Interesting, I had never heard of this deity before. It makes me wonder what the trigger was for Christianity to incorporate some pagan religious practices vs the sort of demonization that it seems to have gone with for snakes. Maybe it was just to bring in new worshippers into the fold, thus this would’ve already been a largely Roman religion in the first place, so it wasn’t necessary to try to “win” them over. Is it pronounced exactly how my American mind is seeing it “Gly-kon” or would they have said it differently?
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There's at least one modern day adherent:
Alan Moore, the English comic book writer and occultist, describes himself as a ceremonial magician and devotee of Glycon. Moore states he prefers the belief in a probable hoax deity "because [he is] not likely to start believing that glove puppet created the universe or anything dangerous like that."[