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

Two Minoan snake goddess figurines were excavated in 1903 in the Minoan palace at Knossos in the Greek island of Crete. The decades-long excavation programme...

the mount of Vishnu. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vasuki. Snake worship Manasa Shesha Vasuki Naga is a prominent figure in Hindu mythology,...

The Worship of the Serpent is an 1833 study, written by the clergyman John Bathurst Deane, of snake worship and specifically the snake mentioned in the...

recognized by her cobra (Shesha) Snake worship Look up snake goddess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Media related to Snake goddesses at Wikimedia Commons...

नागपञ्चमी, IAST: Nāgapañcamī) is a day of traditional worship of nagas (or najas or nags) or snakes (which are associated with the mythical Nāga beings)...

Goddess often had snakes as her familiars—sometimes twining around her sacred staff, as in ancient Crete—and they were worshipped as guardians of her...

Nadu referring to the Jaffna peninsula. The word "Naga" literally means "snake" or "serpent" in Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhala & Tamil language. According to...

land of snakes and is steeped in tradition regarding snakes. Snakes are worshipped as gods even today with many women pouring milk on snake pits (despite...

for Satan Rimmon—Syrian devil worshipped at Damascus Sabazios—Phrygian origin, identified with Dionysos, snake worship Sammael—(Hebrew) "venom of God"...