By now I think we've all seen Septentrionalis on a map, either on the North American continent as America Septentrionales or on the Arctic Sea/North Sea as Mare Septentrionales. When you look it up they tell you it means north, but I do think there is more to it than that (as usual).
Quiahuitl posted this in the Novaya Zemlya thread:
"This is all very interesting. There's the Mare Septentrionalis in 1576 and most of North America is marked Septentrionalis around this time and onwards for a century or more at least into the 1600s and on into the 1700s if memory serves.
Septentrionalis means seven tribunals in Latin so there's a theory this was the name of a legal jurisdiction or empire. Or maybe a trading empire. Or even just a banking and justice system within which fair trade was possible.
I checked the Latin and trionalis means every three years - triennial. 'Tribunal' is actually a Latin word that we still use unchanged in modern English. I wonder if this is the opposite of our system of Babylonian debt slavery - a trading system in which every debt must be cleared within three years so the accumulation of 90% of everything into a few hands wasn't possible."
I responded with:
"Perhaps seven areas/local governments overseen by a central government with elections every three years?
Also regarding debt forgiveness, you probably already know about Jubilee Years including debt forgiveness. It's the 50th year after 7 years x 7 years=49 years."
and
"When a building was updated...very often the sets of three arched windows and doors were removed and made square and sets of two. One poster thought this was to change the harmony of the area. It may have been. But I think it also was a domineering power play against the Old World Trionalis."
When I sidetracked into the Cherokee Nation recently I discovered their seal contains a seven-pointed star, dated September 6, 1839. This was their forced new home in Oklahoma Indian Territory, at their new capital Tahlequah.
The seven-pointed star was their traditional symbol. It was said to represent the seven clans of the tribes or the seven tribes of the Nation. Their Peace Flag was said to be seven red seven-pointed stars arranged as the Big Dipper on a white background. The War Flag was reversed colors. The Big Dipper is part of the Ursa Major/Great Bear constellation and always appears in the northern sky in the northern hemisphere. Could septentrionalis have come to mean north in navigation due to the seven stars of the Big Dipper always appearing in the north? And then the original meaning for it as the name of an entire culture was able to be buried by TPTB.
Even today the modern Cherokee Nation flag contains seven white seven-pointed stars plus an extra black seven-pointed star for the people who died on the Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee Nation and a confederation of native tribes/nations could have been the same seven in septentrionalis. Perhaps there were three nations or confederacies that all had the number seven as a symbol. Together they could be covering all of what we call North America.
I looked at the Iriquois Confederacy. They were 5, then 6 tribes, so no luck there. But their hero Hiawatha had seven daughters! Kind of like how the stars Pleiades are called the Seven Sisters, and are the seven daughter of Atlas.
Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I am pretty familiar with the tribal system out there. They didn't get butchered as much by the colonizers, but they did still die of illnesses. They weren't known to be a great confederacy in the recent past. But they all had similar culture and lifestyle. They used cedar trees for almost everything - the trunks for totem poles, canoes and longhouses, bark as clothing and blankets, wood for fires, sap as resins and glues, branches as waterproof thatch, berries and cones for medicine and maybe food. They lived on a lot of seafood and berries. They rotated holding great Potlaches where they would feast and give presents. They also held council and made decisions at the Potlatches. The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades were very important to them and was prominent in their mythology. But I am not aware of a unifying symbol.
The great Sioux Nation certainly has both seven and three represented. From blog.nativehope.org:
"The appropriate name for the Sioux is the People of the Seven Council Fires (Očhethi Šakowiŋ Oyáte). They speak one of the three dialects of the same language, Siouan. Within the Očhethi Šakowiŋ are seven bands: Waȟpékhute, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ, Sisítȟuŋwaŋ, Bdewékhaŋthuŋwaŋ, Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ, Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna, and Tithuŋwaŋ. There are now various groups who descend from the original seven and maintain autonomy over the governing of their oyáte (tribe).
The terms "Lakota," "Nakota," and "Dakota" are often used interchangeably with "Sioux," and they are the three largest subsets of the Great Sioux Nation."
The Great Sioux Nation could maybe be Septentrionalis by itself, with those number associations. It did stretch across the middle of what is now Canada and the United States.
Please add to these thoughts or let me know if I might have a strong theory here.
Quiahuitl posted this in the Novaya Zemlya thread:
"This is all very interesting. There's the Mare Septentrionalis in 1576 and most of North America is marked Septentrionalis around this time and onwards for a century or more at least into the 1600s and on into the 1700s if memory serves.
Septentrionalis means seven tribunals in Latin so there's a theory this was the name of a legal jurisdiction or empire. Or maybe a trading empire. Or even just a banking and justice system within which fair trade was possible.
I checked the Latin and trionalis means every three years - triennial. 'Tribunal' is actually a Latin word that we still use unchanged in modern English. I wonder if this is the opposite of our system of Babylonian debt slavery - a trading system in which every debt must be cleared within three years so the accumulation of 90% of everything into a few hands wasn't possible."
I responded with:
"Perhaps seven areas/local governments overseen by a central government with elections every three years?
Also regarding debt forgiveness, you probably already know about Jubilee Years including debt forgiveness. It's the 50th year after 7 years x 7 years=49 years."
and
"When a building was updated...very often the sets of three arched windows and doors were removed and made square and sets of two. One poster thought this was to change the harmony of the area. It may have been. But I think it also was a domineering power play against the Old World Trionalis."
When I sidetracked into the Cherokee Nation recently I discovered their seal contains a seven-pointed star, dated September 6, 1839. This was their forced new home in Oklahoma Indian Territory, at their new capital Tahlequah.
The seven-pointed star was their traditional symbol. It was said to represent the seven clans of the tribes or the seven tribes of the Nation. Their Peace Flag was said to be seven red seven-pointed stars arranged as the Big Dipper on a white background. The War Flag was reversed colors. The Big Dipper is part of the Ursa Major/Great Bear constellation and always appears in the northern sky in the northern hemisphere. Could septentrionalis have come to mean north in navigation due to the seven stars of the Big Dipper always appearing in the north? And then the original meaning for it as the name of an entire culture was able to be buried by TPTB.
Even today the modern Cherokee Nation flag contains seven white seven-pointed stars plus an extra black seven-pointed star for the people who died on the Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee Nation and a confederation of native tribes/nations could have been the same seven in septentrionalis. Perhaps there were three nations or confederacies that all had the number seven as a symbol. Together they could be covering all of what we call North America.
I looked at the Iriquois Confederacy. They were 5, then 6 tribes, so no luck there. But their hero Hiawatha had seven daughters! Kind of like how the stars Pleiades are called the Seven Sisters, and are the seven daughter of Atlas.
Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, I am pretty familiar with the tribal system out there. They didn't get butchered as much by the colonizers, but they did still die of illnesses. They weren't known to be a great confederacy in the recent past. But they all had similar culture and lifestyle. They used cedar trees for almost everything - the trunks for totem poles, canoes and longhouses, bark as clothing and blankets, wood for fires, sap as resins and glues, branches as waterproof thatch, berries and cones for medicine and maybe food. They lived on a lot of seafood and berries. They rotated holding great Potlaches where they would feast and give presents. They also held council and made decisions at the Potlatches. The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades were very important to them and was prominent in their mythology. But I am not aware of a unifying symbol.
The great Sioux Nation certainly has both seven and three represented. From blog.nativehope.org:
"The appropriate name for the Sioux is the People of the Seven Council Fires (Očhethi Šakowiŋ Oyáte). They speak one of the three dialects of the same language, Siouan. Within the Očhethi Šakowiŋ are seven bands: Waȟpékhute, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ, Sisítȟuŋwaŋ, Bdewékhaŋthuŋwaŋ, Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ, Iháŋkthuŋwaŋna, and Tithuŋwaŋ. There are now various groups who descend from the original seven and maintain autonomy over the governing of their oyáte (tribe).
The terms "Lakota," "Nakota," and "Dakota" are often used interchangeably with "Sioux," and they are the three largest subsets of the Great Sioux Nation."
The Great Sioux Nation could maybe be Septentrionalis by itself, with those number associations. It did stretch across the middle of what is now Canada and the United States.
Please add to these thoughts or let me know if I might have a strong theory here.
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