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Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by Matrix1111
The story is the surviving Templars knew of the Americas and sailed there to hide a portion of their great treasure. Where they actually hid it is anyone's guess.
Originally posted by Matrix1111
Corn was only found in the Americas until after Columbus.
Originally posted by NephraTari
Originally posted by Matrix1111
Corn was only found in the Americas until after Columbus.
Where on earth did you get that information?
It is a well known fact that native americans introduced corn to the pilgrims not vice versa.
We had it long before mr.columbus ever got here.
I am truly sorry, yes I did misunderstand you.
Originally posted by Matrix1111
You've misread my confused, jumbled semantics. Sorry. Of course corn is from the Americas. My intended point was that after Columbus, corn was introduced elsewhere.
Originally posted by Benarius
I think chewing gum is alien food too. When I blow a big bubble and it burst into my face. Then I look like an alien...
[edit on 13-10-2008 by Benarius]
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The primary food crop for Indians of Arkansas and the South was corn. How did they acquire this crop? In the Caddo story discussed previously, the first man gave seed crops to the people while they were still living below, and when they came out onto the Earth’s surface this was one of things carried by the first woman. The Natchez Indians have another account for the origin of corn, which explains why people must work to raise it.
Harvest
The Natchez story explains why people must work to raise crops.
Once upon a time twin girls lived with Corn Woman. Whenever they finished eating all of their food, Corn Woman went to the storehouse with two baskets. The baskets were always filled when she returned. One time the girls looked into the storehouse and saw that it was empty. “Where does she get the food” they wondered? “Next time she goes in there we will creep up and watch her.” So the twins followed Corn Woman on her next trip to the storehouse. They peeped through a crack. What they saw surprised them. Corn Woman set the basket on the floor, then squatted over it and rubbed her thighs. There was a noise, then an ear of corn fell into the basket. In this way she filled one basket, and in the same way filled the other but this time with beans. The girls ran away horrified. When Corn Woman cooked their next meal, the girls wouldn’t eat. Corn Woman guessed what happened. “Since you think my food is filthy, you will have to help yourselves from now on.” Corn Woman told the girls to kill her, burn her body and spread the ashes on the ground. She said that in summer plants would grow, and the girls would have to cultivate them while they ripened. The girls did what they were told, and sure enough the next summer corn, beans, and pumpkins grew up where Corn Woman’s ashes had been spread. The girls cultivated the plants every day, leaving their hoes stuck in the ground when they finished. And each day they returned, they found that even more ground had been hoed and their hoes were in different places. “Let’s creep up at night and find out who is doing this” the girls said. That night they saw that the hoes were working all by themselves. The girls laughed out loud, and immediately the hoes fell to the ground and never worked by themselves again. From that day on, people have had to work hard to cultivate their fields.
Most North Americans were raised with a glorified tale of the first Thanksgiving, a historical event that dates back to a 1621 feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A large part of that tradition is centered around the Indian named Squanto, who not only is commonly given credit for suggesting the traditional Thanksgiving feast to Pilgrims, he’s also given credit for teaching them to grow corn using fish as a fertilizer. That part of the story is historically accurate....