...insistent, perhaps hopeful, assumption that the serpent must have been regarded as a phallic symbol, it appears to have been primarily revered as a female...counsel rather than fertility and growth as is so often suggested. The Goddess Nidaba, the scribe of the Sumerian heaven, the Learned One of the Holy Chambers,...

...insistent, perhaps hopeful, assumption that the serpent must have been regarded as a phallic symbol, it appears to have been primarily revered as a female...counsel rather than fertility and growth as is so often suggested." Statues and reliefs of the ancient goddesses often display serpents in the background or...

...'serpent kings' guard both the waters of immortality and the treasures of the earth." 62 While many male anthropologist and archaeologist argue that the...and Middle East and generally linked to wisdom and 61 Mackenzie, Donald A. Ancient Man in Britain. London: Senate 1996, 188-189. A reprint of the 1922...