Editing Serpent symbolism (section)

===Native American mythology===
[[File:Featheredserpentnotchedplatevol2mississip86.png|thumb|right|Ancient North American serpent imagery often featured rattlesnakes.]]
{{See|Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
Some [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes give reverence to the rattlesnake as grandfather and king of snakes who is able to give fair winds or cause tempest.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} Among the [[Hopi]] of [[Arizona]] the serpent figures largely in one of the dances.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} The rattlesnake was worshiped in the [[Natchez people|Natchez]] [[Temple of the Sun]],{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} and the [[Aztec]] deity [[Quetzalcoatl]] was a feathered serpent-god. In many Meso-American cultures, the serpent was regarded as a portal between two worlds. The tribes of [[Peru]] are said to have adored great snakes in the pre-Inca days, and in [[Chile]] the [[Mapuche]] made a serpent figure in their deluge beliefs.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

A [[Horned Serpent]] is a popular image in Northern American natives' mythology.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

In one Native North American story, an evil serpent kills one of the gods' cousins, so the god kills the serpent in revenge, but the dying serpent unleashes a great flood. People first flee to the mountains and then, when the mountains are covered, they float on a raft until the flood subsides. The evil spirits that the serpent god controlled then hide out of fear.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indians.org/welker/greatflo.htm |title=Great Serpent and the Great Flood |publisher=Indians.org |access-date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> The [[Mound Builders]] associated great mystical value to the serpent, as the [[Serpent Mound]] demonstrates, though we are unable to unravel the particular associations.