(split boulder on bedrock outcrop and two stone rows)
Two Striking Serpents with snake-like bodies and stones stacked to suggest markings, including a seventh scale "healing diamond."
Striking Serpent with snake-like body and stones stacked to resemble markings, including a seventh scale "healing diamond."
Anthropologist James Mooney described the Uktena as a “great snake," as large around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, and a bright blazing crest like a diamond on its forehead, and scales glowing like sparks of fire. It has rings or spots of color along its whole length, and can not be wounded except by shooting in the seventh spot from the head, because under this spot are its heart and its life...”
(Page 297 Myths of the Cherokee)
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