![]() ![]() The Judaculla Rock and surrounding area was considered sacred to the Cherokee Native Americans before their displacement. Note the cupmarks, the “boundary line” bottom right, and the two claw prints top left (QueenOfFrogs / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) The Legend Of Judaculla The ancient Egyptians often made their precious scarab beetle amulets out of steatite, which is soapstone that is nearly one-hundred-percent talc. Combined with the ease with which the stone can be worked, this makes it ideal for making pipes, cooking vessels, and hearth liners. Soapstone absorbs heat, then radiates it slowly. Soapstone has been utilized by humans for thousands of years across many cultures due to its softness, the fact it is not porous, and its heat absorption. The symbols are tightly packed together and include many stick-like figures, two strange seven-digit hand/claw prints, thousands of “cup marks,” as well as many other carvings. The stone itself is a massive boulder of soapstone, and is covered in petroglyphs. ![]() The Judaculla Rock is the name locals give to an archaeological site in Jackson County, near the Caney Fork Creek, North Carolina. But the fact remains, somebody in the distant past carved the same motifs into stone on separate continents. Native Americans, Vikings, vanished races of giants, and early Christian explorers have all been proposed and rejected. Scholars and amateurs alike can only stare in wonder, scratching their heads and sputter myths and contradictory theories none of which have been satisfactorily explained. ![]() How can it be that the same symbols appear in both Prehistoric Scotland and North Carolina? These symbols whisper a cryptic message to us from a forgotten time. Across the proverbial pond, hidden in the great Appalachians of America’s North Carolina, a near identical stone sleeps near a mountain summit – the Judaculla Rock. Within the rolling green hills of Scotland, slumber thousands of ancient stones bejeweled with mysterious glyphs. ![]()
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