The Trinity, the Frog Effigy and Symbolism at Ohio's Famous Serpent Mound
History of Adams County Ohio, 1888
History of Adams County Ohio, 1888
Prof. McLean, author of several popular works on archaeology, dis-
covered that there are two other crescent-shaped elevations between the
precipice and the north extremity of the egg-shaped figure, extending
nearly parallel with the curves forming the north extremity of the oval,
which he thinks are intended to represent the hind legs of a frog leaping
from the precipice to the creek below. It is his theory that the frog, the
oval, and the serpent are symbolical of the three forces in Nature: the
creative, the productive, and the destructive; the frog representative of
the first ; the oval, an egg emitted by it as it leaps from the precipice to the
creek below, the second ; and the serpent in the act of swallowing the egg,
the third.
