The cult of the serpent; an interdisciplinary survey of its manifestations and origins
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TextSeries: (Williams Press, Inc. Series)Albany, NY State Univ. of New York Press c1983Description: xviii, 363p.; illus.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0-87395-631-1
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1 Interpreting the fascination of serpents. 2 The suborder serpentes; its veneration and calumniation. 3 The cult of the serpent amidst other animal cults. 4 The serpent as sexual symbol. 5 The biological and protocultural expressions of ophidiophobia. 6 The wider implications: anthropological, psychoanalytical, and holistic perspectives
'My thesis is uncomplicated, yet the arguments have not heretofore been marshaled by anyone through an eclectic, wide-ranging analysis: Sensitivity to the serpent's form and sinuous motion was fixed in man's psyche during anthropogenesis and is reflected in extraordinary ways in his animal behavior, which is inseparable from his social behavior and religious beliefs involving the serpent.' --Preface
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