"Imagine Adam and Eve before the serpent - there's no shame, " he told the court.
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In the Kabuki tradition of men playing female characters, Mr. Sawamura's gestural dances, full of delicate facial expressions and artful costume manipulation, marvelously capture the wiles of the serpent-demon maiden hoping to enter the temple that figures in the classic play.
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The tail was missing, and the current serpent was added in the late 18th century, curiously biting the goat's horn which diverges from other renditions of the chimera and was probably not the original design.
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We have some, but few, written accounts of these cultures before this time period, but earthworks like the great serpent mound have been sources of speculation for centuries.
The result would be a serpent-like conga-line rumbling down the highway.
This snarling, fire-snorting Chimera, which has a storied history, epitomizes the mythical monster that figures in many classical Greek texts and was first mentioned, among those that survive, in Homer's "Iliad": it's a dramatic fusion of a lion's head and body, a serpent forming the tail, and a horned, bearded goat's head and neck protruding from the spiked spine of the lion.
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The image that comes to mind when I think of this battle is that of a serpent swallowing its own tail, like the mythological Ouroboros of the ancient Egyptians.
The Greeks had a god named Proteus, who, if you grabbed him, started endlessly changing shape a serpent, an eagle, a lion in the hope you would startle and let go.
The place is so iconic that thousands of Irish draw straws every year for the chance to be among the lucky ten or twenty to squeeze 60 feet into the magic chamber whose surrounding walls are inscribed with runic whorls, serpent forms, chevrons, and spiral signs of infinity.
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