Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

One of the most famous Chinese folk tales is the “Legend of the White Snake.” Although early versions of the myth date back ...

True Myth provides standard, type-safe wrappers and helper functions to help you with three extremely common cases in programming: not having a value having a result where you need to deal with either ...

In Chinese culture, the snake seems to have an intricate relationship with the dragon, a symbolic emblem of the nation. Sometimes they could not be differentiated from each other, in other times ...

Patterns of Nyuwa, the mother goddess in Chinese mythology, and Fuxi, the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation, embracing and looking at each other with their lower bodies twisting into snake ...

In Chinese culture, the snake seems to have an intricate relationship with the dragon, a symbolic emblem of the nation. Sometimes they could not be differentiated from each other, in other times ...

SINGAPORE – Mention the word “snake” and many people tend to either recoil in fear or repulsion. But with the lunar cycle bringing in the Year of the Snake on Jan 29, Mandai Wildlife Reserve ...

But the snake continued to have an important symbolic meaning. In a Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) myth, Emperor Liu Bang, founder of the dynasty, killed a snake when he was still a grassroots ...

Beyond superstition, the snake also has ties to ancient Chinese mythology. Did you know that the legendary mother goddess Nüwa, who created humanity, had a snake’s body and a human head? Similarly, ...

This year marks the year of the Wood Snake. The Snake is the sixth animal in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac and is associated with wisdom, intuition, and strategic growth. This year ...