Serpent Mound is a monumental sculpture of the Great Serpent. In many indigenous American traditions, this being appears in the sky as the Milky Way.
For most of us, living in or near cities, light pollution makes it impossible to fully appreciate or even to see the Milky Way.
They invited a number of scholars to contribute short essays to a Forum on how the Milky Way helped to shape the cultures, stories, and worldviews of ancient societies. I was one of those invited to contribute and I chose to write about Ohio’sSerpent Mound is a monumental sculpture of the Great Serpent, Lord of the Beneath World. In many indigenous American traditions, this huge and powerful being appears in the night sky as the Milky Way.
In contrast, Wisconsin had thousands of these mounds built between about AD 700 and 1150 by the aptly named Effigy Mound Culture. Many of them occur in groups, which appear to telling stories. We interpret this group of mounds as a depiction of the pivotal moment when First Woman mated with the Great Serpent and thereby acquired his powers of regeneration, which she then used to create all life on Earth. If this interpretation is correct, Serpent Mound isn’t just a sculpted portrait of the Lord of the Beneath World; it is a story written in the earth.
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