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unusual facts about Elaith "The Serpent" Craulnober


Torgny Lindgren

The novel is considered to be one of Lindgren's greatest works, and was made into a film by Bo Widerberg in 1986.


Elaine Cunningham

Amongst Elaine's most popular characters are the half-elf Arilyn Moonblade, the bard Danilo Thann, the quirky drow wizard Liriel Baenre, her companion the Rashemi berserker Fyodor, and Elaith "The Serpent" Craulnober (created by Ed Greenwood).

Still Remains

They released two studio albums, Of Love and Lunacy and The Serpent, both to positive reviews, and had minor UK chart success with the single "Dancing with the Enemy".


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Asmodeus

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads (one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.

Betor

At the end of the fifteenth century, a poem in praise of the serpent-goddess written by Bipradas Pipilai gives us the first authentic glimpse of the area.

Bhoja II

One of Singhana's inscriptions speaks of him as having been "a very Garuda in putting to flight the serpent which was the mighty king Bhoja, whose habitation was Panhala (Pannala-nilara-prabala-Bhojabhnpala-vyala-vidravana-Vihatngaraja).

Bob Clay

He has involved himself in a number of local causes including a group opposed to the building of a by-pass which would disturb ancient archaeological remains known as The Dinedor Serpent.

Byatis

Byatis, the serpent-bearded, the god of forgetfulness, came with the Great Old Ones from the stars, called by obeisances made to his image, which was brought by the Deep Ones to Earth.

Cave Temples of Mahabalipuram

At the other end of the hall, opposite to the Durga panel, the scene carved is of Vishnu in a reclining posture on the bed of Ananta multi-hooded serpent.

Christopher Kenworthy

He is the author of two novels, The Winter Inside and The Quality of Light for Serpent's Tail, along with a short story collection, Will You Hold Me? and the chapbook Sullom Hill.

Cleopatra the Alchemist

An example is the serpent eating its own tail as a symbol of the eternal return, Ouroboros; and another is the eight-banded star.

Congo Serpent Eagle

The Congo Serpent Eagle was first described in 1863 by Hermann Schlegel as Astur spectabilis from a specimen collected near Elmina, Ghana.

Cowboy Who?

This show has Mack co-hosting with a beleaguered young woman named Tara and a red serpent puppet named Billsy Bubb.

Culture of Kerala

Sarpa Kavu (meaning Sacred Grove of the Serpent) is a typically small traditional grove of trees seen in the Kerala state of South India.

Defanging the snake

In fact some Holy Books for example the Book of Mormon demonstrate defanging the serpent intertwined with certain religious ideas.

Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter features the Doubloon Lagoon 225,000 gallon swimming pool which has a sea-serpent themed water slide named Scales that is jockeyed by King Neptune.

Dragonslayers

Similar in many ways is the story of the famous viking Ragnar Loðbrók killing a giant serpent (rather than a dragon), thereby saving Þóra borgarhjörtr whom he later married.

Eve, the Serpent and Death

Eve, the Serpent and Death (or Eve, the Serpent, and Adam as Death) is a painting by the German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung, housed in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

FX-05 Xiuhcoatl

The FX-05 "Xiuhcoatl" (FX-05 "Fire Snake", literally "Turquoise-Serpent" in Classical Nahuatl) is a Mexican assault rifle, designed and built by the Dirección General de Industria Militar del Ejército (Directorate General of the Army Military Industry).

Georg Gänswein

On the sinister side of Archbishop Gänswein's chivalric coat of arms is the draconian serpent that heraldically symbolises the Devil being slain by his patron, Saint George – and, in this instance, has been viewed as a symbol of his duty to protect the Pope.

Haietlik

A mythical water serpent of the Nootka, the name Haietlik means Lightning Snake.

Hajir Darioush

His first film "Sacred Arena -- گود مقدس", in 1963, was a documentary about the traditional Persian gymnasium. His second film "Serpent's Skin -- جلد مار", made in 1964 was based on D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi.

Hernán Cortés

In his letters to King Charles, Cortés claimed to have learned at this point that he was considered by the Aztecs to be either an emissary of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl or Quetzalcoatl himself – a belief which has been contested by a few modern historians.

Invidia

Cesare Ripa's influential Iconologia (Rome, 1603) represented Invidia with a serpent coiled round her breast and biting her heart, "to signify her self-devouring bitterness; she also raises one hand to her mouth to show she cares only for herself".

Ira Silverberg

Silverberg contributed the Serpent's Tail/High Risk Archives to the Fales Library of NYU.

Silverberg worked as a literary agent at Donadio & Ashworth, as Editor-in-Chief at Grove/Atlantic Press, and as editorial and publishing director at Serpent's Tail's U.S. projects, High Risk Books and Midnight Classics.

Jaculus

One of the units available in the 1999 turn-based strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic III from Fortress towns is the Jaculus-like Serpent Fly and its upgraded Dragon Fly form.

Kabi Lungchok

Kabi Lungchok region is also home to several species of birds such as: the Pariahkite, Crested Serpent eagle, shahhen falcon, Rufous-necked Hornbill, Aceros nipalensis, Chestnut-breasted Partridge, Black-breasted Parrotbill, Grey-crowned Prinia, Ward’s Trogon.

Lagarfljót

As in the Scottish lake Loch Ness, a cryptid serpent, called Lagarfljótsormurinn by locals, is believed by some to live in the depths of Lagarfljót.

Marchosias

In the Ars Goetia, the first book of The Lesser Key of Solomon (17th century), he is depicted as a wolf with gryphon's wings and a serpent's tail, spewing fire from his mouth, but at the request of the magician he may take the form of a man.

Marrese Crump

Marrese Crump first project in movies was a G.I. Joe fan film called "Battle for the Serpent Stone", serving as the action coordinator.

Miles Coolidge

In 2002 he was commissioned by the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York to design a billboard for the park's entrance, titled The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio.

Phnom Kulen

Carvings include a stone representation of the Hindu god Vishnu lying on his serpent Ananta, with his wife Lakshmi at his feet.

Pierre Nord

This novel was adapted into a film Le Serpent (Night Flight from Moscow) 1973 starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda and Dirk Bogarde.

Quiabelagayo

John Paddock deconstructs the name Quiabelagayo as composed of the Zapotec word-stems for "rock", "serpent", and "five".

Rafael Reig

His novels are Guapa de cara (A Pretty Face) and Blood on the Saddle (2006 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger), both translated into English (Serpent's Tail).

Samuel Friedrich Brenz

He was converted to Christianity in 1601 in Feuchtwangen, and wrote Jüdischer Abgestreifter Schlangenbalg (The Jewish Serpent's Skin Stripped), in which he bitterly attacked his former coreligionists, whom he accused of hating "the most pious and innocent Jew, Jesus Christ," and in which he denounced their religious literature.

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Seed of the serpent

Serpent seed, doctrine of William Branham and others that Eve mated with the serpent in Eden

Senufo Bird

According to Senufo belief, the Hornbill, along with the tortoise, the crocodile, the chameleon, and the serpent - was one of the first living creatures.

Serpent Nunatak

Descriptively named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 because of the nunataks shape, the reverse letter S supposedly resembles a Serpent.

Serpent's Reach

#*Faster-than-light space travel is not invented in Cherryh's timeline until 2234, making colonization of the remote Hydri reach by anyone unlikely prior to that date.

Serpent's Tail

The imprint is known for publishing debuts - notables include Colm Toibin's The South, Michel Houellebecq's Whatever and David Peace's Nineteen Seventy-Four.

From 1993 to 1997, Serpent's Tail had a New York firm called High Risk Books under Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder.

Sethianism

By way of this he attempts to rape Eve who now contains Sophia's divine power; several texts depict him as failing when Sophia's spirit transplants itself into the Tree of Knowledge; thereafter, the pair are 'tempted' by the serpent, and eat of the forbidden fruit, thereby once more regaining the power that the demiurge had stolen.

Shakthan Thampuran Palace

The Sakthan Thampuran palace also has a very ancient Serpent Grove, which is a place for worshipping the serpents.

St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb

In the central panel is a picture by Maurice Greiffenhagen (a friend and colleague of Anning Bell at the Glasgow School of Art, and a fellow Royal Academician) of St John holding a chalice from which is emerging a serpent.

Tamiel

Tamiel taught "the children of men all of the wicked strikes of spirits, the strikes of demons, and the strikes of the embryo in the womb so that it may pass away (abortion), and the strikes of the soul, the bites of the serpent, and the strikes which befall through the noontide heat, which is called the son of the serpent named Taba'et (meaning male)" during the days of Noah, not the days of Jared.

Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan

The outside edges of each level are decorated with feathered serpent heads alternating with those of another snake-like creature, often identified as Tlaloc.

Úlfr Uggason

Three myths are described in the twelve stanzas and half-stanzas of Úlfr's Húsdrápa: Baldr's funeral, Thor fishing for Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent, and Heimdall's fight with Loki for the Brísingamen.

World Elephant

Mahapadma also appears as the name of a treasure-guarding naga (serpent, dragon) in Harivamsa and Vishnu Purana.

Xochicalco

The Temple of the Feathered Serpent was restored by Mexican archaeologist Leopoldo Batres in 1910.