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?