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The Serpents
This group holds mythical serpents, the great snakes and snake-beings that recur across the world's mythologies as figures of chaos, wisdom, fertility, guardianship or cosmic threat. The serpent is one of the most widespread and charged symbols in religious imagination.
The browser will find the serpent figures the atlas gathers. The entries describe each creature's mythological role, noting the very different meanings serpents carry between traditions.
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