e Incas of Peru,
when they founded the new colony, has been described.

"... I have already shown that the snake-father of the snake races in
Greece and Asia Minor and of the matriarchal races in India was the snake
Echis, or Achis, the holding snake, the Vritra, or enclosing snake of the
Rig-Veda, the cultivated land which girdled the Temenos. This was the
Sanscrit and Egyptian snake Ahi.... But the Naga snake was not the
encircling snake, but the offspring of the house-pole and in this form it
was called by the Jews the offspring or Baal of the land. But as the
heavenly snake it was the old village snake transferred to heaven, called
the Nag-ksetra, or field of the Nags, and there it was the girdling
air-god who encircled the cloud mothers, the Apsaras, the daughters of the
Abyss, the Assyrian Apsa, and marked their boundaries as the village snake
did those of the holy grove on earth. But on earth the water-snake was the
magical rain-pole, called the god Darka, set up by the Dravidian Males in
front of every house ..." (p. 194). "They are the Canaanites, or dwellers
in the low country, and the Hivites or the villagers of the Bible and the
race of Achaeans of Greece. These are the sons of the Achis=the serpent,
the having or holding snake, the girdling snake of cultivated land which
surrounded the Temenos or inner shrine, the holy grove of the gods"
(Hewitt, p. 175).

Attention is drawn here to the twin serpents which enclose the
Mexican Cosmical Tablet (fig. 56), whose bodies may be seen to
consist of a repetition of the conventional sign for tlalli=land,
consisting of a fringed square. Each square in this case encloses
a sign resembling that of fire=tletl and the numeral ten. These
girdling serpents, whose heads unite, being directly associated
with land, appear as the counterpart of the Old World Achis, a
curious fact when it is considered that they are represented as
springing from the sign Acatl (see p. 257).

On the other hand, the heavenly "feathered serpent" of Mexico and
Yucatan is distinctly associated with the air and the circle; its
conception curiously coinciding with that of the "girdling
air-god" mentioned by Hewitt. It is well known that the walls
enclosing the court of the Great Temple of Mexico, were covered
with sculptured serpents, and at Xochicalco, Mexico, and in
Central American ruins (Uxmal, for instance), great sculptured