Hey dear Hive friends, first of all I would like to wish you all a pleasant day and hope you had a weekend that was full of positive experiences and hope you are well! In this post I would like to write something about mythology and hope you can learn something new.
Here are some pictures that I created with the help of artificial intelligence and depict snakes that are deeply rooted in symbolism and mythology. From a symbolic point of view, there are often many different meanings for snakes and are often associated with wisdom, secrets, fertility, healing, creation but also occultism. Snakes are also often associated with the underworld or energy and are one of the most important symbols in medicine and snakes are also associated with Kundalini, which according to tantric teachings is a primal force of humans. In occultism, the snake is often associated with flowing transitions or the light bringer Lucifer and the symbolism is really extremely complex and diverse. In order to go a little deeper into connection with flowing transitions, the snake is often associated with light or dark, good and evil, fertility and destruction and in general they were also regarded as an animal with divine power.
Because snakes have the ability to skin from time to time, they are often associated with resurrection and it was often also considered a sign of eternal youth and immortality. In mythology, snakes are deeply anchored and in Greek mythology, the snake is dedicated to the god of medicine asclepius, who is known for his rod, which is deeply rooted in medicine. The snake is also known as the protector of the underworld and is associated with the god Hades and also in the form of mixed beings snakes can often be seen such as the hydra which is known as the snake with many heads or the leviathan or the basilisk. In Buddhism, snakes were considered positive and often associated with protective forces and here is a good example of the Indian snake goddess with the name Naga, which is associated with fertility.
In ancient Egypt, the Apophis snake is very well known, which is also associated with chaos and destruction and another important snake is the uraeus snake. Also in the Egyptian mythology, snakes were associated with the underworld as earth animals and the task of snakes was to rejuvenate the dead in the underworld. In the Norse mythology, the midgard serpent appears, which lives in the ocean and encomes the world and is also of enormous size and it also plays a major role in the end-time legend of ragnarök. Often snakes are also regarded as bearers of messages and also the old alchemists revered snakes such as the snake Ouroboros which bit itself into the tail and is also known as the snake of eternity and around the globe there are many other legends that revolve around snakes and of course it is always something interesting if you also know the symbolism and mythology behind things.
Thanks for taking the time to read through my post and I hope you like it and can learn something new about this interesting topic!