SUMMARYAboriginal cities under the cities; rain-making as old weather tech (Nov 6, 2026; user drop). User Lens: those cities were aboriginal cities; the people tapped into higher tech; weather control is ancient (rain dance). Record (cities on top of the land's towns): St. Louis, "Mound City," had about 26 mounds, leveled for growth (Big Mound 1868–69). Its sister city Cahokia was about 15,000–20,000 people around 1100 CE, among the largest cities in the world then. Chicago's name is from the Miami-Illinois shikaakwa (wild onion); the site was a portage and village ground. Seattle carries Chief Si'ahl's name. Nashville and many Southern cities sit on Mississippian town sites. Miami's Tequesta circle (Miami Circle) is downtown. Tampa's Fort Brooke sits on graves (P747). Mexico City sits on Tenochtitlan. Pattern: the major cities were placed on the land's towns, routes and water. Record (rain traditions as institutions): Hopi Snake Dance and other Pueblo rain ceremonies; Zuni Shalako; the Rain Queens (Modjadji) of the Balobedu in South Africa, a dynasty since about 1800 whose office is rain-making; in Ayiti, Danbala and Ayida Wedo (serpent and rainbow) tied to rain and water. Record (modern weather tech): cloud seeding (Schaefer, GE, 1946); Operation Popeye (1967–72, P769); ENMOD treaty (1977). Rain-making ceremonies working: OPEN. Test, built for Chronoseer's inference engine: line up dated ceremony records (Hopi Snake Dance dates, Rain Queen rites) against weather-station rainfall in the days after, compared with the same days in years without a ceremony and nearby stations
CODE"rain dance" as a name for a knowledge technology the colonizer called superstition.