9 The great dragon was thrown out, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan [the Adversary], the deceiver of the whole world.
14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly to her place in the desert, where she is taken care of for a season and two seasons and half a season,away from the serpent’s presence.
15 The serpent spewed water like a river out of its mouth after the woman, in order to sweep her away in the flood;
A similar symbol was found on a copper coin from Guatemala, featuring an eagle and a serpent around a fruit tree, suggesting the transmission of this knowledge across continents.
Thus it was expressed upon those circular and sacred cakes of the Egyptians, composed of the richest materials-of flour, of honey, of milk--and with which the serpent
He built a great city in America called “Nachan,” City of the Serpents … from his own race, which was named Chan, a serpent.
He founds Nachan, “City of the Serpents,” from the Chan or serpent race.
He is tied to a Culebres or serpent people.
The American Votan trail and the Humboldt-Jones weekday parallels give labeled diffusion hooks, including Phoenician and serpent readings.
The Phoenicians: soft frame for Cabrera’s Hivite / Cadmus-serpent reading of Chivim.
1:2), "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.
1:2), "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.
What Moses repeated was the sound he heard, and then he had to think, "What does that sound mean?"[41:45] Generations of theologians have had to ask, "What does that sound mean?" Yahweh sounds the way it does because we’ve inserted vowels into the Tetragrammaton to make it pronounceable, and when we do that, it makes the H’s almost silent.[41:39] In "Echoes of Eden," I point out that H’s in Proto-Semitic were not silent—they sounded like this: chhh.[41:49] Now, if I tell you that all around the world there are stories of our ancestors being governed by beings that were as violent and punitive and hungry for beef, gold, and virgin girls as Yahweh appears to be in the Bible, if you go to Mesoamerica, you will read about feathered serpents or what we might call dragons called Kukumatz or Kukulkan or Quetzalcoatl.[42:24] Go to Georgia, it’s the Caucasus; Japan, you’ve got the Akuchi or Kuchi-dera; go to Spain and Portugal, Pacoca; go to Greece, it’s the Drakos.
They complain about the food, and Yahweh sends snakes, dragons, serpents instead of food to bite them, to punish them for moaning.
Unless they kowtow to the image of the dragon or the serpent, they will die.[48:06] That is the story Jesus is identifying, and so he’s cutting himself off from the dragon stories, from the Yahweh stories, and talking instead about God who is our Father, God who is our source.
The Devas and Asuras used Mount Mandara as the churning rod and the serpent Vasuki as the rope.
Six deities, covered, in green and blue feathers, lay in the primordial waters: the Framer and the Shaper, Tepew and Quetzal Serpent, along with Xpiyacóc and Xmucané.
A Snake: A serpent that cannot be charmed made its nest at the base of the tree.
According to Ibn Ishaq, after Iblis was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he married the serpent whose mouth he had entered when he spoke to Adam, and they had offspring.
The ancient Mexicans had a myth of Xolotl, making out of a man's bone the primeval mother in the heavenly Paradise; and he called the woman he had made Cihuacouhatl, which means "The woman with the serpent," or Quilatzli, which means "The woman of our flesh."
She was the mother of twins and is represented in a Mexican hieroglyph as speaking with the serpent, whilst behind her stand the twins, whose different characters are represented by different colors, one of whom is represented slaying the other.
One of the first men was Racumon, who was transformed into a great serpent with a human head, and he lived twined round a great Cabatas tree and ate of its fruit, and gave to those who passed by.
The godless Sammael had made an alliance with all the chiefs of his host against the Lord, because the holy and ever-blessed Lord had said to Adam and Eve, "Have dominion over the fish of the sea," and he said, "How can I make man to sin and drive him out?" Then he went down to earth with all his host, and he sought for a companion like to himself; he chose the serpent, which was in size like a camel, and he seated himself on its back and rode up to the woman, and said to her, "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" And he thought, "I will ask more presently." Then she answered, "He has only forbidden me the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge which is in the midst of the garden.
But, as it feared that Ridhwan would search it on its return through the gates, it hesitated to take Eblis with it, but promised to send the cunning serpent out, who would certainly devise a means of introducing Eblis into the garden.
The serpent was formerly queen of all creatures.
The bird was not mistaken; as soon as it had told the story, the serpent exclaimed: "What!
The serpent accordingly glided out of the gates of Paradise, and bade Eblis tell her what he had told the peacock.
"How shall I bring you unobserved into Paradise?" asked the serpent.
The serpent thereupon opened her mouth, Eblis flew in and seated himself between her teeth, and by so doing poisoned them for all eternity.
When she had passed Ridhwan in security, the serpent opened her mouth and asked Eblis to take her with him to the highest heaven, where she might behold the majesty of God.
"Why are you so disquieted, gentle serpent?" asked Eve.
"I am troubled for Adam's future," answered the evil spirit, affecting the voice of the serpent.
"Why, dearest serpent, did you never tell me of this before?
At this moment Eblis flew out of the serpent's mouth, and stood in human form beneath the tree.
The peacock shall lose its melodious voice, and the serpent its feet; dark and noisome shall be the den in which the serpent shall dwell, dust shall be its meat, and its destruction shall be a meritorious work.
Adam was expelled through the gate of Repentance, that he might know that through it alone could Paradise be regained; Eve was banished through the gate of Grace; the peacock and the serpent through that of Wrath, and Eblis through the gate of Damnation.
Adam fell into the island Serendib (Ceylon), Eve at Jedda, the Serpent into the desert of Sahara, the Peacock into Persia, and Eblis into the river Eila.
Tabari also says that four trees pitying the shame of Adam and Eve, the Peacock, and the Serpent, in being driven naked out of Paradise, bowed their branches and gave each a leaf.
Hadit, pure consciousness, and individuality, is often depicted as a winged serpent or a flame.
Mo’o are lizard or serpent-like water spirits
Amaru, the plumed serpent god
Naga, serpent-like beings inhabiting a vast underground world
The serpent was formerly queen of all creatures.
The golden serpent of the Goddess on her left arm, signifying she is an initiate of the Magdalene mysteries.
Mahisasura is also represented as the great serpent Vrita, against which Indra fought, and which after a desperate struggle he overcame.
The Norse story is that Loki, the spirit of evil, is one of the gods, and sat with them at their table till he declared himself their enemy, when he with his vile progeny, the wolf and the serpent, were cast out.
The wolf is bound, Thorr constrains the serpent, and Loki is chained under the mountains, and a serpent distils poison on his breast; when he tosses in agony, the earth quakes.
The serpent is an archetypal symbol that is found in many ancient myths.
The serpent’s nature consistently portrays duality — it is feared but yet is a strong ally for humankind.
In the Sumerian texts, Enki, the god (Sirian) who protects humanity, is also portrayed as a serpent.
The judgment that the serpent is “evil” is more contemporary and may have been a ploy used by the gods (Lyrans) to keep humanity in fear and thus from following the instructions of the Sirians who were attempting to assist humankind.
See: The school of the nine serpents
Archontics, Ophites, and Sethians are classical Gnostic groups who narrate planetary Archons, the serpent trail, and Sethian elect.
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.
In the 2014 film Noah, Lamech (played by Marton Csokas) passes a serpent skin relic to Noah before being killed by Tubal-cain.
Just as the phoenix appears as a witness for the angels, so too the water serpents in Egypt have become a witness to those who go down for the baptism of a true person.
I asked the Savior,“Lord, isn’t it the serpent that caused Adam to eat?”
He smiled and replied,“The serpent caused them to eatin order to produce the wickedness of the desire to reproducethat would make Adam helpful to him.”]
Popular retellings sometimes add a serpent rope.
This results in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of the Yaldabaoth, a "serpent with a lion's head".
Thereafter, the pair are "tempted" by the serpent, and eat of the forbidden fruit, thereby once more regaining the power that the demiurge had stolen.
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
Tempted by a serpent, Eve eats the fruit from this forbidden tree and gives some to Adam, who also eats it.
All of the animals refused except the serpent.
In Ishaq’s sirah, the serpent is depicted as a graceful animal that walked on four legs, but as a result of her collaboration with Iblis, Allah punished her and condemned her to travel on her belly.
In some narratives, Vishnu is described as sleeping on the cosmic ocean on the serpent Ananta or Shesha, between the cycles of creation maintained by Brahma.
His subsequent form resembled a colossal serpent, maintaining the rugged, armored head.
All of the animals refused except the serpent.
In Ishaq’s sirah, the serpent is depicted as a graceful animal that walked on four legs, but as a result of her collaboration with Iblis, Allah punished her and condemned her to travel on her belly.
Though this translation is understandable because chain mail would resemble scales, it obscures an important connection with the serpent (and possibly Dagon).
Scale armor ramps up the significance, as it connects Goliath with the serpent himself.
Goliath was the seed of the serpent, and David was of the seed of the woman.
Whether Goliath was the biological offspring of the serpent (through the Nephilim) or merely the spiritual offspring, there is a connection with Genesis 3:15.
David, the seed of the woman, crushed the head of the seed of the serpent.
Israel’s first king, Saul, fought a serpent in his first battle against Nahash (Hebrew “serpent”), king of the Ammonites, and here David faced his own serpent.
David passed the test by defeating the giant serpent and cutting off his head.
We proudly wore her golden serpent upon our left arms, representing the raising of the resurrecting life-force energy – Kundalini or Sekhem, up the spine or the djed.