I'm doing some research on perhaps an incorporeal entity similar as described in several horned serpent myths.
The following contains what I've found so far:
Uktena 1Uktena 2Snake Woman as in the Cahokian Birger Figurine
Minoan Snake Goddess
and Mami Wata.
If someone could assist me with this, it would be very appreciated. I'm particularly interested in the fertility aspects and the link between serpent entities and both water and mounds/hills.
My hometown is located in the former tribal lands of the Peoria Indian tribes, and there is a museum not too far which has a figurine similar to the Birger Figurine, and I've been obsessed with it ever since.
I also found somewhere online that there used to be a huge, lifelike Uktena-like artifact located on a bluff in the area, but a fundamentalist Christian developer destroyed it sometime in the late 1800s.
Every so often when I fall into a meditative state while sitting in the car and looking at the bluffs, I've become suddenly "aware" of little tidbits of information that turn out to be true, and I feel a great connection to the land, particularly the bluffs near to the river. I have this rather rusty theory that an incorporeal Uktena-like creature exists there, but its like I said... a theory.
I also have had similar feelings in other hilltopped towns located near to rivers (or cities on hills and near rivers located not far from where two large highways or interstates connect), and so I was wondering if anyone had any information on this, even if it is redundant to that which I have already eluded to here.
The description of the uktena also tends to remind people of the lake creatures like Loch Ness and the others.... so I guess you can talk about them here too.
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