...rnucopia. The snake is her attribute, a symbol of healing, and consecrated snakes were kept in her temple at Rome, indicating her phallic nature. Her image c
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...dlan, who visited Volga Bulgaria in the 10th century, referred to numerous snakes, especially on trees. Once he saw a big fallen tree, which was longer than
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Erichthonius is sometimes described as a normal infant with two snakes guarding him. In a later myth he is described like a snake with human head,
...s a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of Acropolis, while two snakes are guarding him and his basket is nearby. He is making a sign to Athena, w
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...were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.
...''Gorgon''' is a creature covered with impenetrable scales, hair of living snakes, hands of brass, sharp fangs and a beard.
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...he ground from the severed head and were transformed by Gaia into venomous snakes of many kinds
...the Medusa's head is frequently represented in works of art in the form of snakes, and these once again are derived from the castration complex. It is a rema
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...own standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes.
[[Image:Lamashtu2.gif|thumb|Lion-headed Lamashtu, holding snakes and with pig and dog at her breasts. On one side there is a lamp, on the ot
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...reature. Some believe the tsuchinoko legend to be based on encounters with snakes that recently swallowed a meal. The blue-tongued lizard, which became legal
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...The snake escaped and adapted to the brackish water. It would take several snakes, or a pregnant female to explain the multiple sightings, though, and an ana
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...ed for the "pharaoh's rat" or mongoose or Egyptian mongoose, which attacks snakes; it can also mean "otter". Today, it is mainly used for the Egyptian mongoo
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...ght-errant) or a dragon-like nature. Tugarin's torso is covered with fiery snakes. He is flying in the sky flapping his paper-like wings, which caused his fa
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...live in Southern China) and gained their toxicity from ingesting poisonous snakes, similar to how the poison dart frogs produce poison by ingesting poisonous
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*Read, Bernard E. 1934. "Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes," ''Peking Natural History Bulletin'' 8.4:279-362.
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...n, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied corruption.
...d, dragon-like monster. He is said to have a thousand senses, and to bleed snakes, scorpions, and other venomous creatures. He also is said to bring or contr
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...n, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied corruption.
...d, dragon-like monster. He is said to have a thousand senses, and to bleed snakes, scorpions, and other venomous creatures. He also is said to bring or contr
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...he waist up. Below that she had the body of a scaly dragon with a thousand snakes for feet and sprouting from her waist the heads of fifty wild beasts. Dark
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...ithin them. She usually rides a seven-year old hart, with a bridle made of snakes.
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*spells to frighten away poisonous snakes,
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...primitive beasts and animal-shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation myths to the legendary hybrid and fantastic creatures
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...e of the Lake Temagmi region hold that Mishipeshu was the ancestor of all snakes.
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...ntains and valleys and all the things that are a bother to humans, such as snakes.
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