cropredy Wrote:
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> Hello,
> My first post here , so please allow tolerance if
> I am in the wrong area , or in any way out of
> place.
> My reason for looking at this site is centred in
> my interest in ancient Egypt with particuler
> reference to dowsing, which I do extensively.

Normally, I would try posting to the Ancient Egypt forum rather than the Ancient History forum, but it's really up to HoM moderators where you post.

> I had hoped to find discussions about the serpents
> often depicted, but am struggling to source.
> Could You please point Me to any, or if not
> perhaps We could discuss them, as I detect them as
> been very very real.

If you are asking if there are books which identify serpents found in Egyptian myth, I can refer them to you. If you are asking about books which identify serpents of ancient Egypt, there are some works along that line as well.

> They are detectable in layers, and IMHO are
> opposite spin magnetic time flows.

If you are speaking about real serpents, you'll have to be more clear what you mean; if you are referring to mythical serpents having a physical reality, you may be on the wrong board, as this is a pretty hardnosed, "cite your evidence" kind of group here, who do demand verifiable sources for such assertions.

As to the works on mythical serpents of ancient Egypt, see:

Broekhuis, J. 1971. De Godin Renenwetet. (Ph.D dissertation) Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V.

Bru Romo, M. 1989. Anotaciones sobre el mito de Osiris y la serpiente. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Amigos de la Arqueología (Madrid) 26: 5-8.

Calmettes, M.-A. 1994. La imagen de Horus sobre los cocodrilos y el simbolismo de la serpiente, Nilus. Bulletí de la Societat Catalana d'Egiptologia (Barcelona) 3: 7-13.

Cooper, W. R. 1873. The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt. London: Robert Hardwicke.

Deonna, W. 1952. Ouroboros. Artibus Asiae (Ascona) 15: 163-170.

Du Quesne, T. 1995. Raising the Serpent Power. Some Parallels between Egyptian Religion and Indian Tantra. In T. Du Quesne, ed., Hermes Aegyptiacus. Egyptological Studies for B.H. Stricker on his 85th birthday: 53-68. Discussions in Egyptology Special Number 2. Oxford: DE Publications.

Heerma van Voss, M. 1992. Zur Göttin Hepetethor. In U. Luft, ed., The Intellectual Heritage of Egypt. Studies presented to László Kákosy by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday: 265-266. Studia Aegyptiaca 14. Budapest.

Jentel, M.-O. 1984. De la "Bonne Déesse" à la "Mauvaise Femme": Quelques avatars du motif de la femme-serpent. Echos du monde classique. Classical views (Calgary) 28/2: 283-289.

Johnson, S. B. 1990. The Cobra Goddess of Ancient Egypt: Predynastic, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Periods. Studies in Egyptology. London: Kegan Paul International.

Kakosy, L. 1995. Ouroboros on magical healing statues. In T. Du Quesne, ed., Hermes Aegyptiacus. Egyptological Studies for B.H. Stricker on his 85th birthday: 123-129. Discussions in Egyptology Special Number 2. Oxford: DE Publications.

Koemoth, P. P. 1993. Du chat à l'uraeus "qui délimite" l'arbre de l'horizon oriental pour Rê et pour Osiris. Varia Aegyptiaca 9/1-2: 19-31.

Leitz, C. 1996. Die Schlangensprüche in den Pyramidentexten. Orientalia 65: 381-427.

Piccione, P. A. 1990. Mehen, Mysteries, and Resurrection from the Coiled Serpent. JARCE 27: 43-52.

Roberts, A. 1995. Hathor Rising: The Serpent Power of Ancient Egypt. Devon: Northgate Publishers.

Stricker, B. H. 1953. De grote zeeslang. Mededelingen en Verhandelingen N° 10 van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux." Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Thomas, H. 1971. Beispiele der Wandlung. Adler und Schlange als Natursymbole. Antaios (Stuttgart) 12: 48-57.

Vázquez Hoys, A. Ma. 1992. La serpiente en Egipto. Aegyptiaca Complutensia, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) 1: 93-113.

Vázquez Hoys, A. Ma. and C. Poyato Holgado. 1994. Sobre las serpientes y su culto en Egipto: Isis-Thermoutis, Serapis-Agathodaímon. In P. Sáez and S. Ordóñez, eds.,Homenaje al Profesor Presedo: 99-119. Filosofía y Letras 178. Sevilla: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla.

_________________________________________. 1991."Aquello que ama el silencio": sobre la serpiente en los antiguos cultos egipcios. Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II: Historia Antigua (Madrid) 4: 37-71.

Ward, W. A. 1978. The hiw-Ass, the hiw-Serpent, and the God Seth. JNES 37: 23-24.

On the subject of actual serpents in ancient Egypt, see:

Cherf, W. J. 1983. Ophidiophobia and Snake-Sticks-in Ancient Egypt. American Journal of Archaeology 87: 229.

Hornblower, G. D. 1943. The divine cat and the snake in Egypt. Man 43/65: 85-87.

Josephson J. A. 1992. A Variant Type of the Uraeus in the Late Period. JARCE 29: 123-130.

Lurker, M. 1983. Adler und Schlange. Tiersymbolik im Glauben und Weltbild der Völker. Tübingen: Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins.

Murray, M. A. 1948. The Serpent Hieroglyph. JEA 34: 117-118.

Redford, D. B. 1975. The Shipwrecked Sailor's Snake. SSEA 6/2 (December 1975): 13-16.

Sauneron, S. 1989. Un Traité Égyptien d'Ophiologie. Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum No. 47.218.48 et .85. Bibliothèque Générale 11. Cairo: IFAO.

Shinnie, P. L. 1950. An Egyptian Outpost with a unique Snake Cult: The brief History of 3000-year-old Amara West. JEOL 11: 23-24. (See also: Illustrated London News 215/No. 5766, October 22, 1949: 633-635.)

Hope this assists.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom