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Birdman Tablet, Woodpeckers & the Eye of Horus with Jon Ford — Part 2 of 4 | Classics Rotation
Jon Ford lays out his "bird's eye view" theory: that the woodpecker motifs at Cahokia, read a certain way, look like the Eye of Ra and Eye of Horus from Egypt. If you like ancient symbols, Mississippian art or connections between ancient cultures, this part walks through the artifacts he uses and why he reads them that way.
Starting from Monks Mound, which he calls the Temple of the Sun, Jon describes the Birdman tablet as a rare unbroken tablet, with a bird man on one side and a diamond pattern on the other that suggests a feathered serpent to him. He then shows a broken tablet with two…
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