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RE: Medicine Card Monday #19 "Shaman Oracle - The Serpent" My Gift To Steemit ---> For The Week Of September 10, 2018
"I associated the serpent with Satan, many of us learn this if we were raised Christian and have read the book of Genesis, Chapter 3"
I had a professor who insisted that there was a propaganda message intended in that story that would have been clear to the people who wrote it. The snake was a popular symbol for rebirth in the region (I guess because it sheds its skin) and the authors were painting the other systems of belief as "evil" or whatever.
Haha I used to see things like that two headed snake on mushrooms. Mine looked like they were made of neon signs though lol.
I came across an interesting fact I wasn’t previously aware of.
There is no evidence of the association of the serpent with Satan anywhere in either Christian or Hebrew scripture or texts.
The first and earliest evidence this association is actually in the Qu’ran.
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In western culture I believe that it is Milton that Popularizes that idea in Paradise Lost but I think that it had been floating around for some time before that so there is a good chance it bled over from from Islamic culture.
i'm sure its more ancient than that ...
what do you feel? the same as your professor or differently?
neon woohooo love it!! 🤘🏽
I suppose his explanation for the symbolism follows well enough. When you have groups competing for the hearts and minds of a population you are going to see them talk a little shit about each other. If enough times goes on, people might forget the purpose of the symbols and come to accept those things as literal truth. We can see the the same thing now. The conservatives call liberal snowflakes and the liberals call the conservatives rednecks but those terms and the ideas that they convey have nothing to do with sunburned necks and little bits of falling ice.
Then again , a lot of snakes are poisonous and poisonous animals tend to freak people out (I almost stepped on a rattlesnake once when I was walking around the desert and it was a little unnerving to here the rattle after I had already passed the snake lol). From a literary standpoint, they make convent "bad guys" that people will easily recognize as "bad guys." I am guilty of that, myself. I just used a snake image in my last post after a paragraph about how "The Man" is lying to us lol.
The Judaeo-Christian stuff isn't alone in its negative image of snakes though. In Amphitryon, Juno is mad because Jupiter knocked-up a human woman and she sends snakes to kill the baby but the baby is Hercules and he strangles the snakes. So, there were some anti-snake feelings floating around the Mediterranean and the near-east for quite some time and that kind of leads me to believe that the "evil snake" image is part of the shared culture of the region.
Haha yeah neon and pastels are what my mind seems to produce when I trip. I would get a lot of hallucinations that looked like Pre-Colombian Central American art. The question is, was I seeing that stuff because that stuff is "trippy" by its nature or was I seeing it because I had associated those things with "trippyness" and produced those images as a result of that unconscious belief? It's hard to tell but, either way, it made for a cool "light show" lol.
@artisticscreech who is "he?" what a beautiful comment and very thoughtful. thank you for taking the time to reason out your own "guilt" ahahaha that was a good one. love that!
your honesty is great.
that snakes eating babies is gross, why does the world want to eat babies?? its so disgusting to me. i know i know the real reason and its worse than disgusting. but ok, thanks for sharing that LOL
thats pretty funny about you and "tripping" youre right great light show indeed. love your musings and thinking on this ....
Oh Yeah "He" is the professor from the first comment. He was very slight old bald guy who taught Latin and some humanities courses and had some interesting ideas about things. I took several of his classes while I was at that university despite some of them really not counting toward anything that I needed.
Haha Having never eaten a baby, I can't say what the appeal is. They do tend to run slower than adults so that might be part of it lol.
The psychedelics were always fun and they really have provided tons of material to write about so, despite what the anti-drug types might say, they have been pretty positive in their impact.
@artisticscreech me either ... but apparently according to sources as in YouTube .... LOL!
apparently it is sucking in the babies energy while they are in fear mode and is a blood sacrifice so yeah they enjoy blood. so there ya have it ... we've all seen it in movies and many cannot hardly believe our eyes and ears but it exists. we all know it, if we listen to the whispers.
anyhoo ... its up to some of us and then all of us to stand up to them and vengeance will be made. it is what it is.