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Date Posted: 02:00:39 10/20/11 Thu
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Post 290 A: The Great Serpent as God.
It is from an Arabic tradition that we get this idea of a serpent as a deceiver. This is the tradition we find in the Judaic Old Testement Bible. This lie has been played out many times. More recently this old lie has been played out in the tales of Harry Potter.
You should notice J.K. Rowling based the idea of Voldemort and and his evil organization of the Nazi party of pre 1945 Germany, which was led by Adolf Hitler. Voldemort's great snake is white. This when every person of the country or rural class knows 98.9% of all snakes are black, brown or green. But, to make the snake black or brown would suggest something else altogether. Voldemort himself is a character who is deathly pale white with almost no nose. As if to be white and have a small or petit nose is a bad thing. It seems perjudice still lives and reigns supreme. It seems it's ok to be prejudice, just as long as you're prejudice against Caucasians!
IN ANCIENT TIMES:
The snake was thought of as the very representative of God. The snake, unlike any other creature with the exception of the scarab beetle (Khepri), would be reborn into a new life, or at least a new skin. The snake was the earliest symbol of what Jesus would much later on come to represent; REBIRTH. Snake skins were found in the burial mounds of Dilmun. They were placed there in hope of the rebirth into a new life for the dead.
The mythological serpent comes in three forms.
(1.)The Dragon, with venom of a fiery quality in Greek it is known as Ladon and is coiled around the tree in garden of the Hesperides protecting the entheogenic golden apples, and in the Norse as Nidhogg Nagar. In Old English: wyrm, Old High Greman: wurm, Old Norse: ormr, also Old English: draca, OHG: trahho, Old Norse: dreki. The Aztec and Toltec serpent god was Quetzalcoatl who also had dragon like wings.
(2.) The Sea serpent, such as the Leviathan or lake creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster.
(3.) The Cosmic serpent, such as the Ourobouros. It forms a ring with its tail in its mouth. It is the symbol of the "All-in-All" ergo infinity, totality and the cyclical nature of the cosmos. Some ancient text refer to the Milky Way as the 'Serpent of Light' that resides in the heavens. In ancient Egypt the self-begetting sun god Atum is said to have ascended from the waters of chaos in the appearance of a great snake. They believed the snake renewed itself every morning. They had hopes of the dead turning into the shape of the snake Sato (son of the earth), the embodiment of Atum.
Jormungandr in Norse mythology is the World or Midgard serpent that encircles the world's ocean abyss biting its own tail and eating from the roots of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, as does Nidhogg Nagar.
Lord Vishnu sleeps while floating on the cosmic waters upon the back of the endless serpent Shesha, in Hindu mythology. In Buddhism there is the great snake king Mucalinda who rose up from beneath the earth when a storm arose, enveloping the Buddha in seven coils for seven days so he would not break his ecstatic state.
In Mayan culture the Vision Serpent is a symbol of rebirth. The serpent is found in the center axis atop the World Tree. It has fueled some cross-Atlantic cultural contexts favored in what some term to be "pseudoarchaeology".
To this end I offer the following. Cihuacoatl (The Lady of the serpent) and Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent) were the father and mother of Quetzatcoatl. If there is some connection between Egypt and South and Central American Indians might Mixcoatl, as in "Mix" and "coat" have anything to do with Joseph of the Coat of Many Colors? It's just a thought.
Also the Norse carved the head of a Dragon for the bow of their long ships. Might the Dragon or Long Dragon have anything to do with something they saw in the sky? Might it have anything to do with a flying craft such as the one described as a pillar covered with fire and smoke that led Moses (Akhenaten) out of Egypt?
From the earliest times ancient peoples have know the properties of a snakes venom could kill or cure. Ophiuchus was the forgotten or slighted thirteenth symbol of the zodiac, the Snake-Handler. Ophiuchus represents the healer Asclepius. Obvious isn't it; she does not represent "traditional medicine" and she bypasses the pockets of the greedy and the corrupt.
Well, that's all I have time for tonight.
End post 290 A: www.voy.com/40560/ teltalheart=Michael D. Barnes
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