Portsmouth Earthwork Constructed as a Portal to the Afterlife
Solar and stellar alignments are the discovery of Gregory Little. Cygnus
is easily recognized as a giant bird. The bird is believed to
represent the transition of the soul from this world to the next. Orion's Belt was also seen as a bird by the Lakota Sioux. There is plenty of precedent for number three in conjunction with
Orion. The Adena (Alligewi) most often constructed their burial
mounds in groups of three. The number three having some dynamic in
this transition of the souls. At Fort Hill, there were 33 gateways and
at the Serpent Mound the body bends three times, the coil of the tail
circles three times and the Serpent itself points to the confluence
of three creeks.
Three
mounds from Ross County, Ohio placed in a triangle. The number three and its relationship with the transition of the soul in the afterlife may have its origins with Orions Belt.
