Uraeus, Donna Darkwolf's Serpent. History Symbol of the Snake in Mythology
Squeals of laughter as I bend to lift Donna's ankle to my lips, and kiss
her Divine Serpent Tattoo.
At a PARTY!
"My Franco! No one has EVER kissed my Serpent! Sooo funny!
How brave. If you were not my beautiful Soldier . . . I should have struck
you.
Not that I would succeed. I have seen your reaction time".
Donna explained her Blue Serpent to me:
The Serpent is Quetzalcoatl. The Aztec god of LEARNING. The Caduceus of
Mercury, who is The Messenger of the Gods.
The Serpent is Uraeus. The sign of royalty. The crown of the Pharoah's.
The umbilicus between humans and Earth.
The beginning of christianity portrayed the serpent as leading Eve to
take and eat an apple from the Tree of Wisdom.
Thus getting herself and Adam banished from Eden, and the serpent to be
forever cursed.
So much for christianity in HIJACKING a symbol used in Hundreds of religions,
in a POLITICAL move designed to separate christian from the multiplicity
of faiths, thousands of years older than christianity.
Prior to the advent of civilisation, the snake is represented in rock
art paintings in Africa and North America.
Christianity came into being, long after Jesus Christ had died.
Prior to the event of christianity, the Serpent is carved into the stone
heiroglyphs all over ancient Egypt, and worn as adornment by Pharoahs and
Queens.
Uraeus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of a reared snake, a Cobra.
It is found throughout Egyptian art, but Uraeus is, most notably, attached
to the front of the crowns of Pharaoh's.
The Serpent in this form was a symbol of
the Goddess Wadjet, an ancient protective deity of Lower Egypt.
Carved out of stone all over India. Celebrated in China in the form of
the Dragon.
The Serpent, is a symbol of auspice and honor in China. Ancient Chinese
believed the Serpent could prolong life, and considered it to be a symbol
of good luck, great harvest, and reproduction.
And still is to this day.
Serpent-themed cultural relics are often found in south-western and southern
China
Serpents were sacred to the Aztecs, as they were the symbol of the feathered
serpent god, Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl, meaning
"Precious Serpent", is the Aztec god of Wind, Air, and LEARNING.
Before Jesus Christ was a sperm cell.
Quetzalcoatl is related to the planet Venus, the dawn, merchants, the
arts and crafts and also, Knowledge.
He is also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of Learning and Knowledge.
The Serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.
The word is derived from Latin "serpens", a crawling animal or snake.
Serpents, or Snakes, are associated with some of the oldest rituals known
to mankind and represent dual expression of good and evil.
In some cultures, serpents, or snakes, are fertility symbols. For example,
the Hopi people of North America performed an annual Snake Dance to celebrate
the union of Snake Youth (a Sky spirit) and Snake Girl (an Underworld spirit)
and to renew the fertility of Nature.
During the dance, live snakes are handled, and at the end of the dance
the snakes are released into the fields to guarantee good crops.
(The Snakes eat the rats and mice and other things, attacking the crops).
"The Snake Dance is a prayer to the spirits of the clouds, the thunder
and the lightning, that the rain may fall on the growing crops."
In other cultures, Serpents symbolize the umbilical cord, joining all
humans to Mother Earth.
The Great Goddess often had Serpents as her familiars — sometimes twining
around her sacred staff.
As in ancient Crete — and they were worshiped as
guardians of her mysteries of birth and regeneration.
