Snakes, people, and spirits Traditional eastern africa in its broader context / by Robert Hazel.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This two-volume publication offers an in-depth analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa, while setting the topic within its regional and historical context: namely, with regards to the rest of Africa, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Greek world, ancient Palestine, Arabia, India, and medieval and pre-Christian Europe. Through the ages, most of those areas have connected with Eastern Africa in a broad sense, where ophidian symbolism was as ""rampant"" and far-reaching, if not more so, as anywhere else on the continent, and perhaps in past civilisations. Much as in the wider context, s.

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