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Niuheliang Ritual Center:
In hongshan culture of inner Mongolia located along the Laoha, Yingjin and Daling rivers that empty into Bohai bay that was surrendering over a large area over but had a single, common ritual center that consisted of at least fourteen burial mounds and alters over several hill tops.
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As a religious scared landscape, the core might also have north-south axis attracts the ritual center with the center of zhushan, or the pig mountain to the south.
On its northern end is a single detached room clay body parts were excavated.
There burials at hill side were oriented north-south, at extremes of the moonrise in the east.
Avebury’s stone circle
Avebury’s stone circle in England on the southern coast of Brittany at the base of peninsula. Leading this stone circle is an impressive ritual road, some 100 meters wide and 1,165 meters long, oriented southwest to northeast and makes up almost 1,100 standing stones or menhirs, with eleven rows.
These stones were meant to follow the movement of celestial cycle (stars and moon) land not the sun.
In there religious believes snake was dormient force, astronomical alignment is indeed aligned a way where the snakes head is aligned to the summer solstice and the various curves to other celestial events.
