back in  2012
there was a lot of interest in the
Mayans and their prophecies it was also
a lot of interest in the concept or
theory of my ins and Georgia found some
structures up in North Georgia that were
very much like the Mayan structures in
Mesoamerica and they also featured in
the first episode of america on earth
where the God claims to have proven that
the poly horse guy blue clay used by
Mexican Mesoamerican tribes actually had
its origins in Georgia
however it's not really popular or
correct to use the word Mayan when
describing the cultures of Georgia
however according to Richard Thornton
who was the main guest on that first
episode of america on earth it's pretty
much mainstream today to say that one or
more of the factions or tribes that made
up the creek alliance of the
Mississippian complex were either
Mesoamerican or had a very strong
Mesoamerican influence so the correct
term to use for cultures in Georgia that
had this influence would be today
Mesoamerican my attention was first
called to the Bilbo mound by an article
are read our Richard on his blog and
website people of one fire the Bilbo
mount is arguably the oldest native
american mound in north america and you
can see from the photo that richard has
in his article
here that it's to the east of the truman
parkway he actually had that wrong
we did some research and found a paper
that was done by the University of South
Carolina our next addition to the bill
amount back in $MONTH 2007 and it showed
the true location which is here and you
can see it's actually to the west of the
end of the truman parkway right in
downtown savannah georgia now the reason
that Richard probably made the error is
because some of the older photographs
aerial photographs of the building
amount that you can find on the net have
it before the truman parkway was built
and the road that the truman parkway
replaced actually ran to the west of the
mountains so it was to the east of that
road that road still there
um it's a no access road only use by the
business that is on that property now
and there's a railroad track that runs
along they're still but this article the
Richard thornton road got real curious
because I've lived here in Savannah all
my life and never do about it and
Richard Hodges my friend and historian
was also very curious so we started
digging a little deeper we start looking
on google earth at this location and we
found that in the images that google
earth took in 1997 in 2003 you can
clearly see some kind of an effigy it
either looks like some kind of spider
monkey with this tail curled up in the
air or it looks kind of like a human
figure maybe in the dance or hose kit
for doing something like that on most of
the other years the google earth two
photographs by satellite from this area
you can see the effigy quite as clearly
you can see the
things around the area in that quadrant
but we think this is because 97 it was
still black and white and also because
maybe they took the photographs during
winter when only the evergreen trees
would have had foliage a lot of the area
around the Bilbo mail was used rice
plantations in the early days some of it
has been developed but supposedly the
area of the building mount itself is
protected and it may be that the trees
that are growing on top of the mounds
there are extremely old and of a
different variety than the ones in the
area around it and that's why during
winter you can see it so much clearly
i'm more clear
the more I look at this mound and the
effigy that you can see from the sky
more reminded me of some of the pictures
I've seen study in Native Americans in
Georgia and it also reminded me of some
of the images that I've seen on Richard
Thornton's site
these are pictures of a Mesoamerican
rain gods and they bear a striking
resemblance to the effigy of Bilbo noun
the Native Americans used to all the
concentric circles of the mound and they
walked closer and closer to the center
and they get to the center of it and
after going through this spiritual
journey was supposed to bring rain and
the heart of the Native American rain
goddess was the center of the mound but
if the Bilbo mound is a mesoamerican
rain goddess and is similar to the
Serpent Mound in Ohio and mounds of the
other Mississippian culture it would be
very very strange indeed because the
film mound predates the Mississippian
culture by a good
it for 5,000 years now before the creeks
came to southeast Georgia there was
another type of Native American hear
that you cheese and they were a lot
different but they seem to have had some
of these Mesoamerican influences to and
according to some archaeologists we
talked to the Georgia Southern
University these guys were different
than any other Native Americans in all
of North America they built on still
houses in mangroves loss some of them
practice cranial deformation and
elongated skulls but the building
mountain would have been even earlier
than the ug culture that ancient archaic
Native American culture of woodland
cultures many of their practices like
the building of stilt houses similar to
indonesian was carried on by the ug
Native Americans and later on maybe even
the Gullah jobs but there are very
mysterious population of people's that
we don't know a whole lot about and in
this series of videos investigating the
building now we're going to talk to some
historians and archaeologists museum
curators and try to find out all we can
about this early man studying the
reports from 2007 one of the most
remarkable things was that these guys
were actually building rectangular or
hits into the mail and they would keep
with blue clay in these rectangular pits
portrayed they would storm we don't know
what the significant was the
archaeological team did not test to see
if it was Holly course guide of course
they didn't test to see if it was the
same Polly course guy used in
Mesoamerica but if this tradition of
using this blue goes back 5,500 years
that would be really amazing and that
almost seems to be the case here now
what we want to do is actually go out
there
and see the trees growing on top of the
mound and that's one of the ways that we
can possibly identify how old the mound
is how old the effigy is those trees are
older than 300 years then we know it
hasn't been tampered with and we know
that's the energy that was here when the
columns just arrived and it's probably
the way it's been for 5,500 years the
colonists were amazed to find when they
got here that the Native Americans and
build the structure because it looked at
them as it was in the middle of the lake
now that could be because sea levels of
prison since the time which was built
and also Mike because we're dealing with
a maritime still house building culture
that preferred the mangroves wants so
stick with us and we'll try to find out
everything there is to know about the
oldest Native American burial mound in
north america and this exotic culture
different from all the other Native
Americans in north america that lived
here in Georgia and also down in the
Florida in the arcade . in those
which is built right on top of we might
ride through there later and check out
mr. Hill Germans from 1482 500pcs around
there but it's all very old and else
other was torn up during the building of
this
megastructure see here right above me
but we had a problem trying to get back
for enough to see the actual mounds we
did see them and we saw the second
circle we can see that it's ill but I
villages quicksand while trying to get
back into it but i was able to without
mark where up and lashing down and get
around a tree trunk out there and slowly
i was able look full of myself out and
get to dry land while Richard would help
luckily i was able to calm down he
didn't have to go to our but will be
back very soon with better equipment to
see and get deeper and see the Bilbo
Matt Bilbo is also the name of a
character and your tokens the hobbit and
according to the red book positon his
grandfather invented golf by knocking
goblins head off and it rolled into
rebel and thus he invented the game of
golf and that's kind of interesting
because this complex of mounds is where
golf was admitted as well or at least
it's where the first game golf played in
north america by a group of Scottish
faults when Amanda was occupied by the
British they played it out here among
the Native American burial mounds and
the shape of the male's is what we owe
the shape of modern golf courses are so
we've got a little bit of analogy to
lord of the rings with this bill mound
historians think it was named after a
type Spanish sword and we'll get to
while we think that maybe as we
investigate this further
