Hopeton Sacred Via was for the Procession of the Dead to Mound City

The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, 1892

The covered way at Hopeton leads towards Mound City in Chillicothe, Ohio. May it is not that this was the way through which processions passed on the occasions when the annual burial feast or "great burning" took place?  The passage across the river by a ferry to the place of burning would resemble the Egyptian custom and would fulfill; the picture which Virgil has drawn of Charon crossing the river Styx with the souls of the dead. An old photo of Mound City shows how reduced the surrounding embankment is today. www.nephilimgiants.net : Early Picture of the Hopewell Necropolis at Mound City in Chillicothe, Ohio

Were the dead ferried across the Scioto from Hopeton to Mound City when the sun aligned with the sacred via at the sunset of the Winter solstice.