A stone wall-like roadside Snake Effigy, hiding in plain sight:
I found I didn't need to overlay an eye to emphasize the idea of a snake head:
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A nice example.
What about that other boulder? Is there a story of a snake with an egg?
Tim -
You have given me this site before, with indications that it contained an "interrupted stone wall". Is this the same stone row as that? Or is it a different row with a snake head?
Curtiss: I've driven by this one a thousand times, but never noticed the distinct "head" until a couple days ago. It is nearby others that I have given you, so I suppose it would be "one more snake effigy" at the same general site. My new phone records the GPS location and if you go to my blog you will see those coordinates as well as more of this segment: https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2021/04/stone-snake-effigy-woodbury-ct.html
Peter: I don't know what's up with that other boulder - yet. I just stopped briefly, enroute to picking up my grandkids from school that day...
Thanks, Tim!
Doesn't the Ohio Serpent Mound have an egg in the snake's mouth?
Peter: There are some people who say that it isn't as egg, but really just the head, but most often it is interpreted as an egg. There are a few "snake stone walls" that seem as if there is an egg in it's jaws that I have observed (and Norman as well) but while it may be an egg, I sometimes wonder if it's a way of showing an open mouth. I think there are stories of Great Serpents eating eggs from the nests of Thunder Beings/Birds but I can't remember the source(s)...
Curt - I posted something with (hopefully)maps and details about this particular preserve:
https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2021/05/several-pootatuck-stone-horned-serpents.html
Regarding the Great Serpent Mound, an astronomer (whose name I've forgotten) claimed that the egg in the serpent's mouth was actually the sun.
Norman
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