Answer to the quiz about the mysterious Greek Bronze Age warship

Native American history can be stranger than fiction!

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The Greek warship following the Bronze Age symbol for gold, is one of hundreds of European maritime, navigation and astronomical symbols, plus several Bronze Age boats, on a block of stone, quarried from Currahee Mountain near Toccoa, Georgia. This mountain was where Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division trained during World War II. The TV series about these brave men, “Band of Brothers,” is a true story.

The quarried volcanic rock is called “The Tugaloo Stone.” It is on display at the Traveler’s Rest Inn State Historic Site . . . where it has sat since 1795. The stone was found that year on a knoll overlooking the Tugaloo River.

Unfortunately, during those 227 years, it has lain upside down, so the images of ancient boats were not obvious. When I photographed the stone for analysis in February 2017, a nearby sign told visitors, that a team of University of Georgia professors had determined that the Bronze Age symbols were an early form of Cherokee writing.

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Scene from the TV series – the soldiers are running up Currahee Mountain.

It gets weirder

Currahi is an Archaic Irish Gaelic word that means, “Spear (clan) – Descendants of.” The province of Curra was located in western Ulster. It is where the Scoti lived until they moved to present day Scotland. The Curre (originally Curreigh) were known as tall, brawny, red-haired, freckled giants. The family names of Curry, McCurry, McCrory, and Corry comes from this Irish Clan.

The proto-Creek province of Curra was located in western North Carolina in the Tuckaseegee River Basin. The original capital of Currahi was located where Cullowhee, NC now sits. You see, both the Muskogee Creeks and the Cherokees rolled their R’s so hard that English speakers wrote the R sound as an L. Thus, the Muskogee equivalent of Currahee is Cullasee.

Maps show the Cullasee living immediately south of Currahee Mountain until the 1784 Treaty of Augusta, whereby the Creek Confederacy ceded the Culassee lands to the United States. The Culassee then moved the the Okefenokee Swamp basin and then to northern Florida, where they joined the Seminole Confederacy.

Judaculla is the Anglicization of the Cherokee-nization of the Corra-re word, Jzhuta-Curra . . . which means “the sky over Curra.”

The companion tribe of the Corra-re in the North Carolina, Northeast Tennessee and Northeast Georgia Mountains were the Tokah-re, which is Irish Gaelic also and means, “principal tribe or clan.” (Even in modern Irish) The Tokah-re men were also tall, brawny, red-or-brown haired and freckled. Their name became the Muskogee Creek adjective for “freckled” . . . tokahle.

Many of the Tokah-re moved down into Georgia in the 1600s and early 1700s. They established a new capital on the Chattahoochee River, where Six Flags Over Georgia is now located. It was called Tokah-pa or “Elite-place of.” Members of that tribal town, who relocated to the Tallapoosa River Basin to establish a colony were called the Tokahpa-she . . . Tokahpa Descendants or Colony. English speakers today pronounce their name, Tuckbachee.

Now you know!