{ "item_title" : "The Serpent & The Scar", "item_author" : [" Derek Hone "], "item_description" : "The Serpent & The Scar is an investigative journey into one of Ohio's most enigmatic places: Serpent Mound-an ancient effigy earthwork set on a ridge above Brush Creek, inside the wider footprint of a confirmed impact structure.This book begins with a simple discipline: separate what we can document from what we infer, what people claim, and what remains unknown. Serpent Mound attracts tidy stories and loud conclusions. The Serpent & The Scar refuses both. It treats the site as a layered landscape where deep time, human time, and modern time overlap-each with its own evidence, its own limits, and its own temptations.In deep time, the land carries a disturbance in the bedrock-an ancient scar whose signatures still shape terrain, drainage, and feel. In human time, Indigenous builders shaped earth into memory, ceremony, and enduring signal-governance through place, not paperwork. In modern time, stewardship, closures, programming, fences, and the psychology of restricted space generate a living ecology of rumor and projection.Across seven parts, Derek Hone maps the meaning magnet effect: how certain places accumulate attention when striking geography, deep-time anomaly, monumental architecture, seasonal gatherings, and modern boundaries stack together. The result is not a conspiracy-it's a predictable human pattern. The danger isn't mystery. The danger is dishonest certainty.Each chapter follows a consistent framework:What we can document. Reasonable inference. What people claim (unverified). Questions that remain.A final received layer reflection keeps faith properly placed-without turning belief into evidence or evidence into propaganda.This is a book for readers who want wonder with clean hands:curious without trespassingskeptical without cynicismreverent without mythmakingSerpent Mound does not need to be solved to be powerful. It needs to be read like a landscape-slowly, ethically, and with humility. If you've ever felt the pull of a charged place and wanted a trustworthy guide through the layers-this is that guide.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/577/9798245778662_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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