For #WorldSerpentDay: #Manasa, the #Hindu #snake goddess, trio of late 19th/early 20th c. #Indian images:

1. c. 1890, Kalighat
watercolor, graphite, ink, & tin on paper
Cleveland Museum of Art https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.106

2. c.1895, Calcutta (Kolkata)
color lithograph/popular print
British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2003-1022-0-33

3. c. 1920, West Bengal
by Jamini Roy (Indian, 1887–1972)
watercolor painting, gouache on paper
San Diego Museum of Art
https://collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/info/5113

For #WorldSerpentDay: #Quetzalcoatl, the feathered #serpent diety of the #Aztecs, shown here in full zoomorphic form snacking on a human in the #Codex Telleriano-Remensis, c. 1563.
BnF MS Mexicain 385 f. 18r: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f61.item.zoom

t's #WorldSerpentDay so shoutout to the #AncientEgypt primordial #snake god #Nehebkau, and specifically, this depiction that's just a snake w/human legs 😂

1. detail from Book of the Dead of Ani, sheet 27 spell 87
https://britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10470-27

2. detail from wall art in Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tausert and Setnakht (KV 14) https://flic.kr/p/E4vXr