Both Mithras, the Persian Redeemer, and Serapis, the Egyptian God the Earth, are symbolized by serpents coiled about their bodies. This remarkable drawing shows the good and evil principles of Persia—Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman—contending for the Egg of the Earth, which each is trying to wrench from the teeth of the other. – From Maurice’s Indian Antiquities
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