Manasa, goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and general prosperity.
Echidna, (Greek: “Snake”) monster of Greek mythology, half woman, half serpent. Her parents were either the sea deities Phorcys and Ceto (according to Hesiod's Theogony) or Tartarus and Gaia (in the account of the mythographer Apollodorus); in Hesiod, Tartarus and Gaia are the parents of Echidna's husband, Typhon.
Snakes have been associated with Hecate, the Greek goddess of magic and the lower world.
The king, empress and palace servants could do nothing. They were only silent and felt a deep sadness, because the princess had transformed into a snake. Turning the princess into a snake because of her own actions. She disobeyed a command from her father to take good care of himself.
In Greek mythology, Echidna (/ɪˈkɪdnə/; Greek: Ἔχιδνα, "She-Viper") was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster Typhon and was the mother of many of the most famous monsters of Greek myth.
Mami Wata is a water spirit or class of spirits associated with fertility and healing, usually depicted as a woman holding a large snake or with the lower body of a serpent or fish. She is worshipped in West, Central, and Southern Africa and the African diaspora.
Graves, as did the ancient Greeks, associated snakes with death and destruction. Athena has been depicted with snakes near her and with snake haired Medusa's head upon her shield. This symbolically was to enforce Athena's power of victory through death and destruction of the enemy.
Janguli is a Buddhist goddess who protects from snakes and poisons, worshiped in the ancient past by the shamanic tribes in Northern India. Her Sanskrit name means “subjugator of snakes.” In Tibet she is known as Dugselma – “remover of poison.”
In the most famous Greek myths, the Gorgons were three sisters with coiling snakes for hair, who could turn unwitting onlookers to stone in an instant. Their names were Stheno, meaning the mighty or strong, Euryale, meaning the Far Springer, and Medusa, the Queen, or Guardian.
In Greek mythology, Medusa (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα, romanized: Médousa, lit. 'guardian, protectress'), also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. Those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone.
Athena's very early role as a fertility goddess (possibly replacing an earlier fertility goddess) was probably the source of her association with snakes and thus with the birth of Erichthonios. Hephaestus, in his pursuit of Athena, spilled his semen upon the earth where Athens was being ruled by the early king Kekrops.
In the Orphic myths, the maiden goddess Persephone was seduced by Zeus in the guise of a serpent.
It tells the story of Atheris (Susan Travers), a young woman who has the power to transform from human to cobra, and the Scotland Yard detective (John McCarthy) sent to investigate a series of deaths, unusual because all the victims died after being bitten by snakes that are not native to the UK.
Akane Sawatari ( 沢 さわ 渡 たり アカネ, Sawatari Akane?) was a former civilian devil hunter working with the Gun Devil. She also had a contract with the Snake Devil. She is the secondary antagonist of the Katana Man arc.
Snake Princess (Hebihime-sama)
Xiao-Bai, or Blanca in the English dub, is a white snake demon, Snake Mother's apprentice and the older sister of Xiao-Qing. As one of the best students of Snake Mother, Xiao-Bai was sent to assassinate the General who was using snake souls to boost his magic.
Nicknames: Athy, Attie, Ena, Thena, Thene.
In overemphasizing the fact that Evans created the Snake Goddess when there were many snake charmers in Europe, Lapatin writes “when Evans produced the Minoan Snake Goddess, Europe was ready to receive her” (p. 82).
In 1903, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating at the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, discovered fragments of faience statuettes depicting female figures holding snakes.
Poseidon was enamored by Medusa's beauty, and Medusa returned the same feelings. Medusa and Poseidon engaged in a love affair and would have two children together, but not before Athena discovered the illicit affair.
Amphitrite, in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 (or 100) daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos.
About Medusa's Sisters
Even before they were transformed into Gorgons, Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were unique among their immortal family.
Nehebkau is the “original snake” of Egyptian mythology, and was believed to be both an ancient and eternal god. Although he is occasionally represented as a son of Serket, Renenutet or Geb, he is sometimes believed to have simply "emerged from the earth".