Throughout many years and with more air-miles compared

Throughout many years and with more air-miles compared to I care to remember, I have journeyed on a quest to uncover the strategies of the ancient landscaping	in Colorado Springs serpent cults i reveal in my books. But everytime I journey, I discover something totally new. There truly is a whole new universe opening up before our eyes plus suddenly and often without warning we are confronted with a re-interpretation of history that we are simply just not looking for.

Now in another turn in the tale of the serpent We uncover one of the ancient truths regarding 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 come from America of all places, for two reasons. Firstly that this is the last spot we would even consider looking for dragons, and secondly because the evidence is quite profound here in archaeological terms.

The evidence of serpent worship in the Americas can largely be shown via the many serpent mounds that look across the continent. The most famous by a long 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 is the 'Dragon Guardian' of the East to Stonehenge's Secret of the West. Indeed it is thought that the two ancient buildings actually do share the same timeline and could very well have born relationship to one another, if indeed ancient man contributed the same beliefs and travelled widely, as is the growing belief of several scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also immediately north of that infamous serpent brow, Avebury.

Avebury is a huge British Temple and stone monument erected all-around 2, 000 BC in the form of a serpent when seen through the 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 snake or fire snake.

Although some possess argued whether Avebury should actually have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that even while far back as the 17th millennium there was a Mr Aubury who else 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 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 then winding again and ending through an oddly, not quite circular head instant directly in line with 'Snakes Head Hill' (Hackpen. ) The central round is symbolic of the sun, which is 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 group of friends it is recharged for new life.

Inside Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar imagery with the symbol of the snake groing through the solar disc, emerging head erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it's the same image! Adding to this, the fact that snake is often depicted with the historical Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from the emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life : the great circle of Avebury simply has to be the 'solar disk' along with the pathway the snake - thus illustrating in a painfully labour-intensive method, 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, that have been "circular, and the one dedicated to his or her worship in Mexico, was went into by a door like unto your mouth of a serpent. " [3] A very similar ritualistic inference to prospects based around Avebury and other Natural stone Circles.

John Bathurst Deane points out 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 characteristic, and the most magnificent; but, probably, the most sacred of them all. These were erected as the Ophite hierogram, the serpent passing through a circle. "

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

And this is the real truth of the Stone Circles and bodily hierograms: that they were re-birthing groups, a being born again through the character, through the circle. We can even come up with a remarkable deduction from the strange phrase "baitulia" mentioned above by Deane. They are betyl stones or serpents eggs. In Wales the serpents had been said to emerge and congregate about Midsummer's Eve to blow in to the Serpent Stone-Eggs or Glain Neidr, which is reminiscent of the Roman vem som st?r Pliny's tale of this activity numerous Gauls. These serpent stones were said to be coloured pebbles, which presented '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 misconception even Merlin himself went in search of them.

The egg, Cosmic Ovum or Cosmogenic Egg is universally seen with the serpent - as in the symbol of the Orphic Ovum which is shown with a snake twisted around it. From the serpent mound of Ohio to Mithras plus Cneph, the egg is related to serpent worship. Why? According to almost all scholars it is the emblem of the routine elements coming from the creating god. It is therefore a symbol of the elements of the universe. Yet surely there is also another reason; a reason that would relate to early man more than such 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 offer 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 generates the device, which gives life.

The Egypt creator deity, Cneph, mentioned above was initially represented as a serpent with an egg cell thrusting from his mouth, the same as the Ohio Serpent Mound and other locations. From this egg proceeded the deity Ptah, Phtha or Ptah rapid the creative power and 'father god' who is the same as the Indian Brahma. These Brahma have been related by simply scholars to the Jewish Essene area and also to Mithra we mentioned previous. 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 Local god such as Mithra and a Judaic semi-deity such as Jesus be connected when one understands that the retracts of the ancient serpent cult have been so all-encompassing that they encircled the globe like a Leviathan. We can even check out elements of this when Jesus might be equated to the Brazen Serpent associated with Moses; when we are told to be clever as serpents and that he even reduce his shroud or skin as soon as crucified upon the cross. By the way, snakes are still to this day nailed to be able to trees in certain parts of Africa to be a sacrifice for our sins and for curing remedies.

And so we have circular ancient monuments and serpent mounds associated with the egg cell, which from all the evidence right here simply gives us the conclusion why these were places of rebirth. One could push through the symbolic circle, or perhaps out of the egg and slough from the old skin. But, there is more evidence yet to be unearthed plus which reveals this sloughing of the skin linked with these ancient internet sites.

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

Typically the antiquarian and stone circle spotter extraordinaire William Stukely also found a couple of other 'serpent temples, ' an individual at Shap in Westmorland along with the other at Classerness in the isle of Lewis. In fact Stukely thought that 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 built 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, which the Thebans call The Serpent's Head. " So, ancient tales may possibly in fact be clues to the authentic identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real identities may in fact be real and even literal places and monuments. Places that, perhaps, snakes were held in superior 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 sacred to Dionysus. It was said to be of enormous size, walled around plus resided in a low, deep spot. It is our conjecture that these kinds of places, like Stonehenge, were 'portals' or 'gateways' to the 'land with the serpents; ' places of hidden knowledge and rebirth, where offerings plus sacrifices must be made to the serpent benefactor.

Indeed, there is plenty of facts now from people such as Paul Devereux that show such places were also great resonance boosters. Which is, they amplified sound in unusual ways, thus creating the booming sound of the dragon. They even set off as far as saying that the resonance generates spiral and serpent wave-like patterns from the dust and smoke, as the sound wave carries the debris along its serpentine path. Typically the serpent could truly have been seen to rise and heard to roar.

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

Within 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 extended, fifteen feet high and 25 feet broad. "

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

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

Iphicrates related that in Mauritania "there were dragons of this kind of extent that grass grew up issues 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 very long and the other one hundred and fourty. Posidonius also tells of one in Syria, which was so large that horse riders on either side wasn't able to see each other. Each 'scale' seemed to be as big as a shield, so that a person "might ride into his mouth. " Bryant concurs with the belief 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 within the King entering the serpent and 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) inside 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 - consequently revealing that the Bishop tried to burn it. Votan says he left Valum Chivim [4] and came to the New World in order to apportion land among seven individuals 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 BC or even earlier. Votan is said to own made four trips to the east and even to have visited Solomon.

Interesting to Serpent Mounds however may be the description of a subterranean passage, which is 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 any snake. Surely this can only mean that Votan was an initiate inside the serpent cult and that there was some sort of 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 teeth were yawning wide;

There might lay 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 over its back;

Thicker was the many slender part of its tail,

Compared to the forest oak which was sunk by flood. "

Fionn asked where this great monster had come from together with was told, "From Greece, in order to demand battle from the Fenians. inches It seems that the serpent worshippers acquired come to Ireland, believed to be from A holiday in greece, and had fought the ancient habitants, 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 introduced 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 fresh 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 with the Serpent Traced Throughout the World and it is Traditions Referred to the Events in Paradise (1830). Deane also believed that this 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 possibly imply a greater knowledge of this voyage from a Judaic perspective.