The image of the serpent in the art

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What do want to say? Thou shalt not kill, Do not steal, do not commit adultery! Who on these precepts achieved wealth and prosperity!? Kill, steal-the commandments of wealth and success!

leonard,
Here is the true strength of the released of the subconscious! Primitiveness protolingvalnyh explanations is clearly a consequence of mediumistic inclinations. Unfortunately, not familiar with you, but sincere respect. Do not think, ashamed to say that irony. In fact I envy the ease of thought.

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Bruni, FA "The Brazen Serpent", then the icon with the image of Archangel Michael from different schools and epochs.

The stars are burning over unpopulated land,
Regal shine sacred constellation of the Dog:
Suddenly everything went dark - and the fiery red serpent
Someone cut through the sky over the dark earth.

Traveler, do not worry! In the desert, a wonderful lot.
This is not a vortex, and the jinn alarmed her
This is the archangel, a servant of the merciful God,
In the demons of the night threw a golden spear.

1903

Ivan Bunin

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http://ec-dejavu.net/s/Snake.html - the serpent in the myths of peoples of the world
http://dragons-nest.ru/def/vietnam.php - oriental dragons
http://www.mifinarodov.com/d/drakon.html - Dragon


Snake - a traditional symbol of wisdom and power. In the myths and legends of the Ancient Orient reflected echoes of the cult of snakes are often associated with the element of water. Ancient Egyptian tale tells about the sailor shipwrecked and thrown out a wave of a beautiful island. Soon he heard a loud noise: "the trees trembled, the earth shook. I opened my face and realized that this snake, which was approaching. Its length is 30 cubits, his beard more than 2 cubits, the members of his gilded his eyebrows from this lapis lazuli. He moved forward. " The serpent in this tale is called "Prince of Punta" - the legendary country of incense, "the country of the gods." Another, more recent Egyptian tale tells of the immortal serpent guarding a wonderful book on the seabed.

Tradition of Babylon and Assyria, Jewish and Abyssinian legend associated with the prehistoric kingdom of the serpent. That's what this says about the Abyssinian legend: "There is a great snake, he the king of Ethiopian land, he bow to all the rulers and bring him the gift of a beautiful maiden. Decorate it, they bring this before the snake and leave one, and devours it, this snake ... The length of this snake 170 cubits, and its thickness - 4, his teeth were long in the elbow, and his eyes are like blazing fire, his eyebrows black as a raven, and the whole look like a tin and copper ... He wore horn three cubits. When he moves, the noise is heard on seven days' journey. Tales of the islands inhabited by snakes, preserved in the Greek chronicles. Herodotus and Theophrastus mentioned snakes guarding treasures on a picturesque island, Diodorus Siculus tells about the "snake island, filled with jewels, and describes the hunt for the snake length of 30 cubits, and in the jaws of the death of one of the hunters.

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The snake was a symbol of eternal youth: the annual change symbolized the rejuvenation of the skin. This notion was embodied in an interesting religion of the Egyptians. Change of day and night was attributed to the fact that at midnight the Sun god Ra goes with his retinue of the solar boat and enters the body of a huge serpent, from which all go in the morning "children", once again sit in the boat and continue to travel across the sky. African folk tales and legends tell of the first people who could, like snakes, to change the old skin for new and live forever. In the Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh is in the depth of water the flower of eternal youth, but while he was bathing, a serpent stole a flower and immediately became younger, dropping skin. Since then, the tradition teaches, the snake and not die, but people have remained mortal beings. Greek myth tells of the wonderful features that Zeus gave to people. It could return the young man. But people do not want themselves to carry this precious gift, and laid him on the donkey, who gave him a snake. Since then, people carry a heavy burden of old age, and snakes enjoy eternal youth.

Historical parallels: Legends of Ancient China called the great dragon - the dragon ancestor of the first emperor, give his claws, teeth, saliva and horns healing properties. On the back of a dragon could reach the country's immortals (p. 83). Dragon, according to legend, once out of the Yellow River and the first to show the emperor's famous image of Taiji, which reflects the relationship of yin and yang (p. 69).

Yoga likens the spiritual energy of a snake man - Kundalini

For a thousand years BC, the cult of the snake as a symbol of wisdom, science and knowledge came from the Greeks. It was a snake, according to Greek mythology, Asclepius turned the idea on the possibility of resurrecting the dead. Once a famous healer, was invited to the palace of the Cretan king Minos, to resurrect his dead son. At the staff of Aesculapius suddenly saw a snake and killed her. Immediately came another snake with herbs in the mouth and revived the dead. Asclepius took advantage of this grass and a dead body.

In the ancient world the serpent played the role of homemaker. During the excavations of Pompeii on the walls and home altars of many houses have been found image snake, which symbolizes peace and health of inhabitants of the house. As we know, snakes are an indispensable accessory asklepiyonov. Ancient chronicles have preserved evidence of that during the plague Asclepius symbolically moved from Epidaurus to Rome in the form of a snake. According to one of their hypotheses about the origin of the name of the god of medicine Asclepius, it comes from the name of a special kind of snakes - askalabos. Later, these snakes, harmless to humans, became known as "asklepievymi uzhami. The snake depicted on the medicine chest of the Roman military camp doctor.

However, in the history of medicine with the image of snakes and worms are often linked not only to life and health, but also illness and death. In Egypt, the personification of the god Thoth was the ibis - a bird that eats snakes and worms that cause disease. Babylonian magicians, healers often depicted with a whip for the expulsion of all the animals crawling, first of all - snakes and worms. Babylonian origin of the spell binds toothache with the penetration of the worm inside the tooth. In the Indian epics and Buddhist literature, sacred bird Garuda is often called the "snake eater". Chinese legend attributes the death of the worms of the ancient sage Yan Di, who was trying to try drugs at the example of Shen Nong, the mythical patron of doctors and pharmacists: "They say, though in Shen Nong's body was made of transparent jade and you could see all his insides, and this truth. How else would be able to deliver him from mortal danger, when he tried to poison the twelve day? But tell us, though Yang di-tried medicines and refuge from all the poisons, but swallowed a centipede, each leg which turned into a worm, worms also have also begun to proliferate and Yan Di, unable to overcome them, has died ... "

The Roman writer Pliny the Elder wrote that a snake bite at any time can set a limit to human life, that even under the earth worms do not leave people alone and devour the dead. Some researchers believe that the basis of "snake symbolism" in medicine is the man's fear of a snake, a desire to propitiate the formidable "goddess of death or disease scare, using the menacing look of a snake. Ancient legends contain many references to the mythical Serpent-likely creatures that threaten human life. At the same time part of their body and the poison is strong and universal medicine. For example, Pliny the Elder in Natural History, wrote about the medicinal properties ambisfeny (Greek "move in either direction") - a snake with two heads: one is located in the usual place, the other on the tail: "... if one's head to her little to spew your poison

The snake symbolized death and immortality, good and evil. They are personified and its forked tongue, and the toxicity of its bite, along with the healing effects of the poison, and the mysterious ability to hypnotize small animals and birds. This apparent contradiction, the connection in a single image of two different, often contradictory principles, is characteristic for the characters that come to us from antiquity. Another example embodiment of this contradiction - a bowl. The origin of this emblem of healing various hypotheses associated with the healing action of water and the tradition of making drugs in the ritual cup.

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http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/136.htm - a miracle of St. George and the dragon in Orthodoxy

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In Dante's "Age" is described by the monster, whose human face and body of reptiles, in the tail - as the personification of the sting of envy, jealousy, lies, who kept changing their appearance. The poet calls them "three spirits" evil.

"That's sharp-tailed beast, piercing the mountains
Prev by null and void and the wall, and the sword;
Here who poisoned expanses of the earth ...
And the hideous image of deceit, envy,
Paddling on the tail to itself not picking up,
Fell down to the shore the whole community by the mill.
It was clear face and majestic
Tranquility features friendly and clean,
But the rest of the snake was.
Two hairy paws and claws;
His back and belly, and flanks --
In the pattern of spots and sites florid "[42].

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 In the culture of the Renaissance, which has absorbed the Christian symbolism, the snake meant poisonous thoughts, and they eat snake meat. The Latin word draco means and the snake, and dragon, and they both represent the devil. Often, Satan's a draconian features, and his body parts are depicted on the canvases of artists, festooned with snakes. In Plutarch we learn that one version of the death of Cleopatra came to the fact that its bitten by a snake. In the triumphal processions were the image of Queen of clinging to her hand like a snake. Poets, writers, historians have pointed out that Cleopatra was one of the envious women.

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     K. Jung analyzed the libidinal character of a snake. He wrote that in art is often a sin, sin in the form of sensuality depicted in the image of a naked female body, garlanded with snakes. Libido is not only the devil, but a deity, and so the metamorphosis of snakes associated with the symbol itself of the human soul - its contradictory [29]. "Although the character - writes Jung - in terms of reality and deceptive, but psychologically it is - the truth, because he has always been a bridge leading to all the greatest achievements of the human spirit" [30]. Vyach. Ivanov is in this context pointed out that the snake because one is a myth, in another - other entities. "But then - writes Ivanov - that connects all the symbolism of the snake, all the values of a snake is a symbol of the great cosmogonic myth, in which every aspect of the serpent - a symbol finds its place in the hierarchy of plans of the divine unity" [31].

     Thus, the snake in paradise, according to K. Jung, conceived mainly in the female image, and because old artist is depicted as a snake woman [32]. The symbol of a snake with a tree - the epitome of a renewed earth flowering. The snake was the attributes of Minerva - goddess of wisdom and Asclepius - the god of medicine. Ability to change the snake skin allowed, apparently, see it as very different incarnation of envy.

     D. Norman, author of the study "The symbolism of mythology," writes that the image of a snake or a dragon wrapping around the tree, depending on the circumstances can be interpreted in different ways. "They may be related either to the movement upward to a higher state, or down to the lower. Instead of unconditionally separate serpentine forms of "good" and "evil", sometimes they are better regarded as the embodiment of both good and evil, as the elevation above or beyond the limits of both of these concepts [33].
http://www.philos.msu.ru/vestnik/phi...ndr_zavist.htm
Gargona and Gargony
... Echidna, in Greek mythology - the woman with the body of a snake. Medusa Gargona and other unpleasant characters - all children Tachyglossidae. Brood of vipers frequently mentioned in the Bible to refer to people snake species.

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"Historical science has made significant progress in the study of state symbols. But it remains a mystery - the very image of a rider (rider), entrenched as a symbol of the Russian state in the late XV century.
 
      As is known, contemporaries were convinced that the horse represented the king himself, though, there was no direct explanation as to why it should be considered. A well-known publisher of drawings of ancient Russian press, F. Buller, wondered: "... the king would never pozvolilizobrazit a half-dressed!" But he also conceded that "the history of Osama king on horseback in the form of a Roman soldier can only be a fiction, a metaphor, allegory of orthodox monarch, striking the infidels. "However, this assumption also does not explain the origins of the semantic content image rider. The lack of explanatory texts emanating from themselves contemporaries, creates a "vacuum", which is already filled artificially. In the latest synthesis work on the history of stamps, it is argued that "the cult of St. George was transformed into a cult of the warrior-protector ibortsa with evil. Princes of Moscow, according to NA Soboleva, transferred to himself "not only apparel George warrior, but his appearance.

    However, an appeal to the texts of the legend of "chyude" St. George does not make clear that the character that we meet on the first Russian press. The essence of the legend is that the dragon has been tamed by prayer, holy warrior appeal to the help of God, the force which turns into a monster resigned creature lizhuschee foot-George the Victorious. The king, who gave his daughter to the dragon, was a pagan, persecutor of Christians, who did not know the true faith. George leads tamed the serpent in the city and says: "Do you believe wholeheartedly in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the serpent subiyu this, If ye do not believe, then you have to let this bloodsucker." Seeing this "terrible chyudo, people voted in favor of the baptism. George cut off the head with a sword has tamed the dragon, essentially humble ... "
http://ec-dejavu.ru/m/Mednij_vsadnik.html

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I beg your pardon, that is not quite in the subject.

Сообщение от leonard

Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not commit adultery! Who on these precepts achieved wealth and prosperity!?

Among those who had an unusual head and reached very many. The main thing is that adhering to these principles, they have achieved, not only of wealth (there were many wealthy people in all epochs, but who remembers them ?..), but glory and pride of place in history and memory of mankind.

Pavel Tretyakov, Nikolay Putilov, Werner von Siemens (founded by Siemens), Georg Graf von Arco (founded concern Telefunken), Gottlieb Daimler, Carl Benz (founded concern Daimler-Benz, Daimler invented the motorcycle, and in honor of the Benz is still a car fuel called "gasoline" - Benzin), Assar Gabrielson, Gustav Larsson (founded concern Volvo), Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak (have designed the first personal computer, the concern was founded Apple Computers), Bill Gates (Microsoft founder of the group) ... The list could continue indefinitely.

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In the east, in China the serpent and the dragon, too, represent the same character.
But in today's Minsk had such a sculpture.

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One of the versions of the dollar sign