The serpent trinity of El, Wodan, and Balder, the mother-father-son, has been repeated in many guises. The emphasis in the serpent trinity was on the mother and son. In Babylon, that major stronghold of the serpent cult, the "son" was Ninus/Tammuz (Balder) and the "mother" was Queen Semiramis (El). The Edda explains how one of the centers for the serpent cult during the conflicts with Thor/Indara was the Van Tribe of Lake Van on the western side of Mount Ararat in Turkey, the