Over the course of many years and

Over the course of many years and with more air-miles than I care to remember, I have journeyed on a quest to uncover the secrets and techniques of the ancient serpent cults that we reveal in my books. But everytime I journey, I discover something totally new. There truly is a whole new earth opening up before our eyes and suddenly and often without warning we are confronted with a re-interpretation of history that we are merely not looking for.

Now in another turn in the tale of the serpent My spouse and i uncover one of the ancient truths concerning dragons, remembering that in fantasy and in ancient history, dragons and even serpents are intertwined like the coils of a pit viper.

We need to begin in America of all places, for two factors. Firstly that this is the last location we would even consider looking for dragons, and secondly because the evidence is most profound here in archaeological terms.

Evidence of serpent worship in the Unites states can largely be shown from your many serpent mounds that seem across the continent. The most famous by a good way is the 'Serpent Mound' of Kentkucky, Adams County. According to some [1] this marvellous pile is related to Stonehenge and they say that it does not take 'Dragon Guardian' of the East to Stonehenge's Secret of the West. Certainly it is thought that the two ancient set ups actually do share the same timeline and may very well have born relationship to each other, if indeed ancient man shown the same beliefs and travelled widely, as is the growing belief of several scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also directly north of that infamous serpent serenidad, Avebury.

Avebury is a huge British Forehead and stone monument erected all around 2, 000 BC in the shape of a serpent when seen from sky. Once known as Abury which in turn according to Deane [2] is evidently Abiri or Ab-ir (after the Abiri people or perhaps Cabiri who were serpent worshippers). Abir incidentally means the solar fish or fire snake.

Although some possess argued whether Avebury should ever have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that while far back as the 17th centuries there was a Mr Aubury who have said himself that it should be noticable and spelt Aubury (found within the legier-book of Malmesbury Abbey. )

Of course even as Ave Bury, typically the 'Ave' reverts back to the root associated with 'Eve' which we know means 'female serpent. ' The pathway associated with Avebury passes through a large spherical Temple of the sun emerging and after that winding again and ending by having an oddly, not quite circular head help directly in line with 'Snakes Head Hill' (Hackpen. ) The central group of friends is symbolic of the sun, that is the male principle in the creative method and is symbolized elsewhere as a half truths or lion. Once the serpent is long gone through or around this sun circle it is recharged for new life.

Throughout Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar imagery with the symbol of the snake going over the solar disc, emerging head erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it is the same image! Adding to this, the snake is often depicted with the historic Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from the emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life aid the great circle of Avebury basically has to be the 'solar disk' and the pathway the snake - therefore illustrating in a painfully labour-intensive way, the ritualistic path of the snake worshipper towards new life.

The particular circular aspect of the Stone Sectors of Europe are strangely reminiscent of the Temples of Quetzalcoatl, which were "circular, and the one dedicated to his / her worship in Mexico, was entered by a door like unto your mouth of a serpent. " [3] A very similar ritualistic inference to people based around Avebury and other Rock Circles.

John Bathurst Deane points out in his book on serpent praise, "A third description of temples consecrated to the service of the Ophites god remains to be considered: and these are not only the most rare, the most characteristic, and the most magnificent; but, probably, by far the most sacred of them all. These were erected as the Ophite hierogram, the snake passing through a circle. "

This hierogram is the symbol of the snake, a circle with a snake passing through it, like a needle and thread. He continues, "They were comprised, like the circular temples, of a range of Baitulia, or amber stones, therefore arranged as to describe the mystic circle, through which the still more mystic serpent trailed his majestic form. "

And this is the fact of the Stone Circles and real hierograms: that they were re-birthing groups, a being born again through the nature, through the circle. We can even come up with a remarkable deduction from the strange phrase "baitulia" mentioned above by Deane. These are generally betyl stones or serpents ova. In Wales the serpents have been said to emerge and congregate upon Midsummer's Eve to blow into the Serpent Stone-Eggs or Glain Neidr, which is reminiscent of the Roman historian Pliny's tale of this activity amongst the Gauls. These serpent stones had been said to be coloured pebbles, which provided 'second sight' and healing. Midsummer's Eve was the night when the serpents would role themselves into hissing balls and create the glain ovum, also known as 'snake stone' or 'Druid's egg. ' In Welsh myth even Merlin himself went searching for them.

The egg, Cosmic Egg cell or Cosmogenic Egg is universally seen with the serpent - such as the symbol of the Orphic Egg cell which is shown with a snake wrapped around it. From the serpent mound of Ohio to Mithras and even Cneph, the egg is linked to serpent worship. Why? According to almost all scholars it is the emblem of the mundane elements coming from the creating god. Therefore it is a symbol of the elements of the universe. Yet surely there is also another reason; a reason that could relate to early man more than such complex ideas, which are ideas leapt into the mind of modern scientists and students?

What is an egg? Simply an 'entry portal' into this world. A device to offer life. And what animal is seen in terms of this unique device and portal?.. It is the fish. Again, it is the snake - a symbol of the life force - that results in the device, which gives life.

The Silk creator deity, Cneph, mentioned above had been represented as a serpent with an egg thrusting from his mouth, similar to the Ohio Serpent Mound and other areas. From this egg proceeded the deity Ptah, Phtha or Ptah instant the creative power and 'father god' who is the same as the Indian Brahma. These Brahma have been related simply by scholars to the Jewish Essene community and also to Mithra we mentioned before. Mithra was encircled by serpents and can be equated in many ways to Jesus, being a solar divinity and reborn on the 25th of December, like the sun. There is little wonder that a Local god such as Mithra and a Judaic semi-deity such as Jesus be associated when one understands that the folds of the ancient serpent cult had been so all-encompassing that they encircled the globe like a Leviathan. We can even look at elements of this when Jesus might be equated to the Brazen Serpent regarding Moses; when we are told to be wise as serpents and that he even reduce his shroud or skin as soon as crucified upon the cross. In addition, snakes are still to this day nailed to trees in certain parts of Africa for a sacrifice landscaping	in Colorado Springs for our sins and for treatment remedies.

And so we have circular typical monuments and serpent mounds associated with the ovum, which from all the evidence in this article simply gives us the conclusion why these were places of rebirth. One would push through the symbolic circle, or even out of the egg and slough off of the old skin. But, there is more evidence yet to be unearthed plus which reveals this sloughing for the skin linked with these ancient websites.

The classical Greeks frequently portrayed a serpent squeezing between two upright stones, which they called Petrae Ambrosiae (stone or rock ambrosia); noting that Ambrosia is the nectar and Elixir of the gods. According to the 19th Century archaeologist, Bryant, Stonehenge was seen as Amber stones having nearby Amesbury - previously Ambrosbury - as proof. In this way, the particular healing abilities of the megalithic gemstones is attributed to the serpent. In reality we do still find remnants of this in many stories about dragons, who protect, serve and heal those ancient people of the stones.

The particular antiquarian and stone circle spotter extraordinaire William Stukely also found 2 other 'serpent temples, ' one particular at Shap in Westmorland along with the other at Classerness in the tropical isle of Lewis. In fact Stukely thought that the Greek legend of Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth alluded in order to his building a serpentine temple. In fact Cadmus was turned into a serpent (or followed the serpent cult) and stone temples were constructed in his and Harmonia's honour. Pausanius helps us along and highlights that "In the road between Thebes and Gilsas, you may see a location encircled by select stones, that this Thebans call The Serpent's Mind. " So, ancient tales could in fact be clues to the genuine identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real details may in fact be real and even literal places and monuments. Places that, perhaps, snakes were held in substantial esteem by the ancient ophites or perhaps serpent worshippers of the world.

There are many even more texts mentioning dragons and serpents, such as the one that Taxiles showed in order to Alexander the Great and which was holy to Dionysus. It was said to be associated with enormous size, walled around plus resided in a low, deep location. It is our conjecture that such places, like Stonehenge, were 'portals' or 'gateways' to the 'land for the serpents; ' places of thriller and rebirth, where offerings in addition to sacrifices must be made to the serpent benefactor.

Indeed, there is plenty of facts now from people such as Paul Devereux that show such areas were also great resonance boosters. That is definitely, they amplified sound in a lot of ways, thus creating the booming noise of the dragon. They even head out as far as saying that the resonance makes spiral and serpent wave-like figures from the dust and smoke, given that the sound wave carries the allergens along its serpentine path. The serpent could truly have been found to rise and heard to roar.

However, most people are not aware that equivalent mounds and monuments also look elsewhere and often associated with the serpent or even dragon in similar ways.

Throughout 1871 at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, a certain Mr. Phene gave an account of his or her discovery in Argyllshire of a very similar mound, "several hundred feet lengthy, fifteen feet high and thirty feet broad. "

The end tapered away, while a round cairn, which he presumed as the solar disk above the head of your "Egyptian uraeus", surmounted the head.

Indeed this is not a "one off. " In the Zend Avesta of the Zoroastrians one of the heroes takes a rest on the he thinks is a bank instructions only to find out that it was a green fish!

Iphicrates related that in Mauritania "there were dragons of such extent that grass grew up prove backs. " Thus showing the particular highly likely chance that tales of massive dragons in far-off lands could easily be Snake Mounds.

Other instances of Serpent Mounds however are to be found mentioned by simply Strabo (Lib xv. P. 1022) where two dragons are believed to have resided in the mountains regarding India, one eighty cubits prolonged and the other one hundred and forty. Posidonius also tells of one in Syria, which was so large that horse riders on either side could not see each other. Each 'scale' seemed to be as big as a shield, so that a man "might ride into his mouth. " Bryant concurs with the opinion that these must be ruins of Ophite temples.

And what were these Temples or wats used for?

In ancient Egyptian papyri and in the Mesoamerican, codex borgia there are instances or tales of your King entering the serpent in addition to going through it in-order to be resurrected - much like those we find inside the myth of Osiris.

A book believed to have been written by Votan (Quetzalcoatl) within the language of the Quiches and thought to have been in the possession of Nunez entre ma Vega, the Bishop of Chiapas, has some revealing elements - thus revealing that the Bishop tried to lose it. Votan says he still left Valum Chivim [4] and came to the New World in order to apportion land among seven loved ones who came with him and were said to be culebra or of snake origin. Passing the "land associated with thirteen snakes" he arrived in Valum Votan, founding the city of Nachan (City of Snakes), thought to be modern day Palenque, possibly around 15 BC or even earlier. Votan is said to get made four trips to the eastern and even to have visited Solomon.

Exciting to Serpent Mounds however is a description of a subterranean passage, which can be said to terminate at the root of "heaven. " This was called a "snake's hole" and Votan was only granted in because he was the son of an snake. Surely this can only signify Votan was an initiate in the serpent cult and that there was the ritualised Serpent Mound or pyramid which led to snake heaven or Patala.

The Fenian heroes regarding ancient Ireland are recorded orally in song and one of them, Fionn, was their 'dragon slayer. ' One of the legends tells us that:

"It resembles a great mound, its teeth were yawning wide;

There might lie concealed, though great its bear,

A hundred champions in its eye-pits.

A more elevated in height than eight men,

Appeared to be its tail, which was erect above its back;

Thicker was the a lot of slender part of its tail,

Compared to the forest oak which was sunk because of the flood. "

Fionn asked exactly where this great monster had come from together with was told, "From Greece, to be able to demand battle from the Fenians. inch It seems that the serpent worshippers had come to Ireland, believed to be from A holiday in greece, and had fought the ancient inhabitants, leaving behind such terror of them which they became symbolized as this great 'dragon mound. ' Fionn, it is said, opened the side of the dragon and unveiled the men, going on to kill it. It may be that there is a mixture of wartime fact integrated with ritualistic truth in this star. Emerging from the side of the dragon, as in other myths, gives fresh life. In this way, it is no dissimilar to the Celtic cauldron of rebirth - something else also linked intricately to the serpent.....

Notes

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2	John Bathurst Dean in Worship with the Serpent Traced Throughout the World and the Traditions Referred to the Events in Heaven (1830). Deane also believed the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims - which was a conical rock - resolved itself into Los angeles Ab Ir - the 'Temple of the Serpent Sun. '

3	Hargrave Jennings, Ophiolatreia

4	Chivim is a Hebrew word, meaning "sons of the girl serpent" (or Eve) and might imply a greater knowledge of this journey from a Judaic perspective.