Serpent (symbolism)
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Sensuality (1891) - Franz von Stuck. The image of the serpent as phallus is left in little doubt in this painting that shows an enormous python-like creature passing between the legs of a nude woman.
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Serpent is a word of Latin origin (from serpens, serpentis "something that creeps, snake") that is commonly used in a specifically mythic or religious context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon nor as an object of scientific zoology, but as the bearer of some potent symbolic value.
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See also
- Dragon
- Serpents in Hinduism and Buddhism
- Snake worship
- Ethnoherpetology
- Glycon
- Reptilian humanoid
- Genius loci
- Druids' glass
- Ouroboros
- Nahash
- Nehushtan
- Legend of the White Snake
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