was the option chosen by
twelve of the eighteen churches in Greenland. All four churches in the Northern Settlement and eight of
fourteen churches in the Eastern Settlement decided to walk over the Ice.
.
There is testimony in the
Icelandic records that some Lenape stayed behind in Greenland until after
1410. The last Lenape Big House
celebration in Oklahoma in the 1920s had twelve masks hanging on the
walls. One mask may have been for
each Greenland church.
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.
The heads with the father,
Son, and Holy Ghost hair-dos are in the correct orientation to represent the
Northern and Eastern Settlements if the composer was looking north.
.
But the two lands, Greenland
and America, are represented with the Lenape convention of the land on the left
being the FROM land and the land on the RIGHT being the TO land. So the people symbols are located
correctly. They were still on the FROM land.
..
The two parallel lines over
the ocean represent the ice. With
24 syllables and a simple sketch, the Lenape historian of 660 years ago told us that those of the North and those of the East walked over the
.
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THINK ABOUT IT
.
The Eastern settlement is on
the WEST side of Greenland.
.
So, the Lenape recorded that
they had a “Northern” settlement and an “Eastern” Settlement.
.
Where was the
“Western”
settlement?
.
.
AH.
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