Serpent Worship, what does it really mean?

[SilentFeathers]

I am starting this thread to get others ideas of what they think, believe, perceive, the SERPENT and or SERPENT WORSHIPING to be.

It seems to be in every nook and cranny on the planet and goes back in human history as far as we can see back in time....

World’s Oldest Ritual Discovered – Serpent Worship

Recent research has revealed that mankind’s oldest known advanced rituals were performed in Africa 70,000 years ago, not 40, 000 years ago in Europe, as history has understood up to now. Associate Professor Sheila Coulson, from the University of Oslo made the startling discovery while she was studying the origin of the Sanpeople. A group of the San live in the sparsely inhabited area of north-western Botswana known as Ngamiland.

Coulson made the discovery while searching for artifacts from the Middle Stone Age in the Kalahari Desert within the peaks known as the Tsodilo Hills — famous for the largest concentration of rock paintings in the world. The Tsodilo Hills remain a sacred area for the San, who call them the “Mountains of the Gods” and the “Rock that Whispers”.

The python is one of the San’s highest revered creatures. The myth cites mankind descended from the python, and the ancient, arid streambeds around the hills are believed to have been created by the python as it circled the hills in its incessant quest for water.

Sheila Coulson discovered that people from the area had a specific ritual location associated with the python in a small cave on the northern side of the Tsodilo Hills, which wasn’t even discovered by archaeologists until the 1990′s due to extreme seclusion and difficult access.

Coulson and her 3 students were struck by the mysterious rock that resembled the head of a massive python as they entered the cave. They found 300 to 400 indentations that could only have been man-made on the 19.7 foot (6 meter) long by 7.2 foot (2 meter) tall rock.
“You could see the mouth and eyes of the snake. It looked like a real python. The play of sunlight over the indentations gave them the appearance of snake skin. At night, the firelight gave one the feeling that the snake was actually moving.”

No evidence that work had recently been done on the rock hand been found on the extensively eroded rock’s surface.
http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/worl.../weird-science

....and of course it is also in almost every single religion on Earth too.







We hear of the ancient Serpent Priests of Egypt etc., the feathered Serpent of South America, Dragons/Serpents in the far east and snake worship in India, and I could go on and on and on......

There were even "serpents" or serpent worshiping going on in Ireland at one time in the past where we know there were actually no physical snakes, ever....

....and then we look above and see the Serpent and or Dragon in certain star constellations and even depicted as the Milky Way itself, where the center of our galaxy is symbolized as a snake circling around and eating its own tail.....hmmmm?

So the question is; What does all this SERPENT/snake symbolism and WORSHIPING really mean?

[another bob]

Kundalini is a Sanskrit word meaning either "coiled up" or "coiling like a snake." There are a number of other Westernised translations of the term, e.g. 'serpent power'.

According to tradition, Kundalini is present in an inactive coiled-up state in the root chakra, which is located by various sources as proximate to the sacrum or base of the trunk of the body. Activation of kundalini is said to be associated with the experience of somatic bio-energetic phenomena by the practitioner.

Serpent Symbolism: The origins of Kundalini Yoga are shrouded in the mists of the dawn of civilization in the Indian sub-continent. The divine power, Kundalini, shines like the stem of a young lotus; like a snake, coiled round upon herself she holds her tail in her mouth and lies resting half asleep as the base of the body. Yoga Kundalini Upanishad (1.82) Kundalini Shakti, coiled and dormant 'feminine' energy, is the vast potential of psychic energy contained within us all.

It is normally symbolized as a serpent coiled into three and a half circles, with its tail in its mouth, and spiralling around the central axis (sacrum or sacred bone) at the base of the spine. The awakening of this serpent and the manifestation of its powers is a primary aim of the practice of Kundalini Yoga. We do know that the basic techniques evolved in the monasteries of India & Tibet over a period of thousands of years. There the rishis systematically tested and perfected the precise movements, postures, sounds and breathing that activate different parts of the body and brain to produce specific results. sacred energy).

[SilentFeathers]

Here is one really good Native American view of the snake.....

The snake, in Native American culture, is very powerful medicine. It symbolizes the primordial energy, it is a very old creature. It moves in a spiral all the time. It has no arms, no legs, it always goes forward, so it is like “one-minded”, and symbolizes the ability to concentrate on one thing, and move towards that with no distraction. It is also associated with the South.

It represents the primordial energy, the sexual energy, the beginning of things; it has very primal and deep-seated energy, it has that fundamental primary energy that is coiled at the base of the spine, and it represents that energy which, when aroused by certain meditation techniques, can flood the other centres with light energy and heat, bringing greater abilities and strength, and also that ability to have that energy circulate through the body, which can allow for healing. People with the snake energy have a lot of healing energy, because they have access to this primal vital energy basic to life.

The snake also represents the straight line and the circle, the zero and the one, so it is really at the beginning of things. Seeing a snake is mostly always a very beneficial sign, indicating that some new energy is coming into our lives, and the power to renew ourselves is thus available. The snake renews itself, it sheds its old skin and comes out with a completely new skin, and this is the ability to transform, transmute that which is old, and make it new again, let go off the old and come into the new.

So, the snake energy and symbolism are very positive in our culture, contrary to other cultures which see it as a personification of evil. Actually there are no animals that personify evil in Native American culture, and there is nothing in nature itself that we associate with evil, because all has been created by Great Spirit for the benefit of life and of humans on this planet, and thus everything is beneficial. What can be evil is what humans chose to do and create, and there are some evil monsters that have been put there by Great Spirit, but they are ways of testing humans, testing the warrior, testing our strength, testing our ability to move beyond obstacles and beyond ourselves; so, even if they can appear evil, they always carry great possibilities for growth and learning.
http://www.blueeagle1.net/categorie-11290547.html

[SilentFeathers]

Also, (all of this Serpent Symbolism and worshiping MUST tie in to one universal meaning in my opinion).

The caduceus



is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings. In Roman iconography it was often depicted being carried in the left hand of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, guide of the dead and protector of merchants, shepherds, gamblers, liars, and thieves.[3]
As a symbolic object it represents Hermes (or the Roman Mercury), and by extension trades, occupations or undertakings associated with the god. In later Antiquity the caduceus provided the basis for the astrological symbol representing the planet Mercury. Thus, through its use in astrology and alchemy, it has come to denote the elemental metal of the same name.
By extension of its association with Mercury and Hermes, the caduceus is also a recognized symbol of commerce and negotiation, two realms in which balanced exchange and reciprocity are recognized as ideals.[4][5] This association is ancient, and consistent from the Classical period to modern times.[6] The caduceus is also used as a symbol representing printing, again by extension of the attributes of Mercury (in this case associated with writing and eloquence).
The caduceus is sometimes mistakenly used as a symbol of medicine and/or medical practice, especially in North America, because of historical and widespread confusion with the traditional medical symbol, the rod of Asclepius, which has only a single snake and no wings.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus

In a way it resembles the nerves going up the spine in to the brain or mind.....and I can't believe I'm going to say this, but in a way representing the meaning of "ascension"



Added: So perhaps, "The Great Serpent" is within us all.....

[Beren]

I remembered these great verses from Isaiah chapter 11:

Wolves will live with lambs.
Leopards will lie down with goats.
Calves, young lions, and year-old lambs will be together,
and little children will lead them.
7 Cows and bears will eat together.
Their young will lie down together.
Lions will eat straw like oxen.
8 Infants will play near cobras’ holes.
Toddlers will put their hands into vipers’ nests.
9 They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere on my holy mountain.
The world will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
like water covering the sea.



Key thing lies in the last one here that Earth will be full of knowledge of God...
Then we will see the whole picture...

Imagining this now kids playing with snakes and they playing with kids is a powerful stuff ...
This is what is means be one with God thus knowing all thus all knowing and recognizing you as God`s own.

[another bob]

Among the notable nāgas of Buddhist tradition is Mucalinda, protector of the Buddha. In the Vinaya Sutra the Buddha shortly after his enlightenment is meditating in a forest when a great storm arises, but graciously Naga King Mucalinda gives shelter to the Buddha from the storm by covering the Buddha's head with his 7 snake heads. Then the king takes the form of a young Brahmin and renders the Buddha homage.

It is noteworthy that the 2 chief disciples of the Buddha, Sariputra and Maudgalyayana are referred to as Mahanaga. Some of the most important figures in Buddhist history symbolize nagas in their names such as Dignaga, Nagarjuna, and Nagasena.

In the Vajrayana and Mahasiddha traditions . . . many notable fully enlightened nagas also transmitted and/or transported terma into and out of the human realm that had been elementally encoded by adepts.

Norbu states that according to tradition the Prajnaparamita terma teachings [the foundation of modern Mahayana Buddhism] are held to have been conferred upon Nagarjuna by Nagaraja, the King of the nagas, who had been guarding them at the bottom of a lake.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga

[SilentFeathers]

It's also a bit strange that the Druids were called "servants of truth" and/or the "Serpent Priests" and the church of Rome sent St. Patrick there to basically exterminate the Druids. What was the church so afraid of?

I personally think that the lost or forgotten universal/common/simple truth and actual meaning of the Serpent that once was common knowledge for most of the peoples throughout the ancient world holds the answers/keys to many many questions/locked doors that we have today.

It wasn't a global symbol or high priority in life to almost all peoples on the planet back then by accident or coincidence.

Added: also, a strange fact about snakes; they lack the enlarged Cerebral Hemispheres found in birds and mammals, this part of the brain controls learning and thought.
(not sure if I actually believe though that they can't think or learn??????)

perhaps they just already "KNOW" and don't need the "higher-mind"

[bogeyman]

There is something very profound pertaining to serpents, it has been with us through our history, it has very deep spiritual significance, throughout many cultures.

[SilentFeathers]

Serpens ("the Serpent", Greek Ὄφις) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union.
It is unique among the modern constellations in being split into two non-contiguous parts, Serpens Caput (Serpent's Head) to the west and Serpens Cauda (Serpent's Tail) to the east. Between these two halves lies the constellation of Ophiuchus, the "Serpent-Bearer". In figurative representations, the body of the serpent is represented as passing behind Ophiuchus between μ Ser in Serpens Caput and ν Ser in Serpens Cauda. The brighest star in Serpens is Unukalhai or Cor Serpentis "Serpent's Heart", with an apparent magnitude of 2.63.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpens

[SilentFeathers]

Vision of the Snakes
By Pablo Amaringo

[SilentFeathers]

The DNA Serpents / Double Helix Structure / Sacred Spiral (Good song too)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h9s_cvSdT7w

[SilentFeathers]

This is interesting too:

In legendary form it is said that one day "Ra had sent forth his Eye which did not return. So Ra sent Shu and Tefnut to bring it back.... But the Eye was outraged when it returned because it found that another had grown in its stead." And then Ra took the Eye and placed it on his brow in the likeness of a serpent. Since then, the solar Eye governs the entire world because this serpent became the symbol of Ra's puissance. It is since that day that Shu was called Onuris which means He-Who-Has-Brought-Back-the-Far-off-Distance.

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/2serpents.htm

[SilentFeathers]

Electricity was commonly symbolized by the serpent because of its motion. Electricity passing between the poles of a spark gap is serpentine in its motion. Force projected through atmosphere was called The Great Snake. Being symbolic of universal force, the serpent was emblematic of both good and evil. Force can tear down as rapidly as it can build up. The serpent with its tail in its mouth is the symbol of eternity, for in this position the body of the reptile has neither beginning nor end. The head and tail represent the positive and negative poles of the cosmic life circuit. The initiates of the Mysteries were often referred to as serpents, and their wisdom was considered analogous to the divinely inspired power of the snake. There is no doubt that the title "Winged Serpents" (the Seraphim?) was given to one of the invisible hierarchies that labored with the earth during its early formation.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages

[Karunai]

More on Nāgas

Breaking Promises to Nāgas

[wynderer]

serpent worship -- see Observer's posts re telepathy etc on Houman's thread

[another bob]

Posted by Karunai (here)
More on Nāgas

Breaking Promises to Nāgas

About 5 years ago I met a most unusual fellow who shared a fascinating tale about encountering a Naga on Mt. Shasta. As I recall, he was hiking on the mountain, then suddenly found himself waking up inside a cavern within the mountain itself. There, he was confronted by a magnificent being who presented itself as a Naga, millions of years old, and who proceeded to share an ancient wisdom with him telepathically over the course of several days (including info about ETs). There was an enormous amount of stunning information this fellow in turn shared with me -- much that forced me to really stretch my mental capacities. The summation, as I recall, involved the Naga teaching him about communing with his Higher Self.

I tend to weigh most of these types of reports balanced against the character of the reporter, as well as my own experience garnered over half a century investigating such matters, and I have met quite a few deluded folks in the process, but this fellow seemed to me to be the genuine article, and I was much impressed by his level of awareness. Even if he was hallucinating, the information and wisdom was of the highest caliber, and his demeanor reflected a person deeply aware, firmly grounded, and clearly awake.

In Vajrayana Buddhism, it is reported that Buddha was visited by several Nagas prior to his awakening. They shared some potent mantras with him, which enabled him to make the final breakthrough. This may be a myth, though if true, it would not surprise me, having conversed with the aforementioned fellow.

[Carmody]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
Serpens ("the Serpent", Greek Ὄφις) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union.
It is unique among the modern constellations in being split into two non-contiguous parts, Serpens Caput (Serpent's Head) to the west and Serpens Cauda (Serpent's Tail) to the east. Between these two halves lies the constellation of Ophiuchus, the "Serpent-Bearer". In figurative representations, the body of the serpent is represented as passing behind Ophiuchus between μ Ser in Serpens Caput and ν Ser in Serpens Cauda. The brighest star in Serpens is Unukalhai or Cor Serpentis "Serpent's Heart", with an apparent magnitude of 2.63.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpens

The Ophiuchi Hotline

(A 1977 science fiction novel by John Varley.)

The novel both introduces and finalizes the story elements of Varley's Eight Worlds series which are further explained in other novels and short stories, which explore earlier stages of the story of humanity, post-2050.

On Earth, a race called only Invaders has destroyed all human technology in the year 2050, so that the remaining people there exist at a stone-age level. The rest of humanity survives on all available solid bodies in the solar system with the aid of a technology derived from information in the Ophiuchi Hotline, a radio signal apparently beamed from the star 70 Ophiuchi. They live mostly underground on bodies such as Luna, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and Pluto. There are no settlements on the moons of Jupiter, because the Invaders live in the atmosphere of that planet. Using Symbiotic Spacesuits ("Symbs"), thousands of humans also enjoy an odd existence floating in the rings of Saturn.

The Invaders' purpose is simple - they recognize two kinds of intelligent life: themselves, evolving in the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter, and sea-living mammals like whales and dolphins. Humans and other tool-users qualify only as vermin. They reduced humanity to the stone-age (starving billions to death in the process) to protect the whales and dolphins.

A major political division among the space-bound humans is the division between "Free Earthers" who seek to go on fighting the Invaders and liberate the home planet, and their opponents who feel that provoking the incomparably powerful Invaders would be both foolhardy and dangerous (which, indeed, would turn out to be the case).

Important technological elements of the stories are cloning and the ability to record memories and restore them to a brain at a later date. There is also advanced surgery used for cosmetic body alteration. Everyone is fitted with a data port which allows them to be interrogated by computer. They can also have their nervous system shut down selectively for surgery. Many people change sex on a whim. Others choose to exist without sex at all.

One result of the universal possibility of creating a clone of a dead person is that murder has gone down in importance, being considered a second-rate crime rather than the heinous act it is in our society - since the victim would be revived, and the murderer has only deprived him or her of a few months' memories and experiences.

The possibility of cloning is, however, strictly limited to reviving a dead person. For the sake of keeping the population down, it is absolutely forbidden to make a copy of a living person. Upon discovery, such an "illegal copy" - who is as much of a living, feeling human being as the "original" - must be destroyed immediately. Therefore, illegally-made clones have no recourse to law and are in effect at the mercy of whoever created them - a point of central importance to the plot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ophiuchi_Hotline

[jackovesk]

Thanks SilentFeathers, this is a 'Very Important' Thread...

This is not only about the respective 'Serpent Gods &/or Ancient History', this is more to do about the...

'Hidden Knowledge' that has been kept from us since the beginning of time...

In this explantion of "Serpent Worship, what does it really mean?" The 1st person that came to mind was this man...



...and who better to tell us all about what they have learnt through decades of intensive research, none other than 'Red Ice Creations' & Moreso this man...


William Henry

Biscione - Italian Serpent Symbolism strikingly similar to Quetzalcoatl in Mayan Mythology

Is the Serpent Devouring or Giving Birth to Man..?

House of Visconti


Coat of Arms of the Visconti of Milan depicting the biscione, a serpent who appears to be swallowing a human, but is actually giving birth to it.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visconti

Biscione



The biscione as a symbol of Milan, seen here at the Central Station

The Biscione (‘large grass snake’), also known as the Vipera (‘viper’ or in Milanese as the Bissa), is a heraldic charge showing a blue serpent in the act of swallowing a human: usually a child and sometimes described as a Moor. It has been the emblem of the Italian Visconti family for around a thousand years. Its origins are unknown. (Is it really?) However it has been claimed that it was taken from the coat of arms of a Saracen killed by Ottone Visconti during the crusades.

The biscione appears in the coats of arms of the House of Sforza, Milan, the historical Duchy of Milan and Insubria. It is also used as a symbol or logo by the football club Inter Milan, and in a version where a flower replaces the child, by Fininvest.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione

Alfa Romeo



The Logo Contains the Biscione and the Flag or Coat-of-arms of Milan

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo

Silvio Berlusconi's Biscione



Italian (Illuminati) Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Residence with a Crowned Reptile (Biscione) Eating a Human depicted on the Lawn.

For more on this, look at: The Origins Of Evil by Michael Tsarion - Part 1 of 6 - (Video) (All parts are available at Video Google).



Quetzalqoatl



Quetzalcoatl depicted as a snake devouring a man, from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcoatl



Quetzalcoatl, the Mayan "lord of life"and King of Tula being `consumed' by a `serpent'.

STARGATES--WORMHOLES AND THE BEARDED GODS OF ALL THE MAJOR RELIGIONS

More: http://williamhenry.net/SGbeardedGods.htm

http://www.redicecreations.com/winte...erpentman.html

PS - Without delving too deeply into this 'Hidden Knowledge', it would be a fair guess to assume...

That the 'Elite's take on the Serpent as they're 'Creator God' (Reptilian) who must be continually worshipped with regular and 'Secret Ritual' in order to draw 'Unseen Power' and a 'God' to which the followers must continually provide ongoing 'Secret Ritual Sacrifices' to keep (IT) on side...

This 'Creature' to my reckoning is actually a 'Real Entity' who is conjured and kept onside by constant 'Worship & Ritual Sacrifice'...

Unbeknowns to many this 'Entity's existence can only be effective through 'Secrecy'..!

[bearcow]

these 2 images basically mean the same thing

[ArjunaArcana]

A most strange fascination with serpents the ancient humans had.

It begs the question, were ancient humans superstitious enough to bow down to a snake or is/was something else?

For how long have we been here according to science?, A million years or so?

How long ago, according to science did the dinossaurs became extinct?, 65 million years ago?

Another question would be: For how many million of years did those creatures walked upon the earth, and in the event that they did so for millions of years, could not have a branch of that species evolved into something intelligent if you will?

Its absurd to think that the snake symbolism is just a DNA representation or kundalini referrence.
Peace to all.