Other outlets

Some commercial ventures have curiously embraced the Glycon label:

We have tablets sourced at the Overseas Foreign Pharmacy.



UK builders.

And an innovator in the design and manufacturing of screws, barrels, non-return valves and other meltstream solutions for injection molding, extrusion and blowmolding.

Coins, banknotes and stamps

The History entry notes the "corroboration of certain coins". There are several of these and the prettiest image was sourced here, where the alternate Glykon is used.

The banknote is from Romania and dated 1994 and found here.

Romania also produced a stamp in 1974 and another in 1994. Both found on eBay. 

The best cartoon, so far

A beauty, found here.

The History

Echoed from here. 


Alexander of Abonoteichus the false Prophet with Glycon the human snake oracle with whom Alexander preached in the second century AD.


Fortean Times piece.


and from Wikipedia


Alexander of Abonoteichus (c.105 - c.170 CE), also called Alexander the Paphlagonian, or the false prophet Alexander, was a Greek mystic and oracle, and the founder of the Glycon cult that briefly achieved wide popularity in the Roman world. The contemporary writer Lucian reports that he was an utter fraud - the god Glycon was supposedly constructed out of a glove puppet. The vivid narrative of his career given by Lucian might be taken as fictitious but for the corroboration of certain coins of the emperors Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius and of a statue of Alexander, said by Athenagoras to have stood in the forum of Parium.

Glycon, intro

I hadn't heard of Glycon before today, and when I did, I thought It was the invention of Alan Moore, who gave an alternative thought for the day on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, guest edited by Stewart Lee.

Here's a link to the piece, though I expect it will disappear in a week.

Only later did I realise that Glycon was a "real" "god", and one worth rummaging around for ephemera.

Here's the Wikipedia entry. The postcard is from eBay.

More to follow.