Python Mercurius #illustration from the anonymous "Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium", Rhineland, ca 1760.

This image is a hand-painted copy of a woodcut from the book "Three Dreams on the Transmutation of Metals," printed in 1599 — an allegorical narrative by the alchemist Giovanni Battista Nazari.

Read what this ungainly, fleet-footed creature has to say to Nazari's hero on Adam McLean's website
https://www.alchemywebsite.com/Alchemical_Symbolism_Triple_headed_snakes.html

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