Jehovih roll''' up the heavens, and braid the serpents of the firmament into His cyclic coil.
Tow'-Sang, or solar family of the Great Serpent.
The open space in the curve B, B, near the center of the plate, indicates the place of of the Serpent in this day.
But the vortex of the sun should be round, and the body of the great serpent coiled up.
But the vortex of the sun should be round, and the body of the great serpent coiled up.
Some fair men, with stunted souls, who look not about doing good in the world, require the serpent's fang in order to make them think.
The king said: You hast no authority; you are a frozen serpent that was taken into the house of the king; and being thawed out, you turnest to bite thy benefactors.
To turn a rod into a serpent, or water into wine; or to show the spirits of the dead, alas, O king, even they that are of rotten flesh can do such things!
The self-Gods and self-Lords that led them astray should be as a serpent that bit''' itself unto death.
And so they sent word of it to Cpenta-armij, through whose fields the great serpent moved along.
A strip of Parsi'e'an land cut between Jaffeth and Vind'yu, and extended to the sea in the far east; but the great body laid to the west, covering the Afeutian Mountains, still plentiful in lions and tigers and great serpents.
And oft these traveling hunters dwelt with the sacred little people in the wilderness, the I'hins, whom Jehovih had taught to charm even the great serpents and savage lions and tigers to be their friends and worshippers.
But the Listians were the only people who dealt in charms and the secrets of taming serpents and beasts by virtue of the hand, and by curious scents, prepared secretly.
Wherefore we should give two masters to man, the one being the serpent, the earth, the lowest inspirer; and the other the voice of our Lord God.
And make a commandment over man, forbidding him hearkening to the serpent, lest he be led away from the Lord God, and throw the cause of sin upon man, for violating the Lord God's commandment.
For by accusing man, through the serpent, we clear the Lord God unscathed.
But because of the serpent (the earth) of the woman, she hearkened unto him, and he said unto the woman: I say unto you, in the day you eatest thereof you should have your* eyes opened, and should become as a Goddess, creating offspring.
And the woman was more easily persuaded than man, for she had confidence in the serpent; and they partook of the fruit thereof; and, of a truth, their eyes were opened, and they beheld their nakedness.
And the woman answered, saying: The serpent beguiled me.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent: Because you hast done this, you are accursed, and you should not rise up from the earth, but return to dust whence you camest.
And I will put enmity between the serpent and your* offspring; and the flesh should call one way, which is unto earth, but the soul of man should call unto me, the Lord God.
And though the serpent bite, yet man should bruise him, and subdue him.
But woman hearkened not to my counsel, but to the serpent, and sin came into the world.
For on all hands we behold, alas, beneficiaries are apt to turn like venomous serpents, and strike, even though the blow would send themselves into destruction.
But it came to pass in course of time the evil voice (satan) encompassed the earth about with serpents that spake like men and angels, and the serpents made friends with All Evil, Father of Anra'mainyus; and the women of the tribes of A'su went and tempted the first men, the I'hins, whereby there was born into the world evil offspring.
Think of the following : Vahhomvokwijomyissitiviyubuyhhoma-vashstbahhyodahuittayaivi, for the word FIRMAMENT.4 The same legend exists in China, in regard to the egg and the origin of evil; the only difference being the name signifying satan, or serpent.
"Hiss," or "h'ce," is Chinese for serpent.
This is Panic, that is, what the serpent says; but when "AH" speaks, we know "ah" means earth.
In the Ezra Bible, the serpent spoke to Eve, i.e., the earth spoke; or, in plain English, the flesh tempted the spirit.
For I desired not that man should become spiritual until the earth and all manner of savage beasts and serpents were subdued.
The swift messengers, with an arrow-ship, such as Gods, for speed and light work, use to accomplish Jehovih's will, shot forth through the ji'ay'an fields of darkness, midway between the Serpent's coils, and were soon deep hidden in the whirling atmosphere of the warring earth.
As an oscillating star feed itself with a change of seasons, so hath Jehovih coursed the wave of His traveling Serpents to give our etherean realms an endless life, diversified by change of scenes and constant surprises, the glory of the soul.
And presently his former officers rushed to him, and with that came the sea of millions of spirits, unorganized, unwashed, unfed, frightened and mad, for love of the name Apollo, the meaning of which they knew not; and they became as a knot of serpents, entwined around the central figure, Daveas and his officers.
The I'hins feared the Lord would visit a judgment upon the land, because of the Ongwees killing and eating flesh; but the Lord said unto them: Suffer you**** the Ongwees to fulfill their labor; too full is all the land with beasts and serpents.
The Lord your*** God find one place filled with beasts of prey and great serpents, which must be destroyed; and he providea race of men to accomplish this.
Behold, as in Guatama, the Lord raised up seers, whom he instructed in the methods of slaying beasts of prey and serpents, in the same period of time raised up for the same purpose other seers in Shem, Ham and Jaffeth.
God said: Now will I give to man a new commandment, which is, to go forth and subdue the earth; to slay every beast of prey and every serpent that come before him.
And of beasts of prey and of serpents, should you not eat the flesh, nor the blood, which contain''' life.
They prided themselves in their wisdom; but that that they called wisdom was as a serpent in the soul.
Since it is not lawful for the I'hins to kill beast, nor bird, nor serpent, behold, their cities and mounds are invaded by all manner of evil beasts and serpents.
The I'huans should slay all such evil beasts and serpents.
Gussitavi, marshaless to the throne of Sue, in Izaracha, with ten thousand deputies, went forward, and with open arms received Nista, Goddess descended, saluting with the sign of the star and square, having been warm friends two hundred thousand years in the plains of Oayad, in the etherean es'tu of Hi'dan, the spiritual center of the orbit of the great serpent when in Zagagowthaka.
In the time of the world twenty-four thousand years before the kosmon era, the great serpent (solar phalanx) being in the arc of Noe, in the etherean heavens, and of the Sum of Howt and ji'ya eighty-seven, the earth and her heavens were in great darkness.
Hear Me, O you**** Orian Kings and Queens of thousands of millions of Gods and Goddesses: I have spoken in the c'vork'um of the great serpent of the sun!
I will scoop her up as a toy, and her vortex should close about like a serpent hungry for its prey.
Around about in the place of the great serpent send swift messengers with the words of My decree; bring the Lords and Gods of Wan and Anah and Anakaron and Sith.
Tussica, Goddess of Kol; Goddess of Lowst and Wittawhaggat; Goddess of Du'e'jhi and Loo of Maggatza; Goddess of Ep; Goddess Gek of Hennasshalonkya; Goddess of Tur in the ji'ay'an swamp of Dobbokta, fifty-five, raised on the corporeal sun Nitz, of the Serpent Tan, inhabitant of Tayay'hitsivi, two millions of years; inhabitant of Palla one million seven hundred thousand years.
From this time onward there was found no grade in the roadway of the solar phalanx (great serpent), sufficiently dense for the angels of the heavens of the earth.
Jehovih moved upon the etherean worlds; in the wide regions where travel''' the great serpent.
Gather together, O you* Orian Chiefs, and you* etherean Goddesses; and you* that dwell in the roadway of the great serpent.
Then inquired man of the Lord: Behold, you hast shown the ass what is good for him to eat, and the fish, and the serpent, and the lion; every living creature; but man only hast you not shown?
And he neglected to guard himself against the serpent (corporeality); and the serpent said unto him: Partake you of all things, for they are your**.
And four cubes should be called one sum, because the magnitude thereof embrace one equal of the Great Serpent.2
And the record of the Great Serpent showed the firmament of Tem'yi in the third circuit of c'v'wark'um and dan'ha twenty-four.2
Let him who will become wise, enumerate the great lights of My serpent, for in such times I set aside things that are old, and establish My chosen anew.
According to Greek mythology, Apollo chose Delphi as the site for his oracle after defeating a Python, a serpent or dragon that guarded the area.
Another notable action Hezekiah took was destroying the bronze serpent called Nehushtan, which had reportedly been made by Moses (as mentioned in the Book of Numbers).
The bronze serpent had become an object of worship, and Hezekiah sought to end this practice, likely to avoid idolatry and reinforce monotheism.
Cecrops: Considered the first king of Attica, Cecrops was depicted as half-man, half-serpent.
After his banishment from heaven, Susanoo descended to earth and encountered an eight-headed serpent known as the Yamata no Orochi.
She discusses the symbolic meaning of the serpent as a representation of Kundalini energy, a spiritual force lying dormant within humans, symbolizing the potential for enlightenment.
In earlier traditions, the serpent and the tree were symbols of wisdom and empowerment, but patriarchal traditions reshaped these stories into narratives of punishment and control.
Atum will remain, in the form of a serpent, with Osiris.
The deluge occurred as stated; Janardana appeared in the form of a horned fish, and the serpent Ananta came in the form of a rope.
Manu, by contemplation, drew all creatures towards him and stowed them in the ship and, after making obeisance to Janardana, attached the ship to the fish's horn with the serpent-rope.
During the deluge, Vishnu preserved the ark by again taking the form of a giant fish and tying the ark to himself with a huge sea serpent.
Sesha, the serpent who supports the world, withdrew his energy from Balarama; in a jet of light, Balarama's spirit entered the sea, and his body fell over.
Ling-lawn sent serpents to devour them, but there were too many to eat.
Batara Guru sent his son Layang-layang-mandi ("Diving Swallow") to bind Naga Padoha's hands and feet, but the serpent still struggles and causes earthquakes, and it will again throw the earth into the sea when it breaks its fetters.
Once, when much of a ripe harvest was found despoiled, a watch was kept, and a great serpent was seen to lower itself from the sky and feed on the rice.
The rainbow serpent Yurlunggur smelled the blood and crawled out of his well.
The children, always hungry, cried so much that a ngaljod (rainbow serpent) rose from his waterhole and flooded the countryside.
Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent ate them, first the people who were calling out and the orphan who was crying.
Nanumanga (Tuvalu, South Pacific):A deluge was dispelled by a sea serpent who, as a woman, married the earth as a man.
Menaboshu warned the wolf to stay away from a certain lake, knowing that his worst enemy the serpent-king lived there.
Menaboshu waited five days for the wolf's return; then he began wailing, knowing that the serpent-king had got him.
Menaboshu could not get the serpent-king in the winter, so he came to the lake in the spring.
This attracted the attention of the serpent-king, and when Menaboshu saw it stick up its head, he immediately turned himself into a tree stump.
The serpent-king and other serpents saw nothing unusual but the new tree stump.
Suspicious of it, the serpent-king sent one large snake to it.
Menaboshu emerged from his disguise, grabbed his bow and arrows, and shot dead the serpent-king and three of its sons.
The evil serpent Meshekenabek carried off Manobozho's cousin into a deep lake.
When they emerged, Manobozho shot an arrow into the serpent's heart.
The serpent, in his dying rage, stirred up the waters of the lake and spread waves over the land.
When they returned the next morning, the manidoes were suspicious of the tree, so the sent for Grizzly Bear to claw it and Serpent to strangle and bite it.
Algonquin (upper Ottowa River):Long ago, when men had become evil, the Strong Serpent Maskanako came.
The Strong Serpent resolved to destroy all men, and the Black Serpent brought the snake-water rushing, spreading everywhere, destroying everything.
But Palatkwapi, the two-hearted maiden, taught others her sorcery, until the great water serpents flooded and destroyed her town.
Here they lived many centuries and raised two boys who had the power to transform themselves into eagles and serpents.
Araucania (coastal Chile):Two great serpents made the sea rise to determine which of them had the more powerful magic.
The Rainbow Serpent, A Chromatic Piece, Mouton Publishers, The Hague, 1978.
The Encircled Serpent, Arthur Richmond Company, New York, 1955.
"The Rainbow-Serpent Myths of Australia", in Buchler.
He built a great city in America called "Nachan," City of the Serpents (the serpent that tempted Eve was Nahash), from his own race, which was named Chan, a serpent.
He wrote a book containing a history of his deeds, and proofs that he belonged to the tribe of Chanes (serpents).
And here we find a tradition which not only points to Atlantis, but also shows some kinship to the legend in Genesis of the tree and the serpent.
This tree was put in the care of the Hesperides, but they could not resist the temptation to pluck and eat its fruit; thereupon a serpent named Ladon was put to watch the tree.
Hercules slew the serpent, and gave the apples to the Hesperides.
All these forms seem to be representations of a serpent; we turn to the
valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for n was the serpent, ; the Pelasgian n was ; the Arcadian, ; the Etruscan, .
Can anything be more significant than to find the serpent the sign for n in Central America, and in all these Old World languages?
Following the precedent established for us by the Mayas in the case of the letter m, let us see what is the distinguishing feature here; it is clearly the figure of a serpent standing erect, with its tail doubled around its middle, forming a circle.
It has already been remarked by Savolini that this erect serpent is very much like the Egyptian Uræus, an erect serpent with an enlarged body--a sacred emblem found in the hair of their deities.
We turn again to the valley of the Nile, and we find that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for k was a serpent with a convolution or protuberance in the middle, precisely as in the Maya, thus, ; this was transformed into the Egyptian letter ; the serpent and the protuberance reappear in one of the Phœnician forms of k, to wit, ; while in the Punic we have these forms, and .
Now suppose a busy people trying to give this sign: instead of drawing the serpent in all its details they would abbreviate it into something like this, ; now we turn to the ancient Ethiopian sign for k (ka), and we have , or the Himyaritic Arabian ; while in the Phœnician it becomes ; in the archaic Greek, ; and in the later Greek, when they changed the writing from left to right, .
So that the two lines projecting from the upright stroke of our English K are a reminiscence of the convolution of the serpent in the Maya original and the Egyptian copy.
And yet I have shown that the closest resemblances exist between the Maya alphabet and the Egyptian signs--in the c, h, t, i, k, m, n, o, q, and s--eleven letters in all; in some cases, as in the n and k, the signs are identical; the k, in both alphabets, is not only a serpent, but a serpent with a protuberance or convolution in the middle!
i., 2), "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." The Quiche legend says, "The Creator--the Former, the Dominator--the feathered serpent--those that give life, moved upon the waters like a glowing light."
Lord Kingsborough says: "The Toltecs had paintings of a garden, with a single tree standing in the midst; round the root of the tree is entwined a serpent, whose head appearing above the foliage displays the face of a woman.
Both had a species of serpent-worship.
Compare our representation of the great serpent-mound in Adams County, Ohio, with the following description of a great serpent-mound in Scotland:
"Serpent-worship in the West.--Some additional light appears to have been thrown upon ancient serpent-worship in the West by the recent archaeological explorations of Mr.
GREAT SERPENT MOUND, OHIO.
a curious earthen mound in Glen Feechan, Argyleshire, referred to by him, at the late meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, as being in the form of a serpent or saurian.
The back or spine of the serpent, which, as already stated, is 300 feet long, was found, beneath the peat moss, to be formed by a careful adjustment of stones, the formation of which probably prevented the structure from being obliterated by time and weather." (Pall Mall Gazette.)
He finally returned to the land in the East from which he came: leaving the American coast at Vera Cruz, he embarked in a canoe made of serpent-skins, and 'sailed away into the east.'" (Ibid., p.
"The base is formed by the head of Cukulcan, the shaft of the body of the serpent, with its feathers beautifully carved to
"The usual symbol of the Phallus was an erect stone, often in its rough state, sometimes sculptured." (Squier, "Serpent Symbol," p.
The elder recounts an ancient story involving two figures: "The Great Bird" and "The Feathered Serpent." These figures played central roles in the religious and cultural development of ancient human civilizations, particularly in the Four Corners region (modern-day Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico).