serpent-death

Updated: June 29, 2025

Here bristled aloft black and red cliffs, without any grass, tree, or bird's voice. For it was a valley which all animals avoided, even the beasts of prey, except that a species of ugly, thick, green serpent came here to die when they became old. Therefore the shepherds called this valley: "Serpent-death."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none