[iStockphoto] It started like a joke when the apparition of a giant serpent slithering out of Lake Victoria revealed itself to Onyango Donde. Mumbo, for that, is what the serpent's name pronounced.

The giant serpent was identified as a Vasuki indicus, a madtsoiid genus that dates back 47 million years and is almost double the average size of pythons and other similar snakes, CBS News reports.

Remembrance of Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy, hewn into the Erdtree. Rykard took the form of a giant serpent that he might devour, grow, and live eternally. "I understand. The road of blasphemy is ...