Snake goddess

Angitia, the Oscan Goddess of Healing and Snakes. Article by Thalia Took.

Several figurines of ancient Goddesses holding snakes were found in Knossos, Crete. Pictured here is the most famous of these Minoan Snake Goddesses, c. 1600 BCE. She holds aloft 2 sacred serpents...

Snake Goddess

Snake goddess 🐍

Full: Front Pottery: red-figured stamnos. Scene in Olympos. On the right of (a) Zeus is seated to left on a diphros over which a mantle decorated with crosses and circles is laid; he is bearded and wreathed, and has long hair with two locks (parotides) on the shoulder, a long sleeved chiton thickly dotted, and a mantle, and holds up a fluted phiale in his right, and a sceptre upright in his left hand. Before him stands Hera (?) or Iris (?) in a long sleeved chiton decorated with crosses, a…

One of the snake goddesses from the "Stela with two snake goddesses". Graeco-Roman period

“Lady of Snakes, minoan sculpture from #Crete.”

Nüwa was a serpent deity from ancient Chinese mythology. Sometimes she is pictured as a gorgeous woman, other times she is shown possessing a woman’s head but the body of a powerful snake. Nüwa was…