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SERPENT description.......

01 In Egypt the eye of God was turned into a cobra and became the crown (the Uraeus).

02 Lilith was associated with the serpent on the Tree of Knowledge. See ‘Snake’.

03 The predominant sculptural motif on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl is a series of serpent heads protruding out of the blocks and lining the sides of the central stairway. The serpent’s necks are ringed with an elaborate plume of feathers (symbol of Quetzalcoatl).

04 The cosmic serpent Yurlunggur (associated with the rainbow) was responsible for the deluge.

05 Amphisbaena: a fabulous venomous serpent with a head at each end and able to move in either direction.

06 Basilisk: fabulous KI of serpents that is able to ‘look anyone dead on whom it fixes its eyes’.

07 Hygeia (daughter of Aesculapius): her symbol is a serpent drinking from a cup placed in her hand.

08 In the Qabalah, the 13th Pathway relates to the hidden mystical Sephirah Daath whose Order of Angels is Serpents and signifies abstract knowledge or supreme wisdom. The ‘Nameless’ Day is symbolized by the emerging head of the Serpent in Druidic cosmology.

09 Serpens (the sky constellation) means ‘serpent’. The Eagle Nebula (M016) is a giant star-forming region located in Serpens. M016 is a star- cluster and the nebula is half a degree in size and actually resembles the bird with outstretched wings. The HST has revealed towering pillars of gas stretching for more than a light-year in length in this area, which look like ‘elephant trunks’. Evaporating Gas Globules (EGGs) are larger than our solar system! These EGGs contain prototype stars. The brightest globular cluster in the sky, M005, is located in Serpens Caput and is easy to see in binoculars as a fuzzy 6th magnitude star-like object. A spiral galaxy, NGC-5921, lies one degree east of M005.

10 Staff of Asclepius: staff with a serpent coiled around it. When shown inside a bowl it indicates a pharmacist.

11 Brazen Serpent: Numbers 21:4. John 3:14, symbol of the Crucified.

12 Breath (Bible): symbol of the Creator and connected with the kundalini serpent.

13 Echidna: a woman whose lower body is a serpent (Greek mythology) who bore Cerberus, Scylla, the Chimera and the Sphinx.

14 The symbol of the Glass and Serpent has been associated with pharmacists. The serpent, because it sheds its skin, is a symbol of rejuvenation. The serpent drinks from the chalice of life.


SNAKE description.......

01 Greek: the embodiment of a dead hero or chthonic god. Snakes and metals are chthonic symbols.

02 In Sparta and other places relief’s show heroes seated on thrones and over their heads a snake.

03 Janguli (India): serpent-goddess who wears an ear ornament of a coiled cobra in each ear and a snake necklace. She is one of the oldest goddesses of India and cures snakebites.

04 Naga (India): an elephant, so-called because its trunk is reminiscent of a snake.

05 Adder (deaf adder, horned viper, common adder and the puff adder). Asp.

06 Brazen serpent: a bronze serpent which was the symbol raised by Moses in the wilderness when the people were plagued by snakes.

07 American Indian: sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction and ascension (immortality). The life-death cycle is exemplified by the shedding of the snake’s skin.

08 Peru: Gucumatz/Kukulkan means ‘Plumed’ (or Feathered) Serpent. This is also the meaning of Quetzalcoatl (god of light, learning and culture). The symbol for ‘Votan’ is also a serpent. Itzamana, the Mayan god of healing (symbol, a rattlesnake), ‘Serpent of the East’ was a healer who could cure by laying on hands, and who revived the dead. The first inhabitants of Yucatan were the ‘People of the Serpent’. Legends say that the gods of ancient Mexico armed themselves with ‘fire serpents’ (xiuhcoatl). These devices emitted burning rays.

09 Nagas: snakes or serpents of Hindu myth and legend. They guard treasure (material and esoteric knowledge).

10 Oceanus: Greek sea god. The river of the world which circles the earth and represented as a snake with its tail in its mouth.

11 The game of ‘Snakes and Ladders’ uses a 10 x 10 playing board.