A Bowl of Oranges, a Golden Compass Part Two: or "Bowling for Geranimo"

In part one, I looked at some of the recent ORANGE related connections America's true pastime, football...and some links that resonate highly with the harvest season, traditional Thanksgiving rituals, and some high profile deaths that have occurred during this time which I feel manifest as a result of living in a land that is bathed in blood and death worship.




Back to football....consider the roots of the sport itself. Just about any source will trace American football to the various forms of Rugby in the United Kingdom. It's not exactly the game we are concerned about though. It's all about the ball, isn't it? And what does this ball represent? Well, if you've been reading my articles of late the answer is CRYSTAL clear...the ball is merely a skull, the head of your enemies. Today we still refer to the football as a "pigskin"...after skulls went out of favor most balls were made from the bladder of an animal...ritual, plain and simple.

A man by the name of Walter Camp is considered the father of American football...In the 1880's he started to establish specific RULES that set the game apart from it's British cousin. In those days most organized games were played in the North Eastern United States at primarily Ivy League Universities. Walter Camp was from Yale, a member of the countries most elite fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon...as well as home to The Skull and Bones Society, and many say the skull of American Indian Geronimo. Anyone unfamiliar with Yale, Delta Kappa Epsilon or Skull & Bones, I suggest you take an hour or two and check into the histories, and members of these institutions.

A list of Collegiate Secret Societies

The Original Coat of Arms of Delta Kappa Epsilon

Both George H.W. Bush, and his son George W. Bush served as members of the DKE's, as well as Skull and Bones during their time at Yale. There are two other lesser known secret societies at Yale, The Scroll and Key and The Wolf's Head Society. Elder Bush's father Prescott Bush was a "Bonesman" as well as a senior partner with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. who would become the single trustee of The Russell Trust AssoCIAtion the corporate entity of Skull and Bones. Even Prescott's father James Bush was a Grey Friar member of Yale's Wolf's Head Society back in 1844. Aside from Prescott Bush's documented financial dealings with the Nazis during WWII, he is said to have actually stolen the skull and bones of the legendary Chiricahua Apache Indian Geronimo.

The 1947 class of Skull & Bones. George H.W. Bush left of clock

the story as it appears on wikipedia:
In 1918, certain remains of Geronimo were stolen in a grave robbery. Three members of the Yale secret society of Skull and Bones served as Army volunteers at Fort Sill during World War I; one of those three members was Prescott Bush, father of the forty-first President of the United States George H. W. Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush. They reportedly stole Geronimo's skull, some bones, and other items, including Geronimo's prized silver bridle, from the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery. The stolen items were alleged to have been taken to the society's tomb-like headquarters on the Yale University campus, and are supposedly used in rituals practiced by the group, one of which is said to be kissing the skull of Geronimo as an initiation. The story was known for many years but widely considered unlikely or apocryphal, and while the society itself remained silent, former members have said that they believed the bones were fake or non-human, possibly in an attempt at misdirection.

In a contemporary letter discovered by the Yale historian Marc Wortman and published in the Yale Alumni Magazine in 2006, society member Winter Mead wrote to F. Trubee Davison:

The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club... is now safe inside the tomb ("tomb" is the building at Yale University's Skull and Bones) and bone together with his well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn.

Geronimo's empty grave Ft. Sill, Oklahoma

A few interesting locations related to the life of Geronimo:

1) Born near Turkey Creek a tributary of the Gila River in what is now New Mexico.
2) Captured 1886 by U.S. Army at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona

CNN report of the Bush, Skull & Bones, Geronimo Connection

The Los Angeles/ Oakland Raiders Skull & Bones

It's always been their game, and their rules...next time Mascots/familiars