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 [[Image:SerpentLodge.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tsi Rekh]], a Davinite Lodge priest and follower of Chaos.{{Fn|2}}]]The '''Serpent Lodge''' was the name given to both a group of suspected [[Chaos]] cultists and their Temple on the planet of [[Davin]]. The Lodge members treated [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] for the crippling injury he received campaigning on Davin's moon, and the Lodge itself is the location where Horus was turned against the [[Emperor]] {{Fn|2a}} as part of an elaborate scheme by the [[Word Bearers]] and [[Ruinous Powers]].{{CME}}

The actual temple building was an octagonal structure, with a bastion and tower built at each corner. A further eight towers surrounded a dome raised in the centre of the structure, each tower tipped with a fire. A single large archway led into the dome and the building itself. The approach to this dome involved climbing a set of massive stone steps that were lined with coal braziers and pillars carved to feature serpents. At the top of the steps was a path that narrowed as it approached the gate that was similarly lined with fires and pillars. However, between the gated archway and the top of the steps was a wide circular pool. This pool generated three narrow watercourses that rushed towards the steps, and in fact continued down it, with one channel on either side and one set in the middle, splitting the staircase. The gate itself consisted of two large doors of beaten and carved bronze. They featured a complex design only fully understandable when the gate was closed. It showed a large tree with spreading and fruit-laden branches. Many minor serpents twisted and spiraled around the edges of the design, but two great snakes coiled around the tree and each other, with their heads entwined together above it. [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Garviel Loken]] of the [[Sons of Horus]] [[Space Marine Legion]] noted that this central image was strikingly similar to that worn by Marine [[Apothecary|Apothecaries]]; the [http[Wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus |caduceus]]. The paving in front of the gate continued the image of the tree by featuring a carving of three great roots that led to the edge of the wide pool. Apparently, once the gates were closed they could only be opened from within.{{Fn|1a}}

[[Image:Davinite Priest.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Davinite Priest{{Fn|2c}}]]The Serpent Lodge existed for many years on [[Davin]]'s moon, worshiping the [[Dark Gods]]. In antiquity before Davin had even been settled by [[Human]]ity a form of the cult worshiped a serpentine deity known as [[Wikipedia:Satan|Seytan]].{{Fn|1}} During the [[Great Crusade]] when the planet was brought into [[Imperial]] compliance by the [[Luna Wolves]] and [[Word Bearers]], the warriors of Davin fought under the banner of the Serpent Lodge, and gained the respect of the [[Legiones Astartes]] for their martial culture and prowess despite their [[Feral World]] status. After the Davin campaign the first [[Warrior Lodge]]s were secretly established by the treacherous Word Bearers throughout the Astartes Legiones in a bid to usurp loyalty to the [[Emperor]]. Unknown to most, the Warrior Lodges were heavily based on the Davinite Serpent Lodge.{{Fn|3}}

60 Sixty years later following the [[Battle of Davin's Moon]] when Warmaster [[Horus]] was injured by the [[Anathame]], the nearby Serpent Lodge was cited by [[Erebus]] as the only way to save the Primarch. In desperation the Luna Wolves agreed to have the Lodge Priests heal Horus, but in truth this was a plot to corrupt him with the powers of Chaos and bring about the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1}} The Chaos plan was successful, and members of the Serpent Lodge were still employed as agents of Horus after his conversion to the Dark Powers.{{Fn|4}}

{{trivia}}The chief deity of the Serpent Lodge "Seytan " is equivalent of likely a reference to '[[Wikipedia:Devil|The Devil]]' in Islamof Abrahamic religions, being [[Wikipedia:Satan|Satan]] and [[Wikipedia:Shaytan|Iblis (Shayṭān ar-Rajīm)]]. In myth, the Devil is a being that acts to tempts humans into evil and falsehood.

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]], :**{{Endn|2a}}: pg. 54**{{Endn|2b}}: pg. 56**{{Endn|2c}}: pg. 57