Wisdom from serpent — Mythoi

Motif

Wisdom from serpent.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wisdom-giving animals. · view the constellation · filed as B161

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XLVI
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter XVI: The Disciples of Thrice-Greatest Hermes
Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 75 LXXV. SCIENCE.

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.
general *Cox 496 n. 32
general Fb "hugormekonge" IV 225a
general *Scott Thumb 173. Irish myth: Cross. – Armenian: Ananikian 74

Within the index

Filed under Wisdom-giving animals.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Power of soothsaying from serpents' licking ears. (Cf. B165.1.1., B176.) Frazer Apollodorus II 48 n. 2 Fortune learned from serpent Wisdom from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.) Power of seeing whether the dead go to heaven or hell is gained from serpent

Filed beside it

Wisdom from fish. (Cf. B175.) Wisdom from other animal Animal languages learned from animal

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Wise serpent. (Cf. B161–165, B176.) Magic serpent. (Cf. B108, B112, B123, B161–165.)

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