Serpent Mound: An American Indian Mystery School

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SERPENT MOUND:
An American Indian Mystery School
William John Meegan
ABSTRACT
Serpent Mound is located in Adams County, Ohio, USA. The effigy of a serpent is found atop a
precipice: a stretch of land looking very much like a peninsula plateau within a meteor impact crater1
.
The serpent effigy is thirteen hundred and seventy feet in length2
. Serpent Mound is said to be the central
hub (axis mundi) of the ancient mound builder’s culture located in the modern state of Ohio and several
surrounding states.
Serpent Mound has certainly had it many admirers, pseudo-biographers, scientific investigators and well
intention researchers trying to ferret out its sacred meanings. It is with full knowledge of many of these
investigations and through their varied inquiries coupled with my own researches that I add my analysis
and observations on the numerous exoteric and esoteric nuances incorporated into the effigy of the
serpent on Serpent Mound and its surrounding topography.
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The Serpent Mound Meteor Crater (Serpent Mound can actually be seen in this interactive map)
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=39.026385&lon=-83.430862&z=16&m=b&permpoly=9819610
14 km = 8.6996 miles (circumference 27.33… miles)
The Ohio Journal of Science, v110, n3 (June, 2010), 34-43: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/52788
http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/52788/OJS110N3_34.pdf?sequence=1
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“Including all three parts, the Serpent Mound extends about 1,370 feet (420 m), and varies in height from less than a foot to
more than three feet (30–100 cm). Conforming to the curve of the land on which it rests, with its head approaching a cliff above a
stream, the serpent winds back and forth for more than eight hundred feet and seven coils, and ends in a triple-coiled tail. The
serpent head has an open mouth extending around the east end of a 120-foot (37 m)-long hollow oval feature. The effigy's
extreme western feature is a triangular mound approximately 31.6 feet (9.6 m) at its base and long axis”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound

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Many of the features laid out in Serpent Mound and its surrounding topography are reminiscence of the
ancient Egyptian, Hindus, Jewish and Christian exoteric and esoteric teachings. At first I was not willing
to believe that there was a global diffusion of
esoteric knowledge, which allowed for the creation
of Serpent Mound; however, the evidence kept
piling up to the point that denial of this possibility
was no longer realistic. In fact it was Serpent
Mound and the American Indian culture as a whole,
which honed my theory on this global diffusion of
esoteric knowledge. I had to ask myself how the
American Indians could have knowledge of
esotericism and its highly sophisticated
mathematical sciences and still remain living in
what the high cultures call primitive conditions. As
I looked at this problem globally it dawn on me that
the American Indians made a conscious choice
culturally not to make decisions that world affect
those being born seven generations hence. This
kind of decision making process suppresses what modernity calls progress; thus, I began to envisage that
the esoteric science was made use of by the numerous indigenous cultures around the world based solely
upon the temperament of the indigenous culture codifying it into their arts and educational systems (it
does not have to be in the form of literature), which in all cases was initially combined secularly and
religiously.
My understanding of the diffusion process is neither quite the same as academia nor those advocated by modernity as a
whole in fact it is diametrically opposite to those points of views. The transcendent has its own diffusion process, which
has nothing to do with depending upon humanity to dispense its message locally and/or globally. The transcendent give
each soul/psyche, so desiring it, the same spiritual experience no matter where he or she may be in the world. Outwardly
this may seem as if one human being is dispensing information to another culture in order for that culture to have the
same religious and/or secular mores as the parent culture. This does not meet the needs of the individual’s soul/psyche.
In fact such tactics such as forced religious and secular education on a conquered people is despotic and rips from the
soul/psyche the better part of that person as Nietzsche3
would say.
Granted once a religion is established children born into that mindset would learn its mores; however, society teaching its
children its cultural mores is taking the child out of it spiritual state of being and casting it into a cold and barren
wasteland: the better part of that child is lost but how else is one to educate the child into society’s cultural mores?
Consider what Christ said of those that received a spiritual vision, “suffer the little children to come unto me for such is
the kingdom of heaven (Mathew 19:14).” The spiritual vision reverses the process of the world’s educational system and
returns the soul/psyche to its true spiritual state of being. Now the fully mature adult has an established religious system
to hone his or her spiritual experience to; albeit, a superficially understood religious system: once again cast into a cold
and barren wasteland; nonetheless, the newly initiated initiate has Orenda4
to guide him or her out of the cold and barren
wasteland into a fully spiritual understanding of his or her religion’s mores.
I highly recommend those reading this article to first read my contribution to World Mysteries: SACRED
GEOMETRY AND THE ART OF SCRIPTURAL WRITING5
. Many of the esoteric ideas in that article
are relevant to the esoteric analysis of Serpent Mound.
3
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche
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Orenda http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orenda, Christian call this the Holy Spirit
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SACRED GEOMETRY AND THE ART OF SCRIPTURAL WRITING
http://blog.world-mysteries.com/ancient-writings/sacred-geometry-and-the-art-of-scriptural-writing/

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Esotericism has everything to do with SERENT MOUND and the deciphering of its internal construct: how and why
was it constructed. It is crucial that the reader realize that the American Indian was just as intelligent as any other
human being on the face of the earth. The American Indians’ spiritual mores are as intrinsically esoteric as any other
culture on earth. It is important to mention at this very early stage that this entire paper was written from an esoteric
perspective; nevertheless, a great deal of scientific evidence will be presented with appropriate reference material to
augment this thesis; however, this gives the reader but a slight glimpse into the spiritual understanding of what is
transpiring at SERPENT MOUND.
The average man and women looking at SERPENT MOUND and the surrounding region see it all with the jaundice
eye of the mundane: meaning that the individual views this and other sacred sites in the world at large with his or her
own educational reach and intellectual prowess; however, when it comes to the higher civilizations of antiquity then
the modern man knows for the most part those people were far more intelligent then he or she is; whereas, the
American Indians and other aboriginal cultures around the world appear to be so primitive that they seem to be just
out of the antediluvian times.
Esotericism is not in the mainstream educational system and for the most part it is a spiritual system of thought
unknown to the mundane world at large; however, it is the most sophisticated scientific educational system the world
has or will ever know bar none. There is one prerequisite to understanding esotericism and that is the individual has
to be spiritually minded to understand its transcendental concepts. Outwardly the Esoteric Science is imprinted upon
the exoteric (mundane) and cannot be readily seen with the naked eye and/or envisaged through the normal means of
reason and logic; nonetheless, the uninitiated can be taught to decipher ‘some’ of its esoteric scientific patterns
codified to the mundane. It takes a great deal of time, expense and analytical thought to get at this knowledge;
nonetheless, it takes a deep agonizing desire within the heart of the initiate to invoke the aid of the spiritual powers that
be (Orenda) to guide him or her through the labyrinth of God.
Again it would take a spiritual minded individual to cull out the better part of this system of thought and then it would
take a lifetime of inner contemplative and meditational researches to fully get a handle on this spiritual science. The
educational systems of the world believe that all systems of thought can be learned within a designated period of time.
This is not so with the Esoteric Science. To learn the deep esoteric principles the initiate goes through a lifetime of
spiritual testing and temptations. Does the initiate really want to know about him or herself or is this esoteric system of
thought being studied for fame, power and fortune? It is the soul’s/psyche’s inner internal spiritual powers that be that
are continuously without ceasing determining the viability of the initiate progress in learning the numerous nuances in
this Esoteric Science: in other words, the initiate is spiritually evaluating him or herself and spiritually ceaselessly:
one cannot lie to oneself.
In fact the esoteric system of thought is so difficult to completely comprehend that it takes envisaging the infinite realm
of God within a grain of sand: within a letter (BETH – first letter of Genesis) or within a sound (OM – Hindu
monastery chant). The American Indians that built SERPENT MOUND knew this spiritual system and rule of thought
in its entirety and they accomplished placing that understanding in their sacred Star Mounds throughout the North
American continent’s northern hemisphere.
Esotericism for the most part is not for the average citizen; however, it is there for them when that day comes that they
have a spiritual vision. Esotericism explains to the initiate the spiritual vision (Orenda) that comes to him or her from
the transcendent and that is all it teaches. No matter how sophisticated the esoteric science is presented esotericism
teaches the soul/psyche that the entire outer materialistic manifestation is analogous to his or her soul/psyche.
After 40-years of researching the esoteric science from out of the Judeao Christian scriptures and after the publication
of three books6
on the subject of esotericism I feel eminently qualified to decode the esotericism codified to the
SERPENT MOUND complex.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=william%20john%20meegan

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1. SERPENT MOUND’S SURROUNDING TOPOGRAPHY
The East Folk and West Folk tributary streams7
flowing into Brush Creek, which flows along side of
Serpent Mound’s Peninsula Plateau, is some of the topography that
needs to be pointed out. Compare a map of Egypt where the Nile
River flows into two main tributaries, which then flow into the
Mediterranean Sea. No, this is not exactly the same; however,
there are other examples of topography that needs to be compared
and considered. The Sketch Map of Serpent Mound Park8
gives a
general depiction of the area under discussion.
It is not only the multiple of similarities but also their
dissimilarities that have caught my attention. The second
topographic nuance concerns the peninsula of Sinai compared to
the peninsula that Serpent Mound is positioned upon: they are
extraordinarily similar. Consider the LiDAR9
video and note that
both the Sinai and the Serpent Mound peninsulas are both flanked
by two bodies of waters. Both Brush and East creeks alongside of
Serpent Mound peninsula have all the appearance of being manmade. The image of Brush Creek from
the LiDAR video clearly looks too uniformed to have been carved out by nature and East Creek gives all
the appearance of being carved out in a straight line. The LiDAR video takes away all organic materials
from view, which would normally hide these topographical anomalies.
The most extraordinary feature that shows up on the LiDAR video has traditionally nothing to do with
Serpent Mound. In the very beginning of this
film the topography of the area to the north and
south of Serpent Mound is brought into view.
This includes seeing the folk in Brush Creek
representing East Folk and West Folk tributary
streams and to the south of Serpent Mound most
of the peninsula plateau east of Brush Creek is
shown and it looks very much like a sleeping
(dreamer10
) or dead bear (this is consistent with
the Hunting of Great Bear mythology). Serpent
Mound’s effigy is located at the bear’s mouth.
It would seem that I was the first to make this observation concerning Serpent Mound’s peninsula plateau
being in the shape of a sleeping (dreamer) or dead bear, which forced the investigation into any American
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SERPENT MOUND, published by The Ohio Historical Society
http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/sw16/sw16-01.shtml
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SERPENT MOUND, ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO: Mysteries of the mound and history of the serpent. Various Theories of
effigy mounds and the mound builders, by E.O. Randall, Secretary of Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society; Reporter
Ohio Supreme Court. This image can also be found in THE GREAT SERPENT MOUND: Book of Wonders and Mysteries: An
Eclectic Guide to the Enigmatic Effigy and its Parkland, collector’s edition, 2013 by Ross Hamilton
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Serpent Mound LiDAR Video on Vimeo, by William Romain, http://vimeo.com/926341
Merely as a side issue having nothing to do with the analysis of Serpent Mound, I have to admit that at the beginning of the film,
every time I view this video (I have downloaded it), it appears as if Serpent Mound is lying on the face of a gigantic bear
formation in the topology of the landscape formation. The second oddity in this film is that Brush Creek looks too uniformed to
be a natural formation. Dare I say it looks very much like a manmade formation that created the creek? LiDAR picture from,
Wonders and Mysteries, by Ross Hamilton PDF file.
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STAR MOUNDS: Legacy of a Native American Mystery (pgs132-134), by Ross Hamilton, published by North Atlantic
Books, Berkeley, California 2012

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Indian Bear Clans that may have been in the region around the twelfth century AD: the time of Serpent
Mound’s construction. This last was ascertained by carbon dating. This led into the investigation of the
American Indian’s Great Bear Spirit Mythology: most notably ‘Hunting the Great Bear11
’. I immediately
sent out emails and searched the internet and other resources but little data is known outside of pure
speculation12
being that the American Indians as a whole was not a detailed record keeping culture: for
the most part everything was handed down by word of mouth. I traced the Bear Clan in the region to the
Mohawk Indians, one of the five original nations comprising the Iroquois Confederacy13
. The mythology
concerning the ‘Hunting of the Great Bear’ originates in the Iroquois Confederacy. It would seem that
most Indian nations throughout the continental United States have a Bear Clan and the same ‘Hunting of
the Great Bear’ stories with slight variations. This last does not take away from the fact that the
Iroquois14
Confederacy moved into the Ohio and surrounding states region in the twelfth century AD.
There are others that want to give Serpent Mound a far more ancient and mysterious history preceding the
birth of Christ; however, they are depending upon materials that were initially place in Serpent Mound (as
filler) by its builders, which could have been used materials from who knows where. Another carbon
dating report15
is said to be out later this year. Apparently, it is anticipated to be a BC date. My chief
objection to such an antiquity lies in the fact that Serpent Mound is in too good of a condition to be of that
antiquity. The world has seen wind worn erosion on the temple complex made out of pure granite next to
the Sphinx in Egypt can we not expect to see at least some erosional features on Serpent Mound over a
period of two thousand years or more. Consider the freezing winter’s snows and then the thawing
coupled with thunder and lightning storms incessantly pounding upon Serpent Mound for over two
thousand years, would this not eventually do great damage to the Serpent Mound effigy? Now look at the
picture of the LiDAR video again. Are not those the same geological features that Professor Robert M.
Schoch, PH.D.16
, of Boston University, declared was consistent with “precipitation-induced weathering” of the
enclosure of the Sphinx? I am not a geologist but this is what Professor Schoch (geologist) and John
Anthony West17
, the noted amateur archeologist, has been teaching the world for decades. The LiDAR
picture above shows that the fissures clearly seen on both sides of the peninsula’s plateau are running
down from both sides of Serpent Mound. Serpent Mound is centrally located at the apex of the
peninsula’s plateau. The Ohio region climatically has consistent snows and rains year in and year out.
That is the point. Why is Serpent Mound still there if it is over two thousand years old?
I can understand that Serpent Mound was probably well maintained (trees18
and other debris removed and
soil, clay and stone repairs made when necessary) throughout its long history from the twelfth century.
The indigenous tribe(s) that built it may well have remained in the area right up to the time of the White
Man’s encroachment on their territories driving them out of the region in the nineteenth century.
Mea Culpa: it may well be that I am wrong about the AD/BC dating of SERPENT MOUND and the creation of its
effigy and the sculptural formation of the sleeping or dead bear on the outcropping of the peninsula plateau; however,
if the mounds of Ohio and those found in surrounding states were created by the Adena and Hopewell Indians in the
BC era then those Native Americans Tribes that still remain in the area are their descendents and carry on the cultural
11
Hunting of the Great Bear http://www.native-languages.org/cayugastory.htm
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And it would seem that archeology in those days did not shy from committing outright fraud to get published or their names
known: this is the way they promoted themselves.
13
The Iroquois Confederacy includes one more nation to its confederacy making it six nations.
14
Iroquois is name the French gave to the Tobacco Smoking Indians (sacred Peace Pipe?) and apparently the name stuck.
15
Dr. William F. Romain, advisor to the Ohio Archeological Counsel
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VOICES OF THE ROCKS: A Scientist looks at Catastrophes & Ancient Civilizations (1999), by Robert M. Schoch, PH.D.
with Robert Aquinas McNally, published by Harmony Books, New York
17
SERPENT IN THE SKY: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt, by John Anthony West, published by Quest Books 1993
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Serpent Mound presently has a tree in one of its seven swirls. When that tree gets too old and falls it is going to take some of
Serpent Mound with its roots.

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mores of their ancestors (compare the American Indian mythologies of the entire continental United States and
Canada: they are virtually identical within tight ‘peripheral’ variations; albeit, on a superficial level but that is exactly
how modern Christians are carrying on the religious mores of the Founding Father of Christianity. Another point
about esotericism is that it may have in the pass and will again in the future fade out of the psychic consciousness of
the cultural mindset; however, it always reappear to future initiates. This esoteric science cannot stay hidden for
thousands of years that would be totally alien to the purpose of life. Esotericism is the soul’s/psyche’s main rationale
for existence of life on earth. To have it cease its appearance periodically in the cultural mores of a culture takes the
raison d’être: reason for existence out of the equation for the individual. Here I am speaking about the total
annihilation of the soul in life and at death and that is not possible. Orenda will always be available to the initiate.
2. THE MYSTERIES OF ESOTERICISM
The White Man’s cultural mores tends to have anthropologists believing that the American Indian had no
reason to give them false information. It is my firm belief that the indigenous population of the North and
South American continents was trying to education the savage: the White Man by simply telling him the
simple stories they taught their young children [the American Indians’ version of Sunday School Bible
Classes]: these were not lies but the American Indian religious mores. Consider the analogy of a new
born baby’s needs as it mature to adulthood: compare the savage needs of the new born baby’s mentality
to the temperament of the White Man landing on the shores of the North and South American continents:
the baby is somewhat controllable; whereas, the White Man had no civilizing mores, to curtail his
appetites, whatsoever. Remember these European invaders were initially ruffian sailors: pirates of the sea
at best out to grab, steal and murder anything they could get their hand on. There is analogously no
difference between the invasions of the European White Man and that of the barbarians that invaded the
Roman Empire. The White Man was a savage in the American Indian mindset because he raped Mother
Nature and chased them from their ancestral lands. A perfect example of the early times of the White
Man’s incursions into the heart of the American Indians’ homeland was the killing of tens of thousands of
Buffalo taking their hides and leaving behind their rotting corpses on the landscape of the prairies. The
shame of it forced their descendents in later generations to come up with the egregious excuse that the
early settlers was trying to destroy the American Indian religion when in fact it was all about profit and
greed: this example is not to discount the atrocities, massacres and mayhem towards the indigenous
populations but also consider the infinite amount of examples of inconsiderate waste, deliberate spillage
and premeditated damage to the lands and forests as far as the eye could see, the unconscionable pollution
of the air and the senseless poisoning of the continental water tables: all collectively Mother Nature.
Destroying the Buffalo may have taken away the American Indian’s main food staple and clothing of the
times but it did not take away their belief in the Great Spirit, which is not housed in an icon rather it is
housed in the heart: something the White Man has yet to learn.
Would any keepers of their religion’s internal esoteric secrets freely give that knowledge of esotericism to
another, such as outlined above? The Mysteries Schools of antiquity around the world: bar none
traditionally kept internally the esoteric secrets from those within their own populations that did not have
the inquisitive nature to know the truth about themselves. If the shaman of his own people would not
give this ‘interpretive key’ freely to a member of his own family why would he give it to an outsider such
as an anthropologist’s? Of cause the American Indians as a whole would freely allow the anthropologist
to record the variations of all their mythologies because those records hold the core esoteric principles
that generate the true knowledge of the esoteric science in their culture: the true knowledge of the
soul/psyche. For example, go to any Christian and asked to be taught Christianity and he or she will go
out of his or her way to teach you about the Old and New Testaments and probably give you a free bible;
however, the average Christian (as with the average American Indian relating to his cultural myths) has no idea that
embedded in those sacred stories is the full unvarnished record of esotericism: the true Word of God.

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The Esoteric Science is not indigenous to anyone culture on the face of the earth. I have known for some
time that the American Indians had an esotericism in their spiritual belief system that is equal to any other
culture on the face of the earth: it is second to no other religious teaching. Knowing this and being able to
say something of substance about it is another matter. That is until I recently became aware of the
scientific studies that were being conducted at Serpent Mound. My previous studies into the American
Indian culture were tentative at best. Yes, I noted at the time that they had to have known of higher
mathematics and that conclusion was based solely upon seeing the swastika in much of their art works.
The swastika comes only from a 3 x 3 square called the Kamea of Saturn (in China it is called the Lo
Shu)19
, which embodies the first nine numbers. These nine base numbers exudes the four basic
mathematical sciences: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, which in themselves would lead
into the higher mathematical disciplines. In order to know of the Kamea of Saturn (magic square20
),
whatever name the American Indians may have given it, points to knowledge of esotericism as
sophisticated as any of the highly sophisticated cultures in antiquity.
The gorget21
created and used by the Adena and Hopewell Indians is one of the most sophisticated examples of the
Kamea of Saturn in esoteric art I’ve personally have come across. This little gorget
is crammed pact with esoteric information if one knows how to read it. It was most
likely worn around the neck to signal other initiates like him or herself, in other
groups and/or tribes, that he or she was one of them. This particular gorget FIRST
conveys that it is a three by three square: compare it to the Kamea of Saturn.
SECOND the two human figures, back to back symbolize complete opposites: the
initiate symbolically explain that “thought I live amongst the uninitiated performing
all the outward ceremonies, speaking the same language and wearing the same
cloths, I’m an initiate”, THIRD: the positions of the left leg of the individual on the
left and the right leg of the individual on the right signifies the left leg is forming the
Female (moon) Swastika and the right leg is forming the Male (sun) Swastika.
FORTH: the horizontal bar of the equal distance cross has ‘cross’ symbols along its
entire length, which is the same symbol seen in the dance rattle each figure is holding
demonstrating that the esoteric arts are fully integrated into the mainstream culture.
This horizontal bar points to the second multiplication table (BETH #2 = container)
and FIFTH: the central figure, in the entire design of the gorget, is fashioned in the
form of a female swastika indicating that this is an initiate’s gorget. No individual
uninitiated would be allowed to wear such jewelry. I proffer that from this single
piece of jewelry it is possible that the entire vast esoteric system of knowledge can be
reestablished.
The Cox Gorget22
is a beautiful female swastika formed by woodpecker figures. It is
obviously in the form of a Kamea of Saturn. The inner square shows a continuous
never-ending twirling motion similar to a galaxy in motion (or like a pinwheel =
twirling swastika). The central part of the gorget shows an eight pointed star figure.
The Kamea of Saturn is often shown in an octagon (eight sided) shape. The circle with the cross in the center points to
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THE SECRETS & THE MYSTERIES OF GENESIS: Antiquity’s Hall of Records (2003), by William John Meegan, published
by Trafford Publishers http://www.amazon.com/The-Secrets-Mysteries-Genesis-
Antiquitys/dp/1412010128/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1372395701&sr=1-2-
catcorr&keywords=the+secrets+%26+the+mysteries+of+Genesis
This matrix is also known as the Vedic Square: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_square and it is known all over the world in
all religious cultures.
20
The numbers are so arranged as to add up to fifteen in all eight directions: columns, rows and diagonals. There is an
encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge codified into this little unassuming 3 x 3 matrix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square
21
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_gorget
22
ibid

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a Kamea of Saturn within a circle (repetitious of the eternal twirling square nuance); however, this cross in a circle
simultaneously represents a sun symbol: meaning that this is the new sun of the Great Spirit. The new Vesica Piscis is
fully integrated into the mundane society and the matriarchal society is still dominant (female swastika). The eternal
twirling square motion in the design of this gorget is quite beautiful esoterically in its esoteric meanings. FIRST:
consider the central sun (newly formed Vesica Piscis) as the impetus for forming the mindset of the initiate, SECOND:
the eight-star figure points to the Kamea of Saturn as new dominant educational paradigm for the initiate, THIRD: the
never-ending twirling square points to transcendental knowledge brought down to human understanding (hence
square); however, the never-ending twirling square points to a never-ending process of understanding and reinventing
new ways of expressing this esotericism and FOURTH: the incessantly tapping of the woodpecker on the barks of trees
in search of food is analogous to the initiate eternal and incessant quest to find new ways of understanding this
esotericism: as food for thought.
Only another initiate of the esoteric science could see and understand these things from esoteric art. Consider the
critique of the academic anthropologists on these works of art over the past few centuries? Enough said.
The higher mathematics used by the mound building culture demonstrated a highly sophisticated
knowledge of esotericism and astronomy. Astrology is not a manmade system. It is purely esoteric in its
construct and all of its nuances no matter what modernity thinks about it or has turned it into. The
average person thinks that Astrology was invented by shepherds idling away time at night tending to their
flocks in grazing fields. Astrology can only have been envisaged out of the Kamea of Saturn or its parent
the Universal Mathematical Matrix23
. Most important to know about this matrix is that it can be
independently envisaged from out of the MONAD by pure meditational means. I know because I
personally did this while researching Dante Alighieri’s (1265-1321) mathematical system24
. This
Universal Mathematical Matrix25
is then used by ancient cultures to write their sacred literature and build
their megalithic monuments around the world. Absolutely nothing that mankind knows: language and/or
mathematics were ever conceived by man without first having culled it from this mathematical matrix.
ASTROLOGY is a very sophisticated system of symbolism and it was not culled out of this matrix as a mere whim for
fortune telling. It is a symbolic tool as a memory aid: a mnemonic
tool. It is a system of thought that was given to the mystic through this
matrix: i.e. the transcendent. Astrology is neither an easy system of
thought to grasp nor an easy system to put together from out of this
matrix. An extremely great deal of meditation has to be put forth to
grasp what the matrix is saying. This matrix is equivalent to God
(Great Spirit) speaking to the mystic. Pythagoras called the MONAD
God. This matrix is an interpretation of the MONAD: it is the logos
(Word of God). Hypothetically, this matrix may well be symbolically
the body (square) of Spider-Weaver26
.
Looking at the matrix in can be seen that each one of the columns 1-8
is pair off with another that is diametrically opposite to it: 1 & 8, 2 &
7, 3 & 6 and 4 & 5. These are the Sun Signs of Astrology: Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Moon and the Sun. Each of the
23
ibid
24
The Conquest of Genesis: A Study in Universal Creation Mathematics (1998), by William John Meegan, published by the
Edwin Mellen Press
25
This matrix is the Grammar School’s multiplication tables up to nine (casting-out-nines); nonetheless, my claims to having
independently discovered it is because when I worked it out I was not thinking or reasoning from the perspective of the
multiplication tables but rather from analyzing the days of the week in my meditations on the MONAD.
26
STAR MOUNDS: Legacy of a Native American Mystery (pgs 65-68), by Ross Hamilton, published by North Atlantic Books,
Berkeley, California 2012 (I make this hypothesis seeing the basic design at Newark, Ohio of the circle and square. The square
is obviously the Kamea of Saturn and the circle is undoubtedly the MONAD).

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first four columns and the second set of four columns in reverse emit three three-digit numbers representing one of the
signs of the Zodiac. Each of the first four columns represents one of the mystic elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water.
And this same goes for the reverse four columns.
This is the matrix that created the Chinese oracle the I Ching and the Game of Chess. Does anyone really think that
any mystic grace by God would have a difficult time figuring this out plus having the ability to use these patterns to
paint the canvass of the star-studded universe with appropriate images to represent these teachings? The entire
Judeao Christian Scriptures are based solely upon this Universal Mathematical Matrix. Does anyone think that the
American Indian did not have the same mental acuity as any other major religion on earth?
I have previously demonstrated elsewhere (see footnote #5) that this Universal Mathematical Matrix27
is the original
source of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and it perfectly fits within a single Vesica Piscis (see footnote #5). The first
chapter of Genesis demonstrates graphically that the Kundalini Serpent goes up this Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
I proffer that the serpent effigy on Serpent Mound surrounding and ascending the Pole Star (Kabbalistic Tree of Life)
is patterned within this Universal Mathematical Matrix. Take the diagonal cells from the top left of the matrix
diagonally down to the bottom right of the matrix: note at the center of
the matrix the two sevens and two twos. The six twos spanning the
diagonal length of the matrix represent the body of the serpent in the
pattern of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life and the two sevens in that
alignment are the seven swirls in the central part of the serpent’s
effigy. It is the synthesis of the Oval Shape Egg (receiving of the
vision) and the Serpent that causes the Kundalini energy to rise within
the serpent. Note that the #1 (MONAD28
) at the top left of the matrix
between the two twos (serpent’s mouth) would be the Oval Shape Egg.
The seven large dots along the body of the serpent represent Dr.
William F. Romain’s and other’s measurements for the Lunar, Solar
and Equinox Alignments. The basic cell-pattern seen here for the
serpent’s effigy is the same cells in this matrix that the Judeao
Christian scripture uses to pattern the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The
layout of the cells representing the serpent effigy is uncanny. The head
and the tail of the serpent are blocked off in order to give an idea of where the serpent’s coiled tail should be. The #1
at the bottom right of the matrix represents the dormant lingam at the bottom of the spine, which the serpent is said to
be coiled around 3½-times. If the Universal Mathematical Matrix is the original source of the Serpent Mound effigy,
and I believe it is, then the American Indians have a unique perspective on the Kundalini Energy. Clearly the matrix is
inferring that the serpent is not the Kundalini energy but rather is the spiritual vision (Kundalini Energy) received
which in turn activates the sleeping serpent and reenergizes it making the serpent once again active and creative in the
world. Actually, this is the same concept outlined in the Judeao Christian scriptures; however, it is not so explicitly
stated. In the Judeao Christian scriptures each of the human characters is a representative of Yahweh or Elohym: two
serpents wrapped around the tree of the Garden of Eden. The sleeping serpent represents Yahweh who is eternally
resting (passive): seeking utopia; whereas, the active serpent is Elohym eternally creating (proactive).
Serpent Mound being the axis mundi of the Ohio Mound Builder’s culture indicates these mound builders
move into the area culturally fully developed29
as a highly sophisticated civilization and this conclusion is
27
Evidence of the American Indian connection to this 10 x 10 matrix can be found in LIGHTNINGBOLT (see Medicine Wheel
between pgs 408 * 409), by Hyemeyohsts Storm, published by A One World Book, Ballantine Books, New York 1994
28
The individual receiving the spiritual vision, taking in the MONAD, is in fact taking in the whole of the esoteric science:
knowledge of the matrix. It may take him or her some time to fully assimilate the matrix but eventually it will be accomplished.
29
This concept is not a new one. SERPENT IN THE SKY: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt (pg 13), by John Anthony West,
published Julian Press, Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY 1987

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based upon what others have discovered: that all the other mound builder’s sites in Ohio and neighboring
states are centered on Serpent Mound. In fact Ross Hamilton’s work shows the mound building sites
surrounding Serpent Mound are aligned graphically to the Zodiac collectively in a gigantic oval shape30
,
which follows the initial paradigm set when Serpent Mound’s Peninsula Plateau was sculptured to form
the initial Vesica Piscis. Being that Serpent Mound is the axis mundi then all else follows its base
esoteric pattern like a pebble tossed in water. The second Vesica Piscis is the Oval Shape Egg and the
third is the gigantic Zodiac. It must be realized that this is how esotericism is published by the mystic to
demonstrate that the vision received and translated is all that exist upon the face of the earth and the
universe at large. This is precisely how the Judeao Christian scripture conveys the Genesis Creation
Account through this kind of redundant patterning: repetition is the hallmark of science. I fully
understand that the uninitiated will not understand this but it is what it is.
3. SERPENT MOUND’S METEOR CRATER AND THE VESICA PISCIS
Serpent Mound interested me because of the many esoteric nuances that seem to permeate the site. These
were the same esoteric nuances that I had previously envisaged in the Genesis Creation Account (see
footnote #5). One of the most important was that Serpent Mound was located inside a meteor crater. That
nuance was absolutely stunning. Here was a crater created from out of the universe of stars and its stellar
debris and right on the periphery inside the crater31
is SERPENT MOUND: incredible. This is precisely
what the first letter of GENESIS: PEI/BETH is saying. It is precisely what the MONAD is conveying.
There is a whole world of esotericism that lies before humanity and they do not see it: wake up world it is there waiting for you.
BETH is the first written letter of the bible and PEI is unwritten and is found in and surrounding the letter
BETH in the white area of the page: this is a perfect analogy of what the MONAD32
is conveying. Think
about that for a minute. PEI being in the white area of the page takes in the whole page not just the area
that BETH is written in. PEI in the Hebrew coder represents symbolically the ‘Mouth of God’: the
transcendent. This is a particularly important nuance to grasp. BETH is on the periphery of the page as
SERPENT MOUND’S PENINSULA PLATEAU is on the periphery inside the meteor crater. PEI;
therefore, is symbolically the entire SERPENT MOUND’S CRATER and BETH is symbolic of the
Summer Solstice Sunset. Both letters PEI and BETH in unity formed the serpent effigy and the peninsula
plateau that it is situated on (Vesica Piscis): meaning that the sculptured peninsula plateau in the form of a
a gigantic sleeping Bear (serpent effigy located in the area of its mouth) would analogously represent the
first word of Genesis BE-RESH-ITH formulated from the Hebrew letters BETH and RESH in the Judeao
Christian bible.
There are actually two serpents on SERPENT MOUND; in fact, I dare say the serpent effigy is analogous
to the second coming of CHRIST as portrait in the first word of Genesis: BERESHITH. For the most part
everything symbolically taught in the esoteric structuring of the first word of Genesis: BERESHTH is
esoterically laid out on Serpent Mound.
Consider the Great Bear lying on Serpent Mound Peninsula Plateau. Symbolically, the bear represents any member of
the Indian community. This is an individual that does not know how to pray (live the spiritual life: Life is Prayer) but
he or she goes about life with a deep agonizing desire to know the truth about life. This is analogous to BETH
[be…ith] opening up (humbling) him or herself to receive Orenda: in other words the sun (ego-consciousness) is about
30
STAR MOUNDS: Legacy of a Native American Mystery (pg 139) , by Ross Hamilton, published by North Atlantic Books,
Berkeley, California 2012
31
SERPENT MOUND CRATER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound_crater
32
Pythagoras called the MONAD God. Think of the MONAD (number 1) as the transcendent. It is neither like BETH the first
letter of the Judeao Christian Scriptures nor is it like PEI the letter that inundates and surrounds the letter BETH. The MONAD
has no equivalent other than to say that the whole universe would represent the only or the number one (as a physical
manifestation of the number one). The MONAD represents the whole before spliting into opposites: material creation.

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to set over the waters. BETH is no longer a word (containing ego-consciousness); rather, it is merely a letter. It is an
empty container for its sun has set. The body of the bear is still there. It is just that the head (analogously John the
Baptist head) or the tyrannical factors of life are psychically gone. A new head is needed and in the Judeao Christian
scripture in reference to the first letter and first word of Genesis that letter is RESH, which is interpreted as “first
and/or head”. This letter RESH is then inserted into Be…ith to form the word ‘Be-resh-ith’. In reference to Serpent
Mound the body of the BEAR is ‘be’, the serpent effigy represents ‘resh’ and the dying sun represents ‘ith (setting over
the waters = Brush Creek)’. This is why the moon coming in from the east is of a higher consciousness (Resh rather
than Beth), which receives its mandate from the Great Spirit. The two circles interlocking forming the Vesica Piscis
can be seen as two scythes: one cutting or forcing the sunset and the second is when the spiritual powers went back
into the transcendent: what remains is the Vesica Piscis: this is similar to Christ saying from the cross, “My God, My
God, why hast thou forsaken me (Matthew 27:46)?” The Oval Shaped Egg is not the serpent; rather, it symbolically
represents Orenda as it merges with the serpent. The Oval Shaped Egg (Orenda) and the serpent effigy are two
separate symbols combining to symbolize the melding process. You can think of it in this way. The old serpent
(Yahweh – sun – ego-consciousness) is gone. The new serpent is the humbleness of the old serpent taking on the
spirituality: Orenda (Oval Shape Egg – Vesica Piscis) from the transcendent, which the galactic core symbolizes.
Interestingly, it is reported that ‘Draco was Tai Kung, the Palace of the Heavenly Emperor, bounded by the stars of
Draco, fifteen in number, which stretch themselves in an oval shape round the pole star33
’. The Pole Star is Ursa
Minor and the fifteen stars is the numerical count of the top tier-row of the Kamea of Saturn: 4 + 9 + 2 = 15. The 4 =
Cancer (Ursa Minor and Ursa Major), the 9 = Sagittarius (Draco) and the 2: i.e. 11 = Aquarius (Cygnus: Swan or
Northern Star). I say top tier-row of the Kamea of Saturn because it represents the last three numbers in the
multiplication table of the number seven: 7 x 7 = 49 (4), 7 x 8 = 56 (2) and 7 x 9 = 63 (9): 49 + 56 + 63 = 168 or the
hours in a seven day week34
. Serpent Mound’s effigy has seven swirls in its body representing the seven chakras. In
the first chapter of Genesis this same motif of the 168 hours of a week is used mathematically to represent its example
of the Kundalini Serpent. The entire story of Serpent Mound is being told through ancient star lore. I find it
incomprehensible that in ancient China the stargazers saw the same mysteries in the constellation of Draco that the
Adena and/or Hopewell Indians envisaged in North America. If everything else was summarily dismissed as an over
active imagination how can Draco fifteen stars constellating into an Oval Shape around the Pole Star be discounted
for those who built Serpent Mound? An equal argument can be advanced for the 16835
-hours in a week forming the
motif representing the Kundalini Serpent on Serpent Mound as it is clearly outlined mathematically in the first chapter
of Genesis.
I want to belabor this issue about the number 168 a bit more; for the reason that, it represents the spiritual vision from
the transcendent. I am not saying that the Jews and/or the Christians had anything whatsoever to do with building
Serpent Mound; however, I believe that numerous mystical traditions around the world can independently develop
their own unique mystical systems of thought envisaging the same numinous ideas used as symbols for their concepts;
however, not necessarily in the same manner; though, they enigmatically mean the same thing esoterically. The case in
point is the number 168 (see footnote #5). I have demonstrated elsewhere that the word ‘Elohym (God)’ in the Genesis
creation account is Gemetria is structured with the formula for pi (3.1415). In addition I have shown that the circle of
32-Elohyms in the first chapter of Genesis has an aggregate of 528 and the word LIGHT takes up half the Elohyms 3-
33
STAR NAMES: Their Lore and Meaning (pg. 206) 1963, by Richard Hinckley Allen, published by Dover Publications, Inc.,
New York, also see http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Draco.html, which actually prints out Richard
Hinckley Allen’s work.
34
I fully understand that the American Indians did not go by the seven day week and thus they could not have culturally known
of the 24-hour day or the seven day week; however, they did know of the Universal Mathematical Matrix and the Kamea of
Saturn: i.e. serpent effigy. They would have known that seven (7) was the number for fulfillment and the opposite of two (2):
hence, the seven chakra system. The top tier of the Kamea of Saturn 3 x 3 square denotes the four constellations being depicted
on Serpent Mound: Draco, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major and Cygnus: the Northern star.
35
Dr. William Romain’s calculations of the lunar alignments at 18.6-years are a transposition of 168 and 0.618 (Golden Ratio) is
another transposition of the number 168. The American Indian knew of the 18.6-years because their lunar alignments were
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18, which has the aggregate of 168: the remainder being 360 (degrees in a circle). The 16-Elohyms in positions 3-18
are in the first four days of creation and symbolically represent the word LIGHT; for the reason that, those days have
as a group 207-words, which is the Gemetria value of the word LIGHT. The diameter of a circle of 528 is 168, which
make Elohym (pi) the LIGHT. I also demonstrated that the word ‘Elohym’ represents the entire Trinity, which can take
on the roles of any of the three persons of the Trinity: Yahweh (Yud – Ego-Consciousness), Elohym (Aleph -
Unconscious) and the Most High God (Qoph - Spiritual LIGHT). The letter/word QOPH: Qoph-Vav-Pei in Gemetria
is 186 or the transposition of the number 168, which is the a priori cause of the spiritual vision (Vesica Piscis).
Initially when the spiritual LIGHT comes into the world it is QOPH; however, it instantly splits into Yahweh and
Elohym: Gods emanating life into the world via the Golden Ratio. This is why both Yahweh and Elohym names reduce
to one of the set of the Fibonacci sequence 5/8; thereafter, the LIGHT becomes CHRIST the God/man; subsequently, it
becomes sunlight: sun worship: a materialistic god (Yahweh).
What this is all saying is that the 32-Elohyms spit off into LIGHT and SHIN (360 = Soul) when the spiritual LIGHT
comes into the world. The letter/word Shin has the Gemetria value of 360 and Shin esoterically represents the Earth
(soul). The entire first chapter of Genesis is one gigantic Tai Chi symbol (Ying/Yang) representing LIGHT and
DARKNESS (Vesica Piscis). Darkness36
represents the transcendent: the abode of the soul. The soul never enters into
the nonexistence of the world only the psyche (human personality: ego-consciousness and unconscious mind): its
counterpart does. It is interesting that the word Elohym can represent symbolically all three parts of the Trinity: Yud
(Yahweh), Aleph (Elohym) and Qoph (Most High El) and SHIN represents the soul; therefore, a Hebrew37
concordance
is in order: Yud-Shin represents “offspring”, Aleph-Shin represents “heat of the sun” and Qoph-Shin represents
“assemble together”: thus, the translation would read, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew
3:17)” and “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is (1 John 3:2)”. Note that in both gospels the same
word ‘beloved’ is used: that is an extraordinarily important nuance if Christians would only take note of it.
It would be extremely difficult for me to believe that the Adena and Hopewell Indians, in constructing Serpent Mound
and the surrounding astrological sites, did not believe in the embrace of the Great Spirit exactly as the Christians did
on an esoteric level in reference to the Trinity. In the above description of the number 168 I was merely illustrating
precedence, in another religion, for such a belief system, which is analogous to what Serpent Mound is teaching and
with what the Adena and Hopewell Indians independently envisaged esoterically on their own. It would also be on the
whole difficult to believe that with this evidence of precedence, the evidence of what can be view from line of sight
observations of star constellations, the historical mythological lore of star constellations and the evidence of the
Solstice, Equinox and Luna alignments on Serpent Mound that the Cygnus constellation was not part of the collective
star constellations being used to symbolically construct the site to convey the sequence of the spiritual vision.
a. THE FIRST SERPENT
The first serpent is represented by SERPENT MOUND METEOR CRATER forming the first circle
in the Vesica Piscis semi-creating the GREAT BEAR SPIRIT38
. The first half of this container
(Vesica Piscis) comes in from the EAST: the mythical realm of God; however, the second half of the
container (Vesica Piscis) is the sun (ego-consciousness) acquiescing (humbling and submitting) to the
36
One of the things that the initiate begins to learn is that normally on an esoteric level all symbolism is usually in reverse of
what humans traditionally and historically think of it as. For example: the symbolism of the Old Testament is diametrically
opposite to that of the New Testament and vice versa. To the uninitiated when hearing both parties speaking in conversation they
believe they are speaking the same language but this is far from the truth. This is why relationships between man and woman go
awry: because they don’t listen to what each other is saying.
37
HEBREW - ENGISH LEXICON (1844), by William Osburn, Jr., published by Zondervan Publishing House 1979
38
Here it must be understood that the transcendent does not actually formulate a human philosophy or religious system of
thought; rather, it takes on the existing paradigm within the soul/psyche of the individual it is gracing with its presence. The
individual on the other hand would find him or herself in a wasteland. Basically what this means is, say an individual was an
alcoholic then he may very well be cured by it. Now the individual does not know what to do with all this new found time. He
or she has no people, places or things to go to or take up his time. He or she basically has to reinvent him or herself.

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first half. This Vesica Piscis would represent analogously the coming of Christ (the God/man) for the
first time. This would represent the Birth of Consciousness.
Simply what this means is that a member of the human community receives a spiritual vision. This individual
would be somewhat versed in his tribal traditions, as a lay person, both on a secular and religious level; thus, the
spiritual vision would be fully absorbed into the fabric of this individual psychic makeup esoterically similar to
the blood of the Great Bear Spirit soaking into the earth (soul)39
. This is similar if not the same as the
Alchemical Wedding of Christ marrying His Bride (the soul). And like the Serpent Mound’s Meteor Crater this
spiritual vision would make a deep lasting impression upon the psyche40
of this individual so much so that the
entire previous portion of the individual life would be as if it was a mirage: this is why such mystics become
hermits and lives far from the maddening crowd. This individual has the potentiality of becoming the messiah of
the age. This is analogous to Jesus interpreting the texts of the Old Testament41
bringing forth its esoteric
teachings, which is called Christianity. In the case of the American Indians, in regards to Serpent Mound’s
mythos, its basic traditions and belief systems concerning astronomical lore were interpreted and more fully
developed into a way of life; however, most important to understand concerning such a vision that come to an
individual is that it does not necessarily manifest into an interpretation of an already existing main-stream
religion. It can take on the form of a psychotic episode and the individual could end up in an asylum42
for the
rest of his or her life or such a vision can take on the form of music or art or any interest in the human
experience inadvertently using such spiritual radiance for materialistic purposes. The true purpose of an
ordained priesthood in any religious system is to cull such people out of society (similar to harvesting a crop)
and aid them in dealing with their vision. This is what the shaman does in the American Indian culture.
b. THE SECOND SERPENT
The second circle that aided in completing the Vesica Piscis is no longer seen. This would represent
the people that were living in the indigenous culture that were here at the time that the first serpent
appeared. In the Judeao Christian traditions this would be the Jews of Palestine at the Birth of Christ.
The individual receiving the spiritual vision, like the rest of his or her community, would initially be
solely dominated by ego-consciousness (the Sun = Yahweh); however the vision subjugate the ego-
consciousness of the individual receiving the vision. The individual receiving the vision would
attempt to integrate it into the mores of his culture that he has learned all his life. The FIRST
SERPENT returns to the transcendent, which is analogous to the Ascension of Christ. Some of the
followers of the individual receiving the vision would transform into the spiritual sages of their times
teaching the wisdom of the Great Bear Spirit: Big Dipper (Ursa Major) similar to Christ’s twelve
disciples. These people would have Orenda43
about them: many of the followers will also receive a
vision, which is what was conveyed in the New Testament concerning Pentecost. Eventually,
knowledge of the Great Bear Spirit’s teachings would be forgotten and the spiritual radiance: Orenda
would degrade into ego-consciousness: the Sun in generations to come. The first and second serpents
39
This is similar to the Eucharist symbolically received at a Catholic Mass when the congregant takes the bread (biblical lore)
and the wine (spirit): these amalgamate into a third option: the teachings of Christ. Carl Jung the great psychoanalyst called it the
Transcendent Function.
40
This nuance points the initiate to the realization that the universe is his psyche. It informs the initiate that the vision did not
come from without but rather from within his own being; in addition, meteor crater at Serpent Mound also informs the initiate
that symbolically the earth is the soul/psyche and that the spiritual vision (attack) was within and yet apart from the soul/psyche.
41
Here is an extremely important concept. The Old Testament symbolically represents the teachings of Yahweh (ego-
consciousness) and embedded in those teachings are the esoteric teachings of the transcendent. Christians get their esoteric
teachings from the Old Testament because that is the paradigm in which the sacred scriptures were written; however, on a generic
level. On a generic level this vision can come to anybody in the world no matter what religion he or she belongs to. It can even
come to an atheist but then he or she would have to deal with it the best he or she could or suffer the consequences of an insane
asylum.
42
This is because the individual had no way of dealing with the vision and did not try to understand it bur rather allowed an
archetype of the unconscious to absorb his or her soul/psyche.
43
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orenda, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/431779/orenda,

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are no longer remembered: descending generations will eventually collapse into a psychic state of
total amnesia living a pseudo-understanding of their religious beliefs.
Not all the people in the community would listen to their new shaman: “And he (Jesus) said, Verily I say unto
you, No prophet is accepted in his own country (Luke 4:24)”. Traditionally such an individual having a spiritual
psychic experience in the American Indian community was brought to the tribe’s shaman and this individual
would be taught to accept his or her vision and not to reject it as explained in the book “Black Elk Speaks44
”.
The process of the individual receiving the vision, attempting to define and understand it, is more or less a
psychic knee jerk reaction that takes place without conscious thought causing the spiritual vision to end as
quickly as it began45
. In Christianity this attempt to define and understand the vision is simultaneously the Birth,
Crucifixion and Ascension of Christ46
and the very reason that Christ had to die on the cross. Christ’s mission
on earth is complete. In some cases the new shaman would take those members of the community that believes in
his or her vision and go off creating a new tribe, which is similar to Jesus having a group of followers. In other
cases the old shaman dies and the community appoints a new shaman. In the case of Christianity Jesus becomes
the new Sun of God. Sun, because he became the new ego-consciousness (new sunrise): i.e. the new status quo,
which is imbued with spiritual Orenda (Vesica Piscis).
Orthodoxy comes quickly to a new religion and the original beliefs and traditions (revelation) is cast into
dogmatic stones where spiritual life is drained from them. No longer are the spiritual interpretations of the
myths the primary goal of the spiritual leaders but rather the literal interpretations of them (teachings and
historical records) become tantamount47
: this is similar to religion degrading into the letter of the law rather
than the spirit of it48
. All other spiritual and/or esoteric interpretations; thereafter, would become heretical
(Gnostic)49
. This fundamentalism becomes the new paradigm, which is merely a shell of the original revelation;
44
“Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story and spirituality of
Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man or shaman. It was based on conversations by Black Elk with the author and translated
from Lakota into English by Black Elk's son, Ben Black Elk, who was present during the talks. Neihardt transformed his notes to
convey Black Elk's spiritual message in powerful lyrical English”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk_Speaks
45
There is literally no way to prevent this psychic knee jerk reaction because the vision is nothing the individual has ever
experienced or could expect to experience in his entire life. There is no way to prepare for such a vision nor has there ever been a
realistic description of such a vision in all of the records of humanity. The vision will be totally unexpected. It is similar, but not
quite the same, to an individual flinching or bodily jerking when startled.
46
The New Testament authors have stretched this spiritual nanosecond into 33-years of the mythological life of Jesus Christ in an
effort to fully explain the spiritual vision: the process of salvation: i.e. Born Again: the second coming of Christ.
47
This is quite deliberate because a major institution in codifying its belief system to religious texts is trying to universalize them
within the community such as Catholicism becoming the dominant Christian religion. The word ‘catholic’ means ‘universal’. It
is done so that all Christians throughout the known world would have the same outer belief systems. The myths, traditions and
belief systems would become universal reference points. Basically on a total symbolic level the outer form of Christianity is the
reincarnation of Judaism and this is the way it is suppose to be. The pope is symbolic of John the Baptist: the greatest of all
prophets in Judaism. In other words the average Christian has to behead the pope (initiate ridding himself of his ego-
consciousness) or else the vision cannot be had by the individual. The Christian religion as in all religions is but a description of
the desired spiritual vision. A Christian experiencing the vision would eventually understand what has happened to him or her.
That is all that the Judeao Christian scriptures are talking about esoterically. Exoterically, the sacred scripture is providing the
community with a decent way of life in the world while sojourning on earth: but, it is also a spiritual map for esoterists.
48
This is not the religious leaders creating this phenomenology. This degrading into ego-consciousness happens to be the way of
life on earth concerning the human psyche. The human being wants rest and utopia and they eternally in the world strive for that
without the aid of God. This is why the sacred scriptures are written to preserve the knowledge of what the vision is. All the
religious leaders were doing in writing the sacred scriptures was to give the people what they wanted. People get set in their
ways and in accepting the status quo do not need the vision to have a happy life; however, there are those rare individuals that
cannot psychically stomach the world and its materialistic and ego-driven ways. It is when these individual have a spiritual
vision they know what is happening to them.
49
This is not to say that these interpretations are wrong per se; however, insofar as they are not in accordance with the spiritual
esoteric traditions of orthodoxy they are a death knell to the status quo. The esoteric traditions include a very sophisticated
mathematical science directly from the transcendent. This will not be apparent initially at the time of the spiritual vision;
however, as the initiate researches his vision and the traditions and belief systems of his religion the esoteric science will become
known through an ongoing revelatory experience: in other words the spiritual vision remains with the individual as if it was an
afterglow: a spiritual radiance. The reason that the esoteric science is used to structure the sacred scriptures is to provide the

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however, it must be pointed out that within the written dogmatic texts is the true revelation of the original vision.
Christ is crucified by being codified esoterically to the sacred scriptures. Christ is then buried in his tomb: the
sacred scriptures. Christ can only rises from the dead when sincere supplicants (initiates) interpret the texts or
myths properly to obtain their spiritual meanings: this latter in Christianity is called the Eucharist.
c. THE THIRD SERPENT
The THIRD SERPENT is actually the second coming of the FIRST SERPENT (analogously this is the
second coming of Christ); however, this time it comes through the GREAT BEAR SPIRIT’S teachings.
This is similar to Christianity continuously revising itself throughout its long two thousand year
history, which can be seen in its great artworks50
. This was also noted in the long history of the
Egyptian Empire going back to 3500BC.
The THIRD SERPENT is basically the SECOND SERPENT teachings of the Great Bear Spirit waning to such
a point in the life of an individual that his or her personal desire to know the Truth invokes a spiritual vision;
however, it is both the vision and the old spiritual teachings that creates the new Vesica Piscis: raison d’être
(reason for existence). This is not a new paradigm but rather the fading tradition being reinterpreted in different
ways51
.
This THIRD SERPENT is the serpent that is represented on SERPENT MOUND. Actually, a bit
of the SECOND SERPENT is seen at the tip of the Oval Shape Egg. At the tip of the Oval Shape
Egg is a diamond shape in reverse of the diamond shape in the THIRD SERPENT’S head. They are
both facing in opposite directions. This diamond shape at the edge of the Oval Shape Egg is neither
an altar nor is it a crystal52
. It should be noted that in the serpent effigy the diamond shaped area in
the head is empty: there is nothing there; whereas, the diamond shape at the other end of the Oval
Shaped Egg is raised up on its own mound as if it could fit in the empty space of the serpent effigy’s
head. It is my conjecture that this diamond shape mound represents symbolically ego-consciousness,
which was forced out of the serpent effigy by Orenda. The THIRD SERPENT represents the Moon
and the SECOND SERPENT represents the Sun. That is why the sun is setting during the Summer
Solstice. The Oval Shape Egg and the serpent effigy as the Vesica Piscis is a new raison d’être
(reason for existence) that has been prepared by the transcendent and the needs of the individual into
what Christians call the Eucharist: Word of God. In the case of SERPENT MOUND it would be the
word of the Great Bear Spirit. There is an eternal oscillation between the Sun Serpent and the Moon
Serpent. They each take on each other roles exactly like the fluctuation of the Fibonacci sequence of
the Golden Ratio: as each set in the sequence moves on to the next set two become three and three
initiate the means to articulate himself beyond the normal means of expression. The esoteric science is also the means to test the
revelatory experiences of those claiming to have visions.
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THE SISTINE CHAPEL: A Study in Celestial Cartography, The Mysteries and Esoteric Teachings of the Catholic Church
(November 2012), by William John Meegan, published by Xlibris Publishers, www.williamjohnmeegan.com
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For example this would be the revelations of saints such as the Founder Saints. Each of these saints started up a new religious
order in Christianity; however, each stayed true to the original Christian paradigm. This is an important example I am giving
here concerning the Founding Saints honored in Saint Peter’s Basilica. There are 20-locations out of possibly 100-locations that
these Founding Saints statues are located in Saint Peter’s Basilica: this is an example of the PEI/BETH paradigm in the first letter
of Genesis. Think of Saint Peter’s Basilica as analogous to Serpent Mound’s Meteor Crater; whereas, the cross that the 40-saints,
take up in 20-locations (includes Saint Peter) is analogous to the Great Bear Spirit effigy. Each saint represents a new vision.
The fact that Saint Peter’s Basilica is honoring those saints points to it as being their holiest of traditions.
(http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Statues/Founders/FounderSaints.htm).
52
Previous theories that have been hypothesized concerning that diamond shape image at the head of the Oval Shaped Egg.
There has been some pie in the sky theories coming out of SERPENT MOUND. One theory actually has a chair in the midst of
the diamond shape in the serpent’s head. The ground was supposed to exudes energy from the meteor crater to heal the
supplicant similar to what is said to come out of the Delphic Oracle. The Delphic Oracle was something totally different: it
actually had foul spelling gases coming out of fault crevices in the ground beneath the sibyl sitting in a chair. Recently within the
past two decades or so the academic archeologist and meteorologist that discovered this at the Delphic Oracle say it was a
hallucinogenic gas: only a priest could interpret the rambling of the young woman.

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become two, etc., etc. This is just as it is recorded in the Gnostic Teachings of Christianity: the
female53
(Moon) will become male (Sun) and the male (Sun) will become female (Moon). When a
dreamer brings forth unconscious content it becomes conscious or ego-driven.
The SECOND SERPENT54 is the setting sun; however, the SECOND SERPENT is what the FIRST SERPENT
had degraded into: this is symbolic of the eternal life cycle of the Birth and Death process not only on a physical
level but on a spiritual level: the birth and death of the Vesica Piscis. The appearance of the THIRD SERPENT
is consistent with Judeao Christian biblical teachings that a new day starts at sundown: the Second Coming of
Christ. The revelatory vision denotes a new creation. The old heaven and earth has passed away and the new
heaven and earth are now coming into being.
4. ANOTHER LOOK AT THE FIRST AND SECOND SERPENTS
In all honesty there was no THIRD SERPENT on Serpent Mound though that lesson would have been
thoroughly discussed as to what would naturally transpire in subsequent generations. There is no way of
preventing this amnesia from taking place in the human psyche seeing the natural slothfulness and
complacency of the human psyche always seeking utopia and/or an easier ways of living. Serpent Mound
is basically for the initiate that has received his or her vision. The average person living within society
will never know of esotericism though that individual will be thoroughly versed in his or her religious
lore and cultural mores. These teaching are instilled into the mores of the cultures for that day an
individual is graced with such a vision: he or she will then have the means to deal with the vision. The
mores of the culture mandate that the religious beliefs are maintained and preserved for future
generations. It would have taken an entire community’s efforts to create the mound building culture even
though most of them would not have known what it was all about.
5. CYGNUS: THE NORTHERN CROSS
When I look at the alignment of constellations representing SERPENT MOUND PENINSUAL
PLATEAU: Ursa Major, Draco, and Ursa Minor (Little Dipper within the fold of Draco’s constellation) I would
have to add the Cygnus55
constellation to that group as the primary impetus to the spiritual vision. The
question has to be asked, what initiated the vision, which is symbolically represented by a meteor coming
out of Draco and smashing into the earth (symbolically the soul)? In ancient times the Draco
constellation represents Ladon, the dragon that guarded the gardens of the Hesperides in Greek
mythology. This is just how Yahweh guarded the Garden of Eden: “do not eat of the tree”. Was it not
Heracles56
that killed Draco to get at the apples? In Judeao Christian parlance Draco would be Yahweh
(serpent) and Heracles would be Elohym (serpent)57
: this is Mercury’s caduceus: the messenger of the
53
The "Scholars' Translation" of the Gospel of Thomas by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
http://www.haverford.edu/relg/courses/122b/GThomas2translations.htm
114 Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her
to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes
herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
54
Here is where it does get a bit confusing in trying to describe the seesaw process. I have here said the SECOND SERPENT;
however, initially the FIRST SERPENT that came into creation forming the initial Vesica Piscis had an opposing serpent: i.e. a
SECOND SERPENT. This SECOND SERPENT was completely driven from memory and now the FIRST SERPENT remains
the first serpent without an opposing serpent until another vision is had by a member of the community; however, this FIRST
SERPENT transmogrifies into the SECOND SERPENT when the THIRD SERPENT appears. The THIRD SERPENT would
then become the FIRST SERPENT and the process would begin all over again.
55
This story is well told in: STAR MOUNDS: Legacy of a Native American Mystery (pgs 117-132), by Ross Hamilton,
published by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California 2012, It would seem that on Serpent Mound both the Great Mother
Good (Swan) and the Northern Cross are inferred in the construction of the serpent effigy.
56
http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/hercules-constellation/
57
See also Michelangelo “Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve”, Sistine Chapel ceiling.

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gods. Is it not Yahweh (sun = ego-consciousness) that has to humble himself (sunset) in order for there to
be a spiritual vision? If the sun had not set on the seventh day of creation in the Genesis Creation
Account the serpent could never have given the fruit of the tree to Eve. How it is known that it was
evening is because the texts clearly state Yahweh was walking in the cool of the day and it also mentions
that he could not see Adam or Eve, “where art thou Adam”? Evil cannot help but destroy itself through
laziness continuously seeking rest: the would-be Promise Land is always over the next horizon.
To understand how the Northern Cross is connected to Serpent Mound the nature of both serpents (Sun and Moon
alignments) have to be understood. Serpent Mound is the axis mundi of a gigantic Lunar Zodiacal Mythological
Calendar: 13-Moon Cycles. I do not know the direction in which
meteor impacted the site and I do not believe it would make any
difference esoterically.
Serpent Mound is set up to display Cygnus’ Northern Cross : it is
done so in the exact same manner in which it is displayed in the first
word of Genesis: BERESHITH. I am not saying here that either
culture influenced the other. The serpent’s head is facing northwest;
however, the serpent effigy is aligned to the North Star; whereas the
Summer Solstice sun is setting in the northwest. In other words the
two serpents are facing each other having just created the Vesica
Piscis (Oval Shape Egg). The Summer Solstice sun rose in the
Northeast. The question that has to be asked is why is the serpent
situated between the rising and the setting sun? The answer is of
cause is that a new serpent has come to replace the dying serpent
(setting sun). Here is where it can be hypothesized that there is a
THIRD SERPENT but knowing as I do the redundancy factor in
esotericism the two serpents facing off are a repetitive symbol of the first Vesica Piscis. In other word more details of
the spiritual vision are being expressed by going into some of the minutia as repetitive examples are inferred. Now
extrapolate that out to the entire Lunar Zodiac: 13-moon cycles58
. I think you guessed by now the second cycle in the
Solar Calendar cycle. In other words the Solar Year has been turned into a more spiritual year: the Lunar Zodiacal
Calendar. The Solar Calendar is used for secular chores such as
farming and other mundane activities; however, the Moon Calendar
maps out religious events: see Judaism, Christianity and Islam for
examples of Luna Calendars.
Serpent Mound has the Lunar Calendar 18.6-years rising and setting in
the east and west, which is shown ‘crossing’ the body of the serpent
purposely, creating a symbol of the Northern Cross (Cygnus). The
serpent is rising up the body of the Great Bear: from south to north and
the lunar alignments are from east to west. Symbolically, the
Kundalini Serpent is rising to go out of the crown of the head not
towards North Star but to the Northern Cross.
The reason that I am absolutely certain that the solar and lunar
alignments are symbolizing Cygnus: the Northern Cross is because
this is precisely how the first two verses of Genesis are set up.
Genesis uses the symbolism of the ALEPH to represent the cross. Below are a few examples in the Genesis Creation
58
THE 13 ORIGINAL CLAN MOTHERS (1994), by Jamie Sams, published by Harper San Francisco, A Division of Harper
Collins Publishers

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Account indicating there is precedence for using the sun and the moon symbols as analogies to the Cygnus
constellation.
(A) ALEPTH is spelt Aleph (1), Lemmed (30) and Pei (80): break these three letters individually down to their lowest
common denominator and the quotients are 1, 3 and 8 of the transposition of 318, which is the Gemetria value of
the word ‘Cross’. These three letters in ALEPH also total to 111, which points to the Trinity: Aleph (1), Yud (10)
and Qoph (100). In the Zohar Aleph is defined as Elohym, which in turn is defined as the Moon and Yahweh is
defined as the Sun. Aleph is the second letter of the letter/word RESH: Resh-Aleph-Shin. It is this letter/word
RESH that is inserted into be…ith to form be-resh-ith: BERESHITH. This in turn translate into interpreting the
word ‘be-resh-ith’ to read:
a. be = “in the beginning”
b. resh = “Elohym separated the beginning and ends of the heavens and the beginning and ends of the
earth”.
c. ith = “and the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit
of Elohym moved over the face of the waters”.
When reading the second verse of Genesis it will be seen that the first verse ends with the word ‘earth’ and the
second verse starts with the word ‘earth’; thus, Aleph: i.e. Elohym would be sitting between the ‘heavens and the
earth’ between SHIN (Earth) & RESH (Heavens) right on top of the galactic core.
(B) In the first word of Genesis: Bereshith, the Sun is setting and the Moon is rising intertwining symbolizing the
CROSS.
(C) The first four chapters of Genesis create a gigantic Zodiac/Calendar year’s graphic image. Between the first two
verses of Genesis are Scorpio, which represents the first verse and the second verse, represent Sagittarius. The
galactic core can be seen between these two signs. In fact both Scorpio’s and Sagittarius’ arrows crisscross
pointing to the galactic core59
, which is exactly where Cygnus: the Northern Cross is (at the intersection of the two
arrows). Remember that Draco is in Sagittarius: one of the two signs pointing to Cygnus: the Northern Cross.
6. SUN AND MOON ALIGNMENTS
It is because of the scientific measurements of the Solstices, Equinoxes60
and Moon61
alignments that all
of this can be said about SERPENT MOUND. It definitely follows the esoteric traditions of the Judeao
Christian literature. In the Old Testament Yahweh represented the Sun and Elohym represented the
Moon62
. Both these concepts are well laid out in the first word of Genesis: BERESHITH and is
prefigured in the first letter of Genesis: PEI/BETH.
“The cycle of the moon is not as simplistic as that of the sun, for the moon has a complicated orbit that requires time to
discern its horizon rising and setting points. Instead of one year to complete its cycle, nearly nineteen years is
necessary. Because of this, William F. Romain, in his capacity as archaeoastronomer, discovered six lunar alignments
corresponding to the widely dispersed chronological events of the 18.6-year lunar calendar. His findings suggest that,
like the findings of Ray Hively and Robert Horn at the Newark, Ohio, circle-octagon earthwork, the designer of the
Great Serpent understood the entire lunar cycle63
”.
59
EARTH UNDER FIRE: Humanity’s Survival of the Ice Age (1997), by Paul A. LaViolette, PH.D., published by Bear &
Company, Rochester, Vermont: also there is a beautiful video out under the same name illustrating Dr. LaViolette’s discovery of
the Zodiac’s mythology of Sagittarius’ and Scorpio’s arrows pointing to the galactic core.
60
Solstices and Equinoxes alignments after Hardman & Hardman, Fletcher & Cameron: see THE GREAT SERPENT MOUND:
Book of Wonders and Mysteries: An Eclectic Guide to the Enigmatic Effigy and its Parkland, collector’s edition, 2013 by Ross
Hamilton
61
Ibid: Lunar Alignments uncovered by William F. Romain in 1987
62
The Sun and Moon represent symbolically ego-consciousness and the unconscious mind respectively. The world is an illusion
and these interpretations of these symbols have to be taken internally.
63
THE GREAT SERPENT MOUND: Book of Wonders and Mysteries: An Eclectic Guide to the Enigmatic Effigy and its
Parkland, collector’s edition, 2013 by Ross Hamilton

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Here are the crucial characteristics of SERPENT MOUND that raises it to the level of esotericism; thus, to the level of
a Mystery School. All else can be explained away by the artistic skills of artisans. The seven swirls in the body of the
serpent representing the measurements of the Solstices, Equinoxes and Moon alignments spanning the array of seven
swirls shows a dedication that goes far beyond that of a worldly artisan. To begin with those that constructed this site
would have had to have a sophisticated understanding of what they were doing before they began or else it would have
taken several generations to complete the project: 18.6 years64
is almost one generation. To align the Lunar
Measurements took precision surveying skill that only teamwork could accomplish.
7. THE KUNDALINI SERPENT
AND THE SEVEN LIGHT CHAKRAS
The synchronicity of Draco (Serpent), Ursa Minor (Little Bear) and Ursa Major (Big Bear) constellations
being within the same family of star constellations65
in relationship to
Serpent Mound is too coincidental to overlook. In fact historically
speaking from great antiquity Draco was considered part of the Ursa
Major constellation of stars.
It is uncanny that the coiled tail of the serpent is symbolic of the
lingam that lies dormant at the seat of the spine and the seven
uncoiling swirls in the body of the serpent appears to be rolling out the
measurements of the Sun and Moon (the heavens). These seven
uncoiling swirls are the Seven Light Chakras in Hindu mythology. For
Genesis Creation Account says that the two great luminaries: Sun and
Moon, will bring light to the earth (soul). The fact that the Serpent is
at the mouth of the Great Bear points to the Word of God (PEI). The
Bear Clan were said to be healers and/or shamans. These same
concepts of the Kundalini and the Seven Light Chakras are esoterically codified to the first four chapters
of Genesis.
8. THE GREAT BEAR SPIRIT
The Hunting of the Great Bear, in brief, concerns four hunters hunting for the great bear. They are so
intent on catching this bear in their chase they do not realize that
they have been waft into the night sky. The four hunters are the
four seasons. The bear wakes up in spring and goes through each
of the seasons until the four hunters catch up and kills it. As it
falls to the ground its blood soak in causing the color of leaves
and then winter has set in. The Great Bear is known to be within
the square of four stars in the heavens representing the bowl of
the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) and the hunters are seen close
behind. There are many esoteric nuances that are codified to this
legend and those that have eyes to see and ears to hear will seek
them out. This American Indian mythological tale is what
interested me being that SERPENT MOUND’S PENINSULA
PLATEAU in the shape of a bear was situated within a crater
(bowl) brought down from the starry skies. As it can be seen it
64
The idea that Stonehenge and Serpent Mound does not necessarily pan out logically because those taking notes as to the
alignment of the Moon Measurements would by necessity be equivalent even if they were centuries or millennia apart.
65
http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/draco-constellation/

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was not difficult to make the connection between the formation’s shape of the peninsula plateau and the
legend of the Great Bear Spirit. Think of it this way the legend of Hunting of the Great Bear is repetitious
of all that has been discussed in this paper.
9. IN CONCLUSION
It is not difficult to envisage, with careful study and consideration of the evidence available, that the true
understanding of SERPENT MOUND site can be ascertained. I see Serpent Mound as a Mystery School
where the teacher and student can walk the perimeter of this thirteen hundred and seventy foot effigy as
the sage instructs the student into the deeper esoteric mysteries of the Great Bear’s mythological
teachings; though, that student would first have to prove his or her worthiness to obtain that knowledge.
Questions as to the student’s observations of the mound would certainly be on the program. I can only
imagine that the student would have been thoroughly prepared with more than a basic education and then
the shaman would see where the student’s thoughts went from there and this would determined how much
of the esoteric knowledge would be doled out. How does the student deal with the esoteric knowledge he
or she was given? The questions asked will certainly alert the shaman as to the sincerity that the student
is putting into his or her studies. There is no shame in going the way of the secular and worldly life;
however, there are those few amongst the many that need more than the world can provide and this is
where the art of esotericism come into focus for those rare individuals. There are many that claim they
want the spiritual way until they learn what that entails. Like the rich man in the New Testament when
he realized he would have to give up all his wealth66
to follow Christ. That was too much for him and he
turned back.
10. ORENDA: A FINAL WORD
Orenda is a word that I borrow from the American Indians to describe that inexplicable spiritual radiance
that has guided me these past 39-years in my quest to know myself and the God that had created me. I
see the universe in a whole different light then most sojourning on the earth. I know that outwardly all is
a direct reflection of what is within my soul/psyche and this is how I live my life and view myself. My
views of the outer world are not that of the uninitiated: those that do not know Orenda. Like the gorget I
presented above. I may perform the same rituals, wear the same cloths and speak the same language but
my mental acuity towards societal mores is that of a spiritual dimension.
The earth67
is symbolically my soul/psyche. Symbolically the outward manifestation of the earth, and the
universe that surrounds it, is there to edify me more fully on a rational level concerning my soul/psyche.
The earth is a molten ball of fire with a thin outer crust similar to the skin envelope protecting the body.
The earth is symbolic of the soul/psyche peering ad infinitum into itself and needs the outer crust to
protect it against the cold and emptiness of nothing. The star studded universe is all the hidden mysteries
within my soul/psyche that needs to be eternally contemplated with Orenda as my only confidant. The
outer crust can also be said to be the clothing of the body (cultural mores). All of these outer mysteries
are the symbolic outer manifestations (illusions and mirages) of my spiritual being but this does not make
them any less real.
The inner molten fire of the earth is symbolically the spiritual being that I am while I am in the world and
this molten fire seeps through the crust of the earth as life giving energies similar to sweat cooling off the
66
Wealth has nothing to do with money or accumulation of goods though that was a small part of what Christ was demanding.
Christ was demanding all of the initiates time and energies. The initiate had to give up his family, friends and associates and this
is the bulk of each and every human being’s wealth. This is what Christ meant when one of the would-be disciples said he was
going home to bury his father and Christ said, “Let the dead bury the dead”.
67
This understanding is imbued into the word ‘earth’ in the Genesis Creation Account.

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body. The molten fire is my spiritual being in the world of materialism similar to the digestion of food.
The fire is perpetually liquefying the solidity of the world so that it becomes malleable for my creative
thought. I am a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth because there can never be a time that I can rest my
head for in the day that I do I will die spiritually. The moment that I rest, from learning about myself, all
solidifies around me and I become useless to myself: tedious: dead lying eternally within a mausoleum of
my own design. I would eternally be dwelling on the same thoughts and continuously going down the
same paths of reasoning: that finiteness will become my whole universe, my whole being. Logic would
be dead and there would be no new adventures that I can explore in the inner realm of my being.
Orenda has taken me out of the cloistered world I had built myself and cause it to fade away as if it was a
mirage and a vast new world opened up before me. My main obsession in life dissipated68
like dew in the
morning it evaporated and an infinite amount of possibilities presented themselves. Through the wisdom
of Orenda I learn to reject all of these new possibilities because they were the same old dream dressed in
new garments. Orenda showed me that knowing God was to learn about myself. Not that I was God but
rather that I live my life through Him. My life may be as cloistered as it was before, at least from the
outward appearance; however, through Orenda the spiritual universe has been opened to me and I found
that I could reach across the vast expanse of creation. I see Orenda in all that is being taught to me for she
is eternally inside and all around me. For we are PEI/BETH: “in the beginning”.
68
The main impediment (obsession) to life is wiped clean: Tabula Rasa (blank slate); though, all knowledge and characteristic
traits of the individual are retained. What this means is that though the individual remembers the old obsession there is no way
psychically he or she would willingly acquiesce to returning to it or a greater evil would come upon that individual for it would
be totally and unequivocally disrespectful to the Holy Spirit: Orenda.

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