Rattlesnake Effigy Mound Ancestors Still Teaching

Abstract

[The Rattlesnake Effigy Mound’s] designers and builders required loving toil to speak clearly without words. REMA’s symbolic, serpentine voice (ῥῆμα) still continues to speak to us today, though she is greatly damaged and disturbed beneath a fifty-year-old city dike.

Keywords

• anthropology
• indigenous studies
• north america
• science