The landscape fell away, revealing a seemingly infinite vista of rippled sand mounds, rising and falling like the folds in a quilt.
Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds, animals, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations.
Archaeologists believe the effigy mounds may have marked hunting and gathering territories.
When planning the Eastgate Shopping Center and office block in Harare, Zimbabwe, architect Mike Pearce studied the structure of termite mounds.
A double rainbow frames termite mounds in Australia's grasslands.
Sutra streamers and Mani stone mounds put up by devout believers can be seen everywhere in Tibet.
Dotted amongst the sparse trees were a dozen low mounds.
Swastika is found in monumental remains of the primitive Mexicans and Peruvians and on objects exhumed from prehistoric burial mounds within the limits of the USA.
A German man and woman, their faces in close-up, talked about the good and essential symbiotic nature of termite mounds, with subtitles.
The remains of those earth mounds, now referred to as Chu'Ge'Tai or the Music Terraces of Chu, are still found here and there around Gaixia today. Standing in front of them, one will involuntarily think back on and deplore the tragic fate of Xiang Yu.
Turnerand Soar believe that termite mounds instead tap turbulence in the gusts of wind that hit them.
Two mounds set behind him, form a passageway to the statue, are mountains of despair.
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