Why do you dream about transformation according to the dream book? Enchanted Soul In Chinese astrology, one of the years of the twelve-year cycle is named after the snake. It is believed that people born in the year of the Snake are endowed with the abilities of compassion and clairvoyance, as well as an irresistible

If you happen to turn into a crow, the news received will be extremely negative character. There is a high probability of forced separation from your lover. Moreover, this will happen on his initiative, and this news will become a real emotional blow for you, after which bad thoughts will settle in your head.

Don't think that life ends after separation. Fate always knows when to bring people together and when to separate them. This person has probably already fulfilled his role in your life, and now it’s time to give his place to someone else.

Why do you dream that you have turned into a woman?

For a man, a dream in which he turned into a woman means that he has too soft a character, which is actively taken advantage of by those around him. Uncertainty and indecision neutralize your inherent talents and extraordinary mind. You will not be able to succeed in business sphere, if you do not show your strength and masculinity.

For a woman, the reverse vision, in which she transformed into a man, has a similar interpretation.

The first step towards getting rid of internal complexes is recognizing their presence. Therefore, be honest with yourself and identify your weak character traits yourself.

The meaning of a dream about turning into an animal

The interpretation of the dream where the transformation into an animal occurred largely depends on what kind of animal you have become. If it was a bear, wolf or other predator, it means you lack determination and strength of character. A fox, cat and similar animals indicate a lack of resourcefulness and flexibility, and a dog characterizes you as not a very good and devoted friend.

Try to find a balance of your soft and decisive qualities in order to become a harmonious person, capable of finding a compromise, and when necessary, showing toughness and inflexibility.

I dreamed of a man turning into a snake

Having seen in a dream how a person turns into a snake before your eyes, you should be more careful when communicating with this special one in reality. Most likely, she has planned something unkind towards you, and at any moment she can show her true nature.

If you yourself have transformed into a viper, reconsider your principles, since the lack of certain qualities, such as decency, can lead to others starting to shun you.

Treat people the way you want to be treated. You cannot demand decency from others if you are not one yourself.

Interpretation of a dream about turning into a cat

According to the dream book, a vision where the transformation into a cat occurred foreshadows favorable events in your life. They will happen after you develop qualities such as diplomacy and flexibility. Your transformation will be facilitated by certain incidents that will somewhat change your inherent rigid demeanor.

Don't be afraid to change. Gentleness in character does not mean weakness or lack of will. Once you become a little kinder, you will immediately notice how much better the world around you has become.

A dream in which the transformation into a werewolf occurred

If you dreamed that you turned into a werewolf, it means that you are currently being guided by base instincts. Greed, greed and thirst for easy money have clouded your mind and turned you into a completely different person. The sign you see serves as a warning that if you don’t come to your senses, you risk getting into serious trouble.

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I kept thinking that a boa constrictor (or some other snake) CANNOT SWALLOW a person for purely physiological reasons. All films about this are fiction and horror films. But what does it turn out to be? Here's yesterday's news.

In Russia, a drunk can freeze, but it turned out that in hot India it is also dangerous to get completely drunk. A man lying in the cold on the street near a store in the Indian state of Kerala was devoured by a huge man-eating python.

A snake that swallowed a man. Photo: India, Kerala state.

The incident happened in the Indian state of Kerala, which, like Goa, attracts a large number of tourists.

In India, a careless man decided to have a pleasant evening, but did not bring any alcohol home and drank the purchased drinks right next to a liquor store. The drunkard settled down there for the night.

And in the morning local residents They found a bloated snake on the threshold of a shop. It turned out that the python was crawling past the liquor store and saw the “food”. He strangled the man and then swallowed his victim. After such a hearty “lunch,” the reptile was unable to crawl away and lay down at the scene of the emergency.

The bloated snake was subsequently discovered by local residents, LOTD reports.

This example can serve as an edification to numerous tourists who go to India on vacation and often forget about moderation in relation to alcohol and other relaxing substances.

Here's a case like this:

A huge python, according to the children's stories, suddenly grabbed their friend when they were collecting fallen mangoes in the garden. The snake quickly wrapped itself around the child, tightly squeezing his arms and legs. The boy was so scared that he didn’t even scream or cry.

“The python squeezed him more and more until the boy closed his eyes and threw his head back,” said 11-year-old Cave, an eyewitness to the tragedy. - I realized that he was dead or unconscious. Then the snake opened its mouth wide and began to swallow him all at once, starting with the head.” For three hours, the children silently watched what was happening, afraid to move or call for help.

Later, police and snake experts found no traces of the tragedy - the child and his clothes disappeared along with the snake. On the rumpled grass there was only a trail leading to the spring. Herpentologists explained that the African python needed water to better digest its prey.

According to experts, this is the first case of cannibalism for this species of snake. Python apparently woke up after hibernation and was very hungry.

The reptile, swollen with a human body, was found nearby in the jungle; it could not crawl far. The snake was killed and immediately cut up, but the boy could not be saved - he died of suffocation.

Another case:

It turns out that the plot of the film “Anaconda” is based on real basis and in our sinful world there are giant reptiles that can swallow a person whole.

Usually snakes prefer to attack more small creatures, which they can swallow without problems, but despite this, there are many documented cases of these reptiles swallowing livestock, dogs and even baby hippos.

Unfortunately, the diet of these predators is not limited to such a meager set of dishes, and creeping reptiles are not averse to tasting human flesh if possible. It’s hard to believe, but there really are giant giants on Earth for whom humans are just prey.

Four friends: Jose Ronaldo. Fernando Contaro, Miguel Orvaro and Sebastian Forte went to Mato Grosso, Brazil for camping and fishing. The fishing went well, and the alcohol flowed freely. Returning from the river, the friends noticed the absence of the fourth member of their fun company– dentist Jose Ronaldo. The tipsy fishermen looked for their drinking buddy before dark, but Jose seemed to have disappeared into the ground.

The next day, in a cheerful and high spirits, they went in search, hoping to find their friend lying drunk in some ditch. Towards evening they discovered his torn clothes.

“At first we decided that it was a robbery: the ground around was dug up, as if someone had been fighting on it,” says one of the fishermen, Fernando Contaro. “My heart was relieved, because if he was attacked by a person, and not a wild animal, then he could survive!”

After examining the scene of the struggle, they discovered a deep footprint in the ground leading into the forest. Experienced hunter Sebastian Forte immediately said that the snake had left him... very big snake, at least 10 meters long. The sun was already setting and the men decided to return to camp.

The next morning the men followed the snake's trail. What they discovered at the end of their journey shocked them: in front of them was lying giant anaconda with an incredibly bloated body. Miguel pressed the python's head to the ground with a stick, and Fernando shot the reptile twice in the head with a revolver. The anaconda was towed to the camp, where they cut open its stomach and removed the dentist’s body, which had already begun to digest.

If a snake swallows a person, which happens relatively rarely, then it is certainly only for the purpose of “eating a little.” Here we could quote lengthy instructions recently published on the Internet on what to do if you are swallowed by a python or anaconda. The basic idea is that you need to let the snake swallow more of its legs, and then, with a sharp movement of a sharp knife, cut its head from the side from the inside. Where to get a sharp knife and what to do if you start to be swallowed from the head - this instruction does not tell you.

The only difficulty when swallowing a person should be caused by the shoulders. An adult, broad-shouldered man can hardly be swallowed...

The snake's jaw can, of course, move apart, but only to a certain limit. Only possible way- if the snake manages to swallow a person lying on its side (or it itself turns its head in such a way so that the victim enters it sideways).

So an anaconda may well swallow a child, a woman, a small, narrow-shouldered man...

Case three. Why shouldn't snakes eat hippos?
The answer is simple, hippos have too thick skin that more than one snake simply cannot digest.

(It's an unpleasant sight, think twice before watching)

Video: a stupid python that ate a baby hippopotamus, crawled with this carcass for a week, became terribly hungry and was forced to vomit this delicacy out of itself.

And now just some interesting information about snakes on this topic.

Bernard Grzimek.
From the book “Animals are my life.”
Can a snake swallow a person?

“There is no doubt that the ancients meant by their dragons our modern giant snakes. The amazing size of these animals, their considerable strength and the general fear of snakes in general make the exaggerations of which the ancients were guilty very clear.<…>Over time, human imagination has endowed dragons even richer and from incomprehensible fairy tales oriental people images gradually grew for which man of sense I searched in vain for the originals, because information about the giant snakes themselves was almost lost. The more stubbornly uneducated people stuck to the favorite description of a large dragon or a gorynych serpent, spewed onto the earth for the destruction of the whole world "(A. E. Bram)

A giant twenty-meter or even thirty-meter snake, hiding on a branch, lies in wait for its prey. From a blow to the crown of her head, hard as a stone, a man taken by surprise falls almost unconscious to the ground, and the snake, with a lightning-fast throw, rushes at him and wraps him in its coils, breaking all his bones in an iron embrace. This happens in cases where brave liberators who cut the snake into pieces with knives do not arrive in time to help...
Descriptions of such heartbreaking scenes can be found in many adventure novels and even in other reports of expeditions to the unexplored tropics.

Are they really attacking? giant snakes per person? Are they capable of swallowing us? There are hardly any other animals that are fantasized about as much as pythons, anacondas or boa constrictors. And therefore, it is precisely with regard to these animals that even a specialist finds it very difficult in each individual case to decide what is true and what is fiction.

This starts with determining the length. Even serious travelers have claimed that anacondas 30 or even 40 meters long are found in the Amazon forests. But they, as a rule, kept silent about whether they measured these snakes themselves or know this from eyewitness accounts.

Anaconda is the same boa constrictor, only South American. It is she who is considered the largest and strongest among all the giant snakes in the world. Another South American snake, also no less famous and also a boa constrictor (Constrictor), reaches a length of “only” five to six meters.

It must be said that measuring a snake is not so easy. It is most convenient to do this, of course, when it stretches to its full length. But for a large snake such a position is completely unnatural; some of them are simply not able to accept it - they need to bend at least the very end of their tail to the side in order to have support. Such a strong animal will not voluntarily allow itself to be straightened for measurement. In a dead snake, the body usually becomes so ossified that it is even more difficult to measure. If you judge the length of snakes by their skins that go on sale, then it is very easy to fall into a mistake: after all, this skin is sold by the meter, and therefore, while it is fresh, it can be stretched in length by 20 percent, and some say even by all 50. Snake hunters often use this.
It is interesting that live snakes are also sold by the meter. Snake traders charge zoos for small and medium-sized pythons from 80 pfennig to one mark for every centimeter. The New York Zoological Society announced many years ago that it would pay 20 thousand marks to anyone who brought a live anaconda over ten meters long; however, no one has yet been able to earn this tempting amount.

And yet it is quite possible that such giants exist or existed until very recently. The weight of such an animal should be quite impressive; Thus, the Asian reticulated python measures 8.8 meters and weighs 115 kilograms. It is no wonder that such a colossus, living in the thicket of a virgin forest, is not so easy to defeat without a whole horde of helpers. And then you still need to be able to deliver it unharmed to the airfield or port.

The record length of the hieroglyphic python (Python sebae), widespread in Africa, is 9.8 meters. The Indian or tiger python (Python molurus) reaches 6.6 meters, the East Asian reticulated python (Python reticulatus) - either 8.4 meters or 10 meters, depending on which source you believe. A little smaller than the amethyst python.
So, in fact, we have already listed all six giants of the snake world: four oviparous pythons - natives of the Old World and two viviparous boas - of the New. Among the 2,500 species of snakes that inhabit Earth, there are a number of other species of boas and pythons, but they are much smaller.

Giant snakes are not poisonous. Unlike the fat giants of the snake kingdom Poisonous snakes(for example, the African mamba, sometimes reaching four meters, and even longer - King Cobra) thinner and slimmer.

It takes a snake a lot of time to reach its enormous size. The eight-meter reticulated python living at the Pittsburgh Zoo grew by only 25 centimeters in a year. The older the snake gets, the slower it grows.

By appearance It is completely impossible to determine whether a snake is a female or a male. A pair of hieroglyphic pythons, which arrived at the New York Zoo at the age of one, grew at the same rate for the first six to seven years, but then the female began to noticeably lag in growth. The fact is that during this time she began to fast every year for six months: during the maturation of the eggs and when she warmed them, curled up around them.

We don’t know to what age giant snakes can live in the wild. No one has ever ringed them in their habitats, as has been done for decades, for example, with migratory birds. We can judge their age only from data obtained from zoos. The anaconda lived the longest at the Washington Zoo - 28 years (from 1899 to 1927). One of the boas lived in England at the Bristol Zoo for 23 years and 3 months, and the hieroglyphic python reached the age of eighteen there. Tiger python at the San Diego Zoo (California) lived to be 22 years and 9 months, and two East Asian reticulated pythons - one in London and the other in Paris - died at the age of 21 years.

The giants of the snake kingdom are the only large animals on Earth that do not have a voice, like, in fact, all other snakes. IN best case scenario they may hiss. Snakes are not only mute, but also deaf. They do not perceive sound vibrations in the air - they do not have ears for this, like other animals. But they perfectly perceive any, even the most insignificant, shaking of the soil or litter on which they rest.

In addition, these deaf-mute giants also have poor vision. Their eyes are devoid of movable eyelids, and the transparent leathery film that protects the eye during each molt is separated along with all the skin and removed, like glass from a watch. The snake eye lacks the muscles of the iris, therefore the pupil cannot contract in bright light and dilate in dim light. The snake barely reacts to changes in the lighting of the eyes: the lens in it cannot bend, like ours, which deprives snakes of the opportunity to carefully examine objects located at close or far distances at will. To look at anything, the snake has to move its entire head first and then back. Perhaps all these are very useful properties (necessary, for example, for swimming and especially for looking at various objects under water), but, by God, much more improved eyes are found in the animal world.

Since the python, like other snakes, does not close its eyes during sleep, it is always very difficult to determine whether it is sleeping or awake. Some snake researchers argue that a sleeping snake faces downwards, meaning its pupil is at the bottom edge of the eye; others dispute this claim.
The immobility of snake eyes gave rise to the widely repeated fairy tale that snakes supposedly hypnotize, as if paralyzing their prey with their gaze. Frogs, lizards or small rodents Indeed, sometimes they sit completely motionless in the presence of a giant boa constrictor, but this is explained for various reasons: sometimes they simply do not notice the danger, and sometimes they freeze with fear; such freezing brings them a certain benefit, since the snake does not distinguish a motionless victim. After all, it is only when the frog runs away that the snake overtakes it.

How, after all, do these deaf-mute and, moreover, short-sighted giants find food for themselves? It turns out that they have developed sensory organs that we do not possess. For example, they unmistakably sense heat from a long distance. Human hand the snake senses it already at a distance of thirty centimeters. Therefore, it is quite easy for silently crawling snakes to find even those warm-blooded animals that are carefully hidden in shelters. So that their own breathing does not interfere with their breathing, some of them (for example, pythons) have nostrils facing upward and backward.

But the sense of smell is most developed in snakes. Quite surprisingly, the organ of smell is located in their mouth, on the palate, and necessary information it is delivered by a tongue that extracts various small particles from the air. Thus, snakes do not need daylight; they can crawl in the tracks of their prey with equal success both day and night.

Once, not far from the Serengeti, my son Michael and I came across a huge hieroglyphic python, reaching three to four meters in length. We decided to take him with us. By the way, giant snakes, if they are not holding on to a tree or tangled in bushes, are not that difficult to catch. In an hour they can travel no more than one and a half kilometers - if they suddenly have the desire to crawl for an hour. Giant snakes move completely differently than their small relatives. They move forward, wriggling with their whole body, while in a giant snake the abdominal scales are used for this purpose. The scales are set in motion by muscles extending from the ribs (the ribs themselves remain motionless), causing it to move forward and backward like the small scoops of an excavator.

At that time we did not yet have much experience in handling snakes and therefore at first we showed extreme caution when guiding the python with spears. But in the end, we still decided to grab the snake by the tail, and it didn’t even try to attack us. We managed to stuff her into a bag, which we tied and put under a cot in our tent for the night. Unfortunately, the next morning the bag was empty. The huge snake still managed to free itself. However, from the trail she left, it was easy to find out where she crawled. This trail was straight, distinct and wide, as if someone had rolled a car tire.
Not a single snake, including poisonous ones, is able to catch up with a running person. But giant snakes can swim well, much better than other land animals. As for the anaconda, it can be classified as an aquatic rather than a terrestrial animal.
Snakes and the sea don't care. Thus, one boa constrictor (Constriktor) was carried by the current 320 kilometers from the South American coast and washed up on the island of St. Vincent, where he arrived in good spirits.

When the Krakatoa volcano erupted in 1888, all life on the island of the same name was destroyed. Biologists observed how, over the subsequent years and decades, various lichens, plants and animals gradually reappeared here. So, the first reptiles to appear there were rock pythons, which by 1908 again took possession of the island.

The giant snakes have not yet completely turned into round ropes, as happened with other representatives of the snake tribe. Boas and pythons, like us, still have a pair of lungs, while in most other snakes the left lung has disappeared, and the right has greatly elongated and expanded noticeably. The giant snakes have small remains of pelvic and hip bones. But only two pitiful claws remained from the outside of the hind legs - to the right and to the left of the anus.

How do such slow giants manage to catch their prey? It should be said from the very beginning that the statement that they knock a person or any animal unconscious with a blow to their head is absolutely false. The head of these giant monsters not particularly hard, and in any case softer than ours. The snake itself would not be too pleased to use it for boxing. In addition, the attack of a giant snake is by no means as lightning fast as it is imagined. The force with which a snake weighing 125 kilograms attacks a victim is no greater than the force with which a dog weighing 20 kilograms attacks. Of course, some frail, unathletic European might fall from such a push. But a more or less dexterous man is quite capable of handling a four-meter boa constrictor alone, at least if he manages to stay on his feet; he can pull down the snake coils entwined around him with a few energetic jerks.

For a snake, it is much more important not to hit its head, but to grab the victim with its teeth. To do this, she opens her mouth to the limit. The reticulated python has a hundred back-curved teeth arranged in six rows in its mouth. Therefore, if he managed to grab at least a finger, it is not so easy to pull it back. To do this, you need to try to unclench the snake’s jaws and first stick your hand even further into the mouth, and then pull it out.
Only when the snake has firmly grabbed the victim with its teeth does it begin to wrap its coils around it. Therefore, those who have to deal with giant snakes should always remember that they need to be grabbed only by the “scruff” - behind the head, so that they cannot bite.

Please take a closer look at the film footage or photographs depicting the “struggle” of a man with a giant snake, which allegedly strangles its victim. You will almost certainly notice that the “victim” has grabbed the snake by the throat. In such cases, the person himself wraps the snake around himself and then plays out the whole scene of a frantic struggle.

But even if the snake managed to grab its victim with its teeth and wrap it in several rings, this does not mean that it can “crush all its bones.” Giant snakes, even if they weigh more than a hundred kilograms, do not have the remarkable strength that is attributed to them. After all, the larger and heavier the animal, the less strength it has per kilogram of body weight. Thus, a louse, taking into account its weight, is 10 thousand times stronger than an elephant. And smaller snakes can squeeze and strangle a suitable victim much more strongly than giant snakes can squeeze their own.

Giant snakes kill not by crushing bones, but by strangulation. They're so tight chest of his victim that he is unable to breathe air into his lungs. It is possible that prolonged compression may paralyze the heart. Snake rings, coiled around the victim's torso, act more like a rubber gut or rubber bandage than a strong<анат. Раздавить таким способом твердый костяк абсолютно невозможно. Поэтому когда в некоторых сообщениях о нападении змей фигурируют раздавленные человеческие черепа, то заранее можно твердо сказать, что это досужий вымысел. Человеческий череп достаточно твердый орешек, и мягкими, эластичными предметами его не расколешь!

My colleague Dr. Gustav Lederer, who directed our exotarium for forty years, carefully examined three pigs, three rabbits and three rats that had been killed but not yet swallowed by giant snakes. No broken bones were found in the victims. But in the already swallowed prey there were broken bones.

Giant snakes are kept in many zoos around the world and generally do not show any aggression as long as they are left alone. They are even quite easy to tame. Pythons living in the wild, when they are attacked or want to be grabbed, defend themselves only by trying to bite, and almost never try to throw their rings on the enemy; they do this only with prey that they are going to swallow.

In zoos, there are sometimes circumstances in which force must be used against a snake (for example, when moving a newly arrived resident into a terrarium or when veterinary intervention is necessary). To hold the snake, people are placed in this way: for every linear meter of the snake there is one person who must hold his part tightly, under no circumstances letting go of it.

I've been asking everywhere about any case where a snake in a zoo killed someone, but until now I had never heard of it. True, I was told that in a Russian animal sales company several decades ago, a seven- or eight-meter reticulated python wrapped itself around the senior servant Siegfried and “broke several of his ribs.”
One former dancer, who once performed dances with snakes, told the servants of our Frankfurt Zoo that one of the snakes once squeezed her so hard that she broke two ribs. But in order for a slender girl to break two ribs, no supernatural forces are required. For example, one day one of my sons, in a fit, hugged his bride so tenderly that something crunched inside her. It turned out that he broke her rib...

Although giant boas, as already mentioned, can rarely be tamed, nevertheless, the snakes with which dancers perform in various variety shows and circuses do not necessarily have to be tame. In order to wrap snakes around your shoulders and waist during a dance without any risk, it is enough to cool them down before the performance, then you can do almost anything with them. These cold-blooded animals become active only after they have warmed up thoroughly.

Of course, dragging snakes around on tour, especially in winter, or keeping them in poorly heated stage restrooms or hotel rooms does not do them any good.

They do not survive such a life for long and die. Therefore, dancers have to frequently renew their supply of pythons.

It is not true that giant snakes have the habit of hanging from a tree with the end of their tail holding a branch and thus catching their prey. The statement that they pre-wet the dead animal with their saliva to facilitate swallowing is also incorrect. This misconception is based on the fact that snakes are often forced to regurgitate swallowed prey. This happens for various reasons: either the prey turns out to be prohibitively large, or when swallowed it takes an awkward position, or it has horns that prevent it from moving along the esophagus, and sometimes someone simply scared the snake, and this prevented it from calmly coping with the prey. Of course, a burped animal is abundantly moistened with saliva, which led people who accidentally saw it to misinterpret it.

Even very large and heavy snakes are able to crawl into relatively small loopholes, narrow windows or cracks in a fence. In this way, they usually sneak into chicken coops, pigsties or barns where goats are kept. And so, when they, having swallowed their victim whole, try to crawl back into the same hole from which they came, a huge thickening on the body does not allow them to get out, and they find themselves trapped. Here, it would seem, use your ability to regurgitate swallowed prey to free yourself from captivity! But snakes, as it turned out, “don’t have enough intelligence” for this.
Similar cases have been described quite often.

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In order to understand the essence of a person born in the year of the Snake, it is necessary to understand the essence of the snake in nature. The size of snakes, their cunning and hunting acumen inspire mystical horror. In fact, snakes are not that scary. They attack only in case of danger. Most snakes do not gravitate towards collective life. The snake's lifestyle is to hide among the roots of trees or among stones. Many snakes can go without food for a whole year and still maintain excellent shape.

The venom of most snakes is fatal. In order to grab prey, the snake makes a sharp throw. She very rarely misses. For example, a boa constrictor quickly wraps two or three body rings around its prey and squeezes until the victim’s breathing and heartbeat stop. If the prey escapes, the hug becomes stronger. The prey is swallowed without chewing.

The fear that snakes cause is born of mystical stories and terrible impressions of the death of people bitten by snakes. But at the same time, snakes themselves become victims of people. The ancestors of snakes are close to lizards. Both of them have powerful astral energy, which is used in healing. In many Asian countries, snakes are caught and used for food, and medicines are made from snake venom to rejuvenate and increase potency. Currently, many species of snakes are protected by international laws.

What is a person born in the year of the Snake like?

Snakes are talented and ambitious from birth. They have the gift of observation, intuition, instantly read information about a person’s strengths and weaknesses, are persistent, purposeful, and have a strong logical mind. Many Snakes have an innate gift of hypnosis and suggestion. If desired, the Snake knows how to please and make the right impression on others. And if the Snake were not so lazy, it could achieve a lot from life.

The entire life of snakes passes in close contact with the earth, therefore a typical person - a Snake - is a purely material, conservative, cold, elusive person. The Snake Man is only interested in money, material values ​​and physical pleasures. The snake is stingy, selfish and vain; it does not know how to bestow the warmth of its heart and generosity of soul on those around it. Therefore, the Snake always has problems in the area of ​​love relationships. Snakes are usually loners. They keep people at a distance. They are unsociable and have few or no friends. The snake is not inclined to open up when communicating and no one knows what she is really thinking about.

In nature, snakes can be large (in warm countries) and smaller. Likewise, people born in the year of the Snake are of 2 types:

1. Wise, calm, prone to philosophy, able to logically calculate the situation several moves ahead. These are people with strong, unshakable principles. If you find yourself in a difficult situation, ask the wise Snake for advice and you will receive it.

2. "Slippery", dangerous, insidious and "poisonous". It is almost impossible to come to an agreement with them - they will sting anyway. Such Snakes intuitively find the enemy’s weak point and strike with lightning speed.

All Snake people are careful, it is difficult to catch them by the hand, they always slip away. You don’t see such people in open spaces: they try to stay somewhere to the side, behind. The Snake man is not interested in a fortress that needs to be stormed. Snakes skillfully take care not to make enemies and envious people. They trust others little, relying only on their own mind and intuition.

When taking on a new business, Snakes think about their every step. They don't like to take risks. Work too. Since it is difficult to earn big money without risk, Snakes prefer to accumulate money gradually, throughout their lives, through austerity and stinginess.

Snakes are complex, ambiguous people. From childhood they are convinced that they were born for a great purpose. And if they find their purpose in life, they can achieve success and make a dizzying career. It must be remembered that all Snakes are brilliant manipulators. They easily find the “weak points” of those around them and, by pressing the right buttons, quickly achieve their goals. Often, to get what they want, Snakes create a scandal - in the end they get what they want. The snake is a master of scandal, and this must be taken into account.

Most Snakes prefer to dictate and give orders. Therefore, they strive to take a “warm place” as a leader in some organization where they do not have to work hard. Almost all Snakes are excellent leaders. They love and know how to plan, look at things soberly, and have excellent intuition and observation. Unfortunately, excessive caution prevents them from acting. To implement their ambitious plans, Snakes need conscientious, energetic performers - both at home and at work. Usually this is a strictly limited circle of people that does not change over the years. Snakes don't like change. They, as a rule, rarely change work and family on their own initiative.

Snakes who could not find their place in life are very difficult people. They are constantly dissatisfied with themselves and those around them, criticize everyone and everything, and provoke quarrels out of the blue. Before they even get out of bed in the morning, they begin to harass their loved ones with reproaches and lectures. They torture themselves and others, turning life into hell. Most Snakes have a hot temperament, they explode over little things, and it is very difficult to be around them. Ultimately, the Snake is its own enemy.

In order for the Snake’s life to be happy, she needs to find something she likes and devote her life to it. Then those around you will not suffer so much from its bites.

When marrying a Snake, do not expect that she will bring a lot of money to the family. She does not like to take risks; it is difficult for her to run an independent business. Most likely, she will squeeze you into a ring (take complete control) and force you to work with redoubled force, squeezing all the vital juices out of you. And she herself will rest in the shade.

Due to its frugality, the Snake can accumulate a tidy sum in old age and live off the interest. After all, it is known that the best moneylenders and bankers are Snakes.

As we said above, Snakes do not like to work, they are white-handed, all their lives they look for a warm place to bask in the sun, and languish over “gold” (accumulated material values). Surely you know from children's fairy tales that in places where treasures are hidden, snakes always live - they guard them. Therefore, the Snake needs to organize its life so that others work for it.

Yes, the Snake loves treasures. But don't flatter yourself! Even if the Snake is your marriage partner, you are unlikely to be able to use these treasures. The Snake is not known for its generosity and strictly keeps all expenses under control. If you are wasteful, then life with a Snake partner will bring you nothing but headaches. You will constantly quarrel and sort things out over money. But if you have a penchant for frugality, hoarding and order, then you and your beloved Snake are a sweet couple, mutual understanding and harmony are guaranteed to you.

In any case, living together with a Snake will teach you to take a blow. And this is worth a lot. The snake is a wonderful teacher of life. However, in the process of mutual quarrels (training), you can waste the remnants of Divine Love, as a result, illnesses will worsen, failures will haunt you, and your plans will be disrupted. If you have ever observed the behavior of a snake in nature, then you know that the snake releases its venom instantly, and the victim does not have time to defend itself, orient itself, or escape. A person born in the year of the Snake behaves in the same way. Therefore, it is dangerous to conflict with him. He will probably guess your weak points and be the first to deliver an accurate blow.

To be fair, it must be said that in most cases Snakes rarely attack themselves. Most often they are provoked to release negative emotions. We can say that the Snake is an indicator of your internal state. If you are a calm and good-natured person, then the Snake will also treat you calmly. Of course, there are cases when the Snake cannot withstand prolonged psychological influence (pressure) and becomes extremely poisonous. She always responds to hidden aggression with overt aggression. (However, this applies to any other year of birth, the Snake is simply more sensitive than others).

The snake always claims to be the head of the family. But in order to be a real master in the family, you need to be able to make decisions, be able to earn money, and you need to take responsibility. For the Snake, this is all burdensome. She is selfish and constantly demands care and attention on a par with children. Usually this is another over-aged child in the house, and far from the best.

The Snake has an ambiguous attitude towards children. In most cases, the Snake is indifferent to children. (our male Snake acquaintance does not call his children anything other than jackals).

As life shows, Snakes become life partners for those who have too much pride and high subconscious aggression towards the opposite sex. Let us remind you once again that the Snake is the teacher of life, so if your spouse was born in the year of the Snake, you have something to work on. In yourself, of course, In most cases, a marriage with a Snake is a karmic marriage, in which the Snake’s partner will work to the fullest. The snake is a slave owner,

capricious, jealous and insidious, who will entangle himself around the neck of his chosen one, leaving him no freedom of movement.

A successful marriage for a person born in the year of the Snake is possible with people born in the years of the Ox and Rooster. Snake, Ox and Rooster are energetically compatible.

Weaknesses of the Snake
The Snake's weak point is family and home. Any Snake dreams of a large and friendly family, but does not know how to live in peace itself. She lacks warmth, optimism, sincerity and the ability to express her feelings. Sincere friendship is also given to the Snake with great difficulty. The snake itself suffers from its “biting”, sometimes “poisonous” character, but it cannot do anything. She often becomes a victim of her own mood. Her worries and experiences are so acute that she cannot resist them. As a result, it spoils relationships with other people.

The Snake is characterized by depression, uncertainty, internal instability, complexes, gloomy mood, and fatigue. Outwardly, the Snake looks energetic, but in reality it has little energy. Many Snakes have anxiety attacks.

The snake is a karmic sign. Many people born in the year of the Snake have a psychological crown of celibacy.

Snake Men
The Snake man is a sensitive, emotional, ambitious, strong-willed and quite sexy man. He values ​​his personality. For him, family is the place where it is easiest to isolate himself from society.

He is difficult to communicate with. Can undeservedly offend, flare up. His character is nervous and irritable. Knows how to escalate the situation.

In family life he is demanding and extremely jealous. He respects “smart” women, but does not love them. He likes elegant, thrifty, thrifty ladies who are ready to give up their own careers for his sake. Often he does not allow his wife to get a good education. He needs a housewife in the house, not a modern business woman. He usually looks at his wife as his property. For a happy family life, he needs to find an optimistic woman who would look condescendingly at him; antics and taught him to laugh at his own fears and complexes.

He himself strives to achieve success in his professional activities. And he gets what he wants. Loves respect, fame and compliments.

For the most part, Snake men are indecisive and dependent. Some are embarrassed to even open the refrigerator and put food on the table. They often don't know whether there is food in the refrigerator at all. At home, Snake men do not show initiative. They are not picky about food and are prone to asceticism. They can go hungry for several days without much effort. From a young age, they think about how to make their old age secure. By old age, people usually gain wisdom, become calmer, and accumulate capital. They can pass on invaluable experience to the younger generation.

Snake Women
The Snake Woman has disruptive qualities. Gives importance to every little thing. She often overestimates herself and has no idea what others think about her. As a rule, she is touchy. Any failures drive her crazy. Often these are mentally unstable individuals (hysterics). It is better for her not to make comments - she does not perceive criticism addressed to her at all and reacts with an explosion of aggression. She needs to learn to monitor her thoughts, words, actions, and reactions.

A man who is going to marry a Snake woman must have a lot of money, be firm and strong-willed. Before you take her as your wife, you need to “train” her, give her the opportunity to suffer and only then condescend to her. Otherwise, in his family life he will face complete terror from his wife.

As she gets older, the Snake woman gains experience and becomes softer. She makes a good grandmother who knows how to tell fortunes, bewitch and tell fairy tales.

Girls and women born in the year of the Snake often turn to us for advice. And everyone has one problem: why does the man they love run away from them shortly before the wedding, without explaining the reasons? Why can't they arrange their personal life?

The answer to this question lies in the very character of the Snake. The man intuitively feels the noose tightening around his neck. Fearing (and not unreasonably) that they want to put him in chains and deprive him of freedom forever, he jumps out of the arms of the woman in love with him and runs wherever his eyes look, away from her, forgetting in his haste to pick up his slippers. Many Snake women make many attempts to find and return the groom. But unsuccessfully. Former suitors are so scared that they cover their tracks with extreme care.

And if someone did get hooked and listened to Mendelssohn’s march in the registry office, then she will try to tie her partner hand and foot. One reliable way to keep a partner is to have more children. And then he won’t escape her embrace.

Astromagical capabilities of the Snake
Look at the picture.

Do you see where the main energy forces of the Snake are concentrated? The upper energy centers speak of the strong logic of the Snake, and the lower energy center speaks of a close connection with the energy of the earth, that is, with the material world. So what happens: does the Snake combine material interest with cold calculation, patience, organization, intuition and the ability to manage? Yes! The way it is! Everyone knows that by giving alms, giving away your last shirt, you cannot create material wealth. Thus, the Snake, without having much vitality, is able to control its environment and hold on to material wealth and money.

The strong energy centers of the Snake make up two energy blocks, and depending on which chakras of the Snake have more energy concentrated, the Snake man belongs to the first or second type (sage or brawler).

Snakes experience external pressure throughout their lives, so they must be extremely harmonious to survive. And the highest harmony is the ability to understand, feel and live according to the laws of the Universe. Only by observing the laws of the Universe can you strengthen your spirit.

Just as wolves are considered the orderlies of the forest, so Snakes can be considered the orderlies of human society. They know how to find the “key” to both the strong and the weak. Don’t feed the snake bread, just give it the opportunity to test someone’s strength. And she will worry about the tests.

Perhaps that is why at all times the snake was considered a symbol of black magical powers. And not by chance! This is perhaps the most magical and most insidious creature on Earth. She is silent, knows how to camouflage herself, and her bite is fatal.

By the way, if you want to test the vitality of a snake, catch an earthworm, a kind of harmless baby snake in miniature, and cut it in half (across, not lengthwise). Observe how long the two halves will live. This indicates the strong astral energy of the worm. And the snake has a hundred times more!

The same can be said about a person born in the year of the Snake. Since the Snake man by nature has powerful astral energy, observation, intuition, the ability to hypnosis and the gift of suggestion, he is an ideal magician from birth. What others will spend many years on, the Snake man can achieve in an instant. In magic he has practically no competitors. The Snake and magic have mutual love. Only the Horse and the Rat can compete with the Snake in magic.

People born in the year of the Snake are interested in absolutely all magic, in all its manifestations. It is in magic that the strongest sides of the Snake man’s nature can manifest themselves. It is magic that can give the Snake everything it wants. She is interested in fortune telling using cards and runes, and loves Christmas fortune telling. He takes part in spiritualistic seances and magical rituals to summon a brownie with pleasure. The snake is a master of love spells. He can perfectly master palmistry (fortune telling along the lines of the hand) and make good money from it. She is great at magic rituals for money. If you tell the Snake how to successfully sell real estate using magic, she will be happy to do it. At the same time, she will show all her remarkable patience, endurance and ability to focus on the main goal.

All people born in the year of the Snake have excellent intuition. This is explained by the fact that most of the energy of the Snake person is in the head. But in family life, the Snake clearly lacks intuition. (This is her weak spot). The Snake, as a rule, does not know how to choose a suitable partner, so it is rarely happy in marriage.

The snake is superstitious, it has unlimited faith in omens, knows how to see distant warning signals in time and build a logical chain of events - this helps it get away from danger in time.

If for some reason you have become an enemy of the Snake, urgently mobilize all your forces. The fact is that the Snake, like no one else, has a deadly poison called “high magic.” She knows how to concentrate all her energy to form the necessary events. At the same time, you don’t need to do anything, everything works out by itself. Skillfully using high magic, the Snake is capable of inflicting the evil eye, damage, and destroying the health and fate of its enemy. In this case, distance does not matter. In addition, the Snake can work from photographs, drawings, handwriting, phantoms, and any personal belongings of a person. Casting a powerful love spell on a loved one is a trivial matter for the Snake.

Many Snakes are able to influence their prey from a distance during sleep. They are excellent at transmitting information over a distance.

The snake is an unsurpassed master of psychological games. She skillfully makes the victim economically dependent on herself and takes full advantage of this. Real life shows that few people know how to break out of the psychological traps set by the Snake man. When communicating with the Snake, you must remember that the Snake is an excellent manipulator.

People born in the year of the Snake can be conditionally classified as energy vampires. (For harmony in the world, there must be not only energy donors, but also vampires who absorb excess energy from donors). If the Snake is taught the magical techniques of energy vampirism (energy management), then it will become a professional. This is probably why among sorcerers and owners of magic salons there are so many people born in the year of the Snake.

Snakes can charge talismans, amulets, products and things, but they rarely do this. Energy cleaning of premises is also not for them. Snakes do not like to waste energy on trifles.

Snakes do not practice sexual magic at all, although they are interested in sex. For sex magic, it is important not only to form a goal, but also to radiate powerful sexual energy. And Snakes are accustomed not to emit energy, but to absorb it. During sex, the Snake completely absorbs the sexual energy of the partner; it emits almost no energy (as a carrier of information). Therefore, the formed event remains within itself.

Summarize:

A person born in the year of the Snake has innate magical abilities and has excellent command of energies. Of all types of magic, he is closest to high magic, love magic (the art of love spells), working with the elements and any types of fortune telling.

How to influence the Snake using psychology and magic?
It is almost impossible to agree on anything with the Snake without harming yourself. No matter what you do, the Snake will still “stick to its line” - that’s how it’s designed. If your team “accidentally” has not a wise, philosophically minded Snake, but a “underwater snake” that is poisoning everyone’s life (this happens), we, above the genitals, recommend that you urgently close ranks and create the most difficult conditions for it in the form of constant pressure. And it’s even better to saddle the Snake with low-paying physical work - not a single Snake can stand such an attitude towards itself and will run away from you.

In the psychological war with the Snake, you can use another win-win move: constantly express your dissatisfaction with it and try to teach it how to live. In other words, completely “mirror” the behavior of the Snake itself, only in an exaggerated form. Fight fire with fire! A little time will pass (the main thing is that you have enough patience), and any, even the most feisty Snake will become like silk (or crawl away from you).

The Snake respects rich people or people who have achieved a high position in society. Therefore, if you want to achieve the Snake’s favor, become a wealthy or famous person. Your beloved Snake will be able to appreciate your achievements and look favorably in your direction. The Snake is allergic to poor people. When seeking mutual love from the Snake, you need to remember this. If you want to give the Snake a gift, do not spare money, give an expensive fashion item or gold jewelry. The snake is material and the size (magnitude) of your feelings will be judged by the size (price) of the gift.

Since the Snake believes in signs that are harbingers of trouble, some ill-wishers deliberately point them out to the Snake. For example, they slip a book on magic under her nose, which describes the symptoms of a magical attack, and after a day or two, just to be sure, they tell the Snake: “How bad you look! Dark circles under your eyes and something haggard! Maybe they’ve cast a spell on you ?!" Without knowing the enemy by sight, the Snake will freak out, get nervous and eventually poison himself with his own poison. After all, there is no target! Whom to bite? Who should I take revenge on? Since such techniques usually work, we recommend that Snakes learn to monitor such provocations and not give in to panic. It must be said that Snakes panic very easily. By nature, Snakes are pessimists. And if fear is added... Fear paralyzes the will of even strong people, plunging them into depression. Wanting to get out of depression, a person starts drinking. In this way, ill-wishers achieve their goal.

But, knowing about his vulnerabilities, the Snake man will always be able to show restraint and find an antidote. It is not for nothing that he has a clear, insightful mind.

Compatibility by year of birth for the Snake
SNAKE - RAT

Very tense relationships, no understanding, many conflicts. In this union, the Snake is the master of the situation; she will force the Rat to obey.

SNAKE - BULL

Harmonious union. Energy compatible. The Ox works, and the Snake manages money with taste and maximum benefit. Two single people, two closed systems will understand each other.

SNAKE - TIGER

No understanding, quarrels, conflicts. A completely hopeless, energy-consuming relationship.

SNAKE - HARE

The relationship is calm and neutral. Life together is boring for both. The hare is the master of the situation, and he will have to take on everyday problems.

SNAKE - DRAGON

Average, neutral relations. The dragon will have to work for two and take full responsibility upon himself.

SNAKE - SNAKE

Full mutual understanding, energy compatibility. But the union is problematic: who will work for them? But friendship is good, they will find something to talk about.

SNAKE - HORSE

Very different people, there will be no understanding. The Snake will try to use the energetic Horse to implement its plans.

SNAKE - GOAT

Completely different people, no understanding. The Snake needs stability, but the Goat bucks all the time. As a result of endless quarrels and showdowns, the Snake will have to submit. But it’s better for them to separate - this is a difficult marriage for both. In this union, the Snake will not only lose its health, but will also miss all the happy chances of realizing its potential. For the Snake, this is the worst option.

SNAKE - MONKEY

Relationships are superficial, there are many conflicts. The Snake will hypnotize the Monkey and force him to submit to his will. The marriage is not successful.

SNAKE - ROOSTER

Harmonious union. Energy compatibility. They understand each other.

SNAKE - DOG

The marriage is not successful. Understanding is difficult to find, but the Snake will be able to subjugate the Dog to itself.

SNAKE - BOAR

Conflict relationships. The union has no prospects. The Snake is inventive and will be able to psychologically strangle the good Pig.

For Snake:
Ideal Relationships - Ox, Rooster, Snake

Comfortable relationships - Rat, Monkey, Boar

Dangerous Relationships - Goat, Tiger

The attention of all the characters is directed exclusively towards the Tree of Knowledge, and no one seems to notice the Tree of Life. And only at the end of this story God remembers the wonderful Tree of Life.
“And the Lord God said: “Behold, Adam became like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, as if he did not stretch out his hand, and also take from the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever.” And the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.” (Genesis 3:22,23).

The situation looks as if God was afraid that man would become equal to his Creator. He was afraid that a person who had eaten from one Tree and through this became like God in the knowledge of good and evil, would also taste from another Tree and become comparable to God in immortality. The motive is low and the action is ignoble. And this does not at all fit with the previous behavior of God, who used his power to create the happiest and most comfortable environment for man - he created a wonderful Garden of Eden, populated it with animals and birds, and created a woman for Adam as his wife. The goodness of the Creator is undoubtedly more consistent with the assumption that God originally intended to crown his merciful attitude towards man with the gift of immortality.Why did everything happen the other way around?

The essence of the story of the Fall is an attempt to explain the mortal nature of man. The Bible does not say that man was created immortal, but it also does not say that he was created mortal. Most likely, a person was given both possibilities - death and immortality, and the choice depended on him. A person had only to come to the Tree of Life, stretch out his hand, pick the fruit and taste it in order to gain immortality. The Creator did not forbid man to eat from the Tree of Life, but, on the contrary, he clearly declared that one can freely eat the fruits of any tree in the garden, with the only exception of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. WhyAfter eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, could a person not eat from the Tree of Life? This position is closely related to the image of the speaking Serpent.

The Revelation of John says:“To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God” (2:7). That is, the ban on access to the Tree of Life is not eternal! Who should defeat whom? In the book of Genesis, God says the following to the Serpent: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it will bruise your head, and you will bruise its heel” (3:15).

That is, it is the Serpent who is to blame for human mortality...

In Kabbalah, the primary Adam - Adam Kadmon - is depicted as a man holding a straightened snake by the neck.


SNAKESTOLESECRETIMMORTALITY?

There are a number of tales from wild peoples of different countries and times about the origin of human death, where a serpent or serpent tries to outwit or intimidate a person in order to usurp the immortality destined for man.

Many savages believed or still believe that by changing their skin every year, snakes thereby rejuvenate and live forever, except in cases of violent death. In ancient times, such a belief existed in the habitat of the Semites. For example, the ancient Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon argued that the snake is the most durable animal, since it changes its skin and thanks to this regains its lost youth. The Jews - a people neighboring the Phoenicians - could have assumed the same thing.

The plot that the serpent, by cunning, took possession of a plant that bestows eternal life, which was intended for a person, is also found in the Babylonian poem about Gilgamesh. And Babylonian myths, as you know, became the main source of many of the initial myths of the Bible. The tale of Gilgamesh tells how the god-like Utnapishtim revealed to Gilgamesh the existence of a plant that had the power to restore youth; how Gilgamesh obtained this plant; how, before man could taste the magical plant, the serpent stole it, while Gilgameshswam in the stream; and how, at last, having lost hope of immortality, Gilgamesh sat down and wept.

Similar myths existed and exist among many wild peoples. Especially in Africa.

Thus, the Khoi-Koi took the visible damage and growth of the moon for a real process of continuously repeating destruction and restoration, decline and development, and believed that the Moon ownsthe secret of immortality. They said that in ancient times, the Moon wanted to send humanity a message about immortality, and the hare volunteered to serve as a messenger. And the moon instructed him to go to the people and announce to them: “Just as I die and are reborn to life again, so you will die and be reborn to life again.” The hare appeared to people, but whether because his memory failed him, or because of malicious intent, he distorted the words of the message and said: “Just as I die and will not be reborn again to life, so you will die and will not be reborn again to life.” life." Therefore, the Khoiko consider hares unclean animals and do not eat them as food.

A similar story exists among the Bushmen. The moon once told people: “Just as I die and come back to life, so you will die and be reborn again.” However, there was a man who did not believe in the good news of immortality, and when his mother died, he began to mourn her and did not agree to believe that she would come to life. There was a dispute between him and Luna regarding this event. “Your mother fell asleep,” Luna said. “No, she’s dead,” the man objected. The argument flared up, and the moon, losing patience, hit the man in the face and cut his lip. And then she cursed him and turned him into a hare, and deprived people of immortality. But according to this belief, human flesh is still preserved in the hare’s thigh. Therefore, the Bushmen, when killing a hare, cut out its thigh so as not to eat human flesh.

The Nandi tribe (in East Africa) has a legend that attributes the cause of human death to dishonestya dog who carried the news of immortality. As the legend tells, when a dog came to the first people with the news of immortality, she distorted the words of the Moon and declared: “All people will die like the moon, but, unlike the moon, you will not come back to life again unless you give me a drink.” milk from your gourd bowl and beer through your straw.” But the people laughed at the dog andThey gave her milk to drink from the chamber pot. The dog got angry and announced with anger: “All people will die, only the moon will come back to life.” That's why people die.

In the legends presented, a messenger appears, obliged to carry out an important commission, and the fatal result is attributed to his carelessness or malicious intent. In some other wild mythsAmong peoples, two messengers are sent about the origin of death, and the cause of death is the slowness or irresponsibility of the messenger carrying the joyful news of immortality.

Many savage tribes believed or believe that the messenger who distorted the message of immortality was a serpent.
Most savages believe that thanks to their ability to periodically shed their skin, snakes regain their youth and never die. And they reduce the reason for this ability to the fact that snakes allegedly appropriated to themselves the immortality intended for people.

The Wafipa and Wabende tribes (in East Africa) claimed that one day a certain god descended to earth and, turning to all living beings, asked: “Which of you does not want to die?”But man and other animals were sleeping at that time, only the snake was awake and immediately responded: “I.” That's why people and other animals die; Only snakes do not die of their own accord. Every year they change their skin and thanks to this they restore their youth and strength.

The Galla tribe (in East Africa) attributed the death of man and the immortality of snakes to the mistake or malice of a certain bird, which distorted the message of eternal life entrusted to it by God. One dayGod sent this bird to announce to people that they would not die and, becoming old and weak, would shed their skin and thus regain youth. The bird flew away to convey the good news of immortality; but before she could fly away, she met a snake that was eating carrion on the road. Bird greedilylooked at the carrion and said to the snake: “Give me some meat and blood, and I will tell you about God’s message.” The snake finally reluctantly agreed. Then the bird said: “This is the message: people, when they grow old, will die, and you snakes, when you grow old, will shed your skin and become young again.” That's whyPeople, having reached old age, die, but snakes crawl out of their old skin and become young.

Melanesians living on the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain say that the good spirit of To-Kambinan loved people and wanted to make them immortal. So he called his brotherTo-Korvuvu said to him: “Go to the people and tell them to shed their skin every year; in this way they will be protected from death, their life will be constantly renewed; and tell the snakes that they must die.” But To-Korvuvu carried out the order incorrectly, and ordered people to die, and transferred the power of eternal life to the snakes.

A similar legend exists in Annam. The deity Ngoc Hoang sent a messenger from heaven to people to tell them that when they grow old, they change their skin, after which they will live forever, and snakesannounce that when they grow old they will die. A messenger appeared on earth and announced quite correctly. But, unfortunately, there was a brood of snakes nearby, and when they heard the sentence pronounced on their family, they became furious and told the messenger: “You must repeat these words in reverse, otherwise we will bite you.” And the frightened messenger said: “When the snake is old, it will shed its skin; when a person grows old, he will die.”

The legend about the Fall of man in Chapter III of the book of Genesis, apparently, is an abbreviated and distorted version of the corresponding myths of savages, where a snake stole immortality from a man.

EDGEMYTHOLOGEMESSNAKE.

The serpent, or serpent, is a fundamental symbol represented in almost all mythologies.
Most often, the snake is a symbol of wisdom.
For example, a snake is one of the attributes of the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena.

In many European fairy tales and myths, eating a snake (not an ordinary one, but some special one) leads to the acquisition of magical abilities. In particular, understanding the language of animals and birds, and therefore, a prophetic gift. So in the Scandinavian “Saga of the Volsungs” the following is told about Sigurd: “Then he waved the sword that Gram and cut off Regin’s head, and then he ate part of the snake’s heart, and kept part.”

The serpent, or serpent, is a symbol of wisdom... But what kind of wisdom is this?

As a poisonous and killing creature, the snake signifies death and destruction. In addition, the snake lives underground, which means it is in contact with the underground world. That is, here we can talk about the secrets of the afterlife.

On the other hand, in its appearance the snake is a phallic and fertilizing symbol. The serpent accompanies many female deities, including the “Great Mother,” and is often depicted in their hands or entwined around them, symbolizing pregnancy, birth, and fertility. Also, the snake sometimes wraps itself around the “Shiva linga”. The ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and grain harvest, Renenutet, was depicted as a cobra or a cobra-headed woman.

As a creature that periodically changes its skin, the snake symbolizes rejuvenation, and as a source of medicinal poison when used properly, the snake serves as a symbol of healing and healing.The snake was an attribute of the ancient Greek god of healing, Asclepius.Many wild peoples believed or believe that snakes know the secret of immortality and never die by their death...

Due to its mobility, the snake serves as a symbol of vital energy, usually in its sexual form.
As a creature capable of moving without the help of legs or wings, and as a creature that penetrates deep into cracks and crevices, the snake symbolizes a kind of all-pervading spirit.
A snake coiled around a tree, or any other axial symbol, and moving upward means the awakening of dynamic force, the spirit of everything growing.
The coiled snake (Kundalini) is a symbol of hidden (hidden, sleeping, potential) energy.

Thus, first of all, the serpent, or serpent, is a symbol of the mysteries of life and death and their relationship.

In Africa, especially in Ancient Egypt, the snake was the emblem of royal power, the chariot of immortality, a symbol of the new incarnation of the dead. Snakes next to the solar disk in Ancient Egypt personified the goddesses who expelled the enemies of the sun god Ra. Snake imagewas attached to the forehead of the pharaoh as a sign of his reign in heaven and on earth.

A snake biting its tail (Ouroboros) is a symbol of the circulation and cyclicity of phenomena, the relationship between the Eternal world and the transitory world. In the context of cosmology, the snake is a symbol of the “primordial ocean”, from which everything arises and to which everything returns, the force of primordial chaos.

A woman with snakes instead of hair, like Erinyes, Gray, and Medusa the Gorgon, personifies life that exists at the expense of death, as well as the illusory and deceitful nature of earthly life.

In its negative form, the snake is hostile to the Sun, light and all heavenly powers.When an eagle or a deer or a horse appears next to a snake, the latter symbolize the Sun and light, and the snake symbolizes darkness. And together they personify cosmic dualism. The eagle is often depictedholding a snake in its claws, and a deer and a horse - trampling it with their hooves, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, heavenly and eternal over earthly and transitory.

In subsequent history, the mythological image of the serpent acquires some features of animals that contrast with it. The contrast between snakes and birds is replaced by the image of a flying, winged or “feathered” (Quetzalcoatl) serpent-dragon, combining the characteristics of both snakes and birds; oppositionThe symbols of the snake and horse later lead to the creation of the image of a dragon with a head similar to that of a horse. Many Japanese and Indian myths are characterized by the image of a horned serpent-dragon. A snake with horns or a ram's head is often found in both Celtic and Gaulish sacred art.
Winged (or "feathered") snakes and dragons are solar and symbolize the unity of spirit and matter.

Also known is the symbol of the Rainbow Serpent, the owner of the rain, drinking heavenly water, which is widespread both in the mythologies of the peoples of East and South Asia, and in the mythologies of the American Indians and the natives of Australia. In the myths of the peoples of Africa3mei-Rainbow acts as a water absorber who fights the son of the Sun. The ancient Egyptian myth about the snake Apep, who drinks all the water of the underground every night, can also be traced back to this common African mythological motif.Nile and was struck down for this by the sun god Ra.

The idea of ​​the connection between snakes and rain among many peoples of the world is reflected in the rites of worship or sacrifice of snakes during the rainy season or during drought. These rituals alsocorrespond to the myths about the victory of a serpent fighter (in Indo-European mythology - the thunder god) over a snake or dragon, followed by thunderstorms and rain.

Since the image of the snake is dual, the two snakes symbolize a dualistic pair of opposites eventually uniting.

The Caduceus of Mercury combines the scepter (the phallic symbol of royal power); two snakes entwined around the scepter; and the wings that crown them. In occultism, the Caduceus of Mercury is considereda symbol of the key that opens the limit between Darkness and Light, good and evil, life and death. In Christianity, the caduceus becomes an attribute of Sophia (the Wisdom of God).

All these “snake” mythologies are united in a single image of the World Serpent.

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In ancient Indian mythology, the World Serpent (Shesha) was represented as holding the Earth on itself. Also in Vedic myths there is an image of Vishnu sleeping on a coiled Cosmic Serpent on the surface of the primary Cosmic Ocean. From the exhalation and inhalation of Vishnu, the Universe is cyclically born and dies.

In ancient Scandinavian mythology, Jörmungandr - the Midgard Serpent (Middle World) - lives in the Ocean surrounding Midgard, encircles the entire earth and holds its own tail in its teeth(one of the variations of the Ouroboros image). Emerging from the World Ocean at the end of time, Jormungandr will cause disastrous floods, a three-year winter will come (fimbulwinter), the Sun will go out, stars fall from the sky; the last battle will take place between the gods and the giants - Ragnarok; the gods will defeat monsters and jotuns, but they themselves will die. Yggdrasil (the sacred ash tree, the World Tree) will collapse and bring down the sky; and Midgard will plunge into the waves of the World Ocean. This is how the poem “The Divination of the Völva” tells.

According to the myths of the Indians of Eastern Bolivia, the sky once fell to the earth, but the World Serpent, coiled around them, separated them again and continues to keep them separated.A similar motif in Aztec mythology is associated with Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, who turned into two snakes in order to tear into two parts a voracious monster that swam in the primordial ocean (the ancient Mexican analogue of the Mesopotamian Tiamat). From one part of the monster they made the earth, and from the other - the sky.

In three-member vertical models of the World (such as Sumerian, Indo-Iranian, Scandinavian, Germanic, Slavic; for example, in the Rig-Veda and Edda), the World Serpent lives in the Lower World - at the roots of the Cosmic Tree.The name of the Scandinavian World Serpent Jormungandr means "Great Staff". The name "Great Staff" can certainly be associated with the World Tree itself - Yggdrasil. Among the Saxons, their pillar - an idol, symbolizing the World Tree was called Irminsul, a name related to the name of the Snake.

Thus, the Cosmic Snake is an intermediary between Heaven and Earth, between the earth and the underworld.
Also, the Cosmic Serpent is associated with the “primordial Ocean” and with the World Tree; serves as a symbol of primary Chaos.

You can say that! The Serpent Chaos divides Heaven and Earth, the Universe is born from Chaos and Chaos destroys it, Chaos keeps the secrets of Eternal Life and Death...

The Serpent Chaos divides Adam and Eve...

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The “Original Man” in Kabbalah is Adam Kadmon - a universal being that unites the male and female principles.
“And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female, he created them” (Bible, Genesis 1:27).
That is, the Original Man is a man and a woman together!

The World Serpent (Demiurge) not only serves as the foundation of the Earth and the Universe, but also separates the Earth from Heaven. And at the same time, he separates Adam and Eve...

The name "Adam" (or "Adamy") is derived from the Hebrew "Adamiya" -"Earth".
That is, Adam is literally an earthling, fellow countryman, earth, earthly.
"Eve" is from the Hebrew "Hava" - "life" or "life-giving."
It is noteworthy that in the Greekized form Chava was transformed into Eve, from the Greek root “ev” - “good”...

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being” (Bible, Genesis 2:7).

These verbal images, apparently, go back to the forgotten era of matriarchy, when the heavenly principle was considered not masculine, but feminine, and the earthly principle was considered not feminine, but masculine...

In Ancient Egypt, there was a widespread myth about the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Hebe.

The light goddess of the sky Nut and the dark god of the earth Geb were initially constantly in each other's arms.Every evening Nut gave birth to stars, and every morning she swallowed them.Interestingly, this plot is a symbol of the cycle of life and death. Remember the image of the cyclically born and dying Moon from the myths of African savages.And there was a place for the serpent here - the god Geb was often depicted with a serpent's head.

One day Geb was angry with Nut for eating her children - the stars, and called her a pig eating her piglets. Geb attacked his wife and began to shower her with curses.Wanting to put an end to their discord, the sun god Ra told the wind god Shu:
- Go and separate them! Since they cannot live in peace, let them live apart.
Shu waved his hands, cast a spell, and a terrible storm broke out. And no matter how much Geb and Nut resisted, the wind broke their embrace. The sky was separated from the earth.

UNITYTREESKNOWLEDGEANDTREESLIFE!

In the Bible, the image of the serpent is also dual.

The copper serpent of Moses, in the legends of the Old Testament, is an image of a snake made by Moses in the desert (after the exodus from Egypt) to protect the Jewish people from poisonous snakes that were sent to them for cowardice and murmuring while wandering in the desert. After many people died from the bites of these snakes, the people turned to Moses with a repentant request for salvation. Moses, at the direction of God, made “a brass serpent and set it up on a banner, and when the serpent bit a man, he looked at the brass serpent and lived” (Numbers 21:9).

Therefore, in Christianity, the snake is a dual symbol: it is both the Crucified Christ, as the Logos, ascended on the Tree of Life as an atoning sacrifice, and the Devil in his chthonichypostases on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. A snake raised on the Cross or the pole of a certain Tree, or entwined around the Cross, is a prototype of Christ raised on the Tree of Life for the sake of healing and salvation of the earthly world. Tertullian testified that the firstChristians called Christ the “Good Serpent.” The Mother of God and Christ crushed the head of the Serpent, who seduced Eve, instead of succumbing to him. In Gnosticism, the snake is the guardian of the Divine Gnosis.

By combining the symbols of the Good Serpent and the Evil Serpent in the image of a single World Serpent, we get the image of a single Cosmic Tree, which is both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, bringing death.

And what this Tree will become for a person depends on whether the person conquers the Serpent of the original Chaos sitting on the Tree, that is, whether the person becomes the Image of God, embodied in the dust of the earth...

And in this regard, Christ’s advice: “Be wise as serpents and simple as doves” (Matthew 10:16) sounds esoteric!

And the Serpent, which a person needs to conquer, lives within him...

This is the force that Freud and Jung called Libido, and Yoga calls Kundalini.

Libido (from the Latin "libido" - attraction, desire, passion, aspiration).

"Kundalini" in Sanskrit means "coiled in a ring", "coiled in the shape of a snake."Associated with the concept of kundalini is the esoteric idea of ​​a certain kind of energy concentrated at the base of the spine, the correct awakening of which opens the chakras.Symbolically, kundalini is depicted as a snake, coiled in a spiral of three and a half turns, sleeping at the base of the spine (muladhara chakra).

MIRACLEGEORGEABOUTSNAKE.

In the light of the topic under consideration, the icons depicting the fight of St. George the Victorious with serpents are also interesting. This storyclosely connected with folklore. It is a special case of the universally widespread plot of the hero’s struggle with the snake, found in many fairy tales, epics, legends, spiritual poems, and lives. The presence of the plot of snake fighting in fairy tales is very important, because the classic plots of fairy tales go back prehistorically.

There are two types of icons depicting St. George.

In the icons of the first type, St. George the Victorious is depicted standing. This is, so to speak, his portrait image. This is the icon of the Novgorod school of the 12th century, stored in the Tretyakov Gallery. It depicts George in full height. In his right hand he holds a spear,holds the sword with his left. On another icon, kept in the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow, George is depicted from the waist up. Preference was given to the figure of a standing George, leaning on a shield with his left hand and holding a spear in his right, in Byzantium and the Caucasus.

But there are icons dedicated to St. George the Victorious, of a completely different type. These are not portraits, but an image of his fight with a snake, where George is shown in motion. There are three types of such icons. In some, George is shown riding slowly on a horse. Walks next to himElizabeth leads the serpent that the hero has conquered. They approach the tower where Elizabeth's parents are located. The icons of the second type depict only the mortal battle of George with the serpent. The third type is a mixture of the first two. George on horseback strikes the snake with a spear. And at the same time, Elizabeth leads this serpent.

It is interesting that there is no icon of St. George on horseback in any of the churches of the Moscow Kremlin. There is only a picture of him standing. There is also a scientifically made inventory of all the icons of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, which includes 1127 icons. But the icons of St. George the serpent fighterThere are none in this inventory. In this regard, scientific researchers claim that the cult of St. George the Serpent Fighter was not recognized by official theology for a long time. The Kremlin and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra were places of state worship. Theirthe temples were the temples of kings and high nobility. In the Church of the Savior Nereditsa in Novgorod there was also not a single image of George fighting the serpent. An illustrated complete inventory of Nereditsky frescoes was published in 1925. It contains 143reproductions, but George the Serpent Fighter is not among them. And in the entire legacy of Rublev there is also not a single image of George the serpent fighter. Rublev carried out government orders.

Icons with St. George the Serpent Fighter were in many churches, mainly in rural areas and provincial towns, but they were not in large state churches.meanings. George the Serpent Fighter gradually entered the cult of the Orthodox Christian Church, contrary to the church leadership. The apocryphal life of George the Serpent Fighter was condemned in the Slavic indices of prohibited books. And the first official ban on the apocryphal Life of George was issued at the end of the 5th century. However, at the beginning of the 9th century, Patriarch Nikifor was forced to once again proclaim a ban. But, despite the prohibition, even the clergy continued to rewrite the apocrypha, sometimes shortening it. This prohibition also applied to icon painting, but was also not observed. This plot was translated into folk spiritual verses in almost all Christian countries, and they decorated the walls of churches.

Let us dwell on the analysis of an icon of the type in which George peacefully leads the serpent and Elizabeth to her parents: she leads the pacified serpent on the leash, George accompanies her on horseback. ForFor the interpretation of this icon, there is valuable auxiliary material - a folk spiritual verse about Yegor the Brave and Elizabeth the Beautiful. Its plot boils down to the fact that in a certain fantastic city or kingdom (the city of Anthony, Rakhryn-city, the kingdom of Arapin) there live a king and a queen. They are either pagans orapostates from the Christian faith. God sends a terrible punishment on the city. A “eating snake” appears, which demands to devour a person every day. The king proposes that the sacrifice be determined by lot. Residents accept the offer. But the lot falls on the king. His wife invites him to send their daughter Elizabeth to the sacrifice in her place. After all, she is not of the same faith as her parents, she is a Christian: “She prays to the crucified Lord.” By deception they lead their daughter to the sea or lake where the serpent lives and leave her there. And she already understands everything. George rides past this place on a white horse. He asksthe girl and stays near her to save her from the snake. However, in the future, things happen differently than in fairy tales. There is no fight in the song. George does not kill the serpent, but tames it by casting a spell over it or striking it with his scepter. Elizabeth takes off her belt and George wraps it around his necksnake, and puts the end into her hand. They return to Elizabeth's parents' house. This moment is depicted in the icon. Next, George invites Elizabeth's parents to accept Christianity. The celestial creature of George is opposed by his antagonist - a snake emerging from the ground. On icons of this type, in the corner there is aa mountain or elevation, and in this mountain there is a snake hole. The snake is led by Elizabeth, the king's daughter, who was designated as his sacrifice.

The esoteric meaning of this apocrypha is that the Ancient Serpent, the Tempter of the human race, in its incarnation in man, must not be killed, but conquered, subdued...

When did the Fomorians, Rakshasas, Vieviches, Nagas and other similar creatures live? How many types were there? Did the many-headed and many-armed Rakshasas, Nairrits, Hecatoncheires, as well as the werewolf giants Fomorians, Yakshas, ​​Pishachas, Bhutas and other creatures belong to the snake-people, and if so, why did their appearance change so much? Or did they belong to giant intelligent insects and mammals?

The Vievichi and Nagas lived before the Rakshasas and Fomorians

I will try to answer the last question first on this page. Irish, Slavic and Indian legends contain hidden information thatNagas and Vievichi lived before the Fomorians and Rakshasas. During the power of the latter, most of the Vieviches and Nagas had already been exterminated, and their surviving representatives “went underground.”
The Slavic legends of the Svarog cycle say that the tribe of the Black Snake (snakes or vieviches) was defeated in the battle for the Earth led by the light gods (see also) with Svarog or Semargl, the son of Svarog.As a result of this battle(in which a countless number of snakes died, and " the whole Earth [was] mixed with blood, drops of blood on every pebble") the first world was destroyed in which there were no people yet. This is an extremely important circumstance, because both the Rakshasas and the Fomorians have already fought with people. And according to Slavic legends, they did not exist before the first catastrophe.
There is an episode in Adiparva: Nagas and other snakes are destroyed by King Janamejaya. According to this ancient document, “many thousands, millions and tens of millions of snakes fell into the fire.” Although the tradition says that the snakes were exterminated by the Pandavas, who are considered the ancestors of people, it confirms rather than refutes the power of the Nagas at an earlier period than the Rakshasas. Firstly, King Janamejaya was a distant ancestor of those Pandavas who met and fought with the Rakshasas. Secondly, the Pandavas can be classified as people very conditionally. Thirdly, in the episode of destroying the snakes, rakshasas are not mentioned at all. Although this does not mean that they did not exist then.
The burning of snakes (Mahabharata) looks like a reworked (by people?) depiction of some monstrous catastrophe, as a result of which the previous world perished. The closeness of this episode to Slavic legends about the death of the first world is more than obvious.
Confirmation of the simultaneous existence of the Nagas and Vieviches can also be the similarity of the thousand-headed Slavic Black Snake or Chernobog with the leader of the Nagas, the thousand-headed serpent Sheshu, and his armies of many-headed snakes with an army of nagas.

Rudra and Typhon are also similar to Chernobog and Shesha, and Quetzalcoatl, in turn, is similar to Typhon

The story of the death of a powerful civilization of snake-people as a result of some kind of catastrophe is also common in the legends of many other peoples. For example, an Egyptian papyrus from the XII-XIII dynasty of the pharaohs (XX-XVII centuries BC) tells about him: “Tales of a Shipwrecked Man”: an Egyptian thrown by the waves onto some island met on it a giant snake in golden scales with a human head . The serpent called himself the ruler of the lost country of Punt and told the sailor a sad story about how “a star fell from the sky” and destroyed his entire state, destroying the entire population consisting of serpents.
It is very interesting that inThe legends of three different peoples living in different parts of the globe present the same scenario of a catastrophe that destroyed the former world. It was destroyed by fire.And here it is necessary to mention the “Code Vaticanus”, “Code Rios”, “Code Telleriano-Remensis”, “Code Chimalpopoca” and others and the Mayan epic “Popol Vuh”, according to which the second, third or fourth generation of humanity was destroyed by fire.
So,Slavic, Indian, Egyptian, American and other legends say that the heyday of the civilization of Vievichi, Nagas and other snake demons on Earth occurred in times very distant from us - so distant that the storytellers could not remember the real appearance of these creatures.According to some legends, there were no gods on Earth at that time. They appeared later - as you might guess, in order to reclaim our planet from the snake people. And, most likely, they managed to do this at the cost of the death of most of the former inhabitants of the Earth, of whom there were very, very many: tens - hundreds of millions, and maybe much more.