I'm putting this stuff in this blog so I can refer to it later as a springboard of ideas.
"Worship of the Servent" chapter 1: http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/wos/wos04.htm#fr_143
Things to look up and cross source:
HIVITES - Canaanite serpent worshipers (May have influenced story in Second Kings about Nehustan). Mentioned in Genesis chapter 10 in the Table of Nations. Also mentioned in Deuteronomy chapter 7 "the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nation". Also mentioned countless other times especially in Joshua.
Baalim - term for Israelites that secretly praticed Serpent Worship. May term "baalim" is plural form of either Baal or Bel which are both Canaanite gods.
Ophites- Οφῖται - This is just the greek term for a snake worshipper but refers to a couple different specific groups when used in context. Epiphanius uses this term when he describes a sect of Heritical Christian Sect.
""the Ophites sprung out of the Nicolaitans and Gnostics, and were so called from the serpent which they worshipped... The Ophites attribute all wisdom to the serpent of paradise, and say that he was the author of knowledge to men... They keep a live serpent in a chest; and at the time of the mysteries entice him out by placing bread before him upon a table. Opening his door he comes out, and having ascended the table, folds himself about the bread. This they call a perfect sacrifice. They not only break and distribute this among the votaries, but whosoever will, may kiss the serpent. This the wretched people call THE EUCHARIST. They conclude the mysteries by singing an hymn THROUGH HIM to the supreme Father. " Epiph. lib. i. tom. 3. p. 268, &c.
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