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Serpent Mound
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the site in the USA. For the one in the UK, see Skelmorlie. The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long,[2] three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Maintained within a park by the Ohio Historical Society, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of Interior. The Serpent Mound of Ohio was first reported from surveys by Ephraim Squire and Edwin Davis in their historic volume Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, published in 1848 by the newly founded Smithsonian Museum.
Researchers have attributed construction of the mound to three different prehistoric indigenous cultures. Although it was once thought to be Adena in origin, now based on the use of more advanced technology, including carbon dating and evidence from 1996 studies, many scholars now believe that members of the Fort Ancient culture built it about 1070 CE (plus or minus 70 years). There are still anomalies to be studied.[3] Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy in the world.[4]
Description[edit]
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. Scholars posit that the oval feature symbolizes an egg, the sun, the body of a frog, or merely the remnant of a platform. The effigy's extreme western feature is a triangular mound approximately 31.6 feet (9.6 m) at its base and long axis. There are also serpent effigies located in Scotland and Ontario that are very similar.[5]
Map of the Great Serpent Mound
The dating of the design, the original construction, and the identity of the builders of the serpent effigy are three questions still debated in the disciplines of social science, including ethnology, archaeology, and anthropology. In addition, contemporary American Indians have an interest in the site. Several attributions have been entered by academic, philosophic, and Native American concerns regarding all three of these unknown factors of when designed, when built, and by whom.
Over the years, scholars have proposed that the mound was built by members of the Adena culture, the Hopewell culture, or the Fort Ancient culture. In the 18th century the missionary John Heckewelder reported that Native Americans of the Lenni Lenape (later Delaware) nation told him the Allegheny people had built the mound, as they lived in the Ohio Valley in an ancient time. Both Lenape and Iroquois legends tell of the Allegheny or Allegewi People, sometimes called Tallegewi. They were said to have lived in the Ohio Valley in a remotely ancient period, believed pre-Adena, i.e., Archaic or pre-Woodland period (before 1200 BCE). Because archaeological evidence suggests that ancient cultures were distinct and separate from more recent historic Native American cultures, academic accounts do not propose the Allegheny Nation built the Serpent Mound.[6]
Recently the dating of the site has been brought into question. While it has long been thought to be an Adena site based on slim evidence, a couple of radiocarbon dates from a small excavation raise the possibility that the mound is no more than a thousand years old. Middle Ohio Valley people of the time were not known for building large earthworks, however; they did display a high regard for snakes as shown by the numerous copper serpentine pieces associated with them.[7]
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal discovered within the mound in the 1990s indicated that people worked on the mound circa 1070 CE.[3]
Adena culture[edit]
Main article: Adena culture
Historically, researchers first attributed the mound to the Adena culture (1000 BCE - 1 CE). William Webb, noted Adena exponent, found evidence through carbon dating for Kentucky Adena as early as 1200 BCE. As there are Adena graves near the Serpent Mound, scholars thought the same people constructed the mound. The skeletal remains of the Adena type uncovered in the 1880s at Serpent Mound indicate that these people were unique among the ancient Ohio Valley peoples. It was more than 45 years before scholars paid sufficient attention to the Adena studies.
The Adena culture did build some nearby mounds, so for more than 125 years, many scholars thought they created the Serpent Mound as well. The Adena were renowned for their elaborate earthworks and their creation of "sacred circles" as part of their cosmology. An unrecorded number of their gravesites throughout the greater Ohio Valley were destroyed before any organized archeological supervision performed correct analysis of their contents.
Carbon-dating studies published in 1996 of material from the mound appeared to place the Serpent Mound construction as later than the span of the Adena.[3] This suggested that a people subsequent to the Adena may have built or refurbished the site for their own uses and purposes. Although a characteristic of excavation at most Adena mounds has been discovery of related artifacts, to date no cultural artifacts have been found within the Serpent Mound. This study and its inferences drew the attention of many experts and is further discussed below.
Fort Ancient culture[edit]
Main article: Fort Ancient
Scholars currently think that the Fort Ancient culture (1000-1650 CE), an Ohio Valley-based, mound-building society, constructed Serpent Mound about 1070 CE. The Fort Ancient culture was influenced by the contemporary Mississippian culture society based along the mid-Mississippi River valley with its North American center at Cahokia (in present-day Illinois). The Mississippian culture had regional chiefdoms as far south as present-day Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as extending to western North Carolina and north to the Great Lakes area.
The Fort Ancient society, a protohistoric group, was named because they inhabited the ramparts of the large notched earthworks in Warren County, Ohio, commonly called "Fort Ancient". The earthwork had been built, however, by the early Hopewell culture (200 BCE-500 CE) at least 1,000 years prior to the arrival of the Fort Ancient culture. The Hopewell culture had abandoned the earthworks and disappeared long before the Fort Ancient peoples arose in the area.
In 1996 the team of Robert V. Fletcher and Terry L. Cameron (under the supervision of the Ohio Historical Society's Bradley T. Lepper) reopened a trench created by Frederic Ward Putnam of Harvard over 100 years before. They found a few pieces of charcoal in what was believed to be an undisturbed portion of the Serpent Mound. However, bioturbation, including burrowing animals, frost cracks, etc., can reverse the structural timeline of an earthen mound such as Serpent Mound. It can shift carbon left by a later culture on the surface to areas deep within the structure, making the earthwork appear younger.
When the team conducted carbon dating studies on the charcoal pieces, two yielded a date of ca. 1070 CE, with the third piece dating to the Late Archaic period some two thousand years earlier, specifically 2920+/-65 years BP (before the present). The third date, ca. 2900 BP, was recovered from a core sample below cultural modification level. The first two dates place the Serpent Mound within the realm of the Fort Ancient culture. The third dates the mound back to very early Adena culture or before.[8]
The Fort Ancient people could have been the builders of the Serpent Mound. Alternatively, they may have refurbished the earthwork for their own use in the same way that people today fix up old houses to make them suitable for occupation again. The rattlesnake is significant as a symbol in the Mississippian culture, which would help explain the image of the mound. But there is no sign or indication of a rattle.[8]
If this mound was built by the Fort Ancient people, it was uncharacteristic for that group. For example, the mound does not contain artifacts, although, like the Adena people, the Fort Ancient culture typically buried many artifacts in its mounds. In another difference, the Fort Ancient people did not usually bury their dead in the manner of the burials found in proximity to the effigy.[8]
One of the only other effigy mounds in Ohio, the Alligator Effigy Mound in Granville, was carbon dated to the Fort Ancient period.
Purpose[edit]
Uktena design from a shell engraving found at the Spiro Site in Oklahoma
The Serpent Mound is the largest effigy mound in the world. While there are several burial mounds around the Serpent mound site, the Serpent site does not contain any human remains. It was not constructed for burial purposes.
The Cherokee relate the legend of the Uktena, a large serpent with supernatural appearance and power. The existence of the legend attests to the importance of the figure. Researchers have speculated that perhaps ancient native people created large totemic shrines that were built on platforms made of earth and stone. Such an effigy could have been destroyed by war or changes among inheriting cultures, with the result that only the platform (the mound) was left.[citation needed]
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Astronomical significance[edit]
The spiral tail at the end of the Serpent Mound
In 1987 Clark and Marjorie Hardman published their finding that the oval-to-head area of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset.[9][10] William F. Romain has suggested an array of lunar alignments based on the curves in the effigy's body. Fletcher and Cameron argued convincingly for the Serpent Mound's coils being aligned to the two solstice and two equinox events each year. If the Serpent Mound were designed to sight both solar and lunar arrays, it would be significant as the consolidation of astronomical knowledge into a single symbol. The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the coils also may point to the winter solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise.[11]
If 1070 CE is accurate as the construction year, building the mound could theoretically have been influenced by two astronomical events: the light from the supernova that created the Crab Nebula in 1054, and the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1066.[12] The supernova light would have been visible for two weeks after it first reached earth, even during the day. The Halley's Comet's tail has always appeared as a long, straight line and does not resemble the curves of the Serpent Mound. Halley's comet appears every 76 years. Numerous other supernovas may have occurred over the centuries that span the possible construction dates of the effigy. However spectacular, the light from the Crab Nebula would not have inspired the particular design of the Serpent Mound.
A depiction of the serpent mound that appeared in The Century periodical in April 1890
The Serpent Mound may have been designed in accord with the pattern of stars composing the constellation Draco. The star pattern of the constellation Draco fits with fair precision to the Serpent Mound, with the ancient Pole Star, Thuban (α Draconis), at its geographical center within the first of seven coils from the head. The fact that the body of Serpent Mound follows the pattern of Draco may support various theses. Putnam's 1865 refurbishment of the earthwork could have been correctly accomplished in that a comparison of Romain's or Fletcher and Cameron's maps from the 1980s show how the margins of the Serpent align with great accuracy to a large portion of Draco. Some researchers date the earthwork to around 5,000 years ago, based on the position of Draco, through the backward motion of precessionary circle of the ecliptic when Thuban was the Pole Star. Alignment of the effigy to the Pole Star at that position also shows how true north may have been found. This was not known until 1987 because lodestone and modern compasses give incorrect readings at the site.[13]
Cryptoexplosion Structure[edit]
Shatter cones associated with the Serpent Mound cryptoexplosion structure. Scale in mm.
The mound is located on a plateau with a unique cryptoexplosion structure that contains faulted and folded bedrock, usually produced either by a meteorite or a volcanic explosion. In 2003 geologists from Ohio State government and the University of Glasgow (Scotland) concluded that a meteorite strike was responsible for the formation. They had studied core samples collected at the site in the 1970s. Further analyses of the rock core samples indicated the meteorite impact occurred during the Permian Period, about 248 to 286 million years ago.[14]
This is one of the few places in North America where such an occurrence is seen. While some scholars speculate that prehistoric Native Americans may have placed the mound in relation to this geological anomaly, others think there was nothing visible at ground level that would have captured their attention.
Recent history[edit]
The Serpent Mound was first mapped by Euro-Americans as early as 1815. In 1846 it was surveyed for the Smithsonian Institution by two Chillicothe men, Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis. Their book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848), published by the Smithsonian, included a detailed description and map of the serpent mound. Because they found large trees at the site, it is believed it was hidden by natural woodland for much of the time.
Preservation[edit]
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley fascinated many across the country, including Frederic Ward Putnam of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Putnam spent much of his career lecturing and publishing on the Ohio mounds, specifically the Serpent Mound. When he visited the Midwest in 1885, he found that plowing and development were destroying many of the mounds. In 1886, with help from a group of women in Boston, Putnam raised funds to purchase 60 acres (240,000 m2) at the Serpent Mound site for preservation. The purchase also contained three conical mounds, a village site and a burial place.[15] Serpent Mound is listed as a "Great Wonder Of the Ancient World" by National Geographic Magazine.[16]
Originally purchased on behalf of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum, in 1900 the land and its ownership were granted to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (a predecessor of the present Ohio Historical Society). It became the first state park in the United States..
The Ohio Historical Society designated the Arc of Appalachia Preserves system, a project of Highlands Sanctuary, Inc., as the managing agency of Serpent Mound [11][17][18]
Excavation[edit]
After raising sufficient funds, in 1886 Putnam returned to the same site. He worked for four years excavating the contents and burial sequences of both the Serpent Mound and two nearby conical mounds. After his work was completed and his findings documented, Putnam worked on restoring the mounds to their original state.
Serpent Mound Museum[edit]
A digital GIS map of Ohio's Great Serpent Mound, created by Timothy A. Price and Nichole I. Stump in March 2002
In 1901 the Ohio Historical Society hired engineer Clinton Cowan to survey newly acquired lands. Cowan created a 56 by 72-inch (1,800 mm) map that depicted the outline of the Serpent Mound in relation to nearby landmarks, such as rivers. Cowan also made specific geographical surveys of the area, and he discovered the unique cryptoexplosion structure on which the mound is based. He found that the mound is at the convergence of three distinctly different soil types. Cowan's information, in conjunction with Putnam's archaeological discoveries, has been the basis for all modern investigations of the Serpent Mound.
In 1967, the Ohio Historical Society opened the Serpent Mound Museum, built near the mound. A pathway was constructed around the base of the mound to help visitors. The museum features exhibits that include interpretations of the effigy's form, description of the processes of constructing the mound, the geographical history of the area, and an exhibit on the Adena culture, historically credited as the creators of the mound.
Serpent Mound State Memorial is currently being operated on behalf of the Ohio Historical Society by the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System. It is a non-profit organization specializing in the preservation and protection of native biodiversity and prehistoric aboriginal sites in southern Ohio.
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Serpent Mound
The most ancient of Ohio's forgotten mysteries, Adams County’s Serpent Mound, is not haunted in the classical sense. No vengeful ghost walks there at midnight (as far as anyone can tell); no axe murders are reenacted when the moon is full. But to the ancient Indians who built it, the great effigy mound definitely was a spiritual place.
Human beings have lived in North America since the Wisconsin glacier retreated in about 15,000 BCE. The first cultures-the Fluted Point, the Plano, the Archaic-left behind little more than carved stone tools and, occasionally, human remains. It wasn’t until the advent of the Adena Culture around 1000 BCE that the earliest residents of North America began building burial and effigy mounds. The Adena are best known for the former, and because of the number of burial mounds they left behind a lot has been learned about who they were. It’s known that they hunted and farmed in the Ohio Valley for several thousand years. The men grew to an average height of about 5”6’, the women to 5”2’. Adena Indians modified their bodies in some extreme ways. One common practice was head deformation. A board would be fastened tightly across a baby’s head for weeks, flattening his skull as it developed.
The Great Serpent Mound was treated with great reverence by the Adena, who buried their dead beneath dozens of small mounds in the vicinity, but never inside the mound itself. It was built on a point overlooking the Brush Creek Valley, from yellow clay taken from three pits in the area, and is more than 1300 feet long. The body, which curves back and forth from a spiral-shaped tail, ranges in width from three to twenty feet. The head of the snake is represented by a large oval shape, which may be an egg it’s eating, or might also be the snake’s open mouth as it strikes.
There’s little doubt that the Serpent Mound was used in religious ceremonies by the Adena, and possibly by the later Hopewell Indians, who built their own elaborate earthworks in the area. When settlers first discovered the mound, there was a fire-scorched stone monument in the egg-shaped head, which probably means it was used as an altar of some sort. It’s also theorized that the Adena might have performed human sacrifice in the mouth of the serpent; aside from blackened stones, ceremonial knives have been unearthed there. Other evidence lies in the number of headless skeletons which have been discovered in gravesites nearby.
Over the years the Serpent Mound site has gained a reputation as a "mystery spot"--a place where unexplained things happen with some frequency. Whether this condition inspired the effigy or is caused by it, the legends persist. It’s said that the dead moundbuilders make occasional appearances, and that other odd things tend to happen in the park which now surrounds the mound site. In 1966 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the Great Serpent Mound Park is tended by the state and is easy to visit on State Route 73 north of Peebles. Being there after dark is not advisable for a number of reasons.
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For more information about Serpent Mound, visit one of the following links:
Ohio Historical Society: Serpent Mound
GreatSerpentMound.org
Artcom Museums Tour: Serpent Mound State Memorial
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July 20th - July 27, 2002
As Above so Below
(Artwork by Ross Hamilton see www.greatserpentmound.org
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" NEW ACCOMMODATIONS OPTIONS"
Imagine yourself exploring and attuning to the sacred wisdom of the ancient ones who have created the amazing Serpent Mound. We will explore the mysteries of the enigmatic mound culture in Southern Ohio and how they relate to the earth grid and celestial events. We will attune to the land, celebrate and renew our lives as well as join in sacred circles sharing our love and wisdom. Encoded within us are the keys that will unlock the mysteries enabling us to realize greater harmony, peace, vision and our highest purpose.
  Our goal for the July Full moon gathering is to bring together those who feel called to this special area of the world for a magical growth experience in nature, and to celebrate life on the land of the ancient mound builders. Accommodations have been arranged at Murphin Ridge Inn, and at Woodland Alters Chalets and campsites. All accommodations are very close to serpent mound.
This journey is to honor spirit and we welcome you to join us on the land. We have come up with three ideas to help you participate. Please review the choices and let us know as soon as possible to reserve your accommodations.
1. We have rooms at Murphin Ridge Inn, a beautiful deluxe and charming Inn on 142 acres of rolling woods. Bountiful country breakfast is served every morning and the restaurant is noted for its famous home cook meals. Swimming pool, hiking trails, basketball courts, tennis, hammocks and more. Please see
www.murphinridgeinn.com Land Price $895.00
2, Woodland Alters, a 450-acre retreat camp center. They have chalets that sleep six - three bedrooms, two with two twin beds and one with a double bed. Each chalet sleeps six peoples and features a fully equipped kitchen, two full baths and dining area, living/family rooms with woods store. Please see www.woodlandaltars.org Land Price $459.00
3. Woodland Alters campgrounds. If you live near by or are planning to drive and would like to camp this is a great place. Please see
www.woodlandaltars.org Please call Vanda 1 800 569-5010 or Debbie Johnson at 937 587-6055.
The prices are to cover costs for seven nights accommodations based on your choice above, transportation and entrance fees to mounds, meals as indicated on the brochure, gifts to elders, gatherings, sweat lodges and special talks with Terri Rivera-Piat, contemporary Native American musician and healer and Suzanne Tewawiana Hopi Navajo teachers. For more information please call Vanda Osmon Joy Travel.
1-500-569-5010
Celebration on the land. Come join us for the Full Moon in July to celebrate life and the gifts of nature. The energies in for the Full Moon in July are outstanding. We encourage you to touch deeply into your dreams and let love and the divine spirit guides you to your next journey of your unfolding destiny.
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Artwork William Romain
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SERPENT MOUND RETREAT
Strategically positioned and astronomically aligned, the Serpent Mound remains an unexplained earth mystery. What was the purpose behind this monumental earth design, who created it and why?
Come and find out for yourself.
Throughout the American Midwest there are a myriad of huge mounds shaped into countess forms. Some feel these earthen mounds were built around 800 AD, but new archeological research and the science of archaeoastronomy indicate they are far older. The Serpent Mound in Ohio is nearly a quarter of a mile long and is the largest serpent effigy in the United States.
The ancient mound builders created amazing mound at specific location to capture the rays of the Sun and to harmonize and amplify the surrounding Earth energies. Many feel they predict solstice, equinox, eclipses, solar and lunar cycles as wells as the 18.6 year moon cycle similar to Callanish in Scotland. The Serpent Mound is a storehouse of ancient wisdom and sacred knowledge - A doorway to the past and to the future.
The Ancient ones encoded their timeless wisdom in their art, landscape, architecture, stone circles, and effigies using specific locations, sacred geometry and celestial alignments. At these sacred sites they used ritual and ceremony to help keep energy flowing between Heaven and Earth. As current cycles are ending and new ones are emerging it is time to remember, honor and integrate sacred wisdom in to our lives.
This journey is designed to celebrate nature and to remember ancient wisdom deep within us. We will use the Song of our Soul and the Eyes of our Heart to see, honor and experience the great beauty the Earth keepers left us.
Many of the mounds depict animals and star constellations - As above so below. By coming together on the land we will synthesis the qualities of the four directions into our lives and share our vision of peace for all humanity.
SOUTH THE GREAT SERPENT
Who teaches us to walk in beauty.
WEST THE JAGUAR
Who teaches us to have no fear.
NORTH THE HUMMINGBIRD
The ancient ones who teaches us earth stewardship
EAST THE EAGLE
Who teaches us the way of vision and purpose.
PRESENTERS
 Terri Rivera-Piat,
spiritual healer guest speaker and contemporary Native American musician. She has studied with Navajo, Hopi, Shawnee, Choctaw, Cherokee, Apache, Lakota, Irish, Aztec, Mayan and Incan Healers. Her vision is to help others rediscover their own spiritual identity. She offers healing session and has the ability to help other retrieve their personal chant. These chants help to align energy centers in the body and helps in manifesting your dreams. She will conduct our sweat lodges and use song and stories to share the Voice of our Ancestors. Terri will guide us at each site and fine the tonal essence to unlock the keys of wisdom inherent at the sites we will be visiting.
Artist/Spiritualist Terri Rivera-Piatt’s (Sings with Ravens) background is Pima, Aztec and Irish. Growing up in Idaho, she was influenced by the Pow-wow’s held at the nearby Shoshoni-Bannock Reservation, there she would listen for hours to the beat of the drum that would pierce her very soul and tell her of things to come. She also spent time working as a young woman in such beautiful places as Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
She has studied with Navajo, Hopi, Shawnee, Choctaw, Cherokee, Apache, Lakota, Irish, Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Healers. It is because of her studies and her rich and various ancestral histories, that her mission has become to help others rediscover (as she has) their own Indigenous Spiritual identities.
While on a Vision Quest, led by her grandmother, Sings with Ravens was gifted with the ability to retrieve personal chants for all that come to her. She attends many events where You can come and sit with her for a while, as she tunes into your Ancestral Guides and then retrieves your personal chant that can re-connect you with your ancestral roots, it is this chant that will help you to heal yourself by lining up your energy centers, as well as assist you in manifesting your own dreams. She is known by many as a gifted psychic and curandera (a spiritual healer) where she sometimes employs the use of a Temezcal (sweat-lodge) to talk to spirit and find the source of an illness, then cleanse and heal.
Terri will guide us at each site and fine the tonal essence to unlock the keys of wisdom inherent at each site we will be visiting. Terri also offers handmade drums for sell.
 Suzanne Tewawina, Hopi/Navajo/Nez Pierce,
Vanda Osmon
, created Joy Travel in 1983, specializing in sacred journeys for the heart and soul. She has created and escorted over 44 customized journeys worldwide. Vanda provides opportunities to see, feel and explore Earth mysteries and helps create the space for greater miracles to occur. Vanda is a global networker, researcher, co-founder in 1989 of Quest for Atlantis on Bimini and on going Bimini research. She is a lecturer on sacred sites, earth ley lines and ancient mysteries. She creates living stories with a love of connecting people, places, past and present into a greater understanding. Please visit website WWW.joytravelonline.com
CELEBRATION ON THE LAND
Explore ancient Effigy Mounds
Experience July Full Moon at the Serpent Mound
Engage in ceremonies, sweat lodge and drumming.
Special quest lectures and gatherings
Enjoy excellent food, star gazing, dip in the pool or relax in a hammock.
Time to revitalize, rejuvenate and relax
Sunrise mediations.
We will explore the mysterious mounds and attune to the essence the energies of this magnetic vortex. We will celebrate earth mother and the ancient ones who left us a legacy of wisdom encapsulated in their earthen effigies. We will have celebrations on the land sharing our vision and dreams, as wells as exploring amazing places: Serpent, Newark, Seip and Chillcothe Mounds and Mount City Group, Mineral Springs Lake, know for its healing waters and seven caves. At each site we well explore the tonal essences and honor the wisdom within. We will have ceremonies, guest lectures, information on ley lines, vortexes, archaeoastronomy as well as drumming, song, sweat lodge, music, fire circles, stargazing and talks on native wisdom. We have arranged for massages, healers and readers to be available for us.
On the Full Moon of Leo/Pisces we will have a special Full Moon celebration and join in sacred circle linking with other global circles of light. We will energize our full potential, integrate new dimensions within ourselves and radiate our love and joy to the planet. Come join us on this magical, mystery tour of the Mound cultures in Southern Ohio.
ITINERARY
DAY 1 - 7/20 - SAT DEPARTURE - OHIO
Depart from gateway cities and arrive at Cincinnati airport. Greeted and transfer to Murphin Inn. Check in, relax and explore the retreat center. Welcome dinner on the river and return to our Inn for evening gathering. (D)
DAY 2 -7/21 - SUN SERPENT MOUND
After breakfast explore the famous Serpent Mound and have special talks on its history as wells as new discoveries about its star alignments. Terri will lead us in discovering the tonal essence of this site as we invoke the ancient wisdom of earth mother. Debbie will host us for dinner and she and Tom will share information on the Serpent Mound crypto explosion structure and its unusual geological features. Debbie will also share legends and myths of the local area. Evening fire circle and star gazing. (B& D)
DAY 3 -7/22 - MON - NEWARK MOUND
After breakfast, we will visit and the amazing Newark octagon State Memorial and museum. Terri will lead us in a ceremony and will share more about the ancient wisdom coded within this site. We will have a picnic lunch on the land and then stop off at Flint hill an ancient gathering place for flint and arrow making. Return to our Inn. Return to our Inn. A sweat lodge will be created for those who would like to experience this ancient purification ceremony. After dinner sharing and talks on sacred sites world grid and vortexes. (BL)
DAY 4 - 7/23 – TUES SEIP MOUND & MINERAL SPRINGS LAKE
After breakfast visit Seip Mound once a 122 acres site surrounded by a mound wall 10 feet high. Recent research indicates that a great ancient highway once connected many of the mound sites. We will then visit the seven caves and celebrate rebirth. In the afternoon we will go to Mineral Springs Lake known for its healing waters. Tonight is the eve of the Full moon and we will have a cook out under the stars and a celebration on the land. We will dream a new dream together and draw in the wisdom of the past to empower us now. We will sing our gratitude for all beings and the bounty of the Earth Mother. We will create a wave of sound, prayers and hope for the world through, singing dancing and drumming. (B& D)
DAY 5 -7/24 - WED FULL MOON
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SERPENT MOUND Photo by Rick Perco.
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After breakfast, continue our full moon celebration by returning to Serpent mound. Terri will share her healing music and song. The Sun will be in Leo and the Moon in Pisces. This is the time to energies the mysteries of dreaming through conscious use of our imagination, listening to our inner heart song and sharing our life with other. By going deep within ourselves we can discover our dreams and passions and manifest our vision in the world. Today we will laugh and play and have time for walks in the woods, massages, personal sessions, sharing, dream time and renewal in nature. (B).
DAY 6 - 7/25 - THUR MOUND CITY GROUP & CHILLICOTHE
After breakfast we will visit Mound City Group, Chillicothe, Portsmouth and Horseshoe mounds. Afternoon at Brush creek with time for canoeing up the gentle river. Before we return shopping and exploring some Amish stores nearby. Return to our hotel and after dinner fire circle and stargazing. B& L)
DAY 7 - 7/26 - FRI INTEGRATION
Sunrise ceremony to welcome a new life and renewed energies. After breakfast time to integrate our new experiences. Massage, dip in the pool, relax in a hammock, journal writing on walk along the creek. Afternoon activation ceremony to support dreams visions and new beginnings. We will attune to the land and active cellular codes to reclaim wholeness, balance and fulfillment of our dreams through receiving the abundance gifts of life with deep gratitude for our divine support and guidance. Farewell dinner and closing ceremony (B& D)
DAY 8 - 7/27 - SAT DEPARTURE
Departure home filled with lasting memories and new vision.
CELEBRATION ON THE LAND
LAND COST: $895.00
(Includes all items on the itinerary, based on double occupancy)
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Credit cards available with small 3% processing fee was born and raised on the Navajo/Hopi reservation with the belief that her Native American Cultures should be taught to insure that her heritage would not be forgotten. She has spent her life teaching Native American Cultural and works to educate both adults and children in Native American History. Suzanne lectures, provides healing circle workshops, writing workshops and seminars, as well as organizing Native American Festivals both nationally and internationally. As a member of the Cultural Resources History Committee in West Virginia she works to protect, recover, and reclaim ancient sacred ceremonial sites. Her present work includes writing two books, one on the anthology of Native Women Authors, and her own memoirs of growing upon the reservation, as well as a film documentary on Serpent Mound. Suzanne will be sharing her gifts and stories for our ceremonies.
Debbie Johnson,
works as an amateur paleontologist and rock shop owner. She considers herself host for Serpent Mound's sacred travelers as she works to create a special place for visitors to learn about prehistoric life and the environments that was once the world in which we live today. Her passion and personal research involves a deeper understanding for ancient Egypt, it's belief system, and culture. She has been able to bring together connections between the ancient Egyptian religion and the natural world both earthly and solar. Her discoveries will have us all looking to the mountains and horizons of Egypt with new vision and understanding.
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