All 40 Uses of "serpent" in "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" - Auto-generated

The psychoanalyst has to come along, at last, to assert again the tried wisdom of the older, forward-looking teachings of the masked medicine dancers and the witch-doctor-circumcisers; whereupon we find, as in the dream of the serpent bite, that the ageless initiation symbolism is produced spontaneously by the patient himself at the moment of the release.†

p. 7.9

serpent = snake

he removed to another tree and a great storm raged for seven days, but the King of Serpents emerged from the roots and protected the Buddha with his expanded hood;†

p. 26.9

serpents = snakes

Beneath this spot is the earth-supporting head of the cosmic serpent, the dragon, symbolical of the waters of the abyss, which are the divine life-creative energy and substance of the demiurge, the world-generative aspect of immortal being.†

p. 32.5

serpent = snake

The frog, the little dragon, is the nursery counterpart of the underworld serpent whose head supports the earth and who represents the life-progenitive, demiurgic powers of the abyss.†

p. 43.7

The disgusting and rejected frog or dragon of the fairy tale brings up the sun ball in its mouth; for the frog, the serpent, the rejected one, is the representative of that unconscious deep ("so deep that the bottom cannot be seen") wherein are hoarded all of the rejected, unadmitted, unrecognized, unknown, or undeveloped factors, laws, and elements of existence.†

p. 44.4

Hairy and misformed, or eke shaped as animals, ostriches, or serpents, they were very dangerous to unprotected persons.†

p. 61.5 *

serpents = snakes

Thus the sailors of the bold vessels of Columbus, breaking the horizon of the medieval mind—sailing, as they thought, into the boundless ocean of immortal being that surrounds the cosmos, like an endless mythological serpent biting its tail33—had to be cozened and urged on like children, because of their fear of the fabled leviathans, mermaids, dragon kings, and other monsters of the deep.†

p. 64.5

serpent = snake

All of which convinced Bernard that it was a pretty risky thing to live together with the serpent.†

p. 104.6

Writes the New Englander Cotton Mather: The Wilderness through which we are passing to the Promised Land is all filled with Fiery flying serpents.†

p. 105.1

serpents = snakes

The God that holds you over the Pit of Hell, much as one holds a Spider or some lothsome Insect over the Fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his Wrath towards you burns like Fire; he looks upon you as Worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the Fire; he is of purer Eyes than to bear to have you in his Sight; you are Ten thousand Times so abominable in his Eyes as the most hateful venomous Serpent is in ours.†

p. 106.4

serpent = snake

After the bears, there threatened a pair of serpents, then winds, then lightnings: the guardians of the ultimate threshold.†

p. 110.6

serpents = snakes

The Serpent lying curled about the polar stars grew warm, and with the heat grew dangerously fierce.†

p. 113.6

serpent = snake

The dear, protecting mother of our body could not defend us from the Great Father Serpent; the mortal, tangible body that she gave us was delivered into his frightening power.†

p. 137.9

Vasuki, the King of Serpents, consented to become the churning rope with which to twirl it.†

p. 153.8

serpents = snakes

The gods laid hold of one end of the serpent, after it had been wrapped around the mountain, the titans the other.†

p. 153.9

serpent = snake

But while he slept, a serpent smelled the wonderful perfume of the plant, darted forth, and carried it away.†

p. 161.2

In Thy body, O Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings—the Lord Brahma, seated on the lotus, all the patriarchs and the celestial serpents.†

p. 199.1

serpents = snakes

Siva's garlands are of living serpents.†

p. 266.8

The Aztec Coatlicue, "She of the Serpent-woven Skirt," was approached by a god in the form of a ball of feathers.†

p. 267.1

serpent = snake

FIGURE 68: Coatlicue of the Serpent-woven Skirt, Earth Mother (carved stone, Aztec, Mexico, late fifteenth century A.D.).†

p. 268.1

He had been born of a miraculous conception, after a gestation of twelve years; his body being that of a serpent, with human arms and the head of an ox.†

p. 272.4

Such serpent kings and minotaurs tell of a past when the emperor was the carrier of a special world-creating, world-sustaining power, very much greater than that represented in the normal human physique.†

p. 272.7

Now is required no incarnation of the Moon Bull, no Serpent Wisdom of the Eight Diagrams of Destiny, but a perfect human spirit alert to the needs and hopes of the heart.†

p. 272.9

Herakles strangled a serpent sent against his cradle by the goddess Hera.†

p. 281.1

Its parents were the Leviathan—a monster in the form of a serpent that dwelt in the sea—and the Onager—a terrible beast bred in Galatia, which burns with fire everything it touches.†

p. 292.7

And Death revealed his corruption, showing two heads, the one had the face of a serpent, the other head was like a sword.†

p. 307.1

The Aztecs tell of the feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, monarch of the ancient city of Tollan in the golden age of its prosperity.†

p. 307.7

Tezcatlipoca, the warrior-hero of the younger people and their era, broke the city of Tollan; and the feathered serpent, king of the golden age, burned his dwellings behind him, buried his treasures in the mountains, transformed his chocolate trees into mesquite, commanded the multi-colored birds, his servants, to fly before him, and departed in great sorrow.†

p. 307.8

And so he passed along, leaving many signs and place-names behind him, until, coming at last to the sea, he departed on a raft of serpents.†

p. 308.4

serpents = snakes

With this thou wilt pass along the road where the serpent watcheth.†

p. 317.9

serpent = snake

I am clothed and wholly provided with thy magical words, O Re, the which are in heaven above me and in the earth beneath me.... FIGURE 79: The Serpent Kheti in the Underworld, Consuming with Fire an Enemy of Osiris (carved alabaster, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1278 B.C.).†

p. 319.5

The "Chapter of Repulsing Serpents" follows, then the "Chapter of Driving Away Apshait."†

p. 319.5

serpents = snakes

The "Chapter of Living by Air in the Underworld" and the "Chapter of Driving Back the Serpent Rerek in the Underworld" carry the hero still further along his way, and then comes the great proclamation of the "Chapter of Driving Away the Slaughterings Which Are Performed in the Underworld": My hair is the hair of Nu.†

p. 319.7

serpent = snake

The serpent numbers which appear toward the close of the text (so-called because of the appearance in them of a serpent symbol) represent world periods of some thirty-four thousand years—twelve and a half million days—and these are recorded again and again.†

p. 322.6

The serpent numbers which appear toward the close of the text (so-called because of the appearance in them of a serpent symbol) represent world periods of some thirty-four thousand years—twelve and a half million days—and these are recorded again and again.†

p. 322.7

Here we see the rain serpent, stretching across the sky, belching forth torrents of water.†

p. 322.9

FIGURE 81: World-end: Rain Serpent and Tiger-claw Goddess (ink on tree-bark paper, Mayan, Central America, c.A.D.1200-1250).†

p. 323.2

The world-enveloping serpent of the cosmic ocean shall rise in giant wrath and advance beside the wolf upon the land, blowing venom, so that it shall sprinkle all the air and water.†

p. 324.7

Othin shall advance against the wolf, Thor against the serpent, Tyr against the dog—the worst monster of all—and Freyr against Surt, the man of flame.†

p. 324.9

Thor shall slay the serpent, stride ten paces from that spot, and because of the venom blown fall dead to the earth.†

p. 326.1

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