Lecture exploring ancient North America looking at rock chambers of New England, dolmens, earthworks of the Ohio Valley and the ‘giants’ that ruled this part of the world.
Serpent Mound is the world’s largest surviving effigy mound—a mound in the shape of an animal—from the prehistoric era. Located in southern Ohio. Serpent Mound is 411-meter-long (1348-feet-long).
Serpent Mound resembles a giant sinuous snake with a curled tail at the west end, a head at the east end, and seven winding coils in between. The design of the mound also matches the shape of the constellation Draco, with the star Thuban (Alpha Draconis, which served as the north pole star from the 4th to 2nd millennium B.C.) lining up with the first curve in the snake’s torso from the head. This alignment suggests another purpose for Serpent Mound: a kind of compass that helps determine true north. Two more (known) mounds exist, Serpent Mound Park in Ontario Canada (which has been closed since 2009), and Loch Nell Serpent Mound in Scotland.
The origins of Serpent Mound are still a mystery. What do you think?
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