animalCobraBeings · NatureCobra as an animal people have named and used. Raised hood, warning, sacred venom — one living kind, not a single symbol.Egyptian religionCobra appears in Egyptian religion.The Book of the Dead seats the rearing cobra among protective brow-marks of the solar and royal dead. A named cobra animal in that corpus, not uraeus as the emblem-object already walked and not a generic serpent dump.from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesBook of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.