Ophiolatreia: Or Serpent Worship - Softcover

Jennings, Hargrave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481095625 ISBN 13: 9781481095624

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Modern occult and conspiracy writers argue that a race of reptilian beings, possibly of extraterrestrial origin, have secretly been in control of the earth since the dawn of time. They also claim that global elites, ancient and modern, have worshiped these reptilian creatures. However, the same evidence these writers use to image alien snake people had previously been used by an earlier era of occult writers as proof of the mystical power of serpent or phallic worship. Ophiolatreia: Serpent Worship explores the myths and lore of snakes, snake gods, and related myths. The author suggests that such mythologies arose not from ancient aliens or lizard-creatures but from the worship of the human phallus as the generative principle. While modern scholars dispute some of the book’s more tenuous claims, the fact that the same evidence could be used to support speculation about phallic worship and prehistoric extraterrestrial contact calls into question any occult claim whose sole evidence is mythological. Ophiolatreia was published anonymously in 1889 and is believed to be the work of Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890), a Rosicrucian writer on occult subjects. This volume is an unabridged reprint of the 1889 edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1481095625
• ISBN 13: 9781481095624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148