The Good and Evil Serpent (195 page)

Danten

Daphne Dardanos Dead Sea

Dead Sea Scrolls

death: of Aaron; and afterlife in Greco-Roman traditions; of Asclepius; of Bar Kochba; and blood of the Gorgon; and the bronze serpent (Num 21):; as caused by demons; of Cleopatra; of Domitian; and the Fall (Gen 2); of Jesus; of Laocoon and his sons; personified;of Pliny the Elder; salvation as escape from; sarcophagi; and serpent associated with the corpse of St. Mark (Venice); and serpent’s strength; and serpent symbology; snake as death-giver; and the snake’s molting; of Socrates; of Solomon; and symbolism of the staff of Asclepius; and underworld

Delos

Delphi

Demeter

Deus sol invictus

Deuteronomist

Devil

Dhenia (Cyprus)

Dianan.
See also

Artemis Dido Dinkas Dio Cassius Dion Chrysostomos Dionysus
(also
Bacchus, Zagerius)

Dioskouroi Doris (Greece)

dragon (dragon-serpent, lion-dragon, winged dragon)

Dresden Codex (Mayan)

Duality Dura-Europos

Durga (Kali)

Early Judaism ecdysis (molting) Echidna

Egypt

Ein Samiya Ekron (Khirbet el-Muqanna’)

Elagabalus Elephantine

elephants, and snakes

Eleusinian cultn

El Grecon Elijah El-Wad

Enkidu

Enkomi (on Cyprus) Ennius Epeios

Ephesus

Epicurus

Epidaurus Epiphanius of Salamis

Epirus Erechtheus

Erosn; as Amor; as Cupid; Eros-Hypnos

Essenes Etruscansn

Euphrates Euripides Europa

Euryale (sister of Medusa) Eurystheus Eurytion

Eusebius

Eustace, St.

Eve

evil

evil eye

Fall (Genesis)

Fates

Father, God asn

Fertile Crescent

Festus

Flavius Philostratus

Florence

Fortuna

Freud, Sigmund, and Freudians

Furies Gabriel

Gaia (Earth,
also
Ge) Galilee; Lower Galilee; Northern Galilee, Upper Galilee

Gamla

Garden of Adonisn

Garden of Eden

Garden of the Hesperides

Gauguin, Paul

Gaul

Gemara George, St.

Geryon

Gezer Giants
(also
Titans)n

Gideon

Gilgamesh epic

Giorgio Martini, Francesco di

Glykon

Gnostics and Gnosticism

GÖbekli Tepe

Golan

Golden Fleece

Gorgon

Gracián, Baltasarn Great African Rift Valley Great Mother

Greecen

Habakkuk

Hadesn
See also
Pluto Hadrian Hagia Triada Haifa

Haiti

Halafian culture

Hamat Gader

Harmonia

Harod Valley

Harpokrates (
also
Harpocrates) Hasmoneansn Hathorn Hazor

Hebrews,
See also
Israelites Hecate

Helios Hell

Hera
(also
Juno)

Herculaneumn

Hercules
(also
Herakles, Heracles)

Hermes
(also
Mercury); Hermes Psy-chopompos

Herod Archelaus

Herodotus

Herod the Great

Heros Equitans

Hesiod

Hezekiahn

Hinduism

Hippocrates

Hittitesn

Hizma

Hohenasperb

Hölderlin, Friedrichn

Homer

Hopi Horacen Horapollon

Horus

House of the Evil Eye

House of the Vettiin

Hubert, St.

Huleh Valley

Humboldt, Alexander vonn

Hyakinthos

Hydra

Hygieia

Hyksosn

Ianitor Orci.
See
Cerberus

Ibis

Ice Age

Idumeans Ierapetra

Indian

Indus Valley

Ino

Irenaeus

Isaiahn

Ishtar Gate

Isis; Temple of Isis (Pompeii)

Isis-Thermousis

Israelites.
See also
Hebrews

Izumo (Japanese shrine)

Jacob’s Well

Jalamen

Jamal (in Israel) Japanese mythology Jason Java

Jebusites Jericho

Jeroboam I

Jerusalemn.
See also
Temple of Jerusalem

Jesus

Jezreel Valley

Johannine tradition and community John the Baptizer Jonahn

Jordan

Jordan Rift Valley Jordan River Josephus

Joshuan

Judaea

Judas

Julius II, Pope

Julius Caesar

Jung, Carl Gustavnn

Jünger, Friedrich Georg

Justin Martyr

Kali

Kaliya

Kamarina (nymph) Kambach, J. J.n Karnak

Kasr Daoud (Egypt)

Kato Chorio (Crete)

Kebara cave (Israel) Keto Khnoum

Khorsabad

Kierkegaard, S⊘ren K limt, Gustav Knossosn Kore.
See also
Persephone Kreousa (nymph) Krishna

La Baume-Latrone caves (France) Labbu Labyrinth

Ladon Lanuvium (cave)n Laocoon
(also
Laokoon)

Lares

Last Judgment Latium Lavinium

Lawrence, T. E.n Lazarus Lebanon Lebene

Leda

Lerna Lernaean Hydra Lessing, Georg

Leto

Levant

Leviathan

Libya

London

Lucan

Lucian Lucifer Lucretius Lud
(also
Lludd) Luristan

Luther, Martinn

Madaba map Maenadsn Magharat el-Wad (cave)

Marcus Aurelius Marduk Mareshah

Mark Antonyn Marrakech Mars Mary (mother of Jesus)

Mary Magdalenen Masada
Mater Auxiliatrix
(painting) Medea

Mediterranean world

Medusa

Megasthenes

Megiddo

Melampusn Melanchthon, Philipp Melanesia Meletius Memphis

menorahn

Merida (Spain)

Mesopotamia

Messiah

Metelis

Mexico

Michael (archangel) Michelangelo Midian

Midrash

Min (Egyptian god) Minerva.
See also
Athena Minoan culture; serpent goddess in Mithra
(also
Mithras) and Mithraism

Mitzpeh Ramon

Monastiraki

Moses

“Mother Goddess,” Mount Carmel

Mount Casius

Mount Ebal

Mount Gerizim

Mount Hermon Mozart Muhammadn Munhata (Israel) Muses Mycenae mysteries

Naga (Indian deity/demon)

Nana

Napoleon

Nasca (Peruvian people)

Native Americans

Neapolis.
See
Shechem

Nebat

Nebuchadnezzar II Negevn Nehemiah

Nehushtan

Nephthys

Neptune

Nicodemus (in John)

Nicostratus

Nietzsche, Friedrichn Nile

Nineveh

Nirah (Mesopotamian deity)

Norsen

North Africa

North Pole Nox

Octaviann.
See also
Augustus Olympia

Olympiodorus of Thebes

Olympus

Oman

Ophites

Origen Orpheus

Orphic Hymns

Orthos (dog of Eurytion)

Osiris

Ostia Otakar, Kubin Ouranos
(also
Sky) Ouriel (angel)

“Our Lady of the Mammoths,”

Ouroboros

Ovid

Palace of Uperi (Qal’at Bahrain) Palaestra

Palestine

Pallene

Pammenes

Pan

Panakeia Panama Canal

Paradise

pariah dogs Paris (Trojan prince) Parthenon Parvati Pascal, Blaise

Passion (of Christ)

Passover Pater Sardus (deity) Patrick, St.

Paul, St.

Pegasus Peleus Pella Peloponnese

Pergamum; altar; coinsn; temple Periboea

Periclymenus

Persephone
(also
Kore, Proserpina)n

Perseus

Persia (Iran)

Perun

Peter, St. Phaethon Phaistos

phallus

Pheidias

Pherekydes of Athens

Philip I (Roman emperor)

Philistines

Philo of Alexandria

Philo of Byblos

Phocylides

Phoebus.
See also
Apollo Phoenicia

Phorcus

Phorkys Phylarchus

pillar (as cult object) Pindar Piraeus

Pistrinum (Pompeii)

Plato

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Younger Plutarch Pluto.
See also
Hades Podaleirios Polydorus

Pompeii; jewelry from; murals, mosaics, and wall paintings; Rotas-Sator Square at

Pompey

Pontius Pilate

Pool of Serpents (Sultan’s Pool)

Porces

Porphyrion

Porphyry Porto Badisco nel Salento Poseidon Potnia Praxiteles

Priam

Priapus Prokles

Prometheus Prudentius Pseudo-Alexander

Pseudo-Apollodorus

Psuedo-Callisthenes

Psuedo-Tertullian Psyllian snake-charmers Ptolemies

Pyramid Texts Pythagoreans

Q (Sayings Source) Qadesh Q. Ogulnius

Qudshu

Quenin, St.

Quetzalcoatl Qumran (Khirbet Qumran); lexicography of serpents in the Qumran scrolls: Al-Qusais (graves)

Rabbi Ben Azzai

Rabbi Eleazar

Rabbi Eliezar ha-Kappar

Rabbi Gamaliel II

Rabbi Janni

Rabbis
(also
rabbinic teaching)