Cobra Deities and Divine Cobras: The Ambiguous Animality of Nāgas
In South Asia, cobras are the animals most dangerous to humans—as humans are to cobras. Paradoxically, one threat to cobras is their worship by feeding them milk, which is harmful to them, but religiously prescribed as an act of love and tenderness towards a deity. Across cultural and reli...
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MDPI AG
2019-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/8/454 |