Category:Horned serpent

**Horned Serpent**
	A mythological serpent told of in Southeastern Native American comminities
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Snakes with horns appear in many Native American cosmologies and religions and are represented frequently in prehistoric North American art. They are particularly known by the names

Tie-Snakes, Estakwvnayv (Muscogee)
Tcinto såktco (Alabama)
Uktena (Cherokee)
Unktehi or Unktehila (Dakota)
Unktehila or Ųȟcéǧila (Lakota)
Misi-kinepikw (Cree)
Msi-kinepikwa (Shawnee)
Misi-ginebig (Oji-Cree)
Mishi-ginebig (Ojibwe)
Pita-skog (Abenaki)
Sinti lapitta (Choctaw)
Olobit (Natchez)
Avanyu (Tewa)

These spirit being is sometimes represented with horns or antlers and sometimes appear with wings when specifically associated with the Draco constellation. Horned or ramhorned snakes also appear in Romano-British and Gallo-Roman mythology and art, usually in combination with gods considered equivalent to Mercury or Mars in Interpretatio Graeca or Romana.

Subcategories

This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

A

Avanyu‎ (4 F)

U

Horned serpent and underwater panther representations‎ (1 C, 9 F)

Media in category "Horned serpent"

The following 34 files are in this category, out of 34 total.

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Cernunnos, Roman relief, Corinium Museum.jpg 2,048 × 1,536; 605 KB
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Citico style gorget Anderson County, Tn HRoe 2012.jpg 410 × 400; 171 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of 4 limbed Khaba dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,178; 345 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of Khaba Nganpa Pakhangba dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,202; 474 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of Khaba serpentine dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,287; 450 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of Khuman serpentine dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,179; 384 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of Luwang dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,231; 430 KB
Classical Meitei illuminated manuscript painting — depicting a “Paphal” of Ningthouja winged dragon — from the “Pakhangba Lambuba”, an Ancient Meetei language text (engraved in traditional Meetei Mayek writing system).jpg 1,080 × 1,215; 417 KB
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Nodena S.E.C.C. ogee pot HRoe 2006.jpg 600 × 494; 299 KB
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