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The Doll Dares: Sunday, June 5th, 2016

I’ll be hosting another dare day. This time creepy doll themed. For those of you who don’t know, dare day is a day where I post a series of creepy dares. For those of you brave enough you can try them and share your experience on the #sixpenceee tag. Each dare will get progressively scarier as the night goes on. 

This event will be hosted on my other blog. Be sure to follow it!

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Ophiolatreia: Serpent Worship

The worship of serpent deities is present in numerous old cultures throughout the world, particularly in religion and mythology. Here’s an account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World.

The snake has been variously adored as a regenerative power, as a god of evil, as a god of good, as Christ (by the Gnostics), as a phallic deity, as a solar deity, and as a god of death. It has also served as the symbol of Satan and many deities, including Apollo and the Egyptian god Ra.

Snake worship found expression in both the Toltec and Aztec periods of prehistoric Mexican civilization. In Aztec mythology a half-divine, half-human being descended to earth for a while as the great teacher of mankind; the Aztecs called him the “feathered serpent,” the incarnation of the serpent sun. In Egypt, according to one authority, each temple had a reserved area where snakes were kept.

In Greek religion the snake was frequently considered divine. Among the Greek Dionysian cults it signified wisdom and was a symbol of fertility. The Greek god most closely associated with snake worship is Apollo; the original name of Apollo’s temple at Delphi was Pytho, after the snake Python.

In Rome during the period of the empire, a sacred snake was kept within the city and was attended by the vestal virgins; it was believed that if the snake refused to accept food from the hand of one of its attendants, the attendant was no longer a virgin, and she was promptly killed.