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 | | In the early fifth millenium BCE, there is an icon, described by Johnson as follows: "Stripes on the enthroned Madonna suggest a Snake Goddess, Sesklo, Greece" (125). |
 | | Instead, the snakes accompany the female figures, either as the Lady of the Beasts (Khafaje, Sumer, 2500 BCE, Johnson, 139), the Minoan Snake Goddesses/women (sixteenth century BCE, Johnson, 143-144), the Goddess Anat (Syria, thirteenth century BCE, Johnson, 152), or the Goddess of Canaan, ca. |
 | | And as waters are important in ancient cosmic belief, there may have been a connection between the Nile as source and the snake as representative of birth (as well as death and resurrection). |
| langlab.uta.edu /german/personal/rings/skygoddess/hydra.htm (2705 words) |
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