Editing Anguiped

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[[File:Telephos with Helios and Selene.jpg|thumb|Coin of [[Indo-Greek]] king [[Telephos Euergetes|Telephos]] displaying an anguipede with limbs ending in lotus blossom (obverse).]]
[[File:Abraxas, Nordisk familjebok.png|right|thumb|An [[abraxas]] stone with one rendering of an anguiped at top.]]
[[File:Vyala Yaksha - Circa 1st Century BCE - ACCN 42-2944 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 6175.JPG|thumb|Indian anguiped, a [[Vyala]] [[Yaksha]].]]
The '''Anguiped''' ([[Latin language|Latin]]: ''angui'', 'snake'; ''ped-'', 'foot') is a kind of divinity that is often found on magical [[amulet]]s from the Greco-Roman period, and is characterized by having serpents for legs.

[[Abraxas]], the most common kind of Anguiped, is depicted as a creature with the head of a [[rooster]] and [[snake]]s for legs, symbolism thought to be of [[Persian Empire|Persian]] origin. Sometimes inscribed below is ''Iao'', a form of the [[Tetragrammaton]] – the four letters used to represent the name of the God of [[Judaism]]. Such amulets, as well as the repeated usage of the name ''Iao'' in magical papyri, curse tablets, gems, and other amulets, provide evidence of syncretic cults combining elements of Judaism with paganism. In the [[Talmud]], people who turned away from Judaism to such cults are referred to as ''[[Heresy in Judaism|minim]]'' – often translated as "[[heresy|heretics]]" or "[[apostate]]s".{{sfnp|Merkelbach|Totti|1990–1992}}{{sfnp|Barrett|2015}}{{sfnp|Nagy|2012}}

In Graeco-Roman art, both [[Typhon]] and the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|giants]] (after around 380 BCE){{sfnp|Gantz|1996|page=453}}<ref>{{harvp|Hanfmann|1992}}, ''[[The Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' s.v. "Giants".</ref><ref>{{harvp|Frazer|1898|pages=315&ndash;316}},  [https://archive.org/stream/pausaniassdescr01pausgoog#page/n336/mode/2up note] to Pausanias 8.29.3 "That the giants have serpents instead of feet".</ref> are often conventionally depicted as anguipeds. A common religious motif in [[Germania|Roman Germany]] and eastern [[Roman Gaul|Gaul]] depicts an equestrian [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] riding down an anguipedal giant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://incipesapereaude.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/jupitergigantensaeulen-eine-gallo-roemische-neuschoepfung/ |title=Jupitergigantensäulen – eine gallo-römische Neuschöpfung |author= Der Römische Weg |date=2015 |language=de}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Snake-Legged Goddess]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{Commons category|Anguipeds}}
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*{{cite web|last1=Barrett |first1=Caitlín E. |date=2015 |title=Plaster Perspectives on 'Magical Gems': Rethinking the Meaning of 'Magic' |url=https://antiquities.library.cornell.edu/gems/plaster-perspectives-on-magical-gems |website=Cornell Collection of Antiquities |publisher=[[Cornell University Library]] |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526164252/https://antiquities.library.cornell.edu/gems/plaster-perspectives-on-magical-gems |archive-date=2015-05-26 }} by [[Internet Archive]] on 26 May 2015.
* {{cite book|author-link= James George Frazer |last=Frazer |first= J. G. |date= 1898 |title= Pausanias's Description of Greece. Translated with a Commentary by J. G. Frazer |volume= IV |series= Commentary on Books VI-VIII |publisher= Macmillan |url= https://archive.org/stream/pausaniassdescr01pausgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |via= Internet Archive }}
* {{cite book|last=Gantz |first= Timothy |title= Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources |publisher= [[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |date= 1996 }} Two volumes: {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5360-9}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5362-3}} (Vol. 2).
* {{cite dictionary |author-link= George M.A. Hanfmann |first= George M. A. |last= Hanfmann |date= 1992 |title= Giants |dictionary= [[The Oxford Classical Dictionary]] |edition= second |editor1-link= N. G. L. Hammond |editor1= N. G. L. Hammond |editor2= Howard Hayes Scullard |editor2-link= Howard Hayes Scullard |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]] |isbn= 0-19-869117-3 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald00hamm }}
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Merkelbach |editor1-first=Reinhold |editor2-last=Totti |editor2-first=Maria |title=Abrasax: Ausgewählte Papyri Religiösen und Magischen Inhalts |language=German |year=1990–1992 |publisher=Westdeutscher Verlag }}
*{{cite book|last1=Nagy|first1=Á.M |editor1-last=Csepregi|editor1-first=Ildikó |editor2-last=Burnett |editor2-first=Charles |title=Ritual healing: magic, ritual, and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period|date=2012 |publisher=SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo|location=Firenze|isbn=9788884504432|chapter=Daktylios pharmakites. Magical Healing Gems and Rings in the Graeco-Roman World }}
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