism" in Sweden at the time of Black Friday, 1307, if there was any at all. Or, perhaps the expedition in 1362 was more a Cistercian thing. When did Crusade activity involving Sweden (perhaps Norway, too, as you say concerning Norrmen) end? This may be a way of trying to figure out if there was any "Templar" influence in medieval America, by Swedes, even going back decades or a few centuries before the mid-Fourteenth Century. In other words, perhaps those who created the "evidences" in MN and SD came primarily from Sweden...but over a longer period of time. But where did they get the influence or notion to mark up land using stoneholes? Perhaps Norway or Iceland somehow come into the picture, possibly even Swedish Vikings. Unfortunately, no stoneholes have been dated, though I believe it is possible to do so by locating the stone chips still buried in soil and finding collateral carbon dating samples.
Only Me
9/19/2013 07:56:40 am
But, Gunn, I thought you had ceded any connection between the KRS and the Templars, even dropping Sinclair from your pen name, as a sign of your shifting paradigm? I guess old Scott rekindled a dormant ember, eh? Not trying to be provocative, just ribbing you.
No, I haven't ceded any possible connection between the KRS and Templars. I did back away some, though, since it became apparent that the Hooked X was used by Christians other than Templars, too, not so exclusively by Templars or Templar remnants. Now I'm more open to other possibilities. Somebody decided to use hooked X runic characters back in 1362. I still think likely candidates are Swedes with Templar-remnant connections, deploying secretly, or as Wolter speculates, Cistercian monks possibly in association with some kind of protective order. Obviously, the men didn't go inland unarmed.
Reply
Cort Lindahl
3/1/2016 05:46:21 pm
The KRS was left by descendants of the Normans that Mr. Wolter suspects. If you examine the history of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Douglas family it all becomes clear. The KRS lies on the border of Hudson's Bay Company/ Red River Colony and Louisiana. There are some references of La Salle and La Moyne d'Iberville mentioning boundary stones for Louisiana with "foreign writing" on them. There is a high probability that a family group that was very proud of their descent from George Washington knew of the Kensington Stone and what it really was. They also displayed similar values in the construction of a Catholic Monastery and Cathedral in Minneapolis, a Stonehenge reproduction in Washington State, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Their family also intermarried with the Marquette family. The symbols on the KRS that are so widely discussed seem to be present on the Archer Reliquary in Jamestown matching my already existing theory that this is where the symbols on the KRS originated. The French Norman overtones that Mr. Wolter is seeing are more the result of men like Marquette, d'Iberville, and the Comte de Maurepas. The context that Louis Buff Parry puts his sandstone pillar in is closer to the historical era in which the KRS was first deposited. This would have had to have been after the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company when considering the Louisiana border the stone lies on. So KRS was likely put there in the 1670's. Sure people could have come long ago. That likely is not what is going on here. Thanks.
Reply
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorI am an author and researcher focusing on pop culture, science, and history. Bylines: New Republic, Esquire, Slate, etc. There's more about me in the About Jason tab. Newsletters
Enter your email below to subscribe to my newsletter for updates on my latest projects, blog posts, and activities, and subscribe to Culture & Curiosities, my Substack newsletter.
Categories
All
Terms & ConditionsPlease read all applicable terms and conditions before posting a comment on this blog. Posting a comment constitutes your agreement to abide by the terms and conditions linked herein.
Archives
November 2024
|