AT THE
STRAIGHT RIVER
WALAM OLUM
(a.k.a. MAALAN AARUM=Engraved years)
Chapter 5, stanza 24, c1456
Dr. Myron Paine
(About 1456)
At the Straight River, River-Loving
was chief.
Saskwihanang hanaholend sakimanep.
On February 28 2019, Gotham Center Coordinator Katie Uva wrote a post about an interview with Pilar Jefferson, Education coordinator at the Museum of the City of New York. The resulting post is ”Teaching Lenape History: An Interview with Pilar Jefferson.
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In that post Jefferson is quoted as saying, “… often Native people are
only in the school curriculum when talking about 17th-19th century
colonization.”
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That is a valid statement. Professors in over 4,500 North American universities
agree. But Jefferson and most of
those professors are not aware that they are now teaching the NEW WORLD MYTH
created by the 17th century English. It is the MYTH that resets history to start at the 17th
century. The real Lenape history
has episodes in the six centuries before the 17th century.
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There is evidence that the 17th century English
knew the Lenape had a history. They attempted to suppress the Lenape history by
omitting it from written messages.
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The English suppressed the Lenape history by omitting it from
the printing presses. The
English also enforced a ban on the words “Catholic,” “Lenape” and “Norse” in
written messages. They used the
word “Indian” to replace the “Catholics, who spoke Norse.”
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Despite four centuries of suppression by omission, 184
stanzas of the Lenape history still exist. But only a few people know where the original stanzas
are.
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The Lenape history can be viewed at
Only a very few people know how to understand the Lenape
History. No professor is willing
to teach the Lenape history to their students.
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Most professors are willing to accept the verdict that the
stanzas are a “hoax.”
Very few professors are willing to assign their graduate
students a research task to determine if the Lenape history is valid.
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But if the
graduate students did real research, they would discover that the first 40
stanzas in Chapters 1 and 2 are Genesis up through the flood. The stanzas are evidence that the
Americans knew Genesis five centuries before King James had the Bible compiled
so he could be sure that text about the “divine rights of Kings” was included.
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The Lenape
history begins at about the year 1,000 in Chapter 3. The word Lenape occurs in Chapter 3, stanza 1. Lenape means, in Old Norse, “Abide with
the pure.” The Catholics, who
abided with the pure, were in Greenland.
They spoke Old Norse. The Lenape history continues for six centuries in
chapters 4 and 5.
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These
chapters describe a migration of 4,000 people from Greenland, whose descendants
came to New York via the Dakotas, Missouri, the Ohio River, and the
Appalachians to the Straight River at New York City. The migration took over a century.
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Before the
main cluster of Lenape villages came to the Straight River, the hunters had
been up and down the river many times.
By the mid-15th century the Lenape hunters knew a 95-mile
stretch of the river was relatively straight.
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In 1456 the Lenape Historian made a self-verifying
stanza to celebrate the arrival of the main cluster of Lenape Villages at the
Straight River.
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The Lenape historian was using the Drottkvaett format,
which meant that he chose syllables so the stanza had alliteration and a rhyme
in each line of six syllables. A
full stanza had eight lines.
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In 1831, almost four centuries later, Moravian priests
faithfully recorded the sounds of a Lenape man reciting the syllables for the Straight
River Stanza.
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The priests recorded only two sets of six syllables.
“Sask wi han ang han a
hol end sa kI man ep.”
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A careful study of the Walam Olum indicates
that the Lenape man and the Moravian priests had a disagreement, after which
the Lenape man gave the priests only the minimum amount of syllables to make
sense of each pictograph. Thus about two thirds of the Lenape history was
omitted,
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So, in the Straight River stanza the priests
recorded only two lines out of the original eight. But still, if the stanza was created to be self-validating,
we might find two alliterations and two rhymes.
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In the first line the syllable “han” is
repeated twice. This repletion was
an often-used technique to get alliteration, the “h” sound, and a rhyme, the “n”
sound, into the six syllables.
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In the second line there is an alliteration,
“e” in “end” and “ep,” but the rhyme is missing.
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.Even if we use 19th century Algonquin sounds, the Straight River stanza has three out of the four required alliterations and rhymes. So we may conclude that we may be dealing with a self-validating stanza.
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.Even if we use 19th century Algonquin sounds, the Straight River stanza has three out of the four required alliterations and rhymes. So we may conclude that we may be dealing with a self-validating stanza.
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The priests recorded 19th century
Algonquin syllables. The syllables
of the stanza may have had different sounds in 1456, nearly four centuries
earlier.
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We are fortunate to have the words and meanings
of both the 19th and 15th centuries already compiled by
Reider T. Sherwin, who wrote the VIKING and the RED MAN, 1940-1956.
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In eight volumes he collected nearly all of the 17th to 19th century Algonquin Indian words. Then he showed that there was a 15th century Old Norse word that was the origin of each Algonquin word.
In eight volumes he collected nearly all of the 17th to 19th century Algonquin Indian words. Then he showed that there was a 15th century Old Norse word that was the origin of each Algonquin word.
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Look at the two lines of the Straight River
stanza again using 15th century words that Sherwin recorded. The volume and pages references refer
to the VIKING and the RED MAN books.
1. 19th century sounds, by priests =
2. 17-19th century, by translators =
3. Where in VIKING & RED MAN =
4.15th Century Old Norse sounds. =
5. Meaning in English. =
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LINE 1:
1. Sask wi han ang han a
1. Sask wi han ang han a
2.Sasg hi si wann ang wann a 3. v8,p97 v1,p294 v5,p171 v1,p294 4. strekk ja wann ang wann aa
5.straight water
place water
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LINE 2:
LINE 2:
1. hol end sa kI man ep.
2. ho laan sa ku mow
3. ____v6,p2__ ____v2,128_________
4. hylla haan sa ka madh
5. to be fond of ___Judge
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The repeated word “han” is a 19th century
personal pronoun. The word “wann”
which means “water” seems to be the word the priests heard but spelled wrong. Ether
word provides the alliteration and the rhyme, but the 15th century
word, “wann” has the better meaning.
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In the 15th century the
second line “hylla haan sa
ka madh “ has an alliteration “hylla haan."But the alliteration was lost
in the 19th century. In
a similar fashion the “hylla … sa ka” syllables form three rhymes. But a change in vowels caused the rhyme
to be lost in the 19th century.
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So, word for word, the self-validating 15th
century meaning of the two lines is,
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“Straight water place, water
To be fond of, judge (this episode.)”
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This wording is good for telling about an episode that
happened over five and a half centuries ago. The Lenape came to New York in the middle of the 15th
century. They were fond of the
Straight River.
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“Water
to be fond of” implies that the “high” men might have decided to tarry at
Straight water place, which would become New York.
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The 19th century Moravian priests, who
tried to understand the Lenape language, had only “camp-fire” skills. The 19th century word that
sounded like “sakimanep” had been the 15th century word, “sakamadh” which meant,
“Judge”—not “chief.”
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Sometimes when composing a stanza, the Lenape
historian used “sakamadh” to mean “important things which could be used to
remember (Judge) the year.” The Moravian priests were not able to separate
events from a man or understand that a “Judge,” which might be events or a
person, had a different role than a “chief.”
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The year about 1456 was the year the main Lenape villages
came to the Straight River. Then,
most of the Lenape became fond of the Straight River.
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The memorized Lenape history with the pictograph cues
must have been recited as four centuries of Lenape history speakers came and
went.
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What happened in the 17th century at the Straight
River?
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How could Lenape “fond of the Straight Water,” who could
compose self-verifying stanzas in the 15th century, disappear from
school curriculum in the 17th century?
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Centuries
of history were lost. How could
that happen? It is almost like the
Lenape were suppressed by omission. There is such a thing as suppression by
omission. It is a simple but
effective propaganda ploy.
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But why would the English use the propaganda ploy
against the Lenape?
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Maybe it was because the Pope had promulgated the
Doctrine of Discovery, beginning in 1452, about the time the Lenape came to Straight
River.
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The Eurocentric Doctrine of Discovery awarded kings
with the land of pagans discovered by men sailing under the king’s flag. Furthermore, if the pagans could not be
converted to be Christians, the pagans could be killed or driven away.
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When the English came to Straight River, the English
knew what the Pope and most of Europe would believe, if they knew that the
Americans were already speaking Norse.
Europe would believe America belonged to the king of Norway! The Pope would use his persuasion power
to award America to Norway.
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So the English stole America from Norway. Educated Englishmen in the American
Colonies knew they were supposed to omit “Lenape,” “Catholic,” and “Norse” in
written messages. The editors of
the printing presses, which were in England for four decades, enforced the same
omissions.
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During that period of time, The English burned all the
pictographs they found. The last
known pictographs were used to compile the “Walam Olum” before they, too, were
destroyed in the 19th century.
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The effects of suppression by omission linger. This stanza of the Lenape coming to
Straight River is more likely to be called a “fraud” than evidence that the NEW
WORLD MYTH is bogus.
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The irony is that the omission of Norse words in North
America also turned a continent of Catholics into “pagans.” Only a few
professors are willing to teach that Americans might have been Catholics, who
spoke Norse. That phrase is
a direct confrontation of the NEW WORLD MYTH taught by professors in more than
4500 universities.
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The standardized curriculum has no Catholics, who
spoke Norse in North America.
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Jefferson was correct. The knowledge of the Lenape before the 17th
century has been omitted from history.
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In early 17th century the English came to
Straight River. Those English were surprised to learn that the Lenape, who had
Catholic traditions, spoke Norse.
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The English suppressed the Catholic traditions and
Norse language by calling the Lenape, “Indians.” The English created the NEW WORLD MYTH. The English suppressed the Lenape
history at the Straight Water by omitting it from written messages.
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So, at the Straight River, history became profoundly
distorted. The Lenape history
still exists in a few books entitled, “the LENAPE and their LEGENDS.” The real key to the Algonquin language
is still available as the “VIKING and the RED MAN from ABEBOOKs.
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The Lenape history has a Stanza about the 15th
Lenape coming to the Straight River.
The VIKING and the RED MAN volumes have the 15th century
sounds that prove the Straight River Stanza was created as a self-validating
stanza.
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The Lenape history and the VIKING and the RED MAN
volumes each prove the other to be authentic. Yet these books are mostly ignored. No student in the 4500 universities
sees them. Suppression by omission continues.
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Jefferson’s lament that “Native people are only
in the school curriculum when talking about 17th-19th century colonization” is
the result of deliberate suppression by omission in the 17th century. Professors in 4500 universities, who do
not realize history is missing, continue to teach the bogus NEW WORLD MYTH.
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But still, the online WALAM OLUM has a self-validating stanza
testifying that the Lenape were at the Straight Water Place in the mid 15th
century.
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REFENCES:BRINTON, Danial G.
1885 The Lenape’ and their Legends, D. G. Brinton, Philadelphia
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SHERWIN, Reider T.
1940-56 The Viking and The Red Man, Vols. 1-2, Funk & Wagnalls Co., NY, 3-8 private printing.
LINKS
LENAPE HISTORY
NEW WORLD
VIKING
and the RED MAN DROPBOX
Walam
Olum
https://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/walam/index.htm
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