CULT OF THE SNAKE
ANCIENT DEVOTEES. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 3. “The citizens of Enossos, an ancient city of. Crete, which flourished 3000 8.C., really did see snakes,” said the Athens correspondent of the “Times.” The discovery in recent excavations described by Sir Arthur EVans, a notcd archaeologist, was a room in a private house of the Minoan period, containing 40 vessels and other objects devoted to the cult of the domeetie snake. A snake table was arranged to accommodate four diners with, snake tubes attached to little cups to shelter the reptiles. The worship of the snake goddess as the “Lady of the Underworld,” and the controller of. earthquakes, involved ceremonies with viperine snakes of a venomous charaster.
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Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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120CULT OF THE SNAKE Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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