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A winged serpent from classical Greek and Gnostic traditions. It is especially associated with bringing good luck, and offerings of wine were made to this being to ensure good harvest of the vines. In later Greek tradition, small temples were set up to the Agathodemon, which at this point was now seen as a snake. In some Gnostic sources, Agathodemon is sometimes shown as Aion, the bearer of the zodiac of time, with a lion’s head and man’s body.