Note C — XIII THE SIGN OF THE SERPENT A Story of Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century

The rattlesnake was sacred to the Sun God of the Natchez, and was made to play an important part in their religious ceremonies, and the mummery which entered, too, into their war councils. Something similar exists in the rites of the Moqui Pueblos to-day—a race supposed also to have been of Toltec origin.