Wise serpent. (Cf. B161–165, B176.)
Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wise animals. · view the constellation · filed as B123.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 71LXXI. THE GREETING.
- Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 5, Story 10
- Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 4.19
- Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 57LVII. THE CONVALESCENT.
Scholars’ trail — 4references
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
- ArabianBurton III 145, V 305, 328, 390
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
- general *Scott Thumb 173. – Hebrew: Genesis 3:1