CITY OF THE SNAKES: Book 3 (The City Trilogy)

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This creature, known in Akkadian as the mušḫuššu, meaning "furious serpent", was used as a symbol for particular deities and also as a general protective emblem.

The Hypnobrai hypnosis is loosely based on the Indian cobra's ability to confuse its natural enemy with a hood mark of "spectacles" at the back of its head. A late Bronze Age Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other. Simon Keys has a fascinating career that entails catching reptiles and educating people about these animals. It has been suggested by Joseph Campbell that the symbol of snakes coiled around a staff is an ancient representation of Kundalini physiology.When the First Age ended, they warred with each other for countless years until banding together during the First Serpentine War to fight against the humans. Over the following millennia, Serpentine culture developed in a different direction but retained some of the ancestral culture features, as they built a pyramid and an entire city in the desert, and their artifacts included a golden sarcophagus.

The hosts also travel across South Africa to save snakes, usually by hand, because they are experienced reptile handlers. Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great and a princess of the primitive land of Epirus, had the reputation of a snake-handler, and it was in serpent form that Zeus was said to have fathered Alexander upon her. Following the Christian context as a symbol for evil, serpents are sometimes featured in political propaganda. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so prevalent in world mythology; the serpent is an innate image of danger and death.

In the Hebrew Bible the serpent in the Garden of Eden lured Eve with the promise of being like God, tempting her that despite God's warning, death would not be the result, that God was withholding knowledge from her. It takes the boy to its father's court to reward him a wish-granting object (usually a magic stone or ring).