Union Civil War Flags. Between 1861 and 1865 the United States was engulfed in Civil War. The Union fought to keep the country together and defeat the secessionist Confederate States. In the process, the abhorrent practice of slavery was abolished and the United States as we know it today began to take shape.
1 The Indian snake goddess Manasa, literally meaning of the mind, or conceived in the mind, or power of the mind is the tutelary deity of snakes and fertility, worshipped mainly in Bengal an the eastern parts of India.2  Diktynna, aka the Cretan Mistress of the Wild, is a possible identification.vans tentatively linked the snake goddess with the Egyptian snake goddess Wadjet but did not pursue this connection. Statuettes similar to the snake goddess identified as priest of Wadjud and magician were found in Egypt.
Minoan Goddess with Snakes. The faience figurine identified as Snake Goddess was discovered in 1903 by Arthur Evans in the Temple Repositories of the Knossos palace in the island of Crete in Greece.Photo of the original idol (1600 BC), actually exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete, in Greece.he fertility symbol, often mentioned as well as Mother Goddess, is a symbol that is common in many prehistoric, stone age religions. This belief of Mother Goddess, suppressed by Christianity, emerges again in the 18th century.