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Bundahishn
Chapter III (15)
And noxious creatures. were diffused by him over the earth, biting and venomous, such as the snake, scorpion, frog (kalvâk), and lizard (vazak),—so that not so much as the point of a needle remained free from noxious creatures.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (81)
Hence that takes its Original, that the Devil is called 'the old Serpent'; and also, that there are Adders and Serpents in this corrupted World,...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (37)
Neither has Man brought the Malignity, Poison and Venom into the Beasts, Birds, Worms, and Stones, for he had not their Body; otherwise if he had...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (20)
Seeing then all the Forms of the eternal Nature were to come forth, [it is so come to pass,] as you may see in Toads, Adders, Worms, and evil Beasts;...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (99)
We know, that the Devil slipt into the Serpent, and spoke out of the Serpent; for God did not mean [by it] that the Treader upon the Serpent should...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (9)
Such is the doom of those who, in the words of the Koran, "set their hearts on this world rather than on the next." If those snakes were merely extern...
Enuma Elish
Tablet I (105)
She set] up vipers, and dragons, and the (monster) [Lahamu
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (89)
''She hath set up vipers, and dragons, and the (monster) Lahamu
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (31)
"She hath set up vipers, and dragons, and the (monster) Lahamu
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh (12-22)
Slay it in sacred war and combat, When that man cherished that snake, That stubborn brute was happy in the luxury of warmth; And of necessity worked...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (7)
From whence now is also arisen the Disobedience of the Beasts towards Man, and their Wildness, [or flying in their Face,] as also, that they are so [c...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLVIII (5)
And the Lord executed a great vengeance on them for Israel's sake, and smote them through (the plagues of) blood and frogs, lice and dog-flies, and ma...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (5)
And the representation of the earth contains men, cattle, reptiles, wild beasts; and of the inhabitants of the water, fishes and whales; and again, of...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (144)
Thou hast many Examples thereof in this World, that if some Creature or Man look upon a Thing, it perishes because of the Poison or Venom in the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 9 (3)
'Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a musquito, that they become again and...
The Masnavi
The Lover and his Mistress (1-10)
The lover invoked blessings on that rough patrol, They were poison to most men, but sweets to him, In the world there is nothing absolutely bad;...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XVII (1)
"Behold the monster with the pointed tail, Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons, Behold him who infecteth all the world." Thus unto...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (92)
For the Host or Army of Lucifer had kindled the Saltiter of the Stars and of the Earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (44)
The serpent mounds of the American Indian; the carved-stone snakes of Central and South America; the hooded cobras of India; Python, the great snake o...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (12)
And the fifth was named Kâsdejâ: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embr...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXV (4)
Of the four lists were fashioned the two arms, The thighs and legs, the belly and the chest Members became that never yet were seen. Every original...