Explore: Serpent Worship In Art

Snake worship is devotion to serpent deities. The tradition is nearly universal in the religions and mythologies of ancient cultures, where snakes were

treatments of serpent symbolism include James H. Charlesworth's The Good and Evil Serpent (2010) and Charles William Dailey's The Serpent Symbol in Tradition

Serpents (Hebrew: נָחָשׁ, romanized: nāḥāš) are referred to in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important

romanized: Nəḥuštān [nəħuʃtaːn]) is the bronze image of a serpent on a pole. The image is described in the Book of Numbers, where Yahweh instructed Moses to

common motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. Much like the archetypal mother goddess, the Rainbow Serpent creates land

also spelled K’uk’ulkan (/kuːkʊlˈkɑːn/; lit. "Plumed Serpent", "Amazing Serpent"), is the serpent deity of Maya mythology. It is closely related to the

however, was dedicated to the anthropomorphic serpent goddess, Manasa. In Africa the chief centre of serpent worship was Dahomey. But the cult of the python

groups worshiped a feathered-serpent deity. Evidence of such worship comes from the iconography of different Mesoamerican cultures, in which serpent motifs

In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, lit. 'the Vast 'gand'', see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old

appearance was in Kull the Conqueror vol. 1 #2 (September, 1971). In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the