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

But the snake in Chinese culture is not just a divine or benevolent figure. It also represents duality–wisdom and danger, good and evil. This dual nature is reflected in numerous Chinese legends, ...

Imagine a snake — coiled, elusive, and steeped in meaning — emerging from the depth of the world's cultural history to leave its mark on human imagination. Perhaps it's the rearing cobra, poised on ...

a symbol of protection and divine authority. Or it might be the head of Medusa, the Gorgon whose hair of writhing snakes and petrifying gaze have haunted myth and art alike. For the more ...

In response, God instructed Moses to make a serpent out of bronze and mount it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten could look at the bronze serpent and would be healed. "The brazen serpent", with ...

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

Snakes weren’t always “little dragons.” In early Chinese cultures, they were powerful symbols of vitality and strength in ...

Inspired by Xuanwu, one of the Four Divine Beasts in ... the "Year of the Snake." Its status as a noteworthy release is solidified by its fusion of mythology, art, and workmanship.

Thus, he flipped the story of Adam and Eve - which he prefers to call Eve and Adam - and approached the ancestral tale as one in which the snake was ... "The serpent is a divine element, as ...

One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International ...

There’s something wild and uninhibited about Santiago’s work, which is broadly autobiographical but draws on the beliefs and ...