...however unaccountable it may seem, the worship of the serpent has almost universally prevailed. * Even in the orgies of Bacchus, the persons who partook of the ceremony, were obliged to carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams. to call upon Eva, Eva. EpipLanius...

...been adopted as the most sacred and salutary symbol, and rendered the chief object of adoration;-yet, so we find it to have been. In most of the antient...carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams call upon Eva, Eva." See, also, plagues of Egypt, p. 233. Might not the worship of the Serpent arise...

...animal was the object of very ancient and general worship, under various appellations and characters. In the orgies of Bacchus, the persons who partook...carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams call upon Eva ! Eva ! Eva ! being, according to the writer just mentioned, the same as epha, or opha,...

...the animal creation.f Here, also, we meet with the serpent; for those who partook of the ceremonies used to carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams called upon " Eva!— " Eva!"—They then crowned themselves with these reptiles, still indulging in the same frantic exclamations....

...the animal creation.f Here, also, we meet with the serpent; for those who partook of the ceremonies used to carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams called upon "Eva!— " Eva!"—They then crowned themselves with these reptiles, still indulging in the same frantic exclamations....

...desideratum in literature. In most of the ancient rites we find there is some allusion to the serpent. In the orgies of Bacchus, the persons who partook...called upon Eva, Eva. They were often crowned with serpents, and still made the same frantic exclamation. One part of the mysterious rites of Jupiter...

...Abbadir, or Abadir, compounded of ab and adir, and meaning the serpent deity Addir, the same as Adorus. In the orgies of Bacchus the persons who partook of...carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams call upon Eva! Eva! Eva being, according to Mr. Briant, the same as epha, or opha, which the Greeks...

...subjection of the inferior animals, in primitive times. The persons who took part in those ceremonies used to carry serpents in their hands, and with horrid screams called upoa Eva! Eva! They then crowned themselves with these reptiles, still indulging in the »an»e frantic...

...Goddess; Faber says that Merlin called Morgana “the white serpent” (F 3:32 1). And Bryant writes: “In most of the antient rites there is some allusion to the serpent” (B 2:198).¿¿ Thus it seems that Pym spends some time in the womb of the Grampus in a proleptic dream...