Why did almost every ancient culture worship snakes or have snake gods?

You must live on a completely different planet, if Jesus has something to do with a worldwide control mechanism. Look around you, morality is constantly degrading.

that story is not accurately recorded anywhere you would be able to access...

the mega-structures we see around the world are from atlantean times, hence pre-flood... they were placed on grid lines in attempts to harness and cage planetary spirit energy...

they were knocked off the grid lines by a shift of the earth's axis by 30 degrees, causing many areas to go under water... the original placement of the great pyramid, was on the equator... it is not 30 degrees south of the equator...

Actually I have a book very close to me that accurately records things. It doesn't go into much detail for sure. I don't have a problem with your idea about grid lines and this stuff. The preflood world maybe was more advanced than ours. Ancient Hindu writings describe jets and nuclear war. I didn't live then so I don't know. Only in one book is Gods dealings with people recorded accurately.

there are many factors involved in what we see going on in this world...in general though, when a creation is no longer useful to an intended direction, it will die a slow death, while a new paradigm is instilled...

satan is just the personification of opposition. It's a metaphor for the opposing forces of duality.

duality is one of the foundations of the universe: night/day, sun/moon, male/female, inhale/exhale, me/you, live/death, the tide flows in/the tide flows out etc etc etc

existences is bult upon two opposing forces that are opposite poles of the same thing.

like a magnet. It has a positive end and a negative end and when you put tow magnets next to each other one side repels the other. Yet neither side of the magnet is good or evil

same with the battery in your car. A positive pole and a negative pole.

THroughout ancient religions there is always a character that opposes the main character. In Egypt it was Set who opposed Osiris and tried to thwart Osiris. All religions and mythologies have the same personification of the opposing forces of duality. One character on a journey and another character in opposition to the main character that "battles" with him/her.

This notion that satan is a red horned half man half goat with a pointy tale and a pitchfork who is responsible for all the evil in the world, is the superstition of a child who doesn't understand how metaphor and allegory and analogy works in literature.

there is evil in the world, but it's not because some goat demon in a fire pit who wants your soul. Evil comes from within man. This is the metaphor for the battle between good and evil within each man. You can choose good or you can choose to be evil, the battle of opposing forces happens within.

that battle within has been personified throughout the religions and myths of the world by telling stories about two characters who duke it out. The stories aren't meant to be taken literally.

At least you admit there is a creator. Cheers

i know, it is your bible...

stick with it, it is your path...

i entered this thread due to it's theme of snake symbolism, and i was hoping to engage in a good conversation with someones who knows detail on this subject...

i was mistaken, and will leave your thread now...

Satan (Betelguese) is just the reflection of Lucifer (Rigel), a sort of shadow separated by the Casimir plate (magnetic cloud of noble gas). The same way as Nephthys is the shadow of Isis.

We're talking anode stars vs. cathode stars. Neither are the true Creator of humans but both are pseudo creators in their own right for the sacrifice they gave humans, mainly a backbone (Betelguese) and kundalini enery (Rigel).

Not that you asked but id take Rigel over Betelguese any day. But one without the other is pretty much useless.

of course, there are many creator beings... bye...

Stars are created objects of hot gas, why follow the created when the Creator is here waiting for us.

Sigh..

Id like to have a meeting with both but they're mad at me right now.

They think ive forgotten where im from...i haven't, but i have other family too. You two dont forget where YOUR from...IE Sons of MA!

Its ok, he liked snake talk, and the first pages had lots of that. He didn't like my conclusion, but said nothing to refute it.

please cite some examples of ancient creation stories in which the name satan is mentioned, and if you can find any, then cite any example in an ancient creation story where snakes and the name satan are synonymous.

as you've pointed out the worship of the snake is very ancient.

the worship of the snake predates the name satan. So satan cannot be the original serpent because as you've pointed out, the snake / serpent has been worshipped throughout human history. The name satan is not as old as serpent worship is.

The Biblical creation story fits your criteria. There are other creation stories that involve snakes, but of course the names are different. I am hoping that people can connect the dots. Even if the names are changed the source is the same.

Ok then call him Lucifer, I understand satan is a hebrew word for adversary. Its still the same being.

Yahweh is a snake dragon

Cite an example of a creation story in which the snake / serpent is synonymous with evil.



So you're saying that satan has had different names throughout human history.

If you believe that the names of the same beings have been changed throughout cultures and time, then you must believe the same for Jesus.

If Satan had different names, then the theory that Krishna, Horus, Atys, Buddha, Mithra, Dionysus are different names for Jesus must also be true.

Without snakes we would all be dead.

cite an ancient creation story in which whatever the name of the adversary is synonymous with a snake or serpent and called "evil".

an adversary doesn't mean evil. It just means opposition. Two teams in a sporting event are adversaries. Yet one team is not good and the other evil.

again, two sides of a magnet are in adversarial relationship to each other. Neither is good or evil

look at the etmyology of the word satan:

In biblical sources the Hebrew term the satan describes an adversarial role. It is not the name of a particular character. Although Hebrew storytellers as early as the sixth century B.C.E. occasionally introduced a supernatural character whom they called the satan, what they meant was any one of the angels sent by God for the specific purpose of blocking or obstructing human activity. [Elaine Pagels, "The Origin of Satan," 1995]
[link to www.etymonline.com]

Oh, i guess i wasnt clear, i do give my worship to the One true Creator. It would be wise for us all to remember we ALL come from ONE source, no matter the star system we are from.

Thanks for the thread OP. Im enjoying it.

I never said that the snake represented evil in creation stories. Generally he is represented good as a creator. Satan desires worship, and he will confuse people to worship a multitude of gods.

Jesus is completely unique. He has nothing to do with the others you listed. God dealt with people thru Israel, before Christ. After Israel rejected Him, His grace was given to gentiles. Jesus is God, His name may be a little different in other languages, but He is certainly not Krishna, Buddha, etc...

Hi beebee

There is one source and one way to God. I am glad you enjoy the thread.

I think it is a certain level of Spirituality you can obtain.
Certain qualities are received.

Also the shedding of the skin and growing is important.
The "transformation" factor is important.
The fact that a snake is very vulnerable during this transformation time is also important.
Camouflage factors important.

Poison is medicine and cures instead of poisons in the right dose.

The ways of "travel" would be different for a person with this type of body
on the lower half. Land and water and earth animal- can even be seen as a sky animal too, even as a fire snake (dragon) so it has all the elements.

I tend to think it even has a greater meaning such as maybe it is a spiral (which is important in many ways) shaped path that our Earth takes upwards to our destination.

I feel "layered" meanings.

The scales seem important.

The symbolic "Kundalini" is important.
Representing The Spine or Backbone.

Just some thoughts.

I appreciate your thoughts.