European spirituality

"To inscribe the name of the dead upon the tomb was forbidden, unless it was the name of a man who had fallen in war, OR THE NAME OF A WOMAN WHO HAD DIED IN SACRED OFFICE." — Plutarch on the Spartans

The snake is Judaism; Christianity & Islam are the two heads of the snake

When a messenger came from Crete bringing the news of the death of Acrotatus, the Spartan woman Gyrtias replied: “When he met the enemy, was he not bound either to be slain by them or to slay them? It is more PLEASING TO HEAR THAT HE DIED IN A MANNER WORTHY OF MYSELF, his country, and his ancestors than if he had lived for all time a coward." — Plutarch, in his “Sayings of the Spartan Women”