Catalog of an exhibition held at the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands, Apr.-Nov. 2012. Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-204). Catalog of an exhibition held at the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands, Apr.-Nov. 2012.
Contents:
Foreword / Edward K. de Bock. The snake as the symbol of transition and transformation in Peruvian art / Wllfried Van Damme -- The secret of the serpent / Wouter Welling -- Roundabout ways : serpent symbolism in West Africa / Slebe Rossel -- The secret of Rhino Cave / Sheila Coulson -- The snake and Satan in Jewish, Christian and Islamic creation stories / Mineke Schipper -- The meaning of the snake in the Bible and in gnosticism/hermeticism / Jacob Slavenburg -- The snake and psychotherapy / Wouter Bleijenberg -- The ouroboros and the aurora / Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs -- Real snakes / Frans Ellenbroek -- The snake and the sun : elements of ancient Egyptian magic / Maarten J. Raven -- Snakes : South-East Asia / David van Duuren -- Snakes : Oceania / David van Duuren -- "Casting ahead serpent-fashion" -- the rainbow serpent in Australia / Georges Petitjean -- Snakes and snake gods in Hindu India and Nepal / Ben Meulenbeld -- The snake as the symbol of transition and transformation in Peruvian art / Edward K. de Bock.
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