A massive Snake Effigy built on a bedrock outcrop:
The original:
Above: Zig-zag row of stones featuring one of many triangular flat topped boulders that can be interpreted as a snake head. The zigzag is an element of Indigenous Iconography that can represent not only a snake, but also water and lightning, as well as spiritual power. There was a widespread belief across the continent in a "Horned Serpent," a protective Spiritual Being related to control of the weather and wildfires caused by lightning.
Below: a photo overlay of eyes added to probable Tûnuppasuonk Kodtonquag, a "turtle effigy in (stacked) stone(s)," according to Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling, a Mohawk-Nashaue keeper of traditional medicine and narratives and researcher on Indigenous Archaeology and Ethnohistory, "Invested with prayers for the balance of the
universe.”
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