Snake worship she sold herself to a man named Gonga no Tayu, who (unbeknownst to Sayohime) intended to sacrifice her to the snake deity of his village in place of his own daughter. When presented to the snake, Sayohime read from the Lotus sutra, enabling the deity to achieve enlightenment and shed its monstrous form. The deity then returned Sayohime to the care of her mother. In Australia, various Aboriginal mythologies tell of a huge python, known by a variety of names but universally referred to as the Rainbow Serpent, that was said to have created the landscape, embodied the spirit of
Basilisk: The Serpent King Basilisk: The Serpent King Basilisk:The Serpent King is a 2006 film starring Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Griff Furst, Sarah Skeeters, Stephen Furst, Yancy Butler, Doug Dearth and Bashar Rahal. The movie is about an ancient Basilisk which terrorizes the town of Pueblo Springs, Colorado after it is awakened from its 2,000 year long sleep. In 112 A.D., in what is now Libya, the Basilisk, an ancient monstrous snake reputed to be the king of serpents, attacks a Bedouin leader (Bashar Rahal) and his sons who make their way to the mountains where it lives. When it kills the