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whitepolaris · 4 years ago

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Serpent Mound

Thousands of years ago, a giant meteorite hit the earth in southern Ohio, creating a vast crater. Humans found this magical hole and decided to build one of the earth’s most famous ancient structures on the edge of it. When exactly that happened isn’t known. As it turns out, we are even less certain of who was behind this structure, which today is called the Serpent Mound. While it may have been a religious or mythical symbol to its makers, no one can say precisely why this mound was built, who built it, and why it was built here, in Ohio.

What is certain is that this ancient Ohio mystery is the finest serpent effigy in the United States, and it actually is the largest effigy mound in the country. The crescent-shaped mound depicts a snake with a spiral-coiled tail and an open mouth that appears to be swallowing an egg or chasing a frog. Others say the mound represents a horned snake, a symbol in Indian culture. Three feet high and 1,300 feet (nearly a quarter-mile) long, it is located on a plateau in the Brush Creek Valley of Adams County. The grass-covered mound is between twenty and twenty-five feet in width. Intriguingly, there are similar serpent effigies in Ontario, Kansas, Illinois, and Scotland. While mounds are not uncommon in Ohio, effigy mounds are.

This ancient mysterious mound is located in a cryptoexplosion area, which contains faulted and folded bedrock produce by some unexplained underground blast, probably as a result of a meteoritic or volcanic explosion. The meteorite theory is the one most favored today. Its cryptoexplosive origin has caused the Serpent Mound to become misshapen over the years. Some of the rock formation around it rose a thousand feet above ground, while others sank four hundred feet.

As one of Ohio’s effigy mounds, the Serpent Mound is slowly has come to be appreciated. Today it is in a fifty-four-acre park and is a National Historic Landmark.

But the origin of the mound remains something of an academic controversy. Early chroniclers Ephraim Squire and Edwin Davis of Chilicothe first surveyed the site in 1846. Harvard University archaeologists Frederic Ward Putnam visited it in 1883 and again in 1885. On his second visit, Patnam was so worried that vandals and erosion would destroy the ancient work that he purchased it in the name of the university’s Peabody Museum. From 1887 to 1889, he excavated the effigy and nearby concial mounds but found no human bones or artifacts within the serpent. Whatever its purpose, it was not used for burials.

The most famous drawing of the great Serpent Mound was made by the Reverend J.P. MacLean of Hamilton, Ohio. MacLean was a well-known writer on mound and related topics. During the summer of 1884, while in the employ of the Bureau of Ethnology, he visited the Serpent Mound, taking with him a surveyor, and made a comprehensive and careful plan for the Bureau. Before him, all of the authors and commentators had published reports in which they explained the oval-the egg the serpent seems to be swallowing-as the end of the world. Putnam, who excavated the locality a year before MacLean’s visit, noticed that between the oval figure and the nearby ledge was a slightly raised, circular ridge of earth, from either side of which a curved ridge extended toward the sides of the oval figure. MacLean’s research and measurements demonstrated that these ridges were part of what is either or a very important portion of the original figure. He concluded that it bore a close resemblance to a frog, a novel idea that often has been forgotten in modern descriptions of the Serpent Mound.

MacLean, after describing three figures, put forth this query: “Does the frog represent the creature, the egg the passive, and the serpent the destructive power of nature?”

What then are readers of Weird Ohio to make of that frog? We are reminded of the great early-twentieth-century intellectual Charles Fort, who wrote, “We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.” Perhaps the answer lies in the frog. Frogs are falling from the sky? Frogs as a sign of rebirth from the waters? Frogs becoming princes? When traveling across such weird landscapes, we must keep an open mind to the answers, and question, found outside the oval.

In the late nineteenth century, Putnam continued his excavations of the Serpent Mound and attributed the creation of the great serpent effigy to the builders of two nearby burial mounds, which he also excavated. He felt they belonged to the culture called the Adena (800 B.C.-A.D. 100). Adena burial mounds are found near the Serpent Mound, and since the Adena Indians were known for their earthworks, it was believed that they were the builders of the mound. (A third burial mound exists near the effigy’s tail.)

Recent, twentieth-century, excavations of the Serpent Mound revealed wood charcoal that could be radio-carbon-dated. That research placed the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000-1550) as the builders of the mound. The debate about who really built it continues, but whoever its creators are, the mound has gained a reputation as a spiritual place where strange things occasionally happen. It is a New Age power center, believers say. Within the oval, a pile of stones shows evidence of a fire. This, scientists believe, indicates that it was also a signal mound.

The function or symbolic meaning of the Serpent Mound may be a mystery, but we do know that aspects of it are clearly astronomically aligned. The head is aligned with the summer solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise. Some people claim that the Indians may have built in the wake of Halley’s Comet, which appeared in 1066. Today encounters with ghosts and other spooks around the Serpent Mound are often reported, which some people even telling of experiencing psychic epiphanies near the mound.

Visitors may walk along a footpath surrounding the Serpent Mound and experience the mystery and power of this monument effigy for themselves. They can climb a twenty-five-foot tower to get an aerial look at what may be an ancient sky calendar. A small museum contains exhibits of the effigy mound and the geology of the surrounding area. The Ohio Historical Society manages the mound. The Serpent Mound State Memorial is off state Route 73, about ten miles north of Peebles in Adams County.

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