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The Snake God is either called Shéxiān (蛇仙 literally "Snake Immortal"), Liǔxiān (柳仙 "Immortal Liu"), or Chángxiān (常仙 "Viper Immortal" [14]). Alternatively he is Mǎngxiān (蟒仙 "Python (or Boa) Immortal"). Considered an incarnation of the Dragon God, the snake traditionally represents generation and activity .
A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese: 凡人修仙传; pinyin: Fánrén xiūxiān chuán) [1] is a long online novel about cultivating immortals written by Wang Yu between 2008 and 2013 on Qidian.com. [2] After its publication, it gradually became one of the most famous novels about cultivating immortals in mainland China, [3] a very popular web novel topic in Chinese online ...
Snakes are a common occurrence in myths for a multitude of cultures. The Hopi people of North America viewed snakes as symbols of healing, transformation, and fertility. Snakes in Mexican folk culture tell about the fear of the snake to the pregnant women where the snake attacks the umbilical cord. [1]
In one retelling of the “Legend of the White Snake,” one of China’s four main great folktales, an immortal white snake, disguised as a maiden, falls in love with a man.
Xianxia (traditional Chinese: 仙俠; simplified Chinese: 仙侠; pinyin: xiānxiá; lit. 'immortal heroes') is a genre of Chinese fantasy heavily inspired by Chinese mythology and influenced by philosophies of Taoism, Chan Buddhism, Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese folk religion, Chinese alchemy, other traditional elements of Chinese culture, [1] and the wuxia genre.
They are reincarnated as a male human and a white snake spirit who lived in the mountains and take a human form after a thousand years. Respectively, their story begins. In an alternative version of the story, Bai Suzhen takes on a beautiful woman form to search for Xu Xian, who had saved her life in a past life.
Shuma Hiroyuki, later known as Jiraiya, using a heavy gun to defeat a huge snake that preyed on his toads. Jiraiya (自来也 or 児雷也, literally "Young Thunder"), originally known as Ogata Shuma Hiroyuki (尾形周馬寛行), is the toad-riding protagonist of the Japanese folk tale Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari (報仇奇談自来也説話, The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya).
The Jade Emperor was moved by his sincerity and determination to clear his sins, and made him an immortal with the title of Xuántiān Shàngdì. After he became an immortal, his stomach and intestines absorbed the essence of the earth. His viscera transformed into a demonic turtle and a demonic snake, who started to hurt people.