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4-2 Project DraftSouthern New Hampshire UniversityHUM-100-R4097 Perspectives in the Humanities 22EW4 01:40:27 GMT -05:004-2 Project DraftI believe the mound was built as a significant meeting place of the Adena considering the burial mounds located nearby. People would have come there regularly to monitor seasons, morn dead, celebrate occasions, and hold religious ceremonies. It was a matter of survival. It is hard to know what exactly the impacts were, but it must have been significant due to the length of time this was maintained by the Adena, Fort Ancients, and Hopewell. The serpent itself seemed to hold great significance for the natives in the area and many have been uncovered sculpted out of various materials. The importance of serpents to the culture is unknown but in many native cultures the snake or serpent, more recent Native Americans still have high regard for the snake. The Lakota believe the snake (Unhcegila) was a monster responsible for deaths, “The touch of Unhcegila slime made flesh rot away and caused the ground she passed to become infertile” (Alchin, 2018). The other side of that is the Pueblo believe it was fertility. Interestingly the Great Serpent Mound’s coils line up in