Throughout many years and with more air-miles

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

Now in another distort in the tale of the serpent I actually uncover one of the ancient truths regarding dragons, remembering that in myth 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 factors. 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 seem across the continent. The most famous by a good way is the 'Serpent Mound' of Kentkucky, Adams County. According to some [1] this marvellous pile is related to Stonehenge and they say that is it doesn't 'Dragon Guardian' of the East to Stonehenge's Secret of the West. Certainly it is thought that the two ancient buildings actually do share the same timeline and can very well have born relationship to each other, if indeed ancient man shared the same beliefs and travelled thoroughly, as is the growing belief of several scholars. Of course Stonehenge is also directly north of that infamous serpent forehead, Avebury.

Avebury is a huge British Brow and stone monument erected about 2, 000 BC in the form of a serpent when seen in the sky. Once known as Abury which in turn 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 snake or fire snake.

Although some need argued whether Avebury should ever before have been Abury or Aubury (serpent sun) the fact remains that at the same time far back as the 17th centuries there was a Mr Aubury who said himself that it should be noticable and spelt Aubury (found within the legier-book of Malmesbury Abbey. )

Of course even as Ave Bury, the 'Ave' reverts back to the root involving 'Eve' which we know means 'female serpent. ' The pathway involving Avebury passes through a large round Temple of the sun emerging and after that winding again and ending having an oddly, not quite circular head - directly in line with 'Snakes Head Hill' (Hackpen. ) The central round is symbolic of the sun, that is the male principle in the creative process 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.

In Egyptian hieroglyphs we can see similar imagery with the symbol of the snake covering the solar disc, emerging brain erect. Overlaid onto Avebury it is the same image! Adding to this, the fact that snake is often depicted with the ancient Egyptian Ankh symbol dangling from the emergent neck - the Ankh being a symbol of new life aid the great circle of Avebury merely has to be the 'solar disk' and the pathway the snake - thus illustrating in a painfully labour-intensive way, the ritualistic path of the snake worshipper towards new life.

The circular aspect of the Stone Circles of Europe are strangely similar to the Temples of Quetzalcoatl, that were "circular, and the one dedicated to his or her worship in Mexico, was accessed 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 explains in his book on serpent worship, "A third description of wats or temples consecrated to the service of the Ophites god remains to be considered: and these were not only the most rare, the most feature, and the most magnificent; but, probably, probably the most sacred of them all. These were erected as the Ophite hierogram, the snake passing through a circle. "

This specific hierogram is the symbol of the snake, a circle with a snake getting through it, like a needle and thread. He continues, "They were consisting, like the circular temples, of a volume of Baitulia, or amber stones, thus arranged as to describe the mystic circle, through which the still a lot more mystic serpent trailed his regal form. "

And this is the real truth of the Stone Circles and actual hierograms: that they were re-birthing sectors, a being born again through the soul, through the circle. We can even come up with a remarkable deduction from the strange word "baitulia" mentioned above by Deane. These are generally betyl stones or serpents eggs. In Wales the serpents were said to emerge and congregate upon Midsummer's Eve to blow into the Serpent Stone-Eggs or Glain Neidr, which is reminiscent of the Roman historian Pliny's tale of this activity amongst the Gauls. These serpent stones had been said to be coloured pebbles, which offered 'second sight' and healing. Midsummer's Eve was the night when the tortue would role themselves into hissing balls and create the glain egg, 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 - as with the symbol of the Orphic Ovum which is shown with a snake bandaged around it. From the serpent pile of Ohio to Mithras and even Cneph, the egg is associated with serpent worship. Why? According to a lot of scholars it is the emblem of the mundane elements coming from the creating god. It is therefore a symbol of the elements of the universe. Nevertheless surely there is also another reason; a reason that would relate to early man more than this kind of complex ideas, which are ideas sprung into the mind of modern scientists and scholars?

What is an egg? Simply an 'entry portal' into this world. A device to give life. And what animal is seen regarding this unique device and portal?.. It is the fish. Again, it is the snake - synonymous with the life force - that makes the device, which gives life.

The Egyptian creator deity, Cneph, mentioned above was represented as a serpent with an egg thrusting from his mouth, similar to the Ohio Serpent Mound and other areas. 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 simply by scholars to the Jewish Essene area and also to Mithra we mentioned earlier. 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, like the sun. There is little wonder that a Local god such as Mithra and a Judaic semi-deity such as Jesus be associated when one understands that the folds of the ancient serpent cult were so all-encompassing that they encircled the world like a Leviathan. We can even observe elements of this when Jesus will be equated to the Brazen Serpent of Moses; when we are told to be clever as serpents and that he even get rid of his shroud or skin once crucified upon the cross. Furthermore, snakes are still to this day nailed to trees in certain parts of Africa as a sacrifice for our sins and for recovery remedies.

And so we have circular typical monuments and serpent mounds associated with the for ones, which from all the evidence in this article simply gives us the conclusion that these were places of rebirth. One could push through the symbolic circle, or perhaps out of the egg and slough off of the old skin. But, there is more evidence yet to be unearthed together with which reveals this sloughing of the skin linked with these ancient sites.

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

The particular antiquarian and stone circle spotter extraordinaire William Stukely also found two other 'serpent temples, ' a single at Shap in Westmorland along with the other at Classerness in the island of Lewis. In fact Stukely thought that all the Greek legend of Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth alluded to be able to his building a serpentine temple. Actually 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 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 Brain. " So, ancient tales may in fact be clues to the serious identities of the serpents and dragons of fable, and these real identities may in fact be real in addition to literal places and monuments. Places where, perhaps, snakes were held in large esteem by the ancient ophites or perhaps serpent worshippers of the world.

There are many a lot more texts mentioning dragons and tortue, such as the one that Taxiles showed to be able to Alexander the Great and which was almost holy to Dionysus. It was said to be of enormous size, walled around together with resided in a low, deep place. It is our conjecture that these kinds of places, like Stonehenge, were 'portals' or 'gateways' to the 'land from the serpents; ' places of puzzle and rebirth, where offerings in addition to sacrifices must be made to the snake benefactor.

Indeed, there is plenty of proof now from people such as John Devereux that show such places were also great resonance boosters. That is certainly, they amplified sound in strange ways, thus creating the booming noise of the dragon. They even move as far as saying that the resonance creates spiral and serpent wave-like styles from the dust and smoke, when the sound wave carries the debris along its serpentine path. Typically the serpent could truly have been noticed to rise and heard to roar.

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

Throughout 1871 at the meeting of the English Association in Edinburgh, a certain Mister. Phene gave an account of his / her discovery in Argyllshire of a comparable mound, "several hundred feet very long, fifteen feet high and 25 feet broad. "

The tail tapered away, while a circular cairn, which he presumed to be the solar disk above the head on 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 instructions only to find out that it was a green fish!

Iphicrates related that in Mauritania "there were dragons of such extent that grass grew up prove backs. " Thus showing the particular highly likely chance landscaping	in Colorado Springs that stories of massive dragons in far-off lands could easily be Snake Mounds.

Other instances of Serpent Mounds however are to be found mentioned simply by Strabo (Lib xv. P. 1022) where two dragons are believed to have resided in the mountains associated with India, one eighty cubits very long and the other one hundred and 40. Posidonius also tells of one in Syria, which was so large that horses riders on either side wasn't able to see each other. Each 'scale' had been as big as a shield, so that a male "might ride into his mouth area. " 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 in the King entering the serpent and even going through it in-order to be resurrected - much like those we find inside the myth of Osiris.

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

Intriguing to Serpent Mounds however will be 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 permitted in because he was the son of the snake. Surely this can only means that Votan was an initiate inside the serpent cult and that there was the ritualised Serpent Mound or pyramid which led to snake heaven or Patala.

The Fenian heroes regarding 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 lie concealed, though great its rage,

A hundred champions in its eye-pits.

A more elevated in height than eight men,

Has been its tail, which was erect previously mentioned its back;

Thicker was the many slender part of its tail,

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

Fionn asked just where this great monster had come from plus was told, "From Greece, to demand battle from the Fenians. inches It seems that the serpent worshippers had come to Ireland, believed to be from Portugal, and had fought the ancient residents, leaving behind such terror of them they became symbolized as this great 'dragon mound. ' Fionn, it is said, exposed the side of the dragon and released the men, going on to kill it. It may be that there is a mixture of wartime fact constructed in with ritualistic truth in this legend. Emerging from the side of the dragon, as in other myths, gives brand new 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 of the Serpent Traced Throughout the World and it is Traditions Referred to the Events in Paradise (1830). Deane also believed the Kaaba or Caabir of the Muslims - which was a conical rock - resolved itself into Los angeles Ab Ir - the 'Temple of the Serpent Sun. '

3	Hargrave Jennings, Ophiolatreia

4	Chivim is a Hebrew word, meaning "sons of the women serpent" (or Eve) and might imply a greater knowledge of this trip from a Judaic perspective.