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THE WISDOM OF THE SERPENT

The Myths of
Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection

THE WISDOM OF
THE SERPENT

The Myths of Death,
Rebirth, and Resurrection

BY

JOSEPH L. HENDERSON
and MAUD OAKES

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Published by Princeton University Press,

41 William Street,

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Original copyright 1963 by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes
This edition 1990 by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes
All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Henderson, Joseph L., 1903
The wisdom of the serpent: the myths of death, rebirth, and
resurrection/by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes.
p.cm.(Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen series in world mythology)
Reprint. Originally published: New York: G. Braziller, 1963.
(Patterns of myth).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-691 02064-7 (alk. paper)

eISBN: 978-0-691-21617-1

1. DeathMythology. 2. DeathReligious aspectsComparative
studies. 3. Regeneration (Theology)Comparative studies.
4. ResurrectionComparative studies. I. Oakes, Maud, 19031990

II. Title. III. Series: Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)

BL504.H4 1990 90-36891

291.23dc20 CIP

R0

To the Memory of
Professor C. G. Jung

LIST OF PLATES

PLATE

Plates 17 follow page 102.

Plates 815 follow page 134.

Plates 1624 follow page 166.

Plates 2532 follow page 198.

LIST OF LINE DRAWINGS

FIGURE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are indebted to the Bollingen Foundation for their collaboration in making available quotations and photographs from their publications, to N. Rambova for the loan of photographs and for her textual advice, and to Giles Healy for making photographic reproductions.

For permission to reprint excerpts from source materials in this volume, the authors wish to thank the following:

George Allen & Unwin Ltd.for selection from The Nine Songs by Arthur Waley; and The Macmillan Company for selections from Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China by Arthur Waley. First published in 1939 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Copyright under the Berne Convention.

Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibblefor selections from their transl, of Florentine Codex by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun.

Basil Blackwell (Oxford, England) for selection from Cumaean Gates by W. F. Jackson-Knight.

Bollingen Foundationfor selections from Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Zimmer; Yoga: Immortality and Freedom by Mircea Eliade; Essays on a Science of Mythology by C. G. Jung and K. Kernyi; The Great Mother by Erich Neumann; The I Ching, or Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm, tr. by Cary F. Baynes; The Malekulan Journey of the Dead by John Layard and Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process by C. G. Jung from Spiritual Disciplines (Eranos Yearbooks, No. 4); The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer; African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin and James Johnson Sweeney; The Road of Life and Death by Paul Radin; Philosophies of India by Heinrich Zimmer; and Joseph Campbell for selections from his The Symbol Without Meaning from the Eranos Jahrbuch XXVI.

Cambridge University Press for The Thunder Rite from Themis by Jane Ellen Harrison.

Clarendon Press, Oxford for selection from Babylonian Epic of Creation by S. Langdon.

Padraic Colum for selections from his Myths of the World.

Doubleday and Company, Inc. for selections from Mythologies of the Ancient World edited by Samuel N. Kramer. Copyright 1961 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission.

ditions Payot, Paris for selections from Le Chamanisme et les techniques archaques de lextase by Mircea Eliade.

Farrar, Straus & Co., Inc. for selection from The Dance of Shiva by Ananda Coomaraswamy. Copyright 1957 by The Noonday Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Co., Inc. and Mrs. Ananda Coomaraswamy.

Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc. for selection from Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, Vol. I.

Harper & Row, Publishersfor selections from Birth and Rebirth by Mircea Eliade; Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Kramer; and The Harvill Press Ltd. for selections from Myths, Dreams and Mysteries by Mircea Eliade.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. for selections from Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists by Nivedita and Coomaraswamy.

The Hokuseido Press Co., Ltd. for selection from Zen in English Literature by R. H. Blyth.

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. for selection from The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus. Reprinted by permission of William Rider & Co.

A. Klasens for selection from A Magical Statue Base in his In The Museum of Antiquities at Leiden.

Oxford University Press for selections from The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, both ed. by W. Y. Evans-Wentz.

Pantheon Books, Inc. for selection from Grimms Fairy Tales. Copyright 1944 by Pantheon Books, Inc. Printed by permission.

Philosophical Library, Inc. for selection from A Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot.

Princeton University Press for selections fromLight From the Ancient Past by Jack Finegan, Copyright 1946 by Princeton University Press; and Ancient Near Eastern Texts by James Pritchard, Copyright 1950, 1955 by Princeton University Press.

G. P. Putnams Sons and Paul Hamlyn Publishers for selection from Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. 1959 Batchworth Press Ltd.

Sheed & Ward, Inc. and the Harvill Press Ltd. for selections from Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade. in the English translation Harvill Press Ltd. 1961, published by Sheed & Ward, Inc., New York.

D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co. Private Ltd. for selection from Epics, Myths and Legends of India by P. Thomas.

Thames and Hudson Ltd. for selections fromGods of the North by Brian Branston; and Gods of the Greeks by Karl Kernyi.

University Books, Inc. and John M. Watkins (London) for selections from Fragments of a Faith Forgotten by G. R. S. Mead.

University of Chicago Press for selections from The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels by Alexander Heidel. Copyright 1946 by the University of Chicago.

University of Oklahoma Press for selections fromThe Aztecs by Alfonso Caso, tr. Lowell Dunham. Copyright 1958 by the University of Oklahoma Press; and The Sacred Pipe, Black Elks Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux by Joseph Epes Brown. Copyright 1953 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Vanguard Press, Inc. for selections fromMyth and Ritual in Christianity

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