Teutoburg Forest
Teutoburg Forest Ger. Teutoburger Wald, hilly range, in NW Germany, stretching roughly between Osnabrück and Paderborn. It is forested, and it rises to 1,465 ft (447 m) S of Detmold. Near Detmold is a monument (the Hermannsdenkmal ) commemorating the victory (AD 9) of the Germans under Arminius (or Hermann, in modern German) over the Roman legions under Varus. The war (late 8th cent.) between Charlemagne and the Saxon Widukind took place in this region.
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Serpents, Sainthood, and Celebrity: Symbolic and Ritual Tension in Appalachian Pentecostal Snake Handling.
Magazine article from: Journal of Religion and Popular Culture; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...observations at a serpent-handling church...Christians handle serpents in their religious...they shall take up serpents; and if they drink...in the sense that serpent handling is an act...ritual handling of serpents is a dramatic act...appreciation of serpent handling includes...
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The accommodating Serpent and God's grace in paradise lost.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...foregrounding the literal-historical reading of the account of the Fall in Genesis, both making the Serpent a real serpent and identifying the Serpent with Satan, and in reading the judgment upon the Serpent typologically as foretelling Christ...
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Douglas Yeo celebrates serpent's lure
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/23/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...changed in 400 years. "The serpent has a very beautiful warm and...Yeo was first tempted by the serpent in 1994, when the Boston Symphony...Messe Solennelle. "I'd seen serpents in museums, and we have three...that Berlioz Mass called for serpent, I thought it might be fun...
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One strange serpent.(Serpent Mound)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...group we call the Fort Ancient people. This new time line for Serpent Mound provides some exciting possible meanings for the serpent. Serpents in the Sky Many things link Serpent Mound to the sky. Archaeologists have discovered that the three...
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Dragons and serpents in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series: are they evil?(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mythlore; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the "biggest of all serpents" (White 165), and...Tolkien classifies the serpent as a type of dragon...to this portrayal of serpents and dragons as interchangeable...this cosmic battle. Serpents have been the subject...linked to the ancient serpent-worshipping religions...
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Year of the Serpent upon us
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 1/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...is the largest type of snake at Serpent Safari. Forgot to make your New...Wednesday. It's the Year of the Serpent. Serpents turn you off, you say?. Well...it's another good year. The serpent may sound a bit less divine and...
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Iroquois Legend of Two Serpents
Newspaper article from: News From Indian Country; 1/15/1999; 700+ words
; ...passed the Mohawks felt safe since the serpents were said to be far to the west of...direction, a Mohawk man saw the golden serpent, now taller than a mountain. It...survive would be to try to feed the serpents as they had done hundreds of years...
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Serpent Mound: Ancient southern earthwork remains a mstery
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; If you go For more information: Serpent Mound, 3850 Ohio Route 73, Peebles...2757; www.ohiohistory.org/places/serpent. Park hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m...or mythical symbol to its makers. The Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent...
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Ohio's Serpent Mound: meet a coiling creature that is reluctant to give up its secrets.
Magazine article from: Dig; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Southern Ohio's Serpent Mound is the largest effigy mound in...mounds, others, including Ohio's Serpent Mound, were simply gigantic seculptures...undertook the first excavations of Serpent Mound. He did not find anything in the...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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The day a serpent was invited into chapel
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 4/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...made an unholy racket when it arrived. Serpent is the name given to an intriguing musical...early music expert Harry Woodhouse, the serpent was a mainstay of music-making at Rilla...he had been told of the existence of a serpent in the village which straddles the River...
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Serpents and Snakes
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...meanings. The use of serpents as symbols of death...Eden where a sly serpent tempts Eve and Adam...mythology show how serpents can symbolize both...as human heads on serpent bodies. The Nagas...cruel and vengeful. Serpents and Snakes in Myths...woman, half-serpent monster whose ...
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serpent
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...Satan, as in Genesis 3:1. brazen serpent the figure of a brass serpent on a pole; with reference to the...were punished by ‘fiery serpents’, Moses was told by God to mount a serpent of brass on a pole. If anyone who...
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Plumed Serpent, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Plumed Serpent, The, a novel by D. H. Lawrence , published 1926. Kate Leslie, an...leader, reviver of the cult of the ancient god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent. The book contains scenes of violent Aztec ‘blood-lust...
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Great Serpent Mound
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
GREAT SERPENT MOUND Near Hopewell, Ohio, an early group of Indians, called Mound...earthworks that looks like a huge snake when viewed from the sky. The Great Serpent Mound is one-quarter mile (just under one-half kilometer) long and...
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serpent star
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
serpent star see brittlestar .
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