The Great Serpent Mound
The Ancients
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The Alligator and the Serpent Mound
There's a little peninsula of earth that connects it with a big round flat stone altar. And then serpent mound, the serpent head is clasping in its jaws apparently an oval. The first archaeologist to really document and talked about it thought it was a frog. But other archaeologists map that horseshoe-shaped mound as well. So we think that's first woman and the oval between her legs is apparently, we think, a symbolically enlarged vulva.
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