serpent worship
/ˈsɜrpənt ˌwɜrʃɪp/
noun
- The religious or spiritual veneration of snakes.
- Ancient cultures often practiced serpent-worship as a way to honor fertility and the earth.
- Some historians believe serpent-worship was common in Minoan civilization.
- The temple ruins showed clear evidence of serpent-worship, with carvings of coiled snakes everywhere.
- Figuratively, an excessive or irrational admiration for something dangerous or deceptive.
- His blind loyalty to the corrupt leader was a form of serpent-worship, ignoring all the harm he caused.
- She called the company's obsession with risky investments a kind of financial serpent-worship.
- The public's fascination with the scandalous celebrity felt like a modern serpent-worship.