TY - BOOK AU - Hazel,Robert TI - Snakes, people, and spirits: Traditional eastern africa in its broader context SN - 9781527550452 AV - QL666 .S635 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, England PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Snakes KW - Africa, East KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2478036&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -