By that time, Rabbi El’azar remembered, and he said: ‘Surely you are the son of Rabbi Hamnuna the Elder!’
They rejoiced over him, and they said: ‘Certainly, if you were in this world, we would be descending from our horses, and we ourselves would be donkeying after your cattle.’
He said to them: ‘That snake, against whom you are fighting a war, how did you escape from it? For it swallows and kills, and not only that, but, it killed the first human, and all generations that came after him.
And the daughter is upon the tower that hovers in the air, and they announce, every day, in the firmament, that whoever kills the snake, shall be given to him for a wife: (Ps. 45:14)... the daughter of the king, inside, her garment is of settings of gold.