05-02-2018, 12:10 AM
Many many years ago, in the summer of 1941, my dad swore that he saw the tracks of a "giant snake" several times in the dust and mud of old back roads and logging roads in central West Virginia. He said that the tracks left looked like someone had dragged a 14" stovepipe in a serpentine pattern. I've always been intrigued by that. The Shawnees of that area had legends of "giant horned snakes", which is a similar creature to the Cherokee Uktena. Several tribes in the area had similar stories, and in almost all of them the giant snakes were at constant war with the Thunder Birds. Even going back to the Mound Builders, there are amulets found that are engraved with giant horned snakes, some of them rattlesnakes, judging by the rattle on their tails.
I tend to think of them as an American version of the Great Orm.
I'm at work now, on lunch. I've done a bit of research on these giant snakes over the years, and was thinking of creating a thread on them, but posts in this thread will do just fine. I'll try to get more on the subject in here later this evening after I get home.
Fascinating subject to me.
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I tend to think of them as an American version of the Great Orm.
I'm at work now, on lunch. I've done a bit of research on these giant snakes over the years, and was thinking of creating a thread on them, but posts in this thread will do just fine. I'll try to get more on the subject in here later this evening after I get home.
Fascinating subject to me.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’