![]() (Loved all the pictures!) Loving guidance from the author? Check and double check. Documentation and explanations of the real artifacts? Check. Great characters that keep you following their development? Check. I loved this book on so many levels: good action-crime-solve the puzzles- historical-fact based adventure? Check. I consider myself a religious person and a Christian, but spiritual as well, which, sadly, is not always the same thing. The disclaimer in the beginning gave me a heads up what kind of story this would be, but I've never seen it handled in quite this way before. ![]() WARNING: Not recommended for readers with strong Christian or other religious beliefs. But how do the Burrows Cave stone carvings, the Bat Creek Stone, the Prince Madoc legend, the Book of Mormon and the Mandan tribe of “White Indians” relate to the medieval Templars? Only when they learn about the head of Baphomet and examine Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Virgin on the Rocks do the pieces finally begin to fit together. Just as they did in Cabal of the Westford Knight, Cameron and Amanda (in this stand-alone novel in the "Templars in America" series) discover, examine and interpret ancient artifacts and legends scattered throughout North America that reveal a history of European exploration long before Columbus. Following clues contained in ancient American artifacts and medieval European masterpieces, Cameron and his fiancée Amanda Spencer race to uncover the true secrets of early Christianity before a splinter group of Mormon zealots silences them forever. The answer places historian Cameron Thorne at the dangerous intersection of secret American history and modern geopolitical intrigue. My father's roots include Ojibway Indians: his mother, Margaret Caroline Davenport, was a daughter of Susan des Carreaux, O-gee-em-a-qua (The Chief Woman), Davenport whose mother was a daughter of Chief Waub-o-jeeg.Why would a collector of ancient American artifacts hand over his prized pieces to a historian and then shoot himself in the head? And why does an ancient Templar scroll in his possession refer to Jesus Christ as “The Thief on the Cross?” Longfellow made no secret of the fact that he had used the meter of the Kalevala but as for the legends, he openly gave credit to Schoolcraft in his notes to the poem. However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala. As soon as the poem was published its popularity was assured. Longfellow began Hiawatha on June 25, 1854, he completed it on March 29, 1855, and it was published November 10, 1855. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. ![]() Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
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