Habitations of Darkness: Spiritual Mysteries in Colonial New England | Native v Puritan Perspectives
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- Exploring the religious history of New England, beginning with the first migrations of the Clovis people, to the journey of the pilgrims to Massachusetts and through the early colonial period, leading up to the beginning of King Philip’s War.
We examine the spiritual philosophies of both the Puritans as well as Native American Algonquin tribes of the region, comparing and contrasting them as it relates to their attitudes toward nature and what constitutes sacred space. The American wilderness was a complex symbol that embodied many different ideals for its inhabitants, through which spirits and gods shaped human destiny and communicated using signs and omens through the medium of the natural world. We hear from a variety of historical sources documenting Wampanoag traditions and their devotion to a mysterious dark deity called Hobbamock which haunted the local swamps and forests, whom the colonists believed to be the devil himself. Indeed, they saw America as the kingdom of Satan, and that they were being called to form bulwark against him by establishing a holy citadel in the wilderness continent.
In the discussion of sacred places, we examine the swamp as the source of native shamanic magical power and the colonists’ existential dread. Archeological discoveries of ancient megalithic sites confirm its religious significance going back to the earliest days of human habitation in North America.
This the first part of a series which will eventually lead us into the Bridgewater Triangle and its heart, the Hockomock Swamp. By doing this, I hope to not only shed light on the energies which may linger on in this paranormal hotspot, but also put its story into a broader context of humanity’s changing relationship with nature and our conception of the sacred.
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00:00 Intro
08:32 - First Migrations to North America
11:25- First European Contact/ The Great Mortality
16:56 - Puritans & the Wilderness
42:03 - Native American Spirituality
44:50 - Sacred Swamp
46:30 - Hobbamock “Devil”/ Shamanic Rites
1:09:11 - Escalation to War
1:15:24 - Outro
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This is fascinating overview of a worldview that has faded in time. I am Naragansett Indian, an enrolled member of the Brotherton tribe now living in Wisconsin. The events that transpired to bring us to Wisconsin started with King Phillips War. It was the beginning of the end for us. Many Naragansetts not killed in the war were sold into slavery in the Caribbean or forcably removed to New York to live with the Oneida tribe there before being removed again to Wisconsin. Many Naragansett women, children and old ones were massacred in that swamp
Thank you. I’m glad you approve of my treatment of the subject. It was a very dark, complex chapter in history, and I was somewhat apprehensive about being able to handle it with tact.
Are you referring to the Great Swamp “Fight”? That was probably one of the worst atrocities of the war. What happened to the Narragansetts was horrible, and they were mostly neutral in the war from what I understand. I’ll be discussing that in part 2.
If you have anymore insights or things you want me to cover, please let me know.
@TheHiddenPassage8 I am very excited for part 2. I love all your work and this one was special to me personally. I love that you emphasized the regenerative nature of the swamp, the hidden dual character there. It has its own life force. Yes, it is likely why the people hid there during the war- belief it would protect and shelter them. Your essays are on another level.
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@@TheHiddenPassage8 Hau. If you would experience a Portal. Here is my research so far. There are portals in deep woods in Western NC near TN. When you enter into a portal “it resembles clear heat emanating from the surface of a highway in the Desert.”
You see this invisible movement all around you, which we call ‘the Shimmering’. The entrance of the Portal resembles ‘exactly where you were before you entered the portal.’ Therefore, you don’t know you are in it, until you come out on the other side. This is why First Nations often walk backwards in the woods to make a familiar mental landmarks. Turn around often while walking in woods.
This might be confusing. To make a long story short,
I’ll never ever go wood walking in NC again, without a two way coast to coast walkie talkie, salt tablets, a flare gun, a sharp knife and more. We had to sleep outside overnight in January 2007. Part of me died out there.
I will go back to confront my fear and retrieve myself. This is Our Way.
Hoka He
@@TheHiddenPassage8 Washtelo. I greet you in the spirit of the Chanunpa of my ancestors.
Sir You have excellent Gnosis and are exceeding deep.
It took lifetimes of painful quest for me to get what I got. But I
passed the tests. You have gained much. This is most excellent. It is a good day to die.
Thank you for your diligent pursuits…May you grow in the knowledge of Yourself. Aho.
This is the best thing I've watched on YT in ages. Thank you for your hard work.
I am the 17th great grandson of two of the passengers of the mayflower. I often recall their courage and strength. And prey to God to rise up our common spirit and endow me with even a fraction of what had been possessed by them. And as well allow it to serve as a reminder or motivation that even when i believe i cannot, i shall push through!
Presented in context. Critical to contemplate. Foundational for the paradigm we still labor under. Once, we were all animists. We need to get back there.
I am somehow related to Clovis through my Siberian heritage. But I was surprised to see your initial focus on Clovis. We are learning so much about human prehistory right now that is is turning a lot of long held "conventional wisdom" upside down. In Eurasia we have Gobekli Tepe proving civilization came before agriculture. In the Western Hemisphere we have proof positive that humans came into the Americas at least twice as long ago as Clovis. The scientific world can now lend more credence to Native American tales of their ancestors having come in on boats. The connections between Eurasian animism and Western Hemisphere animism are closer than we know, and bolstered by our new discoveries of the size and ecology of Beringia and the significance of the Ancient North Eurasians for both Western Hemisphere snd Eurasian peoples' genetic heritage.
Excellent work again!
Thank you 🙏. This one was challenging, and a bit of a departure from the norm, so I wasn’t sure how it would play. It’s good to know you liked it!
Love the story telling style
Hello from Worcester!! Daniel Gookin and John Eliot were the initial founders of Worcester, and received much help from a Native man from the Tatnuck area named Solomon.
I just wanted to let you know how much i enjoy and appreciate your work! Ty ty ty
You’re very welcome. Woosta! I used to go to metal shows at the Palladium 😄
@@TheHiddenPassage8 you know they still have metal shows at the Palladium if you'd like to relive your youth...
this is incredible. ❤
I am a grateful new subscriber and fellow Massachusetts native (more western Mass). Your sacred spaces videos lit me up and I ordered quite a few of the recommended books. Wonderful stuff❤️
Excellent, so glad to hear that. Thank you for your support 🙏 and welcome to the channel!
My favorite John Muir quote.😁
'Iv actually peered into a portal,never would I go forward and speak of this bc my soul knows that's not the way of things my lips are sealed and shall take it to the grave'~
I respect that. If you have any other stories you’d be willing to share, let me know.
Meee toooo.
I think I even caught a picture of one just the other evening.ive nvr seen anything like this picture I took.
If you ever wish to share please remember me❤😂😊
Then why mention it at all? Lol
@@gonesquatchin4569 😂
incredibly well done. so interesting, especially the white alienation from swamp areas.
this is amazing,, world, thanks you!
GLORY2JESUS blessings beautiful souls
The manner of which they were consuming hallucinogens in this region is kind of frightening, when you really think about it, because the only reason I can think of as to why the repeated regurgitation & reingestion would be necessary is if they had to have such an extreme amount of control over the substance working its way into the system, or they would die. It really makes me wonder what kind of plant they were using for this- undoubtedly a poisonous one.
I can say that, when you said that they "use the same terms for both the spirit hobomock & the dead," something from the Anishinaabeg immediately jumped out to me- the dead who don't get to enter the afterlife realm in peace are turned into a type of demonic spirit called a Paagag, or Baykok. Also, with regards to the snake associations- I also remember seeing something regarding colonists seeing Powhatan shamans dressed in costumed made of snakes & weasel fur & covered in black paint &, going to the Iroquois, they make a lot of claims about snakes having to do with their idea of witchcraft & have a mythologized witch king who had snakes for hair, which seems likely to be based on this same Algonquian practice. It also makes sense as to why the water spirit, or underwater panther (usually more of a sea serpent, to be honest) is the keeper of the door to the spirit world in Algonquian religion. The offerings that were being burned would be set aside to appease pretty much any spirits, in general, I think. Again, with the Powhatan, there was a reference to people throwing offerings into the river near the house the shamans shared & the shamans regularly cleaning them out, but no mentions of what they did after that. This actually helped me out quite a lot. Such a site also exists close to where I grew up, in Ohio.
It’s referred to as “the juice of the sentry and other bitter herbs”, whatever that means, and also white hellebore, which doesn’t seem to be native to North America. Josselyn likens it to opium, for what it’s worth. It doesn’t seem to have been a straight hallucinogen, probably more deliriant. If I had to guess, I would say the substance caused vomiting and reingestion helped it absorb into the body. It could also have been ritualistic, as a test of strength or something.
@@TheHiddenPassage8 That wasn't too hard. American White Hellebore- Veratrum Viride. Known toxic plant family & induces ill effects if not "immediately evacuated." Who knows what else could have been in there.
This is great info, thank you. I’ll definitely look into this. You’re right to make comparisons with the dead/ snake symbolism. It’s all over the place in the powwow traditions and I will cover some more of it next episode. Powhatan are Algonquin too and there is some level of shared culture among all Algonquin-speaking tribes, even though they are very diverse overall.
I was interested in finding parallels to other tribes, but kind of gave up when I couldn’t find any cognate to Hobbamock. The closest I could find was Glooskap, who is a trickster/ hero and has an evil brother, but I feel like there’s just not enough info on Hobbamock to know.
With respect to the black paint, check out this statement by William Bradford, “There was this year 1643 a very strange disease among the Indians, they ran up and down as if delirious, till they could run no longer; they would make their faces as black as a coal, and snatch up any weapon, as tho they would do mischief with it, and speak great swelling words, but yet they did no harm.” It’s also mentioned black paint was used in funeral rites.
Interesting yet weird
Trade was thriving in those early days of European migration. The natives gave the Europeans Syphilis.
Time is movement
Wow thats deep ...
Space is separation.
@@entelechy777 far out man ...
NO Indians had NO CONCEPT of Time. He is a Liar.
Outside munising Michigan, in the forest of the Anishinabe, (chippewa,) people is an extinguished town once known a Veil. It was here while working in the forest I encounter a shimmering golden, ovel portal. I was exhausted and pulling a wagon full of wood when my body suddenly rang and vibrated as I've never known. I had stumbled through it without realization.
Later, I came to identify this portal as the lions gate portal. It has since changed my life and self greatly for the better. I am in debt to heaven for her revelations and mercy upon my soul.
In the introduction (@ 6:36), you mentioned a 'mysterious space' - "the liminal watery land where the forces of life and death mingle together....". When watching this and looking at all of the ancient mythologies and cultures of the world, I had this thought that maybe this has some involvement in why so many of those cultures/mythologies have people - when they die - having to cross a body of water, such as the River Styx, to get to the other side. The land of the dead, or underworld. I'm wondering what are your thoughts on this?
As for portals, way back in 1982 - in My ancient times🤣- I was walking on a strand of beach, on the coast of what is now the U.S. state of Maine, and I noticed a sort of shimmer in the air around me. The person I was with, completely disappeared from my view. They had been a few feet away from me. I suddenly found myself standing on that same beach, only about 1,300 years earlier. The whole place was quite a bit different - a lot more wild and rugged looking and no signs of any civilization. I began to witness an event that was taking place, sort of a very bloody skirmish, when a man turned around, looked directly at me, and told me to go back. Yes, there were people and that's how I knew the time period. It was unmistakeable. Well, I listened to him and took about three steps backward and the air sort of shimmered again. I turned around and was 'back in my own time'. I was overwhelmed by the whole thing and it left me feeling physically drained. I don't know if it was actually a portal or not, or if it was a time shift (maybe a bit of ?both), or if I was just having a vision of some kind. I just know that it happened and that it had quite a powerful impact on me. Honestly, I was stunned for a bit. When I think of it today, I can see it in my mind, like it just happened. Anyway, it was quite an experience.☺
An outstanding video! A lot of very well-researched information. I feel that you handled this topic with the utmost tact and grace and I really admire and respect that. Thank you. I'm looking forward to Part 2. I wish you a magical St. Pat's.🍀☘🍀🍀
Eliade wrote about water representing the preformal spiritual state. It has substance but no form so it’s kind of in between pure spirit and matter. I don’t have the passage on hand but I think I quoted it in one of the sacred space vids.
So water as the threshold to the afterlife may represent the passing from a physical into a spiritual condition and acting as its agent. It’s used in ritual to symbolically dissolve forms to be remade in a purified state (baptism). Does that make sense? That’s my preliminary take anyway.
The wetlands are interesting because you have the blending of water/ earth elements so it’s representing the incarnation of spirit into matter, the damp, fertile earth womb from which new forms emerge. In the Irish bogs there were many votive offerings of cauldrons which symbolize the womb and this life process of combining elements. When you add water to dirt you get clay which is how humans were made in mythic terms. We see this in the ecology of the swamp acting as the nursery for animals and plants.
Glad you showed up… I was starting to worry!
For some reason I couldn’t see the rest of your comment until just now lol. That portal story is amazing! Could you tell who they were? Also was there anything unusual about the site itself you can remember, something that might be identified as sacred? I’m trying to figure out if I could use your story in part 3 😅.
Thank you very much and happy st patty’s day to you too. Not sure if we pagans should be celebrating it but it’s mostly about the drink anyway 😆
Water is one of my favorite elements (earth is my other fav). It has always fascinated me and it has such great metaphorical qualities for describing things. The way you used water to describe the transition, from life to death, makes perfect sense to me.
The wetlands, bogs, swamps, and marshes/moors are amazing biomes. People always seem to shun the swamps and such, but they have such a diverse variety of life and the 'structure' of their existence is fascinating. Bogs are my favorite. There's just something so special about bogs.🥰 There are also those people who live in some of those places, so if they can eek out an existence there, then there must be something about wetland areas that the 'shunners' don't know, or understand, right?!😂 I like the way you described the spiritual essence of those places. As humans, I think we really do need to get back to our roots. We've all but lost our connection to the Earth, which is sad, because the Earth is vital to our existence. It's literally all we have.
I added more to my original comment, if you're interested. I shared a "?portal" experience. If that's even what it was. It's a bit hard to determine, but it was quite the experience. Yep, I'm running behind on CZcams vids.😆 I wouldn't miss it for the world though, because you have a great channel and I love learning and the intellectual conversations. Thank you so much for those. Brain food is awesome. Anyway, have a great week. Take care. 🍀
@@TheHiddenPassage8 I think it was because I had posted the rest later, after I had watched the rest of the video.
Yes actually, I could tell. It was very unmistakable to me, that they were Vikings. Not today's fantasy style, with the horns on their helms and all, but the real deal, as they are now known to have been historically.
I watched three smallish Viking longboats, row directly up and on to the sand. I think there were about eight to ten men in each. They got out of the boats and stood looking at this forest - which was not there in 1982. By then it was completely gone.
Well, they started walking up towards this forest and when they were close to it, arrows started flying out from the trees. It was only a handful of scattered arrows, not hundreds, but enough to where they did damage to the Viking men. These men drew their swords and some used shields, but couldn't get close enough to fight back, so they started to retreat back to the boats. Vikings may have been fearless, but they were not stupid, right?!
I think it was two who perished and three, or four who were seriously wounded. In their retreat, they were trying to get the wounded back to the boats. That's when the one man told me to "Go back", but he also said, "Get back in the boat". It's like I was one of their party. Yes, I did leave that out of my original comment. I didn't think it was necessary at the time.😄 The boat that he had gotten out of, was the closest to me and I think I had inadvertently moved forward a bit, because I distinctly remember touching the prow of that boat, at some point.
Honestly, the whole thing was just so... surreal. Describing it is actually rather difficult, because how do you really describe something like that?!
As for anything sacred no, there was nothing sacred about it at all. It was basically, a small band of Vikings, and two women - of which I was apparently one, 😂who were exploring for a place to maybe build a ?settlement, and instead found themselves confronted with a small band of native scouts, sent to investigate the 'strangers'. They were attacked out of fear, is my guess.
I am wondering if I possibly may have witnessed/participated in, a moment from one of my own past lives, being as the man spoke directly to me and I understood his words. Even though they were all shouting in a different language, I actually understood them. I'm also pretty certain, that I was not possessing somebody else's body, as I felt completely myself.
Well, all of that being said, thank you for the interest in this. Oddly enough, I often wish that I could go back and re-experience the whole thing. Now that I'm older, I want to explore the ?encounter more, to see if I can learn anything from it.
And yes, St. Pat's is mostly about the drink and as Pagans, we normally wouldn't celebrate. I just make it a day for celebrating/honoring my Irish side and ancestors. Have a great week.🍀🦢
Re: Bearing Straight why do geologists and anthropologist think it was a one way street?
You sure present your history with a kind gentleness worth respecting. Funny how gifted people are. Yet, Cant is still killing Abel and the earth is dying under our feet. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
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Superb presentation. Subscribed 5 minutes into this video. Looking forward to the next chapter, as well as going back through your channel.
What is the best way to contact you? I’m working on a extensive research project focusing on pre-King Philips War inhabitants of SE New England and our studies parallel / overlap in various areas (historical, spiritual, metaphysical, etc). Born, raised and reside a few miles from the edge of the Hockomock, so this land and its history is of special interest to me.
Thank you, and welcome to the channel. You can email me hiddenpassagepodcast@gmail.com. I’d be interested to take a look at your research. I’m planning on going out there to see if I can find some of the stone structures, but I don’t have any maps showing their exact location. If you have any leads on that let me know.
Bridgewater Triangle. Never heard of it. Nice.
Neither had I, and I grew up a few towns over! I even attended grad school at Bridgewater College! This was a fascinating story and beautifully and compassionately presented!
There's a book called 'Passing Strange' that has a chapter on it, plus a lot more weird New England
When you konw k ow ❤ but if ye tell anyone they will think your crazy 😂😂🇮🇪🖖
The Massachusetts, Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Pequot DID NOT have their first contact with “White Man” only after the 1618 comet. There were in fact Breton, Biscayan, Portuguese, English, Norwegian and Icelandic explorers and especially Fisherman coming to New England waters to fish for cod back At Least as far as the early 1400s and likely further. And many of these fishermen set up seasonal encampments up and down the areas now known as Rhode Island, SE Massachusetts, coastal Maine, and extending up into what is now Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, and Labrador as well as Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. There have only been a few archaeological sites that support these evolving facts, but they Do Exist.
I said there was contact before that brother. I had 1500 as a confirmed date but I know there were some earlier exceptions so I will clarify that. However, the primary source I pulled for that encounter stated that this was the first English ship which that particular group of the Massachusett had seen. That was what I said happened around that time, not first contact with white men. Considering how they reacted, I think that is pretty evident. Just because contact had happened before doesn’t mean all natives knew about or had seen them. But thank you for clarifying that anyway.
As soon as the novelty of having an ex convict in their church they will shun him right out of that Mormon Church.
I have no idea what you’re talking about
Can someone kindly guide me to Part 2 of the Habitations of Darkness? What's its title?
I am working on it now. It will be out in the next couple weeks.
Thank you for the prompt reply. I look forward to it.
I just found you on YT and already i am a big fan of your work.
Oh man!!! Im from Easton!!! LOL
Nice, right in the heart of darkness 😆. I haven’t even gotten to the craziest stuff yet, just wait!
Ooohhh boyyy!!! Can't wait to see!!!
Always knew/felt something powerful about the land aorund here... wicked intrigued!!!
@@leahelliott3585 I am an Elliott from MA...many, many cousins...could we be related?
Shapeshifting Cryptids are in swamps , 😮the swamp it’s another dimension on earth… forests in certain spots on earth, the fire serpent
im not sure if it makes sense to speak of hierophany in such place
Does anyone know of tyhe Taino tribes people.does anyone know what happened to them. The usa government and thte un stated that there are no more tainos anymore.but dna test results say that is not true and that so far the people of the Caribbean islands have been dna testing and that 80 % coming back are Taino...borriquas ...tthe government says they dontbknow where tainos originated ffom or when,.
Does anyone have any facts on this????
Would love you to do a story about these people.let the people know who they are and where they oroginated from,...
Its the correct thing to do.
I long to be your apprentice
Unfortunately, in the first 16 minutes, you've only regurgitated main stream academic lies. Although your work is beautiful, it is incorrect. The true rulers of this world known as the Galactic Federation, introduced those diseases to kill off the population, who had been an advanced race, with interstellar capabilities. They changed the survivors memories and the new people took over the cities, yes cities of stone buildings they had left behind. It was all apart of the last reset, which occurred approximately 300 years ago. There were no ice sheets by the way, bit that is a different story. We live in a fish bowl, a simulated matrix artificially kept at a low vibration so that souls of the Universe can come here to suffer. Earth is unique in this respect. As the rest of the universe vibrates at a higher density and uses a holographic step council as a system of government. Your comments on time are indeed very correct. Good job.
Clovis from Asia?😂
Where do you think they came from?
@@TheHiddenPassage8there’s a hypothesis that while the Clovis originated in Eurasia, a segment had migrated west through Europe, eventually inhabiting the Eastern part of North America. (And western NA inhabitants traveled east across the Siberian land bridge.) My research into the Clovis is limited so for now I remain agnostic.