During the period of many years and with

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

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

We need to begin in America of all places, for two reasons. 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 Americas 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. Without a doubt it is thought that the two ancient set ups actually do share the same timeline and may even very well have born relationship to each other, if indeed ancient man embraced the same beliefs and travelled substantially, as is the growing belief of many scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also immediately north of that infamous serpent brow, Avebury.

Avebury is a huge British Forehead and stone monument erected close to 2, 000 BC in the form of a serpent when seen from sky. Once known as Abury which usually 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 argued whether Avebury should ever have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that while far back as the 17th a single there was a Mr Aubury who seem to said himself that it should be obvious 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 associated with Avebury passes through a large rounded Temple of the sun emerging and after that winding again and ending by having an oddly, not quite circular head rapid directly in line with 'Snakes Head Hill' (Hackpen. ) The central ring is symbolic of the sun, which can be the male principle in the creative process and is symbolized elsewhere as a bull or lion. Once the serpent has passed through or around this sun group of friends it is recharged for new life.

Throughout Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar imagery with the symbol of the snake groing through the solar disc, emerging brain erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it does not take same image! Adding to this, that the snake is often depicted with the ancient Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from the emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life instructions the great circle of Avebury easily has to be the 'solar disk' as well as the pathway the snake - thus illustrating in a painfully labour-intensive way, the ritualistic path of the serpent worshipper towards new life.

Typically the circular aspect of the Stone Groups of Europe are strangely similar to the Temples of Quetzalcoatl, which are "circular, and the one dedicated to his or her worship in Mexico, was got into by a door like unto the mouth of a serpent. " [3] A very similar ritualistic inference to those based around Avebury and other Stone Circles.

John Bathurst Deane clarifies in his book on serpent praise, "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 attribute, 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 snake passing through a circle. "

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

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

The egg, Cosmic Egg or Cosmogenic Egg is generally seen with the serpent - just as the symbol of the Orphic Ovum which is shown with a snake wrapped around it. From the serpent pile of Ohio to Mithras plus Cneph, the egg is associated with serpent worship. Why? According to almost all scholars it is the emblem of the ordinary elements coming from the creating god. It is therefore a symbol of the elements of the universe. But surely there is also another reason; a reason that may relate to early man more than this kind of complex ideas, which are ideas jumped into the mind of modern scientists and scholars?

What is an egg? Simply an 'entry portal' into this world. A device to give life. And what animal is seen in connection with this unique device and portal?.. It is the fish. Again, it is the snake - synonymous with the life force - that makes the device, which gives life.

The Silk creator deity, Cneph, mentioned above seemed to be represented as a serpent with an egg thrusting from his mouth, the same as the Ohio Serpent Mound and other areas. From this egg proceeded the deity Ptah, Phtha or Ptah -- the creative power and 'father god' who is the same as the Indian Brahma. These Brahma have been related by scholars to the Jewish Essene group and also to Mithra we mentioned previously. Mithra was encircled by tortue and can be equated in many ways to Christ, 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 linked when one understands that the folds up of the ancient serpent cult were so all-encompassing that they encircled the world like a Leviathan. We can even observe elements of this when Jesus is without a doubt equated to the Brazen Serpent of Moses; when we are told to be wise as serpents and that he even shed his shroud or skin once crucified upon the cross. As an aside, snakes are still to this day nailed to be able to trees in certain parts of Africa as being 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. One could push through the symbolic circle, or even out of the egg and slough off of the old skin. But, there is even more evidence yet to be unearthed in addition to which reveals this sloughing on the skin linked with these ancient websites.

The classical Greeks frequently portrayed a serpent squeezing between 2 upright stones, which they called Petrae Ambrosiae (stone or rock ambrosia); noting that Ambrosia is the licor and Elixir of the gods. Based on the 19th Century archaeologist, Bryant, Stonehenge was seen as Amber stones along with nearby Amesbury - previously Ambrosbury - as proof. In this way, typically the healing abilities of the megalithic gems is attributed to the serpent. In reality we do still find traces of this in many stories about dragons, who protect, serve and treat those ancient people of the stones.

The antiquarian and stone circle spotter extraordinaire William Stukely also found 2 other 'serpent temples, ' a person at Shap in Westmorland plus the other at Classerness in the isle of Lewis. In fact Stukely thought that all the Greek legend of Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth alluded 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 points out that "In the road between Thebes and Gilsas, you may see a location encircled by select stones, which the Thebans call The Serpent's Mind. " So, ancient tales may possibly in fact be clues to the proper identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real details may in fact be real and literal places and monuments. Places where, perhaps, snakes were held in increased esteem by the ancient ophites or even 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 sacred to Dionysus. It was said to be associated with enormous size, walled around together with resided in a low, deep location. It is our conjecture that this sort of places, like Stonehenge, were 'portals' or 'gateways' to the 'land belonging to the serpents; ' places of enigma and rebirth, where offerings and sacrifices must be made to the snake benefactor.

Indeed, there is plenty of proof now from people such as Paul Devereux that show such locations were also great resonance boosters. That is certainly, they amplified sound in peculiar ways, thus creating the booming audio of the dragon. They even proceed as far as saying that the resonance results in spiral and serpent wave-like designs from the dust and smoke, for the sound wave carries the contaminants along its serpentine path. Typically the serpent could truly have been witnessed to rise and heard to roar.

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

Throughout 1871 at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, a certain Mr. Phene gave an account of his discovery in Argyllshire of a equivalent mound, "several hundred feet prolonged, fifteen feet high and 25 feet broad. "

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

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

Iphicrates related that in Mauritania "there were dragons of these kinds of extent that grass grew up on the backs. " Thus showing the 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 Strabo (Lib xv. P. 1022) where two dragons are believed to have resided in the mountains regarding India, one eighty cubits extended and the other one hundred and forty. Posidonius also tells of one in Syria, which was so large that horses riders on either side cannot see each other. Each 'scale' had been as big as a shield, so that a person "might ride into his mouth area. " Bryant concurs with the opinion that these must be ruins of Ophite temples.

And what were these Wats or temples used for?

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

A book thought to have been written by Votan (Quetzalcoatl) inside 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 - and so revealing that the Bishop tried to burn up it. Votan says he remaining Valum Chivim [4] and came to the New World in order to apportion land among seven family members who came with him and were said to be culebra or of serpent origin. Passing the "land regarding thirteen snakes" he arrived in Valum Votan, founding the city of Nachan (City of Snakes), thought to be contemporary Palenque, possibly around 15 B. C. 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 will be 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 allowed in because he was the son of the snake. Surely this can only imply that Votan was an initiate within the serpent cult and that there was a ritualised Serpent Mound or pyramid which led to snake heaven or perhaps Patala.

The Fenian heroes associated with 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 jaws were yawning wide;

There might then lie concealed, though great its fury,

A hundred champions in its eye-pits.

Tall in height than eight men,

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

Thicker was the nearly all slender part of its tail,

Compared to forest oak which was sunk by flood. "

Fionn asked wherever this great monster had come from and even was told, "From Greece, to be able to demand battle from the Fenians. inches It seems that the serpent worshippers got come to Ireland, believed to be from Greece, and had fought the ancient occupants, leaving behind such terror of them that they became symbolized as this great 'dragon mound. ' Fionn, it is said, opened up the side of the dragon and launched the men, going on to kill it. It may be that there is a mixture of wartime fact integrated with ritualistic truth in this story. Emerging from the side of the monster, as in other myths, gives new life. In this way, it is no dissimilar to the Celtic cauldron of vitality - 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 Paradise (1830). Deane also believed the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims - which was a conical rock - resolved itself into Florida Ab Ir - the 'Temple of the Serpent Sun. '

3	Hargrave Jennings, Ophiolatreia

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