Sentence examples for sacred snakes from inspiring English sources

"They are sacred snakes".

It's full of installation tales, like the time he camped in a Japanese temple while working on a piece and was warned by his host about the poisonous but sacred snakes that lurked there.

Much has been discovered: sections of the temple and its several layers dating back to the early 14th Century, palace rooms and their built-in baths, the House of the Eagle Warriors, a school for priests and wonderful writhing sculptures of sacred snakes and serpents.

Hindus revere it as a sacred tree because the petals of the flower resemble the hood of the Naga, a sacred snake, protecting a Shiva Lingam, the stigma.

Predation on adult frogs has been recorded for the red-bellied black snake, tiger snake, laughing kookaburra, and sacred kingfisher; wading birds and other snakes, such as the green tree snake and the copperhead snake, are also believed to be predators of the frog.

Chicks may become victims of cats as well as of birds, such as the kelp gull (Larus dominicanus) and sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus), snakes, and rats.

The $3.8 billion project would snake across sacred land and burial sites that are treasured by the Standing Rock Sioux.

They claim the $3.8 billion project would snake across their sacred lands and burial sites, and could pose a threat to the water supply that serves the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which lies just south of the pipeline's proposed route. .

Other depictions of snakes include use as a sacred thread (IAST: ) wrapped around the stomach as a belt, held in a hand, coiled at the ankles, or as a throne.

I felt a click of my psyche reconnecting, the snake chomping down on its sacred tail.

There used to be a sacred tree that was said to be guarded by a giant snake, and a bulldozer capsized when trying to pull it down.