The Fall in Egyptian Religion: the Serpent (2)

Lanzone, Ridolfo V., Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, Torino: Litografia Fratelli Doyen, 1881, vol. 1, pl. civ (bet. pp. 432-433), img. 3.

The Fall in Egyptian Religion: the Serpent

Lanzone, Ridolfo V., Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, Torino: Litografia Fratelli Doyen, 1881, vol. 1, pl. civ (bet. pp. 432-433), img. 1.

The Fall in Egyptian Religion: the Woman and the Tree

Lanzone, Ridolfo V., Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, Torino: Litografia Fratelli Doyen, 1881, vol. 1, pl. cli (bet. pp. 432-433), img. 2.

The Fall in Egyptian Religion

Lanzone, Ridolfo V., Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia, Torino: Litografia Fratelli Doyen, 1881, vol. 1, pl. clxxii (bet. pp. 432-433).

The Fall's Curse Upon the Serpent Recorded in Egypt

Across the river from Thebes, in the Valley of the Kings, frescoes in the tomb of Sethos I (Seti) tell a strange story. Snakes on the wall have been painted with legs and scaly feet. They grin menacingly, and the accompanying hieroglyphs indicate an ancient knowledge that snakes were not always without legs. According to the Sethos I inscriptions, "the serpent's forebears possessed feet." [...]

The Sethos I inscriptions connect the snake's ancestors with an evil curse, which was cast upon them for one offense or another when the world was still very young. The nature of the offense is not described, but the punishment is clear: Their legs were taken away, and henceforth they were obliged to crawl upon their bellies.

Pellegrino, Charles, Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists, New York: Random House, 1994, pp. 51-53.

Echos of the Fall at Philae in Egypt?

Taylor, Richard, Te Ika a Maui or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, 2nd ed., London: William Macintosh, 1870, p. 61.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic given of Adam and Eve recently found in the temple of Philæ, represents most clearly our first parents, with the serpent at the base of the tree looking up to Eve. Adam seems to be returning from tilling the garden, with some tool or implement of husbandry in his hand; the fi rst work given him to do when placed in Paradise, was to dress it, and to keep it. This hieroglyphic is therefore singularly faithful, and establishes the fact that the Egyptians were early acquainted with the scriptural narrative, and it is not improbable also with its general outlines, before the time when Moses was inspired to write it, and that it forms a portion of the original tradition handed down to them from the patriarchal times.

Taylor, Richard, Te Ika a Maui or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, 2nd ed., London: William Macintosh, 1870, p. 662.

Alchemy and Egypt

It is significant that the word 'alchemy' ... derives from the Arabic al kimiya, which almost certainly comes, via the Greek chemeia, from the old name for the Nile Delta in Egypt, khem, which means 'black earth': the deeply fertile, life-giving soil, dark silt from the Nile, amidst the arid desert.

Barrett, David V., A Brief History of Secret Societies, Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007, p. 14.