However, it is not a lone or singular occurrence. Configured in stone, it is approximately 20 metres in length with a red coloured, bison-shaped headstone aligned to face the summer solstice sunrise. Discovered in a prehistoric effigy-mound group (the Kolterman Mounds) in south-eastern Wisconsin (U.S.A.) is a human-like petroform or lithic effigy with a serpentine body and wing-like arms known as the ‘Star-being’. Other Plains tribes such as the Black Feet, Gros Ventres and Lakota have similar stories.These old stories may have real world counterparts. They called them haztova hotoxceo or “two-faced star people”. The Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) have a name for the giant beings that their ancestors encountered during the early migration to the grasslands of the Great Plains. Even the first humans were said to be giants, some half man, half animal. They all talk of giant Thunderers or Thunder-beings, giant snakes and great Thunderbirds. Native American myths, legends and oral traditions are rich with stories of giant beings existing in ancient times. Keywords: Thunderbird, storms, thunder, lightning, vision quest, dream, transformation, anthropomorph, hourglass shape, eagle, swallow. In this program, we will examine these human-like forms, their physical setting, differing styles and the cosmology sometimes associated with the Thunderbird. Of these, some forms are stickman-shaped figures or hybrid human/bird images far more anthropomorphic Thunderbirds have occurred as a rock art motif for millennia, the pecked, painted and incised images dating back at least 7000 years or more. Is said to be the noise of a battle between the great bird and giant, underground serpents. Lightning is said to flash from its eyes and the thunder ‘He’ is said to arrive in the Spring of the year, his coming announced by thunderstorms. Stories of Thunderbirds are part of almost every tribe’s mythology. The Thunderbird tradition is likely one of the most ancient and widespread Native American traditions in all of North America.
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