Moon gods were often associated with snakes in Semitic cultures, as the Minaean god, Wadd, whose sacred animal was the snake as was YHWH who was represented by the nehushtan or snake coiled around a pole. Also of interest is the Egyptian moon god Iah, who became associated with YHWH. A...
The Egyptian god, iaH, was a moon god and the proto-Judeans worshipped a serpent god as is indicated by their spelling of this god’s name as a snake’s head with a protruding forked tongue as well as the many depictions of this god as a horned viper. (The image of a viper spew...
the long tradition of Yhwh as a smoke snorting, fire breathing storm god whose image was a celestial serpent is a consistent theme which does show up in Genesis in the name Nahor as well as in the god and city of Nahor. In addition, according to Chron 4...
the nehushtan (copper serpent wound around a pole – Numbers 21:9) but without the copulating partner. This god was often depicted as a man with serpent heads protruding from his shoulders or as a snake with a human head, which explains why the GOE snake could talk...