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Identifier: ohioarchologic30ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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t is a giganticserpent made in earth. Across the widely-opened jaws itmeasures seventy-five feet; the body just behind thehead measures thirty feet across and is five feet high;and, following the curves, the length is one thousandthree hundred and forty-eight feet. The tail is a triplecoil. In front of the monster is an elliptical inclosurewith a heap of stones at its center. Many fanciful explanations of this strange monu-ment have been offered. Prof. F. W. Putnam says thatThe jaws of the serpents mouth are widely extended,in the act of trying to swallow an ^gg, represented byan oval inclosure etc. I offer the suggestion that thebuilders were here trying to represent the Naga andlingam. Separated by many centuries from theirAsiatic home, they still cherished some tradition of theemblems, and in representing them, have not departedfurther from nature than has the modern Hindu, in theconventional forms above noted. The seventh pictureis a photograph of the illustration appearing in Dr.
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Holy Naga Shrine in South India. (See page 84) (87) 88 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. Wrights book on The Origin and Antiquity of Manin the chapter on the Mound Builders. It will be seenat a glance, I think, that here was an attempt to repre-sent a hooded serpent, and this is brought out muchmore plainly in the photograph which is the frontispieceof the Report of the Archaeological Society of Ohio. It

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  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Ohio_State_Archaeological_and_Historical_Society
  • booksubject:History
  • booksubject:Archaeology
  • bookpublisher:Columbus___Published_for_the_Society_by_A_H__Smythe
  • bookcontributor:Allen_County_Public_Library_Genealogy_Center
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  • bookleafnumber:94
  • bookcollection:allen_county
  • bookcollection:americana
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