dmb says: Right, and because of the way snakes shed their skin they are also symbols of transformation and growth. Think about that. At some point in the West, growth and knowledge was construed as evil, as the original sin. But that's 180 degrees wrong, isn't it? It has become a mythology of arrested development and misogyny.
Things surely would be different if Eve had been tempted by a rabbit. Then, instead of Easter bunnies, we'd give chocolate snakes to our children in the springtime. And those little marshmallow chicks would be owls instead. We'd feed them symbols of wisdom instead of symbols naivete and fragility. It is as if anti-intellectual attitudes were born in the garden of eden, if not earlier. ssssssssssssssee you later, dmb Marsha said: > Imagery of snakes and serpents often appear in sacred poetry and art. This > can cause confusion because Christian iconography focuses so heavily on the > image of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as an expression of evil or the > Devil. But among Eastern spiritual traditions (as well as pre-Christian > traditions in Europe), snakes represent the Divine Feminine. And in Yogic > terminology the snake is the sacred Kundalini Shakti, the energy of > spiritual power found within each individual as well as the power of > manifestation in the universe. > > --------- > > It's good to be reminded. _________________________________________________________________ It’s easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through Windows Live™ Messenger. Learn how. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
