"Ohio's Ancient Serpent Mound: Link To Summer Solstice?
Viewed from the heavens, it might appear to be a battle between the forces of darkness and light.
Some say this represents the dichotomy of nature: day and night, life versus death รข?" and the
underlying struggle between good and evil. It is the great Serpent Mound of Adams County. The
earthwork was built by an ancient people, archaeologists tell us. But no one is sure who they
might have been, what might have motivated them, or even how long ago they fashioned the
monument. This is the only thing we know for sure: On a ridge above the valley of Ohio Brush
Creek, a 1 1/4 hour drive east of downtown Cincinnati, lies the largest snake effigy in North
America. The serpent is almost a quarter of a mile long, as measured along the centerline of its
coils and curves. The height of the mound varies from 2 to 6 feet, while the serpent's body is
about 20 feet wide and 1,348 feet long.
Its mouth is thrown wide, as if striking at prey. Just beyond the mouth is a separate, oval mound,
what some believe to be a depiction of the sun. Why would a snake attack the sun? More to the
point, why would anyone depict such a thing by fashioning an enormous mound out of clay,
stones and dirt?
The most recent theory, popularized in the late 1980s, is that the Serpent Mound represents a solar
eclipse. This gains credence from the fact that the mouth of the Serpent Mound is in direct
alignment with the setting sun on the longest day of each year: the summer solstice."
-Michael Tsarion
|/ So anyway, we have here a gift. Something to figure out. Let's not knock it down at first 'blow' in our face. Let's take a closer look, relax back, and enjoy...
Ancient Mounds. We don't need them.
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