The serpent ring in the Americas

SUMMARYThe serpent ring in the Americas (agent report, Nov 6, 2026; follows P814 Open). Full report: agent-reports/american-ouroboros.md. TAIL IN MOUTH ON AN OBJECT: none pre-contact found yet (Open, not ruled out). The only one found is colonial: J. Chapman's engraving (about 1800, after Clavigero), Museo Amparo MASEL 01031, a tail-biting serpent framing the 52-year wheel. The museum calls it "no es indígena" without saying why (Rule 14: its basis is unstated). Its line runs back through Boturini and Gemelli Careri (1699) to Sigüenza y Góngora's "Calendario no. 4," drawn from Indigenous painted books that are now LOST. Open: whether the tail-biting serpent was in those lost books, which fits the burned-and-taken books lens (P817). The Peabody's Veytia Wheel No. 5 has a "serpent frame" catalogued with an "Ubroboros [sic] motif," not yet seen by eye. SERPENT RINGS AND PAIRS, Record: the Sun Stone's two Xiuhcoatl fire serpents (tails at top, heads meeting at the bottom); the Chichén Itzá ballcourt ring's twined feathered serpents; the Maya sky serpent band; La Venta Monument 19; Paracas two-headed snakes; the Moundville Rattlesnake Disc; a Mississippian shell pendant ringed by a serpent (Met 1979.206.446); Serpent Mound in Ohio, jaws open around an oval. IN STORY, Open (strongest lead): the lowland South American anaconda ringing the world-disc (Peter Roe, The Cosmic Zygote, 1982), passage not yet read. The "hoop snake" tail-biter: first written 1784 in settler and African-American folklore; any Native root is Open. "Mayan ouroboros" web claims name no object

NEXTread Roe 1982; look by eye at the earliest calendar wheels (Sigüenza/Gemelli 1699, Boturini, Veytia 1–7, Durán); check Borgia, Fejérváry-Mayer and Spiro shells page by page.