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As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

The Year of the Snake began on Jan. 29, marking the start of the Lunar New Year and the end of the Year of the Dragon Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment.

Snakes in Chinese mythology aren't seen as manifestations of wickedness or evil as they are in Western culture. But while people born in the year of the snake are seen as charismatic, intelligent ...

Singapore: Welcome to the Year of the Snake. This week we saw the peak of the Lunar New Year travel rush across China, the world’s largest annual mass movement of people, as millions criss ...

(Xinhua/Xue Chen) In early Chinese mythologies, snakes are depicted as divine beings and worshiped as totems. Fuxi and Nuwa, mythological figures said to be the progenitors of the Chinese people ...

Protection and performance In Hindu mythology snakes ... and the cyclical patterns of nature. The Hopi people, for instance, perform the Snake Dance to pray for rain and agricultural prosperity.

In Chinese mythology, I learned that the creators ... The snake is also known as the “little dragon” in Chinese culture and “snake people” in the Chinese zodiac are known to be charming ...