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SACRED SITES:TOWN CREEK INDIAN MOUND,MT. GILEAD,NORTH CAROLINA |
| This sacred site was home to Creek Indian priests and contained temples, burial grounds, and council buildings. Purification rites practiced at the site incuded extended fasting and meditation. The reconstructed thatched-roofed main temple sits atop an earthen pyramid, where the "community soul" was thought to reside.Haunted Places,p.319.FYI:Directions available. |
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