The first lodges sat on the mounds: the Natchez Grand Village
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1682 · Places: Louisiana, Gulf Coast, Europe
SUMMARYThe first lodges sat on the mounds: the Natchez Grand Village (Nov 8, 2026; Tito: "Who made the first lodges / Eastern woodlands / Moundbuilders / Lodges on top of mounds")
RECORD (National Park Service, "Grand Village of the Natchez," National Register mounds itinerary)the Great Sun's house stood on Mound B; "a ceremonial temple" stood on Mound C, where "a sacred fire burned inside the temple"; "A number of French colonists who witnessed the use of the mounds at Grand Village recorded their observations," including the 1725 funeral of Tattooed Serpent, "recorded in detail by the French."
RECORD (Wikipedia summary of the site record)the Natchez built at Mounds B and C from about 1700 to 1730 and used the village as their main ceremonial center from 1682 to 1729; the Sun Temple included a charnel house for the elite
PATTERNacross the Mississippian world, platform mounds were built to carry temples, council houses and chiefs' houses (add Cahokia, Etowah and Moundville cards with site reports)
LENS (WW9)a temple on a raised platform, with a sacred fire and a ranked order, is the lodge form, and it stood here first
OPENname the French witnesses with page cites (Le Page du Pratz, Histoire de la Louisiane, 1758; Pénicaut; Charlevoix); read their descriptions in French. Connects: P855, P856, P857, P858, the Lodge Files, Rule 13.