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There's a similar story but in Africa. Actual snake though
by inemesitaffia 3y ago
There's a similar story but in Africa. Actual snake though
- SllX 3y agoAlso the Yamata no Orochi slain by Susanoo in Japan. Actually looking at the page for Yamata no Orochi contains a description of both what the parent was talking about and a list of myths where man kills snake-thingy (or Chaoskampf in German, also known as Drachenkampf): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi#Mythological_parallels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi#Mythological_...
- Turing_Machine 3y agoThe Indo-European one might have been an actual snake at one point, too. Fish stories, flood stories, and snake stories all have something in common. The subjects of the stories tend to get larger and larger as the tales go down the generations.