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« on: September 12, 2004, 02:21:58 PM »
Hey guy`s  :D
  check out this site http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/serpent.html

interesting to say the least.

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« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2004, 05:00:40 PM »
I see nothing serpentine looking about it. Too short and too fat to be any serpent I've ever seen. Looks more like a skinny frog with his legs cut off.  :-D


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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2004, 12:47:30 AM »
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I see nothing serpentine looking about it. Too short and too fat to be any serpent I've ever seen. Looks more like a skinny frog with his legs cut off.  :-D


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 Dont look at the white outline but rather inside it. I can see the zig-zag coils of a serpent running inside the outline going up the mound with what appears to me as a dark dot for an eye.
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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2004, 02:18:07 AM »
I guess I honestly don't see that but can 'almost' see hints of it in the larger image at top right of page. Clicking on the Mount Tower I think it was I can see the hand drawn graphic that shows what you mean. I was looking at the entire mound.


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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2004, 12:34:12 PM »
I live 15 minutes from there, we have quite a few mound sites in this part of the state.. :D
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http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/up/mound01.jpg
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« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2004, 01:32:55 PM »
Here is another interesting site that shows the mound and leo petroglyph which is in the same general area http://www.ditomorales.com/americas/promqueen.htm
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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2004, 12:49:01 AM »
Serpent mounds may very well have been produced in various parts of the northern hemisphere by the Picts.  The Picts were a branch of the seafaring Israelite tribe of Dan.  Traces of these people can be found all over western Europe, the British Isles and North America.  Their identifying ensign was the image of a serpent.  The Danites were well known for marking their territory with symbols and naming their territory after their father.  Look at a map of western Europe, the Isles and North America and you will find many cities, towns, counties and even a country containing the telltale name of Dan.  It may be written dan, din, den, dun, or don.

The Picts practiced a form of Paganism.  They were dark skinned (ranging from red to almost black) and decorated their bodies with paint and feathers.  Many historians believe that the northern and eastern American Indians descended from the Pictish tribes.
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