The 1,300-ft serpent mound in Ohio's landscape intertwines ancient mysteries. Is it a calendar, altar, or cosmic link? Can its celestial alignments reveal secrets of the ages?
Each year the sun god Apollo was believed to travel north in a chariot drawn by swans to the mysterious island of Helixoia where he spent three winter Winter solstice mythology assigns sacredness to the concept of turning 180 degrees, as the sun halts its southward trajectory on the solstice and begins turning north.