Throughout many years and with more

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

Now in another turn in the tale of the serpent I uncover one of the ancient truths about dragons, remembering that in fantasy 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 reasons. Firstly that this is the last place 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 seem 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 is it doesn't 'Dragon Guardian' of the East in order to Stonehenge's Secret of the West. Certainly it is thought that the two ancient constructions actually do share the same timeline and can very well have born relationship to each other, if indeed ancient man provided the same beliefs and travelled extensively, as is the growing belief of many scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also directly north of that infamous serpent serenidad, Avebury.

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

Although some currently have argued whether Avebury should actually have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that even while far back as the 17th centuries there was a Mr Aubury exactly 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, typically the 'Ave' reverts back to the root involving 'Eve' which we know means 'female serpent. ' The pathway involving Avebury passes through a large spherical Temple of the sun emerging and winding again and ending through an oddly, not quite circular head rapid directly in line with 'Snakes Head Hill' (Hackpen. ) The central circle 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 ring it is recharged for new life.

Inside Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar images with the symbol of the snake covering the solar disc, emerging mind erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it is the same image! Adding landscaping	in Colorado Springs to this, which the snake is often depicted with the old Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from its emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life simple the great circle of Avebury merely has to be the 'solar disk' along with 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 Circles of Europe are strangely similar to the Temples of Quetzalcoatl, which are "circular, and the one dedicated to their worship in Mexico, was came into by a door like unto your mouth of a serpent. " [3] A very similar ritualistic inference to the people based around Avebury and other Rock Circles.

John Bathurst Deane points out in his book on serpent worship, "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 attribute, and the most magnificent; but, probably, one of the most sacred of them all. These were erected as the Ophite hierogram, the serpent passing through a circle. "

This particular hierogram is the symbol of the serpent, a circle with a snake getting through it, like a needle and bond. He continues, "They were composed, like the circular temples, of a wide variety of Baitulia, or amber stones, consequently arranged as to describe the mystic circle, through which the still a lot more mystic serpent trailed his majestic form. "

And this is the reality of the Stone Circles and bodily hierograms: that they were re-birthing groups, a being born again through the nature, through the circle. We can even create a remarkable deduction from the strange word "baitulia" mentioned above by Deane. These are betyl stones or serpents ovum. In Wales the serpents have been said to emerge and congregate upon 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 amongst the 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 tortue 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 looking for them.

The egg, Cosmic Egg or Cosmogenic Egg is generally seen with the serpent - such as the symbol of the Orphic Egg cell which is shown with a snake covered around it. From the serpent pile of Ohio to Mithras and Cneph, the egg is connected with serpent worship. Why? According to the majority of scholars it is the emblem of the repetitive 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 might relate to early man more than this sort 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 offer life. And what animal is seen pertaining to this unique device and portal?.. It is the fish. Again, it is the snake - a symbol of the life force - that makes the device, which gives life.

The Egyptian creator deity, Cneph, mentioned above was basically represented as a serpent with an egg thrusting from his mouth, the same as the Ohio Serpent Mound and other locations. From this egg proceeded the deity Ptah, Phtha or Ptah simple 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 local community and also to Mithra we mentioned previously. 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 linked when one understands that the retracts of the ancient serpent cult have been so all-encompassing that they encircled the world like a Leviathan. We can even watch elements of this when Jesus might be equated to the Brazen Serpent of Moses; when we are told to be smart as serpents and that he even get rid of his shroud or skin once crucified upon the cross. In addition, snakes are still to this day nailed to be able to trees in certain parts of Africa as a sacrifice for our sins and for treatment remedies.

And so we have circular ancient monuments and serpent mounds associated with the ovum, which from all the evidence here simply gives us the conclusion that these were places of rebirth. You might push through the symbolic circle, or perhaps out of the egg and slough from the old skin. But, there is even more evidence yet to be unearthed and which reveals this sloughing in 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 nectar and Elixir of the gods. According to the 19th Century archaeologist, Bryant, Stonehenge was seen as Amber stones 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 mend those ancient people of the stones.

The particular antiquarian and stone circle spotter extraordinaire William Stukely also found 2 other 'serpent temples, ' a person 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 to be able to his building a serpentine temple. The truth is Cadmus was turned into a serpent (or followed the serpent cult) and stone temples were erected 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, that this Thebans call The Serpent's Mind. " So, ancient tales may well in fact be clues to the realistic identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real details may in fact be real together with literal places and monuments. Places that, perhaps, snakes were held in big 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 in order to Alexander the Great and which was almost holy to Dionysus. It was said to be involving enormous size, walled around and even resided in a low, deep place. It is our conjecture that this kind of places, like Stonehenge, were 'portals' or 'gateways' to the 'land for the serpents; ' places of unknown and rebirth, where offerings together with sacrifices must be made to the serpent benefactor.

Indeed, there is plenty of proof 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 sound of the dragon. They even visit as far as saying that the resonance generates spiral and serpent wave-like models from the dust and smoke, as the sound wave carries the debris along its serpentine path. 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 appear elsewhere and often associated with the serpent or perhaps dragon in similar ways.

Within 1871 at the meeting of the Indian Association in Edinburgh, a certain Mr. Phene gave an account of his discovery in Argyllshire of a related mound, "several hundred feet longer, fifteen feet high and 25 feet broad. "

The end tapered away, while a round cairn, which he presumed to be the solar disk above the head in the "Egyptian uraeus", surmounted the head.

Without a doubt 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 rapid 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 particular highly likely chance that reports of massive dragons in far-off lands could easily be Serpent Mounds.

Other instances of Serpent Mounds however are to be found mentioned by Strabo (Lib xv. P. 1022) where two dragons are thought to have resided in the mountains of India, one eighty cubits lengthy and the other one hundred and fourty. Posidonius also tells of one in Syria, which was so large that equine riders on either side weren't able to see each other. Each 'scale' appeared to be as big as a shield, so that a male "might ride into his mouth. " Bryant concurs with the notion that these must be ruins of Ophite temples.

And what were these Temples used for?

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

A book believed to have been written by Votan (Quetzalcoatl) inside the language of the Quiches and considered 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 burn up it. Votan says he remaining Valum Chivim [4] and came to the New World to apportion land among seven individuals who came with him and were said to be culebra or of snake origin. Passing the "land involving thirteen snakes" he arrived in Valum Votan, founding the city of Nachan (City of Snakes), thought to be modern-day Palenque, possibly around 15 B. C. or even earlier. Votan is said to obtain made four trips to the far east and even to have visited Solomon.

Intriguing to Serpent Mounds however is 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 your snake. Surely this can only means that Votan was an initiate within 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 involving 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 tell a lie concealed, though great its fury,

A hundred champions in its eye-pits.

Higher in height than eight men,

Had been 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 by the flood. "

Fionn asked in which this great monster had come from plus 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 residents, 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 introduced the men, going on to kill it. It could be that there is a mixture of wartime fact constructed in with ritualistic truth in this tale. Emerging from the side of the monster, as in other myths, gives fresh 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 its Traditions Referred to the Events in Paradise (1830). Deane also believed the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims - which was a conical stone - 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 woman serpent" (or Eve) and may possibly imply a greater knowledge of this voyage from a Judaic perspective.