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Saturday April 21, 2007, Westerville Electric Company Conference Room, 139 E. Broadway Ave, Westerville, Ohio
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Michel Boutet, of Laval, Quebec is the principal Symposium Speaker for 2007.
Boutet is a teacher of Art in the Laval School system. While studying art in Spain and France he was attracted
to European ogham first, as art, then as ancient writing. He began translating ogam and today he is among the best
translators of not only European ogham but North America ogam as well, having translated many of the eastern Colorado
and eastern Kentucky ogam text, and Burrows Cave. See Translation of Stone Map his translation
of the Burrows Cave Mississippi River stone map.
In 1996 he authored the book Celtic Connections, published by his late, good friend Donald Cyr.
Donald Cyr writes in the Introduction that Boutet does not translate ogam stroke-by-stroke like you or I might do,
but recognizes stroke patterns as "ogamic words". He reads ogam as you and I might read a newspaper.
Articles authored on Burrows Cave for Mes include: Burrows Cave, A Celtiberian Cache,
Burrows Cave Translation: The Lord Dagos Motif Stone and forthcoming in the next MES Journal, The Burrows Cave
Astronomical and Astrological Tablet. Ogam translation articles for MES include: The Leighton Kentucky
Ogams and Briton Monument at Logie, Celtic Interpretation, Circular Ogam Inscription.
Michel Boutet ~
Methods for Translating Ogam and Other Scripts
After the evening dinner, Michel Boutet will talk about the various techniques he uses
to translate ogam and other scripts; its problems and challenges.
James Burchell ~
Redbird Petroglyph and other Kentucky Inscription
The story of Jim Burchell and Jim Garrison saving the Redbird Petroglyph Stone from destruction after it
fell from a cliff onto a busy county road is one of bravery, dedication, and
is chronicled in Burchell's The Stone of Witness. The stone with its engraved messages now stands
protected as a monument to its early Christian writers and to the two men who saved her.
Burchell has documented untold numbers of epigraphic sites in southern Kentucky, identified and translated
a number of different scripts and languages. His most recent publication, The Gaelic Connection
with Southeastern Kentucky appears in Volume 11 Number 69, Ancient American magazine.
Pam Giese ~
The Panther Intaglio of Fort Atkinson Wisconsin
The Fort Atkinson Panther Intaglio is one of a very few intaglios remaining in the world.
Effigy mounds are piles of dirt in the shape of animals (or mythical creatures); similarily intaglios are effigys
also, but holes in the ground instead of piles of dirt. Their history and purpose lies buried in the folklore and
religion of American Indian. Pam will explore some of these. See
Quarter Meetings for her last presentation.
Frank Otto ~
Research Update of the Hebrew Lamp (Gridiron Mound) of Southwest Ohio
Frank Otto presents his findings since last year
concerning this most unusual Earthwork. Frank has been an avid artifact collector all of his life
and is President of the Six Rivers Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Ohio (ASO). His wife Martha is
the Curator of Archaeology at The Ohio Historical Society.
Dr Hu McCulloch ~
Los Lunas and other Evidence of Ancient Hebrews in America
Along with the Newark Holy Stones Dr McCulloch describes other antiquities including
the Bat Creek and Grave Creek Stones, the Hebrew Inscription Rock at New Mexico's
Hidden Mountain, Ohio's lost "Hanukkiah" earthwork, ancient Hebrew coins found in America, and
Mexico's Calixtlahuaca pottery Roman style head.
Jack Burgess ~
Review of the Hugh Fox book, Home of the Gods
Jack Burgess is a retired High School history teacher from Chillicothe, writes
occasional local history articles for the Chillicothe newspaper, and researched the Spruce Hill Stonework.
Also he and his wife Kathleen are poets.
Zena Helpren and Don Ruh ~
The Catskill Stone Petrographic/SEM Report
Zena is unable to attend but will provide a updated power point of her recent
findings of the Catskill Mountain Menorah presented by John White.
Jim Leslie ~
Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art
In his short sixty-five years of life, Carl Schuster collected an amazingly large
amount of photographs, negatives and detailed descriptions of Folklore and Symbols from around the world. His
study methodology was to collect a large enough sample of
symbols of a culture that had been handed down from ancient times that he could then compare these with similiar
ancient symbols of other lands and thus uncover evidence for early migrations of people and/or their culture.
This presentation is a sampling of some of these ancient symbols from Edmund Carpenter's book series Social Symbolism
in Ancient & Tribal Art based on Schuster's research and writing. Though unknown to the general public, Schuster
established himself as a foremost scholar in this field.
Victor Kachur ~
Ancient Kingdom in East-Central Ukraine
Victor narrates this video that traces refuges fleeing the three Trojan Wars
to this area in the Ukraine, where they made their home and subsequently built large earthen mounds. The video
includes a sampling of gold artifacts recovered from recent excavations.
Dr John White and Beverley Moseley ~
The Snakes and Dragons of Burrows Cave Artifacts and the Frequent Occurrence of Serpent
Mound Symbolism.
Michel Boutet ~
The Character and Style of the Burrows Cave Images and Comparisons to Old World Works -
Three-headed Dragons, Helmeted Warriors and other Icons
Barry Fell Award 2007
Dr Charles F Herberger
Among his accomplishments are three plays, five books - the best known being The Thread of Ariadne:
The Labyrinth of the Calendar on Minos and The Riddle of the Sphinx: Calendric Symbolism in Myth
and Icon, and a number of journal articles for MES, ESOP, NEARA.
Barry Fell Award 2005 (posthumous)
Kurt Shildmann
His academic life was interrupted when the Wehrmacht desired his presence in World War II on the eastern front
where he was wounded and then on the western front where in 1944 he became an American POW. Repatriated, he
became an interpreter with the British occupational forces in Germany. By this time he was married and with
a young son, Kurt, Jr., who accidentally drowned in Turkey in 1987.
In the 1950s he began a life career as an interpreter and translator for the new German federal government,
retiring in 1974. During these years he founded in 1956 the Society of German Linguists, joined the journal
SYNESIS and becoming a lectorate and co-editor, and continued to travel, usually in his own house boat
on the major rivers of Europe, the Mediterranean and indeed the planet, studying cultures and languages,
especially the origin and relationship to other languages. He spent thirty years of these proving Sumerian
was a southwest Iranian dialect.
He is survived by a step-daughter, Mrs. Marlene Lang of Jackson, Wyoming.
Victor Moseley Awards
~ Jay Wakefield, Dr. Reinoud de Jonge, Joseph Wilson,
Dr Carl Johannessen, James Burchell, James Garrison
Jay Wakefield of Kirkland Wa and Dr Reinoud de Jonge
of The Netherlands co-authored the amazing book, How the Sun God Reached America,
which chronicles their decoding of abstract petroglyphs found along the shores of the Atlantic discovering
that they are actually sea-faring maps inscribed by early precolumbian mariners (pre-alphabet and pre-ogam)
that regularily sailed the North Atlantic between the new and the old worlds.
How the SunGod came to America
Joe Wilson of Greenwood, SC wrote his thesis, DNA Evidence for Central
Asians in America, which now offers strong support for much of Ethel Stewart's writings of the Indian Asian
origin-lore of the Canadian Northwest Dene and Na-Dene peoples. Pursuing this connection he got in touch with MES
through Dr Cyclone Covey and gave an inspiring talk on this subject at the 2006 Fall Quarterly meeting. He favorite
subject is the similarity between the Navajo and Tibetan religious philosophies.
Dr Carl Johannessen of Eugene, OR, is the leading biodiffusionist, proving
that maize of Central America had made its way to southeast Asia, especially India, in ancient times, thus proving
very early cultural contact and trade.
Both James Burchell and James Garrison
are from Manchester, KY and saved the Redbird Petroglyph stone from destruction by having it moved to a
Manchester city park into a protected enclosure. Burchell is a constant and passionate collector of ancient scripts
found inscribed on stones throughout beautiful southern Kentucky.
Charles Herberger is a mythographer, a professor of English, a playwright and an expert on
the cultural history of Minoan Crete. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he earned a Masters in
English from the University of Cincinnati and a Doctorate in English from Boston University.
Now at age 86 he is a professor emeritus of Nasson College, Springvale, Maine, and a long-time member of
MES, ESOP and NEARA.
Kurt Schildman ~ Born Mar 12, 1909 Died Apr 25, 2005, age 96 is one of the least known but among
the best world linguist, etymologist, and translator. He began world traveling early in his
life as a teen of 17 under the guidance of older brother Heinrich, to the middle East, India, Thailand,
China, Burma and finally reaching Korea after several years. He absorbed as much of the culture and language
as a bright-minded youth could. [The MES journal to be published in February of this year has his diary entries
of this five-year world trip]. Returning home he studied in France, Spain and then three years in Italy.
