On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote:
> . > > The symbol of the serpent is in very cultural inheritance. > Yes. In many cultures and traditions. Mayans, Aztecs, Egyptians, Tao, the Barasana in the Amazon basin. > > There is a reason for this ??? > As a symbolic representation. In a coiled up state of resting, the head and tail are more or less indistinguishable..........representing the un-manifest energy-in-potentiality...... ......aka the symbol of Tao. Or the locks of Shiva. When the serpent stirs and springs forth.........in the mode of the expanded hood.. ..the expansion not due to some addition but of the very same coils... ....lo behold the representation of the encompassing manifestation....... ......which is not a creation out of something else............but the actualization of it's own innate potentiality...... allegorically represented by ......the hooding of the latent coils. The swaying dance of the serpent, aka the rotation of the Tao symbol, aka the Dooo Dooo Beee Dooo beat of dancing Shiva. .
