Los Lunas Mystery Stone

and Other Sacred Sites of New Mexico

By Donald N. Yates

Santa Fe, N.M.: Sun Books, 2006.

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On the edge of the Isleta Indian Reservation in New Mexico lies Los Lunas Mystery Stone, inscribed with a version of the Ten Commandments in Phoenician Hebrew characters. The Indians, Spanish and Americans knew of its existence, which they considered of time immemorial. Recently, it has been the subject of intense controversy. For the first time, in this unique monograph, its true origin is elucidated in a connection to a forgotten eighth-century Jewish colony in the American Southwest.

The Eighth Arrow:

Right, Wrong and Confused Paths

According to Tihanama Elder Wisdom

By Donald N. Panther-Yates

THE TIHANAMA Nation has probably escaped your attention. That was their plan. One of the last migratory tribes in North America, they range from the Great Lakes to the Florida Panhandle. Their language is an isolate, unrelated to the languages of surrounding nations. You may have heard it in the song "Wendeyaho," commonly but mistakenly called the Cherokee Morning Song. And yet, as a trading people who interacted annually with dozens of other nations between the Mississippi River and the Appalachians, their story and traditions provide the "missing link" that will change your understanding of and appreciation for the depth of Native American wisdom teachings.

104 pp., extensively illustrated.
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When Scotland Was Jewish
DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots

By Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates

ISBN 0-7864-2800-7
photographs, charts, notes, bibliography, index
[224]pp. softcover 2007

$45
Available Spring/Summer 2007

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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But could it be that a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored or unknown for centuries? This book argues just such a case, maintaining that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that much of the population, including several national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers, was of Jewish descent. They describe how the ancestors of these persons originated in France and Spain and then made their way to Scotland’s shores, moors, burgs and castles from the reign of Malcolm Canmore to the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition.

It is proposed here that much of the traditional historical account of Scotland rests on fundamental interpretive errors, and that these errors have been perpetuated in order to manufacture and maintain an origin for Scotland that affirms its identity as a Celtic, Christian society. This equation of Scotland with Celtic culture in the popular (and academic) imagination has buried a more accurate and profound understanding of its history.

The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

About the Authors
Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman is Professor II of Marketing at the School of Business, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Donald N. Yates is principal investigator at DNA Consulting and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

V i s i t s t o S a c r e d S i t e s

Articles and Photography from the Santa Fe Sun-News

By Donald Panther-Yates

CD-ROM in Adobe pdf format

These articles with their accompanying photographs were published in the Sun-News over the years from 2004 to 2007. They began when my wife and I moved to Santa Fe in September 2004—unintentionally, I should add, because we originally had our sights set on Phoenix. When we got to Clines Corner in the U-Haul truck we veered off the highway to visit the City of the Holy Faith and simply stayed.

The definition of “sacred site” is a rather loose one. As an American Indian, I regarded every site inhabited by my people as sacred, consecrated by the sheer fact that indigenous tribes had lived there. This was especially the case in the Southwest with its fantastic ruins, admired all over the world as high points of Native North American civilization. I went to pay homage to the ancestors.

There are too many people to thank for the opportunity to visit these places and make this record available to the reader. My chief thanks go to Skip Whitson, publisher of the Sun-News, who printed the pieces, and to Orlando Vigil, who took me to La Bajada and served as a constant source of local information for all the following excursions. I cannot adequately express my appreciation towards all the correspondents and experts who verified historical and linguistic interpretations. To my wife, Teresa Panther-Yates, I am also most grateful.

Chapters
Petroglyph National Monument
Shadows of Chaco Canyon
Quetzalcoatl’s Cave
Coatis on La Bajada
Hopi
Abiquiu
Hidden Mountain
Diablo Canyon
Pecos Pueblo
Mesa Verde
Inscription Rock
Doorway to Mimbres
Sky City
Fossil Corn at Jémez
Nava Adé
Sandia
Witches and Angels at Taos
Mount Wheeler
Chimayo
Jemez Springs
Tent Rocks
Hovenweep
Aztec Ruins
City of the Holy Faith

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