Glycon, also spelled Glykon (Ancient Greek: Γλύκων Glýkōn, gen: Γλύκωνος Glýkōnos), was an ancient snake god. He had a large and influential cult within...
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Glycon of Croton was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 48th Olympiad (588 BC). He was the...
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Alexander of Abonoteichus (category Glycon cult)
105 – c. 170 CE), was a Greek mystic and oracle, and the founder of the Glycon cult that briefly achieved wide popularity in the Roman world. The contemporary...
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Behenic acid (redirect from Glycon B-70)
Docosanoic acid; 1-Docosanoic acid; n-Docosanoic acid, n-Docosanoate, Glycon B-70, Hydrofol Acid 560, Hydrofol 2022-55, Hystrene 5522, Hystrene 9022...
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Lydia Bailey as a Haitian leader. He followed that with a prominent role as Glycon, comrade and fellow gladiator to Victor Mature in the 1954 film Demetrius...
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Marcus Aurelius (category Glycon cult)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs au̯ˈreːliʊs antoːˈniːnʊs]; English: /ɔːˈriːliəs/ or-EE-lee-əs; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor...
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century AD the controversial miracle-worker Alexander claimed that his god Glycon, a snake with a "head of linen" was an incarnation of Asclepius. The Greek...
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destructive war Epidotes (Ἐπιδώτης), a divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon Glycon (Γλύκων), a snake god Harpocrates (Ἁρποκράτης), god of silence Hebe (Ήβη)...
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half snake. Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology. Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man. The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology...
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Lucian (category Glycon cult)
prophet of the serpent-god Glycon. Though the account is satirical in tone, it seems to be a largely accurate report of the Glycon cult and many of Lucian's...
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