Throughout many years and with more air-miles

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

Now in another twist in the tale of the serpent I uncover one of the ancient truths regarding dragons, remembering that in fable and in ancient history, dragons and even serpents are intertwined like the shelves of a pit viper.

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

Evidence of serpent worship in the Unites states can largely be shown with the many serpent mounds that show up across the continent. The most famous by a long way is the 'Serpent Mound' of Ohio, Adams County. According to some [1] this marvellous mound is related to Stonehenge and they say that it's the '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 also very well have born relationship to each other, if indeed ancient man contributed the same beliefs and travelled substantially, as is the growing belief of countless scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also directly north of that infamous serpent forehead, Avebury.

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

Although some have got argued whether Avebury should ever before have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that while far back as the 17th 1 there was a Mr Aubury just who said himself that it should be pronounced and spelt Aubury (found inside the legier-book of Malmesbury Abbey. )

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

Inside Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar imagery with the symbol of the snake going over the solar disc, emerging brain erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it is the same image! Adding to this, that this snake is often depicted with the old Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from its emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life - the great circle of Avebury easily has to be the 'solar disk' and the pathway the snake - hence illustrating in a painfully labour-intensive approach, the ritualistic path of the serpent worshipper towards new life.

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

John Bathurst Deane clarifies in his book on serpent worship, "A third description of wats or temples consecrated to the service of the Ophites god remains to be considered: and these weren't only the most rare, the most characteristic, and the most magnificent; but, probably, by far the most sacred of them all. These were erected in the form of the Ophite hierogram, the serpent passing through a circle. "

This hierogram is the symbol of the snake, a circle with a snake getting through it, like a needle and twine. He continues, "They were constructed, like the circular temples, of a variety of Baitulia, or amber stones, so arranged as to describe the marvel circle, through which the still even more mystic serpent trailed his regal form. "

And this is the fact of the Stone Circles and physical hierograms: that they were re-birthing sectors, a being born again through the spirit, through the circle. We can even make a remarkable deduction from the strange expression "baitulia" mentioned above by Deane. These are generally betyl stones or serpents ova. In Wales the serpents had been said to emerge and congregate in Midsummer's Eve to blow in the Serpent Stone-Eggs or Glain Neidr, which is reminiscent of the Roman vem som st?r Pliny's tale of this activity amongst the Gauls. These serpent stones were said to be coloured pebbles, which gave 'second sight' and healing. Midsummer's Eve was the night when the tortue would role themselves into hissing balls and create the glain for ones, also known as 'snake stone' or 'Druid's egg. ' In Welsh fantasy even Merlin himself went in search of them.

The egg, Cosmic Egg or Cosmogenic Egg is universally seen with the serpent - as in the symbol of the Orphic For ones which is shown with a snake twisted around it. From the serpent pile of Ohio to Mithras plus Cneph, the egg is linked to serpent worship. Why? According to many scholars it is the emblem of the mundane elements coming from the creating god. It is therefore a symbol of the elements of the universe. Nevertheless surely there is also another reason; a reason that might 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 with regards to this unique device and portal?.. It is the fish. Again, it is the snake - a symbol of the life force - that generates the device, which gives life.

The Egyptian 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 locations. From this egg proceeded the deity Ptah, Phtha or Ptah tutorial 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 group and also to Mithra we mentioned earlier. Mithra was encircled by tortue and can be equated in many ways to Jesus, being a solar divinity and reborn on the 25th of December, just like the sun. There is little wonder that a Persian god such as Mithra and a Judaic semi-deity such as Jesus be connected when one understands that the folds of the ancient serpent cult have been so all-encompassing that they encircled the world like a Leviathan. We can even see elements of this when Jesus might be equated to the Brazen Serpent of Moses; when we are told to be wise as serpents and that he even drop his shroud or skin when crucified upon the cross. As an aside, snakes are still to this day nailed to be able to trees in certain parts of Africa for a sacrifice for our sins and for treatment remedies.

And so we have circular typical monuments and serpent mounds associated with the for ones, which from all the evidence in this article simply gives us the conclusion the particular were places of rebirth. You might push through the symbolic circle, or perhaps out of the egg and slough off of the old skin. But, there is a lot more evidence yet to be unearthed and even which reveals this sloughing of your skin linked with these ancient web sites.

The classical Greeks frequently depicted a serpent squeezing between two upright stones, which they called Petrae Ambrosiae (stone or rock ambrosia); noting that Ambrosia is the licor and Elixir of the gods. In line with the 19th Century archaeologist, Bryant, Stonehenge was seen as Amber stones by using nearby Amesbury - previously Ambrosbury - as proof. In this way, typically the healing abilities of the megalithic rocks is attributed to the serpent. The truth is we do still find records of this in many stories about dragons, who protect, serve and recover those ancient people of the stones.

The 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 island 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 built in his and Harmonia's honour. Pausanius helps us along and points out that "In the road between Thebes and Gilsas, you may see a place encircled by select stones, that this Thebans call The Serpent's Brain. " So, ancient tales may in fact be clues to the proper identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real identities may in fact be real together with literal places and monuments. Places where, perhaps, snakes were held in high esteem by the ancient ophites or serpent worshippers of the world.

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

Indeed, there is plenty of facts now from people such as John Devereux that show such areas were also great resonance boosters. Which is, they amplified sound in strange ways, thus creating the booming sound of the dragon. They even choose as far as saying that the resonance results in spiral and serpent wave-like styles from the dust and smoke, for the sound wave carries the allergens along its serpentine path. Typically the serpent could truly have been observed to rise and heard to roar.

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

Throughout 1871 at the meeting of the United kingdom Association in Edinburgh, a certain Mr. Phene gave an account of his or her discovery in Argyllshire of a related mound, "several hundred feet lengthy, fifteen feet high and twenty five feet broad. "

The tail tapered away, while a rounded cairn, which he presumed to be the solar disk above the head on the "Egyptian uraeus", surmounted the head.

Certainly this is not a "one off. inch In the Zend Avesta of the Zoroastrians one of the heroes takes a rest of what he thinks is a bank -- only to find out that it was a green snake!

Iphicrates related that in Mauritania "there were dragons of these kinds of extent that grass grew up troubles backs. " Thus showing the highly likely chance that stories 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 said to have resided in the mountains regarding India, one eighty cubits very long 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 hardly see each other. Each 'scale' appeared to be as big as a shield, so that a person "might ride into his oral cavity. " Bryant concurs with the notion 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 this King entering the serpent in addition to going through it in-order to be resurrected - much like those we find within the myth of Osiris.

A book said to have been written by Votan (Quetzalcoatl) in the language of the Quiches and considered to have been in the possession of Nunez de la Vega, the Bishop of Chiapas, has some revealing elements - hence revealing that the Bishop tried to shed it. Votan says he left Valum landscaping	in Colorado Springs Chivim [4] and came to the New World to be able to apportion land among seven young families who came with him and have been said to be culebra or of serpent origin. Passing the "land of thirteen snakes" he arrived in Valum Votan, founding the city of Nachan (City of Snakes), thought to be present day Palenque, possibly around 15 B. C. or even earlier. Votan is said to acquire made four trips to the east and even to have visited Solomon.

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

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

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

There might are located concealed, though great its rage,

A hundred champions in its eye-pits.

A more elevated in height than eight men,

Was initially its tail, which was erect previously mentioned its back;

Thicker was the the majority of slender part of its tail,

Than the forest oak which was sunk with the flood. "

Fionn asked in which this great monster had come from and even was told, "From Greece, in order to demand battle from the Fenians. inch It seems that the serpent worshippers had come to Ireland, believed to be from Portugal, and had fought the ancient residents, leaving behind such terror of them that they can became symbolized as this great 'dragon mound. ' Fionn, it is said, opened up the side of the dragon and published the men, going on to kill it. It might be that there is a mixture of wartime fact built-in with ritualistic truth in this star. Emerging from the side of the dragon, as in other myths, gives new life. In this way, it is no different 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 in the Serpent Traced Throughout the World and it is Traditions Referred to the Events in Heaven (1830). Deane also believed how the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims - which was a conical stone - resolved itself into Ca 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 could imply a greater knowledge of this journey from a Judaic perspective.