Snake-god.
Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A132.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 30
- MesopotamianThe Babylonian Legends of the Creation (Enūma Eliš), Tablet 1
- MesopotamianThe Babylonian Legends of the Creation (Enūma Eliš), Tablet 2
- MesopotamianThe Babylonian Legends of the Creation (Enūma Eliš), Tablet 3
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XIIXII. The Sacred Marriage
Scholars’ trail — 5references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- JewishNeuman
- HinduPenzer X 240 s. v. "Nagas"
- India*Thompson-Balys
- ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 139. – Fiji: Beckwith Myth 138, 316.
- general Smith Dragon 85. Irish myth: Cross