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.
ARTH Courses | ARTH 200 Assignments. From Snake Goddess to Medusa. One of the most intriguing archaeological finds in the remains of the Minoan palace at Knossos was the figure above which has been traditionally identified as the Snake Goddess.. Minoan culture flourished in the middle of the second millenium BCE. comparison of one of the large number of representations of the story of Perseus Medusa from Archaic Greek art to the Minoan Snake Goddess illustrates the profound change that occurred with the supremacy of the Olympian Gods. A striking aspect of the Snake Goddess is her frontality combined with her hypnotic stare.