One of the biggest Mississippian sites after Cahokia is called Moundville and it is in Alabama. It sits on the Black Warrior River and is set up as many of the Mississippian sites with aligned pyramid mounds next to a water source.
I have not been able to personally visit this site (it is on my to-do list), but the online research I’ve done on it has revealed some amazing information. This site has many artifacts that incorporated the symbol of the Hamsa. The Hamsa is a hand with an eye in it. The Hamsa is a female symbol (of the vulva) and it came from the Middle East, in particular, Phoenicia. It is associated with Ashtoreth (also known as Tanit).
Ashtoreth was the half-sister of Cronus and had many children with him. She set up her Queendom in Byblos.
Engraved stone palette from Moundville, illustrating two horned rattlesnakes, perhaps referring to The Great Serpent of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.
Unlike the mother goddess Rhea, Ashtoreth-Tanit (Queen of Heaven) followed along with Cronus (known as Baal- Hammon) and promoted child human sacrifice. The children were often burnt to death.
It is quite probable that the Phoenicians came to the Americas at least 3,000 to 4,000 years ago (possibly much longer ago) and interbred with the natives or brought them with them. Their symbols and rituals permeated American, Meso-American, and South American culture and that included child human sacrifice.
Tanit[1] was a Punic and Phoenician goddess, the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Ba`al Hammon.[2][3]She was also adopted by the Punic Berber people.The origins of Tanit are to be found in the pantheon of Ugarit, especially in the Ugaritic goddess Anat (Hvidberg-Hansen 1982), a consumer of blood and flesh. There is significant, albeit disputed, evidence, both archaeological and within ancient written sources, pointing towards child sacrifice forming part of the worship of Tanit and Baal Hammon.[8]“Tophet” is a term derived from the Bible, used to refer to a site near Jerusalem in which Canaanites and Israelites sacrificed children. It is now used as a general term for all such sites with cremated human and animal remains. The Hebrew Bible does not specify that the Israelite victims were buried, only burned, although the “place of burning” was probably adjacent to the place of burial. We have no idea how the Phoenicians themselves referred to the places of burning or burial, or to the practice itself.One other item shown in Wikipedia from Moundville is this:
This pendant has the Star of David in it. Here is a screenshot of an ebook that shows a clearer picture of this pendant and it shows you that not only is there a Star of David (Seal of Saturn-Cronus), but a Hamsa on it (Seal of Ashtoreth-Tanit):
Without a doubt in my mind, the Phoenicians were the backbone of the Mississippian culture and they came from Cronus-Saturn and his consort Ashtoreth-Tanit. The prevention of DNA testing on any ancient remains found in the Americas is deliberate. If you know your symbols (and are not confused by corrupted symbols), you can find the past as it was intended to help you remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa
http://moundville.ua.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_Archaeological_Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_copper_plates
