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Both have three heads?
Any correlation?
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The first strong parallel to come to mind is the Naga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga
They are principally depicted in three forms: wholly human with snakes on the heads and necks, common serpents, or as half-human half-snake beings.[3] A female naga is a "Nagi", "Nagin", or "Nagini". Nagaraja is seen as the king of ...
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If you are interested in this theme, I strongly suggest you take a look at The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. Just to give you a taste, here's how he begins Chapter XXIV, where he first introduces the theme of "The Mortality of the Gods":
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his ...
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It's Columbia. I can't tell you why she's dressed like that but Columbia was the symbol of the USA until after the Statue of Liberty was completed in the mid 1880s.
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