Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 510
iated Eve and the Serpent unfavourably, butaccording to an early sect of Gnostic Christians known asthe Ophites, i.e., Evites, or Serpentites, the Serpent of Mann, Tj., Archaic Sculphiringa, p. 30. IX.] brides bairns 497 Genesis was a personification of the Good principle, whoinstructed Eve in all… … FiG. 29fi.—From A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology (Edwardes an Spence). shippers of the serpent. We meet again with Eff theserpent in F the fifth letter of the alphabet: this letter, ac-cording to Dr. Isaac Taylor, was formed originally like ahorned or sacred serpent, and the two strokes of…
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