![]() ![]() “We are doing our best to appease the Great God. ![]() He returned her a smile, not slowing his pace. She sat upon a mat, arms covered with a sticky bright mixture of clay, surrounded by unfinished vessels, as she worked and gossiped with her neighbors. ![]() “Will the Great God show us some mercy?” called out a woman from a one of the alleyways. Without the ceremonial make-up and the impressive head-piece worn by the servants of the gods, his face appeared young and plain however his slim body was clad in the priest’s robe and the passersby paid him respect befitting his status. The priest of the Thunder God made his way through the maze of the alleys. Fitting the harvest season, the sun had already lost some of its fiery heat, spreading pleasant warmth between the dwellings. The river sparkled far below, gleaming lazily in the soft daylight. The chief warlord of Cahokia - a magnificent center of the Mississippians - is embroiled in a dangerous political conspiracy.Īn attempt to escape the consequences brings him northwards, up the O-hi-o River and into the lands of the powerful League of the Iroquois, where his life takes a very unexpected turn. “The Cahokian” is a historical novel, based on the final years of that empire. A hundred years later the Great Mound lay abandoned. By 1,250 AD the Great Mound of Cahokia on the Mississippi River was the center of the largest North American empire, populated more densely than the 13th-century London. ![]()
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