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Sexuality, Femininity, and Death: Snake and its Mythic Image in Sumero-Babylonian, Egyptian, and Ancient Judo-Christian Civilizations Seokwoo Kwon (University of Seoul) Snake symbolized wisdom and immortality in the ancient myths and religions including not only those of Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greco-Roman civilizations but even also some traditions of Judo-Christian one. As the civilizations which revered woman-goddesses receded with the advent of the middle Bronze or Iron Age, the civilizations which venerated snake and moon for their regenerative symbols also waned. Instead of attacking and down-playing snake goddesses as fertility gods for the agricultural civilizations, the hunting and cattle-breeding cultures of the Bronze and Iron Age chose to negate snake and moon, and their anthropomorphic implication, women's corporeality and sexuality. Even if we acknowledge the recession of snake and moon as a historical necessity and a part of civilizational shift, the fact still remains valid that snake was and has been a pre-symbolic iconic animal telling the interchangeability and sameness of death and life. It is therefore a regret that contemporary civilization, especially a Judo-Christian one, has been losing the historical and cultural heritage of snake women and lunar goddesses for their uroboric symbol of death and life.