The Rain-Serpents
17 figures A family: figures with traits in common
Where water is the difference between harvest and famine, the serpent that controls it becomes a landlord. The nāga, the horned serpent and Nyami Nyami hold drought and flood in the same coiled body. Their veneration is less worship than diplomacy.
water serpents controlling drought and flood (nāga, horned serpent, nyami nyami, shen)
What binds them
- Weather manipulation · 28 of them
- Telepathic communication · 10 of them
- Spiritual perception · 8 of them
- Multi headed body · 6 of them
- Demands periodic village sacrifice · 4 of them
- Appearance heralds great change · 3 of them
- Giant wingspan · 3 of them
- Healing purifying song · 3 of them
Drawn from 10 groups of traditions: East asian 4 · North american indigenous 3 · South american 2 · None 2 · European 1 · Celtic 1 · Slavic 1 · South asian 1 · Mesoamerican 1 · Middle eastern 1
Members
- Araǵanaqlta'a
- Azhi Dahaka
- Bake-kujira
- Bokkenrijders
- Cat Sìth
- Cherufe
- Dragon Turtle
- Ljubi
- Mbói Tu'ĩ
- Nāga
- Nine-headed Bird
- Rain Bird
- Shen
- Tecumbalam
- Thunderbird
- Yamata no Orochi
- Ziz
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.