The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio: Mystery of the Mound and History of the Serpent : Various Theories of the Effigy Mounds and the Mound BuildersOhio State Archæological and Historical Society, 1905 - 125 páginas |
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Página 64 - The neck of the serpent is stretched out and slightly curved, and its mouth is opened wide as if in the act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which rests partially within the distended jaws.
Página 64 - Conforming to the curve of the hill, and occupying its very summit, is the serpent, its head resting near the point, and its body winding back for seven hundred feet, in graceful undulations, terminating in a triple coil at the tail. The entire length, if extended, would be not less than one thousand feet.
Página 14 - Reclining on one of the huge folds of this gigantic serpent, as the last rays of the sun, glancing from the distant hilltops, cast their long shadows over the valley, I mused on the probabilities of the past; and there seemed to come to me a picture as of a distant time, of a people with strange customs, and with it came the demand for an interpretation of this mystery. The unknown must become known!
Página 88 - Deity, which was adored by that people. Menelaus was of old styled Pitanates, as we learn from Hesychius : and the reason of it may be known from his being a Spartan, by which was intimated one of the serpentigenae, or Ophites.
Página 73 - It may seem extraordinary, that the worship of the serpent should have ever been introduced into the world; and it must appear still more remarkable, that it should almost universally have prevailed. As mankind are said to have been ruined through the influence of this being, we could little expect that it would, of all other objects have been adopted, as the most sacred and salutary symbol; and rendered the chief object of adoration. Yet so we find it to have been. In most of the ancient rites there...
Página 66 - ... among many primitive nations. It prevailed in Egypt, Greece, and Assyria, and entered widely into the superstitions of the Celts, the Hindoos, and the Chinese. It even penetrated into America; and was conspicuous in the mythology of the ancient Mexicans, among whom its significance does not seem to have differed materially from that which it possessed in the old world.
Página 64 - ... but they have been thrown down and scattered by some ignorant visitor, under the prevailing impression probably that gold was hidden beneath them. The point of the hill, within which this egg-shaped figure rests, seems to have been artificially cut to conform to its outline, leaving a smooth platform, ten feet wide, and somewhat inclining inwards, all around it. The section ab will illustrate this feature.
Página 72 - There was a legend of a serpent at Colchis, at Thebes, and at Delphi; likewise in other places. The Greeks called Apollo himself Python, which is the same as Opis, Oupis, and Oub. The woman at Endor, who had a familiar spirit, is called Oub, or Ob; and it is interpreted as Pythonissa.
Página 10 - ... one being the longer, united by a concave bank immediately in front of which is a large oval or egg-shaped hollow eighty-six feet long and thirty feet wide at its greatest inside transverse, formed by the artificial embankment from two to three feet high, and about twenty feet wide at its base. The...
Página 82 - The Athenians were esteemed Serpentigenae ; and they had a tradition, that the chief guardian of their Acropolis was a serpent. It is reported of the...