http://books.google.com/books?id=_rPPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=snake+worship,+lithuania&source=bl&ots=jyvAtlbLWp&sig=NeAFqoSYuUqgv2l7EoSby0vmzWI&hl=en&ei=42SsTdXFCYrfiAKlx53vDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=snake%20worship%2C%20lithuania&f=false 1869, Edingburgh Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga Nāga ( Sanskrit : नाग , IAST : nāgá , Burmese : နဂါး, IPA:  [nəɡá] ; Javanese : någå , Khmer : នាគ neak , Thai : นาค nak , Chinese : 那伽) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity