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<\/a>Since the first geological and then archaeological expeditions entered the region known as \u201cSix Grandfathers\u201d (in the original Lakota, T\u021fu\u014bk\u00e1\u0161ila \u0160\u00e1kpe<\/em>) in early March of 4742 CE, heated debates have raged about the three \u201cmacrocephalic\u201d rock formations on the mountain\u2019s southeastern face.\u00a0 And not merely among academics.<\/p>\n In fact, controversy surrounds every aspect of the discovery, including the number<\/em> of head-like stone features.\u00a0 The most commonly-held position is that there are three, but some claim to see a partial fourth.\u00a0 And others, especially among the thriving, even zealous, amateur organizations that have formed about the issue, insist that there were once six of them \u2013 basing their arguments almost entirely upon the otherwise puzzling name of the mountain, \u201cSix Grandfathers.\u201d<\/p>\n An entire cottage industry has emerged, seeking identities for at least the three \u201cheads\u201d that are most accepted among the believers.\u00a0 Their search focuses on the history and lore of the area known as Southern Lakota and on surviving records from the surrounding nations.\u00a0 Going from left to right, the \u201cfaces\u201d on the mountainside are thought to represent Georg of Washington, a small principality, now submerged, that once dominated the low coastal swamplands of Yanquiland; Thomas of Monticello, who succeeded Georg as the ruler of Yanquiland; and Theodosius Roosevelt, a Yanqui warlord who, under the still mysterious throne name of \u201cNude Eel,\u201d led a confederation of allied states to world domination in a global conflict against another powerful faction.\u00a0 His shadowy opponents, known to historians only as the Great Depression, were directed from the island nation of Nippon (or Nissan) by an obscure quasi-deified (and perhaps quasi-mythical) figure called \u201cHirohitler.\u201d<\/p>\n Going even further, a tiny fringe minority of amateurs contends that the faces on the mountain were carved by hovering alien spacecraft using some form of laser carving tool.\u00a0 These hobbyists point to a genuinely serious flaw in the proposals made by those who argue that the \u201cimages\u201d were produced by human artifice.\u00a0 The faces are, after all, suspended high in the air, far above the plain below.\u00a0 How would the primitive humans of the early MAGA era have created such images?<\/p>\n These, however, are minority views.\u00a0 Those advocating specific identities for the three head-shaped rock formations in Southern Lakota assume them to be deliberately-created faces designed and made by humans or by humanoid aliens. But the majority of experts publishing on the subject believe that they can be explained as the remarkable but entirely natural products of such well-understood erosive forces as wind, sun, snow, ice, and sand, assisted in some few cases by earthquake activity.\u00a0 They point out that in an almost infinitely large universe, and given virtually infinite lengths of time, virtually anything can and will eventually happen.\u00a0 And, in the case of T\u021fu\u014bk\u00e1\u0161ila \u0160\u00e1kpe<\/em>, it plainly did.<\/p>\n Critics of what is often dismissed as the \u201canthropomorphic\u201d or \u201cintelligent design\u201d school point out that no other human sculptures are known to archaeologists that are even close<\/em> to the size of the heads on \u201cSix Grandfathers.\u201d\u00a0 (Even the superhuman head of Abra Hamlincoln, retrieved from the ruins of the small temple in Washington that was built around it, is several orders of magnitude smaller than the proposed \u201cheads\u201d on Six Grandfathers Mountain.) Moreover, the ancient residents of Southern Lakota show no signs of having possessed the advanced technology that would have been required to create such artifacts.\u00a0 And, although the extraterrestrial-visitors theory is rarely even addressed by serious scholars, the few aliens who have visited our planet in recent centuries have not been humanoid in appearance, which seems to indicate that they would have had no interest in creating anthropomorphic facial images.\u00a0 The few acknowledged artifacts left behind by intergalactic visitors in the historical record (e.g., several portraits of females by the alien painter Pikasso) plainly favor representing their own species, which are distinctly non-human.<\/p>\n In sum, the overwhelming current consensus among scholars and specialists is that the three head-like forms in the rugged hill country of Southern Lakota are by-products of the same powerful but random natural geological forces that produced the Grand Canyon, the great pyramidal stone formations along the Nile, and, most famously of all, the so-called \u201cHollywood sign\u201d above the ruined City of the Angels in Alta California.<\/p>\n And here are some thought-provoking pieces that I\u2019ve gleaned for you from the news media over the past few days :<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Since the first geological and then archaeological expeditions entered the region known as \u201cSix Grandfathers\u201d (in the original Lakota, T\u021fu\u014bk\u00e1\u0161ila \u0160\u00e1kpe) in early March of 4742 CE, heated debates have raged about the three \u201cmacrocephalic\u201d rock formations on the mountain\u2019s southeastern face.\u00a0 And not merely among academics. In fact, controversy surrounds every aspect of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":92040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,123,14267,3052,5655,37791],"class_list":["post-106170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-evolution","tag-intelligent-design","tag-mount-rushmore","tag-pyramids","tag-random","tag-undirected"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>
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