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Mama Ocllo
Also called “Mama Oglo,” she was the companion of Manco Capac, who
survived a great flood by seeking refuge among the high Bolivian mountains, at
Lake Titicaca. Children born to her in South America were the progenitors of
all Andean royalty.
(See Manco Capac)Man Mounds
Two effigy earthworks, of gigantic proportions, in Wisconsin. They represent
the water spirit that led the Wolf Clan ancestors of the Winnebago, or Ho Chunk
Indians, to safety in North America after the Great Flood. One of the geoglyphs
still exists, although in mutilated form, on the slope of a hill in Greenfield Township,
outside Baraboo. Road construction cut off his legs below the knees around the
turn of the 20th century, but the figure is otherwise intact. The giant is 214 feet
long and 30 feet across at his shoulders. His anthropomorphic image is oriented
westward, as though striding from the east, where the Deluge was supposed to
have occurred. His horned helmet identifies him as Wakt’cexi, the flood hero.
The terraglyph is no primitive mound, but beautifully proportioned and
formed. Increase Lapham, a surveyor who measured the earthwork in the early
19th century, was impressed: “All the lines of this most singular effigy are curved
gracefully, and much care has been bestowed upon its construction.”
A companion of the Greenfield Township hill-figure, also in Sauk County,
about 30 miles northwest, was drowned under several fathoms of river by a dam
project in the early 20th century. Ironically, the water spirit that led the Ho Chunk
ancestors from a cataclysmic flood was itself the victim of another, modern deluge.
The Atlantean identity of Wakt’cexi as materialized in his Wisconsin effigy
mounds is repeated in an overseas’ counterpart. The Wilmington Long Man is
likewise the representation of an anthropomorphic figure—at 300 feet, the larg-
est in Europe—cut into the chalk face of a hill in the south of England, about 40
miles from Bristol, and is dated to the last centuries of Atlantis, from 2000 to
1200 B.C. Resemblances to the Wisconsin earthwork grow closer when we learn
that the British hill-figure was originally portrayed wearing a horned helmet
obliterated in the early 19th century. A third man-terraglyph is located in the
Atacama desert of Chile’s coastal region. Known as the Cerro Unitas giant, it is
the largest in the world at 393 feet in length. It, too, wears a horned headgear,
but more like an elaborate rayed crown.
The Old and New World effigy mounds appear to have been created by a
single people representing a common theme—namely, the migration of survivors
from the Atlantis catastrophe led by men whose symbol of authority was the
horned helmet. Indeed, such an interpretation is underscored by the Atlantean
“Sea People” invaders of Egypt during the early 12th century, when they were
depicted on the wall art of Medinet Habu, wearing horned helmets.
(See Navaho Child Initiation Ceremony, Pipestone, Ramses III)