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Angitia is believed to have also been a goddess of healing. Her worship was centered in the Central Apennine region. [82] On the Iberian Peninsula there is evidence that before the introduction of Christianity, and perhaps more strongly before Roman invasions, serpent worship was a standout feature of local religions (see Sugaar). To this day ...
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 Book of Genesis who convinced Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, leading her to convince Adam to do the same.
In his historical work, Deane found widespread traces of serpent worship, which he connected with the rise of polytheism, in the cultures of Persia, India, China, Mexico, Anatolia, and Phoenicia, and also in the paganism of Europe. [12] Deane's daughter, Eleanor, who was the tenth child in the family, [10] became the mother of P. G. Wodehouse. [13]
Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-Yoni (1889) Reprinted as Phallicism (ca. 1890-91) Ophiolatreia: An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship (1889) Phallic Objects, Monuments, and Remains (1889) Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)
The altar where serpent deities are worshipped in a temple in Belur, Karnataka, India Quetzalcoatl depicted as a snake devouring a man, from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. The worship of the serpent is found in many parts of the Old World, and in the Americas. [36] In India snake worship refers to the high status of snakes in Hindu mythology.
File talk: The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world, and its tradition referred to the events in Paradise- proving the temptation and fall of man by the instrumentality of a serpent tempter (IA b29310532).pdf
1889: Ophiolatreia: an account of the rites and mysteries connected with the origin, rise, and development of serpent worship in various parts of the world, enriched with interesting traditions, and a full description of the celebrated serpent mounds & temples, the whole forming an exposition of one of the phases of phallic, or sex worship ...
The Brazen Serpent (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by Providence Lithograph Company). Pseudo-Tertullian (probably the Latin translation of Hippolytus's lost Syntagma, written c. 220) is the earliest source to mention Ophites, and the first source to discuss the connection with serpents.