>Alexander the Great's mother, Olympias, was an ardent participant in the orgies honoring Sabazius. This gave rise to the legend that Zeus himself, in the form of a serpent, had intercourse with Olympias and that Alexander was the fruit of this relationship. There was even a story that King Philip lost an eye for spying through a keyhole as the deity, in the form of a serpent, reclined with his wife.
>The fusion of Sabazius with other Eastern deities—Syrian, Persian, and even the Jewish Sabaoth—belongs to the first centuries of Christianity, although the origins of this fusion date back to the second century BCE: in 139 CE, Jews were expelled from Rome for proselytizing among Roman citizens under a law condemning to exile those who spread the worship of Jupiter-Sabazius. Blavatsky also identified Dionysus-Sabazius and Jehovah-Sabaoth
>Longma. As he was looking at the Ho [Yellow River], a tall man, with a white face and fish's body, came out and said, 'I am the spirit of the Ho.' He then called Yu, and said, 'Wan-ming [Yu] shall regulate the waters.' Having so spoken, he gave Yu a chart of the Ho, containing all about the regulating of the waters; and returned into the deep.
>Shennong's mother, Nüden, conceived him after seeing a dragon. Shennong had the body of a snake and the face of a human. According to other versions of the myth, he had the head of an ox and the nose of a tiger. His body was green, like the color of grass.