![]() ![]() The snake plays an important role in Japanese Shintoism a myth based on the animal’s head that recalls the Greek legend of Hercules fighting against the nine-headed Hydra.Īccording to this Japanese myth, the storm god Susanoo would have killed the eight-headed boa Yamata-no-orochi with the sacred sword that he found in the tail of the boa thus releasing the princess Inada-hi-me who finally married. Moreover, it is written, that the snake bites only the persons dressed and shuns nudity, for this reason man must put down the “fig leaf of concupiscence” and present himself naked before the sin, so that the evil one does not can attack. In the Physiologus we find a curious symbolism at first the text deals with the rejuvenation of the snake during the molt, this is equivalent to the man who has to take away the old age of the world and, rejuvenated, aspire to eternal life, then tells that the snake before drinking at the source leaves the poison in his den in order to keep the water pure therefore man in order to reach eternal life must free himself from the poison of his sins. In the Nordic mythology, the Midgard snake, which wraps the earth with its coils, is the symbol of the ocean that surrounds the earth while in Ancient Egypt Apophis threatened the boat of the god Ra trying to stop him from rising furthermore, the uraeus, that is, the cobra in attack position was on the crown of the pharaoh and spit out poison against his enemies. ![]() In the Bible it embodies both the tempting enemy in Paradise and the savior, as stated in the story of the “bronze serpent” that Moses planted in the desert. Linking the ideas of life and death, the symbolic value of this animal is very important, in fact there is no culture that has ignored the snake. In today’s text we will discuss this topic and also dig deeper into the symbolic meaning of snakes in general. Seeing a snake is certainly not a pleasure but we often ask oursleves is seeing a snake is really that bad or not. ![]()
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