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snake god

n. a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies [syn: zombi, zombie]

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According to legend, the snake god lived in the Tree of the Thousand Wisdoms, but when he entered the world of men, he took the shape of a man and called himself Patanjali.

Perhaps the old sorcerer had a special covenant with the Snake God that made him immune from the bite of a snake.

George Brownlow knew that he would not be allowed to rest, that the snake god had ordered him to go out into the garden and dig, had endowed him with a strength beyond that of the average man of fifty-two, would spare him the perils of pushing his body beyond its limits.