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Koen G · 20-12-2020, 08:30 PM

(20-12-2020, 05:40 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Speaking of which Koen, I spent a few minutes staring at Q13 seeing if I could come up with a good possible candidate image for the Serpent. So far no epiphanies, nor even any apophanies. You'll be the first to know if I change my mind on this.

I'm just starting to think about these things, so I don't have many refined ideas either. One complicating factor is that the serpent is supposed to undergo a metamorphosis before it becomes the animal we know today, when god punishes it. It is often represented as a snake with a woman's head (sometimes wearing a crown), with arms, sometimes a whole human body. Sometimes a bird-monster. Sometimes a dragon-like creature.

Here's my favorite, by Van Der Goes (1479)

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