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"The earth was thought of as a mount amid the firmamental water, and to image this they [the "primitive mound builders," Afrakans, indigenous peoples] would naturally raise a mound of earth. ...the heap of earth had acquired a sacred character...had become a kind of altar mound piled up with offerings of food. And such a figure we find in Ara, the southern altar or the altar mound. The earliest altar raised had been the mound of earth, and this was used to typify the mount of earth."