Parshvanath saved two of these creatures from a log in a fire, and they were reincarnated as the Yakshas Dharanendra and Padmavati; for this reason, that twenty-third Tirthankara is always depicted with one of them shading his head. Dionysian cults associate these creatures with wisdom and fertility, and Rome required vestal virgins to attend a sacred one. Egyptian temples had a special area reserved where these creatures were kept. For 10 points, name these animals, one of which was constructed out of bronze by Moses, and another of which is "cursed...more than all cattle" and doomed to eat only dust after convincing
Parshvanath saved two of these creatures from a log in a fire, and they were reincarnated as the Yakshas Dharanendra and Padmavati; for this reason, that twenty-third Tirthankara is always depicted with one of them shading his head. Dionysian cults associate these creatures with wisdom and fertility, and Rome required vestal virgins to attend a sacred one. Egyptian temples had a special area reserved where these creatures were kept. For 10 points, name these animals, one of which was constructed out of bronze by Moses, and another of which is "cursed...more than all cattle" and doomed to eat only dust after convincing Eve to eat forbidden fruit.
Parshvanath saved two of these creatures from a log in a fire, and they were reincarnated as the Yakshas Dharanendra and Padmavati; for this reason, that twenty-third Tirthankara is always depicted with one of them shading his head.
{snakes} [accept any equivalents]