The Devil and the Beast of Revelation is called “the serpent or viper” in the Scriptures, and “worm” was constantly used for “serpent” by many of the ancient Italian writers. In Inferno, Dante calls the Devil “the great worm.”“They shall move out of their holes like worms of ...
as we are now so acutely aware, is entwined with the symbolism of snakes not just as a direct relation to the Norse myths of Yggdrassil, with its gnawing serpent but ultimately as symbols of the religious power