Excerpt from Popular Natural History, Vol. 2: A Description of Animal Life From the Lowest Forms Up to Man Still, it must be admitted that snakes do exercise a fascination of another sort over human beings, for everywhere we find traces, more or less distinct, of serpent worship. In ancient Egypt the snake and the egg were prominent symbols; among our American Indians the snake held a mystic position, and even in the religion of the Jews it was not entirely ignored, but at times it appeared as an object of genuine worship. ...
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Excerpt from Popular Natural History, Vol. 2: A Description of Animal Life From the Lowest Forms Up to Man Still, it must be admitted that snakes do exercise a fascination of another sort over human beings, for everywhere we find traces, more or less distinct, of serpent worship. In ancient Egypt the snake and the egg were prominent symbols; among our American Indians the snake held a mystic position, and even in the religion of the Jews it was not entirely ignored, but at times it appeared as an object of genuine worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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