Low fantasy stories are not concerned with historical or theological accuracy: if you want to have your hero rescue his space-princess from an opulent cult of serpent-god worshipping warlocks from Stygia, it is better to have them practice human sacrifice than ascetic meditation as their primary form of worship, in so far as fighting a giant snake makes better drama than cutting down a bunch of meditating greybeards in saffron robes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Izamal was already angry with the people of Chichen for sacrificing its young people to their serpent-god. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He came to a small temple of Odava, the serpent-god, with the traditional rounded doors and windows of the sect. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1998)
The accursed serpent-god Set is truly evil, and is but one of many ancient powers of dark malice that slither and crawl in the bowels of the earth. ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)
To achieve this goal, Skauraul struck a bargain with the venerable serpent-god, Set. ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)
Oh Set! 'he lifted his hands and invoked the serpent-god to even Strabonus' horror, ` grant us victory and I swear I will offer up to thee five hundred virgins of Shamar, writhing in their blood! ' ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)
"Do not blind yourself, Ludya; there is something far greater than little Lar at work here-something as ancient and evil as the serpent-god himself!" ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)
The black folk worshiped Jullah in opposition to Set, the serpent-god of their rulers and of their Stygian ancestors. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1969)
The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun; and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a serpent-god. ❋ Various (N/A)
[Footnote 1: A god of the Eastern Delta and a local form of the Sun-god early in the day.] [Footnote 2: The primeval god, a form of Pautti, the oldest Egyptian god.] [Footnote 3: She was called "Serqet."] [Footnote 4: A green-eyed serpent-god, or goddess, equipped with great power to destroy.] ❋ Unknown (1895)
In it also the Tuat is divided into ten sections and has two vestibules, the Eastern and the Western, but at the entrance to each section is a strongly fortified Gate, guarded by a monster serpent-god and by the gods of the section. ❋ Unknown (1895)
Down the left-hand side is the serpent-god representing the constellation of the Hydra. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The serpent-god, who belongs to the inner divine circle, but for some unexplained reason is hostile to the god of the garden, [498] reveals the secret. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)
_ -- The _Shoshoni_ philosopher believes the domed firmament to be ice, and surely it is the very color of ice, and he believes further that a monster serpent-god coils his huge back to the firmament and with his scales abrades its face and causes the ice-dust to fall upon the earth. ❋ John Wesley Powell (1868)
-- he lifted his hands and invoked the serpent-god to even Strabonus 'horror -- "grant us victory and I swear I will offer up to thee five hundred virgins of Shamar, writhing in their blood!" ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)
" he lifted his hands and invoked the serpent-god to even Strabonus" horror, -grant us victory and I swear I will offer up to thee five hundred virgins of Shamar, writhing in their blood! ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
a serpent-god in spite of his connexion with serpents. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Hex the Serpent God is a [cunt]" ❋ Doctor Charles (2018)
