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Slaying of dragon as a spiritual struggle (2)

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Fight against the Dragon
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.11 Mythology
12.03.03.11.02 Fight against the Dragon
Snake
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05 Animal/theriomorphic symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05.03 Reptiles and insects
02.05.03.03 Snake

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Christianity
dragons

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Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum vol. 4, 529-530 (Bedjan):
Again, after ten days, as he (= Simeon Stylites) was standing praying by night, he saw the appearance of a dragon. It was fierce, large and fearful, and changed its appearance. It hissed, and whistled violently, and lashed its tail upon the ground, and rattled and made a noise, so that the earth was moved at the sound it made, and there went out from it as it were flames of fire. Out of its nostrils went forth smoke, and its eyes flashed like lightning. Its length too was considerable. But he, the heroic one, was not daunted, but lifted up his eyes and his hands towards his Lord, and turning blew at it as he said, “Our Lord Jesus Christ rebuke you.” And immediately it vanished, and was not.

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Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum vol. 4, 529-530 (Bedjan)

Bibliography

AbouZayd 1993, 173

AbouZayd, Shafiq. Ihidayutha. A Study of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian Orient. From Ignatius of Antioch to Chalcedon 451 A.D.. Oxford: ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 1993.

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