Native American legends have tales of strange, pale-skinned Moon-Eyed People who allegedly built some of the oldest structures in America.
There are legends about moon-eyed people among the Cherokee tribes, which are among the most ancient Indian societies. At the time of the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, the Cherokee were inhabited by the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in the southeastern United States.
The very origin of the Cherokee tribe has always been a hot issue among scholars. According to one hypothesis, the Cherokee language belongs to the Iroquois group of languages and the Cherokee arrived to the Southern Appalachians from the northern regions, where other Iroquois tribes lived. According to another hypothesis, the Cherokee lived on their territory for thousands of years.
From the very beginning, the Cherokee had special contacts with white settlers and they were among the "five civilized tribes" along with the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Shouts and Seminole, who at the beginning of the 19th century adopted many of the customs and achievements of white settlers and established fairly good relations with their neighbors. …
They were also considered especially because of their mysterious legends about the pale-skinned and moon-eyed people, who supposedly once lived in the Appalachians and were expelled by the Cherokee from their lands.
In 1797, in his book, the American botanist, physician and naturalist Benjamin Smith Barton described the Cherokee legends and suggested that the moon-eyed were called moon-eyed because their eyes were poorly adapted to daylight, but they were well oriented in the dark. In addition, they had other differences from the Indian peoples.
These unusual statues from the Appalachians probably represent moon-eyed people:
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Barton cites the words of a certain Colonel Leonard Marbury, who said that when the Cherokee arrived on the lands of the moon-eyed, they found people there who could hardly see in the daytime. Taking advantage of this, the Cherokee quickly defeated the moon-eyed and chased them away.
In addition to the legends about the daytime blindness of the moon-eyed people, it was told about their very pale skin and the fact that they arrived here in ancient times and created many structures of the pre-Columbian era, of which only ruins now remain. After the attack by the Cherokee, the moon-eyed went somewhere to the west and disappeared.
Another book, written by ethnographer James Mooney in 1902, describes "fuzzy but persistent legends and traditions" about the mysterious ancient people that predate the Cherokee culture in the Appalachians.
It is believed that Fort Mountain National Park (Georgia) contains what was once built by moon-eyed people and from which now only a pile of stones remains, stretching for 270 meters. But initially it was probably a large stone wall. Carved steps can still be seen among the stones.
With moon-eyed, some researchers associate the largest Indian "metropolis" - Cahokia, calling them its founders. Now only a group of 109 mounds remains of Cahokia, located near the city of Collinsville in Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi.
Estimates of the population of Cahokia range from 8 to 40 thousand inhabitants. The reasons for its abandonment are unknown, but Cahokia became depopulated shortly before Columbus's travels.
According to ufologists, the moon-eyed were either aliens or hybrids of humans and aliens. There is also information that some people from the Kuna people in Panama had a similar name "moon-eyed" and they, for some unknown reason, could hardly see during the day, but magnificently at night.
Another version connects the "moon-eyed" with the legends of the "Welsh Indians". In a 16th century manuscript, the Welsh prince Madoc tells of a voyage from Wales (UK) across the Atlantic to what has been interpreted as Alabama.
This voyage was in 1171. It is possible that the Welsh mixed with the local Indians and created the people of "moon-eyed" and pale-skinned. But what does this have to do with day blindness? Genetic mutation? There are no answers yet.
