Origin of horned serpent.
Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of fish and other animals. · Creation of reptiles. · view the constellation · filed as A2145.0.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIILXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
- Literary CrystallizationThe Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake), The Book of Ahania
- Ancient EgyptianThe Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter CLXIII
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLIIIXLIII. Dionysus
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- general N. Am. Indian (Creek): Swanton BBAE LXXXVIII 32f.