Glycon, The Snake God.

Glycon, The Snake God.

"Glycon protect us from the plague-cloud" Glycon was a snake god, according to the satirist Lucian, who provides the only literary reference to the deity.

Lucian claimed Glycon was created in the mid-2nd century by the Greek prophet Alexander of Abonutichus. Lucian was ill-disposed toward the cult, calling Alexander a false-prophet and accusing the whole enterprise of being a hoax: Glycon himself was supposedly a hand puppet.

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