[Images at left are from here. Images at right are from here, here and here.]

When I was a kid I was fascinated by the culture and traditions of ancient American Indians.

Growing up in Ohio presented a lot of opportunities to see the physical evidence of their existence, including earthworks, found arrowheads, ancient oak trees grown twisted from when they were saplings, bent to mark Indian trails. Two of my ancestors were captured by Indians in the wilderness of the Ohio territory (their story is recorded) but that’s irrelevant to this post.

The point is that the Pueblo just creeped me out. Something went seriously wrong with these guys – too much mescal, or maybe it was just the heat that tweaked them. I can understand wearing wolf-head adornments, eagle feathers and buffalo skins, but putting clay pots on your head and doing the wubba wubba dance is damn spooky.

Let’s dodge those nightmares and move onto something really disturbing:
The Overnight Open Thread.