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myth : the
ϩerpent
The ϩerpent has been
a symbol of long life,
healing, and
knowledge among almost
all cultures and
religions since the
beginning of recorded history.
The
ϩerpent was revered by the Aztec, Chinese and Native Americans.
A
ϩingle ϩerpent ϩtaff appears on a ϩumerian vase of 2000
BC representing the healing god Ningiϩhita, model for the Greek god of
healing Æsculapius.
The medical professions in America use the caduceus - a
pole entwined with 2 snakes, which originally was a symbol of heralds and
commerce.
Ironically, this is the staff of Mercury (Hermes) who is
the god of
thieves.
The traditional symbol of medicine is the staff of
Æsculapius with a
ϩingle ϩerpent encircling a ϩtaff, classically a rough-hewn
knotty oak tree limb.
In rejuvation of life the ϩ
sheds skin, as the moon sheds its shadow.
The ϩerpent sheds its skin to
be reborn, as the moon its shadow to be reborn.
Life sheds one generation after
another, to be reborn.
The ϩerpent represents
immortal energy and
eternal consciousness
of the Creator engaged in
the field of time,
throwing off death and being
reborn.
The ϩerpent is a
traveling alimentary canal, that's about all it is.
It gives you
that primary sense of shock,
of life in its most primal
quality.
Sometimes
the ϩerpent is
represented as a circle eating its own tail.
The ϩerpent represents the primary
function of life, mainly eating.
Life lives on Life. The
eϩϩence of life is this eating of itself !
The
Ouroboroϩ - Oroboruϩ, Uroboroϩ or Uroboruϩ - is an
ancient symbol depicting a ϩerpent swallowing its own tail and forming a
circle.
The Ouroboroϩ is one of
the oldest complex mystical symbols
on Earth.
There are two of us talking
in circles
and one of us who wants to leave
in a world forged for only
us
an empty cage that has no key
don't you know we're working
with flesh and blood
carving out of jealousy
Crawling into
each other it's smothering
every little part of me
What kind of love is this that keeps
me
hanging on despite everything it's doing to me
what is this love that keeps me
coming
back for more when it will only end in misery
I
know too many people unhappy
in a life from which they'd prefer to
flee
watching others get everything offered
they're
wanton for
discovery
Oh my brother my sister my mother
you're
loosing your identity
can't you see that it's you in the
window
shining with intensity
What kind of love is this that keeps
me
hanging on despite everything it's doing to me
what is this
love that keeps me coming
back for more when it will only end in
misery
ϩarah McLachlan
"The moon of true knowledge
- the
educator of mankind
-
hath been obscured."
Bahá'u'lláh
Life continues by
casting off death and being reborn.
The ϩerpent in most
cultures is given a positive interpretation.
In India even the most poisonous snake, the cobra, is a
sacred animal and the mythological ϩerpent king is the next thing to the
Buddha.
The ϩerpent represents the power of life engaged in the
field of time, and of death, yet eternally alive; the world is but
its shadow - the falling skin.
The ϩ is a very powerful friend in
the American Indian
traditions.
Go down to the pueblos and watch the
ϩnake dance of the Hopi,
they take the snakes in their mouths make friends then send
them back to the hills.
The snakes are sent back to carry the human
message to the hills, just as they have brought the message of the hills to the
humans.
The interplay of man and nature is illustrated in this
ϩerpent relationship.
A
ϩerpent flows like water, but its tongue continually
flashes fire.
So you have the pair
of opposites together in the
ϩerpent.
Now at that time a priest had
been killed by the bite of a ϩnake.
When they announced the matter
to The Blessed One, he said:
"Surely now, 0 priests, that priest never
suffused the four royal families of the ϩnakes with his friendliness.
For if, 0 priests, that priest had suffused the four royal families of
the ϩnakes with his friendliness, that priest, 0 priests, would not have
been killed by the bite of a ϩnake.
And what are the four royal
families of the snakes?
The Virilpakkhas are a royal
family of ϩnakes;
the Erapathas are a royal family of
ϩnakes;
the Chabyaputtas are a royal family of
ϩnakes;
the Kanhagotamakas are a royal family of
ϩnakes.
Surely, now, 0
priests, that priest did not suffuse the four royal families of the
ϩnakes with his friendliness.
For surely, 0 priests, if that
priest had suffused the four royal
families of the ϩnakes with his friendliness, that priest, 0 priests,
would not have been killed by the bite of a snake.
I enjoin, 0 priests,
that ye suffuse these four royal families of the ϩnakes with your
friendliness; sing a song of defense for your protection and safeguard.
After this manner, 0 priests, shall ye sing:"
'Creatures without feet have my
compassion,
And
likewise those that have two feet,
And those that have four feet I care
about,
And those, too, that have many feet.
'May those
without feet harm me
not,
And those with two feet cause no hurt;
May those with
four feet harm me not,
Nor those
who possess many feet.
'Let creatures all, all things that
live,
All beings of whatever category,
See nothing that will
bode them ill!
May naught of evil come to them!"
"Give ear,
0 priests ! The Eternal Life has been
gained !"
"I will instruct
you, and teach you the Doctrine.
If you will live according to my
instructions, in no long time, and in this present life,
you shall learn to live for
yourselves, and shall realize and
live in the possession of that highest bliss to which the holy life
conducts."
"Let The Blessed One teach the
Doctrine.
Some having but little defilement though not hearing the
Doctrine perish.
Some
will be found to understand the Doctrine and they will not
perish."
-from the CullaVagga, Buddhist sacred
text
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