"Newark Earthworks: A Place of Pilgrimage"
This will be the fourth Newark Earthworks Day. Join us.
The first, in October, 2005, focused upon the “Moonrise,” the northern most rising of the moon in alignment with the central axis of the Octagon Earthworks. Those who first envisioned the day, planned it and brought it about constituted a broad based committee of Native Americans, archaeologists, educators and community residents. At least a thousand people participated and many others learned that fall that the Newark Earthworks were built to align with the movements of the moon.
Subsequent Newark Earthworks Days (in October 2006 and May 2007) focused upon the Newark Earthworks as a site which is sacred to Native Americans and upon the Newark Earthworks as a Wonder of the Ancient World, comparing the site to Stonehenge and Teotihuacan.
The same committee is planning Newark Earthworks Day 2009. We work under the auspices of the Newark Earthworks Center of The Ohio State University at Newark. Our goal this year is to teach the public that the Newark Earthworks were built to be a place of pilgrimage and that they drew people from great distances who came here for ceremony.