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This snake encircled the iris and bit itself in the tail, and the son was named Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye. [19] It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail. [20]
The term itself came from an ancient Greek word that means "a turning back on one" and likened to the image of a snake devouring its own tail. [3] Socrates' peritrope described Protagoras' view as a theory that no longer requires criticism because it already devours itself. [3]
Until recently, some northern European communities held well dressing ceremonies to appease the snake-spirits which lived in village wells and told legends of saints defeating malevolent lake-snakes e.g. Saint George killing a maiden-devouring serpent or Saint Columba lecturing the Loch Ness Monster which then stopped eating humans and became ...
Astounding images shot in Australia show an olive python — one of the country's largest snakes — devour an entire crocodile in a muddy swamp.
The anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history.. 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 ...
David Blaine is a daredevil at heart. In PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek of National Geographic's latest series, David Blaine Do Not Attempt, the famed magician, 51, pushes the boundaries of what ...
A 27-year-old man died four days after his pet snake wrapped itself around his neck, according to a Pennsylvania coroner. The snake, initially described by police as a 15-foot snake, was an 18 ...
Jörmungandr in the sea during Ragnarök, drawn by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe in 1898.. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, lit. 'the Vast 'gand'', see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr, "worm of Midgard"), is an unfathomably large and monstrous sea serpent or worm who dwells in the world sea, encircling ...