The Cult of the Serpent
This convention persists in modern Islam with the difference that five animals are
exempted and may legitimately be killed: the serpent (with which the scorpion is
allied by one authority on Hadith, Ibn Hanbal) and, for reasons not pertinent here
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Author: Balaji Mundkur
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Killing the god
The Indians of Carolina would not molest snakes when they came upon them ,
but would pass by on the other side of the path , believing that if they were to kill a
serpent , the reptile's kindred would destroy some of their brethren , friends , or ...
Author: James George Frazer
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Killing the god
The Indians of Carolina would not molest snakes when they came upon them ,
but would pass by on the other side of the path , believing that if they were to kill a
serpent , the reptile's kindred would destroy some of their brethren , friends , or ...
Author: Sir James George Frazer
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The Serpent Cult in Africa and Dravidian India
At that time one serpent came near me after going here and there . I was afraid . I
killed the serpent with a stick . Suddenly the other people who were by my side
stood up making noise in fear . . " They thought that I have committed a murder .
Author: Ka. Pa Ar̲avāṇan̲
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The Classical Journal
Apollo is also repre_ sented as killing the serpent Python: and the. Titans, (as
may now be seen on coins) were called anguipedes, serpenlz'pedes; and the
ancients believed that a great part of the horrors of Tartarus was caused by
serpents: ...
Author: Abraham John Valpy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Travels of William Bartram
I instantly cut off a little sapling, and soon dispatched him: this serpent was about
six feet in length, and as thick as an ordinary man's leg. ... I, however, was sorry
after killing the serpent, when coolly recollecting every circumstance ...
Author: William Bartram
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The Serpent of Eden a Philological and Critical Essay on the Text of Genesis III and Its Various Interpretations
For man never goes in quest of the serpent to kill it , though he invariably tries to
kill it when he meets it . But he does actually go in quest of the larger animals , for
the express purpose of killing them , besides killing them when he happens to ...
Author: José P. Val d'Eremao
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Dragons Serpents and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds
A dragon [drako'n] guarding the spring, which Greek some said was born of Ares,
killed the majority of those sent. ... Hyginus, in the second century AD, gives brief
summary accounts of Cadmus's killing of the Serpent of Ares (Falmlae 178) ...
Author: Daniel Ogden
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ISBN: 0199925097
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Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
A seven- headed serpent (mus-sag-imin) partly overcome by an
anthropomorphic hero or god is attested as early as the ... the weather-god killing
a serpent, often in front of a goddess, are so numerous that there can be no doubt
about their ...
Author: Karel van der Toorn
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Once Below a Time
In the course of the telling / killing , the serpent itself dies , as it " strams round " its
object ( " scram : to be paralyzed ; to be benumbed . . . Also transf , of a wheel " [
OED ] ) . But in this poem the sacrifice does bear its cathartic fruits , perhaps ...
Author: Eynel Wardi
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H Grotius of the Rights of War and Peace
First concerning our Right of killing Beasts , this is his Opinion : xata 5 ww & c . ...
had his Eyes , when he faith , When I command a Malefactor to be put to Death , I
do it with the same Air and Mind , ( g ) that I kill a Serpent ( ff ) Before the Flood .
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The Serpent and the Goddess
Cúchulainn is represented killing the Serpent in several myths and images . 4 St .
George kills the dragon , and in Ireland St . Patrick is credited with banishing the
reptiles . 5 The Goddess was one of the hardest images for Western culture to ...
Author: Mary Condren
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Isis Unveiled
Are the Scandinavian Thor, who bruised the head of the Serpent with his
cruciform mace, and Apollo, who killed Python, ... standing on his boat of a
serpentine form, and killing the Serpent with his spear; and with the hidden
meaning of these ...
Author: H. P. Blavatsky
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Isis Unveiled
Are the Scandinavian Thor, who bruised the head of the Serpent with his
cruciform mace, and Apollo, who killed ... and that he was acquainted with the
story of Horus, standing on his boat of a serpentine form, and killing the Serpent
with his ...
Author: H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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Classical Mythology More
A serpent, also Ares' son, guarded this spring and killed most of the men Cadmus
sent. In anger, Cadmus killed the serpent and on Athena's advice, planted its
teeth like seeds. Immediately, armed men sprang up. Cadmus threw rocks at
them, ...
Author: Marianthe Colakis
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Universal Historical Dictionary
His killing Diomed and his horses , as in fig . ... His killing the serpent , and Fig . ...
to have performed a prodigy of valour and strength while in his cradle , by
strangling two serpents , sent by Juno to destroy him ; to have afterwards
travelled and ...
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Critical Companion to Chaucer
For having killed the serpent, Cadmus was forced to serve Aries for eight years,
at the end of which time he became ruler of Thebes. Harmonia, the daughter of
Aries and Aphrodite (VENUS), was given to him as a wife. Cadmus is credited
with ...
Author: Rosalyn Rossignol
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Of the Rights of War and Peace 2
First concerning our Right of killing Beasts , this is his Opinion : xara ' ö { www & c
. ... his Eyes , when he faith , When I command a Malefactor to be put to Death , I
do it with the same Air and Mind , ( g ) that I kill a Serpent ( ff ) Before the Flood .
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A Prose English Translation of the Mahabharata
By killing this serpent , my son , O water . | fowler , will not regain his life , nor do I
see 23 . By killing this serpent , this my boy that any other end will be attained by
its will not revive , and by letting it live , no | death : therefore , do you , O fowler ...
Author: Manmathanatha Datta
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