Winged Sun Symbol On Nodena Arkansas Moundbuilders Pottery

 

Yesterday Dr. Gregory L. Little, Ed.D. posted a photo of a 'Moundbuilders' artifact captioned -

Hunchback pottery vessel from a mound site in Arkansas. The lines on the figure appear to represent a raptor bird.

 

See - https://x.com/DrGregLittle2/status/1878938572826542102

 

 

I immediately recognized that the apparent 'raptor bird' was more properly understood and interpreted as an indigenous American winged sun symbol inspired by the bird-like pattern that is perceivable in the Sun's corona during some total solar eclipses, and responded to Dr. Little's X post thusly - 

 

https://x.com/RobinEdgar/status/1879088142860603675

 

That looks like a quite accurate depiction of a "#WingedSun" coronal pattern #TotalSolarEclipse. A bird-like pattern perceivable in the Sun's corona inspired the #WingedSunSymbols of ancient #Egypt and #Mesopotamia, and a whole flock of #MythicalBirds and #BirdGods.

 

I was unable to illustrate my X post with images thanks to having a new smartphone that has few uploaded images on it. So today I followed up with this X post -

 

https://x.com/RobinEdgar/status/1879213512381354289

 

asking Dr. Little and other readers to compare this #Moundbuilders iconography to some photos and drawings of #TotalSolarEclipses seen here -

 

I then used Xavier Jubier's Five Millennium (-1999 to +3000) Canon of Solar Eclipses Database to find two total solar eclipses occurring above Arkansas in the pertinent time frame for this Moundbuilders #WingedSun iconography.

 

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/xSE_GoogleMap3.php?Ecl=+13950121&Acc=2&Umb=1&Lmt=1&Mag=0&Lat=35.55778&Lng=-89.94944

 

 

&

 

http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/xSE_GoogleMap3.php?Ecl=+14780729&Acc=2&Umb=1&Lmt=1&Mag=0&Lat=35.55778&Lng=-89.94944

Needless to say, I have very reasonable grounds to believe that the apparent winged sun symbol carved into the torso of this Arkansas 'Moundbuilder' quite accurately depicts one of these two total solar eclipses that occurred above the Nodena site in Arkansas within less than a century of each other.