How often is the snake symbolized in the creation/mortality myth?
The horn snake may have given birth to the dragon and perhaps the devil.
What was Eves fascination? Could the snake represent feminine wisdom? Or eroticism?
All over the world, prehistoric art has the undulating form of the serpent.
The Aztecs, the Egyptians, China, Japan, Russia and Europe, have stories of reptiles that mesmerize. Native Americans honor them.
The caduceus has entwining snakes to perceive the duality of medicine, which in turn reminds us of death and rebirth. Our species has longed for immortality. A poison’s cure is in consuming a version of it.
In the state of Ohio is the Serpent Mound. It is 411 meters long. It has an egg or the moon in its head. Is it honoring the Goddess. Ophir is Greek word for serpent.
The horn snake may have given birth to the dragon and perhaps the devil.
What was Eves fascination? Could the snake represent feminine wisdom? Or eroticism?
All over the world, prehistoric art has the undulating form of the serpent.
The Aztecs, the Egyptians, China, Japan, Russia and Europe, have stories of reptiles that mesmerize. Native Americans honor them.
The caduceus has entwining snakes to perceive the duality of medicine, which in turn reminds us of death and rebirth. Our species has longed for immortality. A poison’s cure is in consuming a version of it.
In the state of Ohio is the Serpent Mound. It is 411 meters long. It has an egg or the moon in its head. Is it honoring the Goddess. Ophir is Greek word for serpent.
The Hindu Kundalini energy is a spiral up the spine in the form of a futuristic atom or DNA.
Persephone/not Pluto, as Ariadne was the ruler of the underworld before the masculine demanded a God/King.
Like Hel in Norse mythology she ruled the dead which her father Odin ordered, but not the warrior dead who went to Valhalla.
Cleopatra was the embodied Isis. Her death through the asp’s poison guaranteed immortality.
In Crete’s Minoan culture a figure of Astarte was found on Knossos. She carries two snakes.
Like Hel in Norse mythology she ruled the dead which her father Odin ordered, but not the warrior dead who went to Valhalla.
Cleopatra was the embodied Isis. Her death through the asp’s poison guaranteed immortality.
In Crete’s Minoan culture a figure of Astarte was found on Knossos. She carries two snakes.
Inanna the Sumerian Goddess in present day Iraq, was a warrior who governs fertility. She is depicted with wings, to be able to soar into the imagination and unconscious. Perhaps the Arcadian Ishtar is another image to ponder.
The connections of these various interpretations of Aphrodite or Venus could possibly stir our imagination to alleviate fear. What is a pandemic? Pan was the Greek god of nature and animals. His dark side gave birth to panic. He was a lover of Aphrodite.
The accredited creator of the vaccine was a Dr Edward Jenner in Berkeley England. He noticed a liquid from the pus of a cow’s nipple dispersed smallpox. His cowbox helped the pandemic. Vaccine means “from the cow.”
The accredited creator of the vaccine was a Dr Edward Jenner in Berkeley England. He noticed a liquid from the pus of a cow’s nipple dispersed smallpox. His cowbox helped the pandemic. Vaccine means “from the cow.”
There are two components we are fighting in an epidemic, one of which is fear and the other is ignorance.
Featured Photographs--
The Serpent Mound in Locus Grove, Ohio
Double Helix: Biology at Colegio Montessori
The Goddess Ariadne Snake Labyrinth
Ishtar on an Akkadian Seal
The Temple of Vaccinia at Dr. Jenner's House
Featured Photographs--
The Serpent Mound in Locus Grove, Ohio
Double Helix: Biology at Colegio Montessori
The Goddess Ariadne Snake Labyrinth
Ishtar on an Akkadian Seal
The Temple of Vaccinia at Dr. Jenner's House
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