Robert says, "Tiresias, in one legend, sees two sacred snakes coupling and breaks them up with his staff.

Her cult included the annual feeding of a sacred snake with barley cakes by virgin maidens.

The museum has a plaster cast statue of Asklepios, with a sacred snake curling up on his stick.

Within the foundations lived the sacred snake of the temple, which represented the spirit of Cecrops and whose well-being was thought essential for the safety of the city.

Her sacred snakes had had their basket by this hearth, her spells their hiding-places.

The priest took the honey-cake I had brought, and gave it to the sacred snake in his little pit.

No one ever saw the sacred snake.

That is so, my lord; the sacred snake is round his middle.

I come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of Khem; Come to face the Babe and Lion, come to measure force with them!