Fiery flying serpent

The fiery flying serpent is a creature mentioned in the Book of Isaiah (30:6).

Isaiah

References to "fiery serpents" lacking a mention of flight can be found in several places in the Hebrew Bible.

Book of Mormon

Herodotus

In the History of Herodotus, Book 2, Herodotus describes flying winged serpents.

Cicero

In Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods Book 1 XXXVI, Cotta describes how the Egyptian ibis was deified because it "protects Egypt from plague, by killing and eating the flying serpents that are brought from the Libyan desert..."

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