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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 grip inspire mystical horror. In fact, snakes are not so scary. They only attack when threatened. Most snakes do not gravitate toward 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 their excellent shape.

The venom of most snakes is deadly. In order to grab prey, the snake makes a sharp throw. She very rarely misses. For example, a boa constrictor wraps its prey with lightning speed in two or three rings of the body and squeezes until the victim stops breathing and heartbeat. If the prey breaks out, then 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 those and others have powerful astral energy that is used in healing. In many Asian countries, snakes are caught and used as food, 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?

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

The whole life of snakes passes in close contact with the earth, therefore a typical person - the 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 conceited, she does not know how to give others the warmth of her heart and the generosity of her soul. Therefore, in the area love relationship The snake is always in trouble. Snakes are usually solitary. They keep people at a distance. They are uncommunicative and have few or no friends. The snake is not inclined to open up when communicating and no one knows what she really thinks.

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

1. Wise, calm, inclined to philosophy, able to logically calculate the situation several moves ahead. These are people with firm, unshakable principles. If you got into difficult situation, ask the wise Snake for advice and you will receive it.

2. "Slippery", dangerous, insidious and "poisonous". It is almost impossible to negotiate with them - they will sting anyway. Such Snakes intuitively find the weak spot of the enemy and strike with lightning speed.

All Snake people are careful, it is difficult to catch them by the hand, they always slip away. On the open spaces you will not see such people: they try to stay somewhere on the side, behind. The fortress that needs to be taken by storm is not of interest to the Snake-man. Snakes skillfully take care not to make enemies and envious people. They have little trust in those around them, relying only on their own mind and intuition.

Taking on a new business, the Serpents 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. They are convinced from childhood that they were born for a great purpose. And if they find their purpose in life, they can succeed and make a dizzying career. It must be remembered that all Snakes are brilliant manipulators. They easily find weak spots"of those around them and, by pressing the right buttons, they quickly achieve their goals. Often, to get what they want, the Snakes make 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 point and order. So they aim to take" warm place"A leader in some organization where you don't have to work hard. Almost all Snakes are excellent leaders. They love and know how to plan, look at things soberly, have excellent intuition and observation. Unfortunately, excessive caution prevents them from acting. For the implementation of 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 do not like change. They, as a rule, rarely change jobs and families on their own initiative.

Snakes that could not find their place in life are very heavy people. They are constantly dissatisfied with themselves and others, criticize everyone and everything, provoke quarrels out of the blue. Not having time to get out of bed in the morning, they begin to harass their loved ones with reproaches and teachings. They torture themselves and others, making life hell. Most Snakes have a hot temperament, they explode on small things, and it is very difficult to be around them. Ultimately, the Snake is its own enemy.

In order for the life of the Snake to develop happily, she needs to find a job to her liking and devote her life to it. Then the people around will not suffer so much from her 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 full control) and make you work with a vengeance, squeezing all the vital juices out of you. And she will rest in the shade.

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

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

Yes, the Snake loves treasures. But don't be fooled! Even if the Snake is your marriage partner, you are unlikely to be able to use these treasures. The snake is not generous and tightly keeps all expenses under control. If you are wasteful, then life with a Snake partner will bring you nothing but a headache. 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 the Snake will teach you how to take a hit. And it's worth it. The snake is a wonderful teacher of life. However, in the process of mutual quarrels (training), you can squander the remnants of Divine Love, as a result, diseases will worsen, failures will haunt you, and your plans will be frustrated. If you have ever observed the behavior of a snake in nature, then you know that the snake throws out its poison instantly, and the victim does not have time to either defend himself, or orient himself, or run away. 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.

In fairness, 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 times when the Snake cannot withstand a long psychological impact(pressure) and becomes extremely poisonous. She always responds to covert aggression with overt aggression. (However, this applies to any other year of birth, just the Snake is 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, one must be able to make decisions, be able to earn money, one must take responsibility. For the Snake, this is all burdensome. She is selfish and constantly requires care and attention on a par with children. Usually this is another overage child in the house, and far from the best.

The Snake's attitude towards children is ambiguous. In most cases, the Snake is indifferent to children. (0 din, our familiar man-Snake does not call his children other than jackals).

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

capricious, jealous and treacherous, who will wrap 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 weak point of the Snake is the family and the hearth. Any Snake dreams of a big and friendly family, but she does not know how to live in the world. 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, fatigue. Outwardly, the Snake looks energetic, but in fact it has little energy. Many Snakes have panic attacks.

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

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

He is difficult to communicate. Can undeservedly offend, flare up. His character is nervous, irritable. Knows how to stir things up.

IN family life he is exacting, extremely jealous. He respects "smart" women, but does not like them. He likes ladies who are elegant, economical, economic, ready for him to give up own career. 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 if he were his property. For a happy family life, he needs to find an optimistic woman who would condescendingly look at him; antics and taught him to laugh at his own fears and complexes.

He strives to be successful in professional activity. And he gets what he wants. He 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 if there is food in the fridge at all. At home, Snake men do not show initiative. Not pretentious in food, prone to asceticism. Without special efforts may go hungry for several days. Already from their youth they think how to make their old age secure. By old age, they usually gain wisdom, become calmer, and accumulate capital. Can transfer invaluable experience the rising generation.

Snake Women
The Snake Woman has penetrating qualities. Gives importance to every little thing. She often overestimates herself and is unaware of what others think of her. As a rule, she is touchy. Any failure drives her crazy. Often these are mentally unstable individuals (hysterics). It’s better for her not to make comments - she doesn’t take criticism at all and reacts with an explosion of aggression. She needs to learn to monitor her thoughts, words, actions, reactions.

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

By old age, the Snake woman gains experience and becomes softer. She makes a good grandmother, who knows how to guess, 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 beloved man run away from them shortly before the wedding, without explaining the reasons? Why can't they arrange their personal lives?

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

And if someone still got hooked and listened to Mendelssohn's march in the registry office, then she will try to tie her partner hand and foot. One of the surest ways to keep a partner is to have more children. And then he will not go anywhere from her arms.

Astromagical powers of the Snake
Look at the picture.

Do you see where the main energy forces of the Serpent 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: the Snake combines material interest with cold calculation, patience, organization, intuition and the ability to manage? Yes! The way it is! Everyone knows that by giving alms, by giving away the last shirt, you will not create material wealth. Thus, the Snake, without possessing a large life force able to control its environment and keep 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 all their lives, therefore, in order to survive, they must be in the highest degree of harmony. 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.

As wolves are considered the orderlies of the forest, so the Serpent can be considered the orderlies of human society. They know how to pick up the "key" to both the strong and the weak. Do not feed the snake with bread, just give the opportunity to test someone for strength. And she will worry about the tests.

Perhaps that is why at all times the snake was considered a symbol of the 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 disguise herself, her bite is deadly.

By the way, if you want to test the vitality of a snake - catch earthworm, a kind of harmless miniature serpent, and cut it in half (across, not lengthwise). Watch how long the two halves live. This speaks of 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 long years, a Snake-man can succeed 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 most strengths the nature of the Snake man. It is magic that can give the Snake everything she wants. She is interested in fortune-telling on cards, runes, loves Christmas divination. Happy to participate in séances and magical rituals to summon the brownie. 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 on it. She's doing great magical rituals for money. If you tell the Snake how to successfully sell real estate with the help of magic, she will do it with pleasure. 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 most of the energy of the man-snake is in the head. But in family life, the Snake clearly lacks intuition. (This is her weak point). 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, she believes in omens without limit, knows how to see distant warning signals in time and build a logical chain of events - this helps her get away from danger in time.

If for some reason you have become an enemy of the Serpent, urgently mobilize all your forces. The fact is that the Snake, like no other, has deadly poison called "high magic". She knows how to concentrate all her energy to form the necessary events. In this case, you do not need to do anything, everything works out by itself. Skillfully using higher magic, the Snake is able to inflict the evil eye, damage, destroy the health and fate of her enemy. In this case, the distance does not play a role. In addition, the Snake knows how to work from photographs, drawings, handwriting, phantoms, and from any personal thing of a person. To make a powerful love spell on a loved one is a trifle for the Snake.

Many Snakes are able to influence the victim at a distance during sleep. They are great at transmitting information over a distance.

The snake is an unsurpassed master of the psychological game. She skillfully puts the victim in economic dependence on herself and uses it with might and main. Real life shows that few people know how to escape from the psychological traps set by the Snake Man. When communicating with the Snake, it must be remembered that the Snake is a great manipulator.

People born in the year of the Snake can be conditionally attributed to the group of 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 there are so many people born in the year of the Snake among sorcerers and owners of magical salons.

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

Snakes do not engage in sexual magic at all, although they are interested in sex. For sexual magic, it is important not only to form a target, but also to radiate powerful sexual energy. And the Snakes are accustomed not to radiate energy, but to absorb it. During sex, the Snake completely absorbs the partner's sexual energy, it almost does not radiate energy (as a carrier of information). Therefore, the generated event remains in itself.

Summarize:

A person born in the year of the Snake has innate magical abilities, has excellent control over energies. Of all kinds of magic, the highest magic is closer to him, love magic(the art of a love spell), work with the elements and any kind of divination.

How to influence the Snake with the help of psychology and magic?
It is almost impossible to agree on anything with the Snake without harming yourself. Whatever you do, the Snake will still "bend its own line" - that's how it works. If your team “accidentally” wound up not a wise, philosophically minded Snake, but an “underground snake”, poisoning everyone’s life (this happens), we recommend that you urgently rally the ranks above the genitals and create the most difficult conditions for it in the form of constant pressure. And it’s even better to charge the Snake with low-paid physical work - not a single Snake can withstand 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 displeasure to her and try to teach 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 furious 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 location of the Serpent, become 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. Achieving mutual love at 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 golden decoration. The snake is material and the size (value) of your feelings will be judged by the size (price) of the gift.

Since the Snake believes in omens, harbingers of trouble, some ill-wishers deliberately point them 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, to be sure, they will tell the Snake: “How bad you look! Dark circles under your eyes and something haggard! ?!" Not knowing the enemy in person, 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 to take revenge? Since such tricks usually work, we recommend that Snakes learn to watch for such provocations and not panic. I must say that Snakes panic very easily. By nature, Snakes are pessimists. And if fear is added ... Fear paralyzes the will even in strong people plunging them into depression. Wanting to get out of depression, a person begins to drink. In this way, ill-wishers achieve their goal.

But knowing about their 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 penetrating mind.

Birth Year Compatibility for Snake
SNAKE - RAT

Very tense relations, no understanding, many conflicts. In this union, the Snake is the mistress of the situation, she will force the Rat to submit.

SNAKE - BULL

Harmonious Union. Energy is 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. Absolutely hopeless, energy-consuming relationship.

SNAKE - HARE

Relationships are calm and neutral. Living together boring for both. The hare is the master of the situation, and he will have to take on domestic problems.

SNAKE - DRAGON

Medium, neutral relationship. The dragon will have to work for two and take full responsibility.

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, and the goat bucks all the time. As a result of endless quarrels and a showdown, the Snake will have to obey. But it is better for them to disperse - this is a difficult marriage for both. In this alliance, the Snake will lose not only health, but also miss all the happy chances of realizing its capabilities. For the Snake, this is the worst option.

SNAKE - MONKEY

Relations are superficial, there are many conflicts. The snake will hypnotize the Monkey and force him to obey his will. The marriage is not successful.

SNAKE - COCK

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 subdue the Dog.

SNAKE - BOAR

conflict relations. Union is hopeless. The snake is inventive and will be able to psychologically strangle the good Boar.

For the snake:
Ideal relationship - Ox, Rooster, Snake

Comfortable relationship - Rat, Monkey, Boar

Dangerous relationship - Goat, Tiger

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All the time I thought that a boa constrictor (or some other snake) CANNOT SWALLOW a person purely by physiological reasons. All films about it are fiction and horror films. But what does it turn out to be? Here is 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 under a degree on the street near a store in the Indian state of Keral, was devoured by a huge man-eating python.

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

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 he didn’t bring alcohol home and drank the purchased drinks right next to the liquor store. In the same place, the drunkard settled down for the night.

And in the morning locals found a swollen snake on the threshold of a shop. It turned out that the python crawled past the liquor store and saw the "food". He strangled the man, and then swallowed his victim. After such a hearty "dinner", the reptile could not crawl away and lay down on the site of the emergency.

Subsequently, the swollen snake was discovered by local residents, according to LOTD.

This example can be an edification to the numerous tourists who go to India on vacation and often forget about the sense of proportion in relation to alcohol and other relaxing substances there.

And here is such a case:

A huge python, according to the stories of the children, unexpectedly 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 frightened that he did not even scream or cry.

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

Later, the police and snake experts found no trace of the tragedy - the child and his clothes disappeared along with the snake. On the crumpled grass, only a trace remained, 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 snakes. The python must have woken up after hibernation and was very hungry.

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

Another case:

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

Usually, snakes prefer to attack smaller creatures that they can easily swallow, but despite this, there are many documented cases when these reptiles swallowed 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 meat if possible. It's hard to believe, but there really are giant giants on Earth, for which a person is just prey.

Four friends: Jose Ronaldo. Fernando Contaro, Miguel Orvaro and Sebastian Forte went to the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil for camping and fishing. Fishing went well, and alcohol flowed like a river. Returning from the river, friends noticed the absence of the fourth member of their cheerful company Jose Ronaldo dentist. The tipsy fishermen were looking for their drinking companion before dark, but Jose, as if through the ground, fell through.

The next day, in a cheerful and high spirits, they went in search, in the hope of finding their friend lying drunk in some ditch. In the late afternoon they found his torn clothes.

“At first we thought it was a robbery: the ground around was dug up, as if someone was 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 place of struggle, they found a deep footprint in the ground leading to the forest. Experienced hunter Sebastian Forte immediately said that a snake had left him ... very big snake, at least 10 meters long. The sun was already setting and the men decided to return to the camp.

The next morning, the men followed the snake trail. What they found at the end of their journey shocked them: in front of them lay 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. Anaconda was towed to the camp, where they cut open her stomach and removed the dentist's body, which had already begun to be digested.

If a snake swallows a person, which happens relatively rarely, then by all means - only for the purpose of “eating a little”. Here one could quote a lengthy instruction recently published on the Internet on what to do if you are swallowed by a python or anaconda. The main idea is that you need to give the snake more to swallow 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 they started swallowing you from the head - this instruction does not tell.

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

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

So the anaconda may well swallow a child, a woman, a medium-sized 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 is simply unable to digest.

(The spectacle is impartial, think twice before you look)

Video: a stupid python that ate a baby hippo, crawled with this carcass for a week, terribly hungry and forced to expel this delicacy from itself.

And now just curious 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 striking size of these animals, their considerable strength, and the general fear of snakes in general, make very understandable the exaggerations of which the ancients are guilty.<…>Over time, human fantasy endowed even richer dragons from incomprehensible tales oriental people gradually grew images for which man of sense searched in vain for the originals, because information about the giant snakes themselves was almost lost. All the more stubbornly did uneducated people hold on to their favorite description of a large dragon or a haughty snake, spewed to the ground to destroy the whole world ”(A. E. Bram)

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

Do giant snakes really attack humans? Are they capable of swallowing us? Hardly any other animal is fantasized about as much as pythons, anacondas or boas. 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.

It starts with the definition of length. Even serious travelers claimed that anacondas 30 or even 40 meters long are found in the forests of the Amazon. But they, as a rule, were silent at the same time 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), reaches a length of "only" five or six meters.

I must say that measuring a snake is not so easy. It is most convenient to do this, of course, when it is stretched to its full length. But for a large snake, such a posture is completely unnatural; some of them are simply not able to accept it - they need to bend at least the very end of the tail to the side in order to have support. Voluntarily, such a strong animal will not allow itself to be straightened for measurement. In a dead snake, the body usually becomes so ossified that it is even more difficult to make a measurement. If we judge the length of snakes by their skins for sale, then it is very easy to fall into error: 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 that even all 50. Snake hunters often use this.
It is interesting that live snakes are sold by the meter. Snake dealers charge zoos for small and medium-sized pythons from 80 pfennigs to one mark per centimetre. The New York Zoological Society announced many years ago that it would pay 20,000 marks to anyone who brought a live anaconda over ten meters long; yet no one has yet been able to earn this tempting sum.

Yet it is quite possible that such giants exist or existed until very recently. The weight of such an animal should be quite impressive; for example, an Asian reticulated python measuring 8.8 meters weighs 115 kilograms. No wonder that such a colossus that lives in the thicket virgin forest, without a whole horde of assistants, it is not so easy to overcome. And then after all, you still need to be able to deliver it unharmed to the airfield or to the 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 to believe. Slightly smaller amethyst python.
Here, in fact, we have already listed all six giants of the snake world: four egg-laying pythons - natives of the Old World and two viviparous boas - the New. Among the 2500 species of snakes inhabiting Earth, there are a number of other types of boas and pythons, but they are much smaller.

Giant snakes are not venomous. Unlike the fat giants of the serpent realm Poisonous snakes(for example, the African mamba, sometimes reaching four meters, and even longer - King Cobra) thinner and leaner.

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

By appearance it is absolutely impossible to determine whether a snake is a male or a female. A pair of hieroglyphic pythons that arrived at the New York Zoo at the age of one, grew at the same rate for the first six or seven years, but then the female began to noticeably lag behind 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.

Until what age can giant snakes live in the wild, we do not know. No one has ever ringed them in their habitats, as has been done for decades, for example, with migratory birds. We can only judge their age from zoo data. 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 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. At best, they can hiss. Snakes are not only dumb, but also deaf. They do not perceive sound vibrations of 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 bedding on which they rest.

In addition, these deaf-mute giants also have poor vision. Their eyes are devoid of moving eyelids, and the transparent leathery film protecting the eye during each molt is separated along with the entire skin and removed like glass from a watch. The snake eye lacks iris muscles, so the pupil cannot constrict in bright light and dilate in dim light. The snake barely reacts to a change in the illumination of the eyes: the lens in it cannot bend, as in ours, which makes it impossible for snakes to carefully examine objects located at close or far distances at will. To see anything, the snake has to move its entire head forward and backward. Perhaps all these are very useful properties (necessary, for example, for swimming and especially for looking at various items under water), but, by God, in the animal kingdom there are much more advanced eyes.

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 claim that a sleeping snake looks down, that is, its pupil is at the lower edge of the eye; others dispute this assertion.
The immobility of snake eyes gave rise to the repeated tale by everyone that snakes supposedly hypnotize, as if paralyzing their victim with their gaze. Frogs, lizards or small rodents do sometimes sit completely still in the presence of a giant boa constrictor, but this is explained different reasons: sometimes they simply do not notice the danger, and sometimes they are numb with fear; such fading brings them a certain benefit, since the immovable victim of the snake is not distinguished. After all, it is only when the frog runs away that the snake overtakes it.

How, after all, do these deaf-mutes and, moreover, short-sighted giants find their livelihood? It turns out that they have developed such sense organs that we do not possess. So, for example, they unmistakably feel heat at a far distance. The snake feels the human hand already at a distance of thirty centimeters. Therefore, silently crawling snakes are quite easy to find even those warm-blooded animals that carefully hid in shelters. So that at the same time their own breathing does not interfere with them, some of them (for example, pythons) have their nostrils turned up and back.

But the sense of smell is most developed in snakes. It is rather surprising that the olfactory organ is located in their mouth, on the palate, and the necessary information is delivered to it by the tongue, which extracts various small particles from the air. So the snakes daylight not needed, they can crawl in the footsteps of their prey with the same success day and night.

Somehow, not far from the Serengeti, my son Michael and I stumbled upon a huge hieroglyphic python, reaching three to four meters in length. We decided to take it with us. By the way, giant snakes, if they do not hold on to a tree or are not entangled in the bushes, are not so difficult to catch. In an hour, they can do no more than one and a half kilometers - if they suddenly have a desire to crawl for an hour. Giant snakes move in a completely different way than their smaller relatives. They move forward, wriggling with their whole body, while in a giant snake, abdominal scales serve for this purpose. The scales are set in motion by the muscles extending from the ribs (the ribs themselves remain motionless at the same time), forcing it to move forward and backward like small scoops of an excavator.

At that time we did not have great experience in handling snakes and therefore at first showed extreme caution, directing the python with horns. But in the end, we still decided to grab the snake by the tail, and she did not even try to attack us. We managed to stuff it into a sack, which we tied up and put under the camp bed in our tent for the night. Unfortunately, the next morning the bag was empty. Huge snake still managed to get out. However, from the trail she left, one could easily find out where she crawled. This track was straight, distinct and wide, as if someone was rolling a car tire.
Not a single snake, including poisonous ones, is able to catch up with a running person. But giant snakes can swim perfectly, much better than other land animals. As for the anaconda, it can be considered more aquatic than terrestrial animals.
Serpents and the sea do not care. So, one boa constrictor (Constriktor) was carried by the current for 320 kilometers from the South American coast and washed up on the island of St. Vincent, where he arrived in a great mood.

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

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 one has greatly elongated and noticeably expanded. Giant snakes have preserved small remains of pelvic and hip bones. But from the hind legs, only two pitiful claws remained outside - to the right and left of the anus.

How do such slow giants manage to catch their prey? From the very beginning it should be said that the statement that they deprive the consciousness of a person or some animal with a blow to the head is absolutely wrong. 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 made out to be. The force with which a snake weighing 125 kilograms pounces on the victim does not exceed the force with which a dog weighing 20 kilograms attacks. Of course, some flimsy, unsportsmanlike European from such a push can fall. But a more or less dexterous man is quite capable of coping with a four-meter boa constrictor alone, at least if he manages to stand on his feet; he can pull down the snake coils that are wrapped around him with a few vigorous jerks.

It is much more important for a snake not to hit its head, but to cling to the victim with its teeth. To do this, she opens her mouth to the limit. The reticulated python has one hundred backward-curving teeth arranged in six rows in its mouth. Therefore, if he managed to grab at least a finger, it is no longer so easy to pull it back. To do this, you need to try to unclench the jaws of the snake and first stick your hand even further into the mouth, and then pull it out.
Only when the snake has firmly grasped the victim with its teeth, does it begin to wrap its rings around it. Therefore, those who have to deal with giant snakes should always remember that they need to be grabbed only by the "nape" - behind the head, so that they cannot bite.

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

But even if the snake managed to grab its prey with its teeth and wrap several rings around it, this does not mean that it can “crush all its bones.” Giant snakes, even if they weigh more than a hundred kilograms, by no means have such remarkable strength that they are credited with. After all, the larger and heavier the animal, the less strength it has in terms of a kilogram of body weight. Thus, a louse, given its weight, is 10,000 times stronger than an elephant. And smaller snakes can compress and suffocate a victim suitable for themselves much more strongly than giant snakes - their own.

Giant snakes kill not by crushing bones, but by strangulation. They squeeze the chest of their prey so that it is not able to breathe air into the lungs. It is possible that the heart is also paralyzed from prolonged squeezing. The snake rings, wrapped around the victim's torso, act more like a rubber gut or rubber bandage than a strong one.<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 collaborator Dr. Gustav Lederer, who for forty years directed our exotarium, carefully examined three pigs, three rabbits and three rats, killed but not yet swallowed by giant snakes. No broken bones were found on the victims. But in the already swallowed prey there were broken bones.

Giant snakes are kept in many zoos around the world and, as a rule, do not show any aggressiveness as long as they are left alone. They are even quite easy to tame. Free-living pythons, when they are attacked or want to grab, defend themselves only by trying to bite, and almost never try to throw their rings on the enemy, they do this only with the prey they are about to swallow.

In zoos, there are sometimes circumstances in which force must be applied to a snake (for example, transplanting a newly arrived guest into a terrarium or in cases where veterinary intervention is necessary). To keep the snake, people are arranged 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 have asked everywhere about any case where a snake in a zoo would have killed someone, but so far I have never heard of it. True, I was told that at Rugs' Animal Dealership several decades ago, a seven or eight meter reticulated python wrapped itself around Siegfried's senior attendant and "broke several of his ribs."
One former dancer, who once performed with snake dances, told the servants of our Frankfurt Zoo that one of the snakes once squeezed her so hard - ~: broke two ribs. But in order for a slender girl to break two ribs, no supernatural powers are required. For example, once one of my sons, in a seizure, gently hugged his bride so tightly that something crunched inside her. Turns out he broke her rib...

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

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

They do not last long and die. Therefore, dancers often have to restock their pythons.

It is not true that giant snakes have a habit, holding the end of their tail to a bough, hanging from a tree and thus catching their prey. The statement that they pre-moisten a 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 uncomfortable position, or it has horns that prevent it from moving along the esophagus, and sometimes someone just frightened the snake, and this prevented her from calmly coping with the prey. Of course, a regurgitated animal is abundantly moistened with saliva, which led people who accidentally saw this to a misinterpretation.

Even very large and heavy snakes are able to crawl into relatively small loopholes, narrow windows or cracks in the fence. In this way, they usually make their way into chicken coops, pigsties, or barns where goats are kept. And so, when they, having swallowed their prey 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 in a trap. Here, it would seem, use your ability to burp swallowed prey in order to free yourself from imprisonment! But for this, snakes, as it turned out, "are not smart enough."
Similar cases have already been described quite often.

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

Vievichi and Nagas lived before Rakshases and Fomorians

I will try to answer the last question on this page first. Irish, Slavic and Indian legends contain hidden information thatNagas and Vievich lived before the Fomorians and Rakshases. 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 Svarogov cycle say that the tribe of the Black Serpent (serpents or vievichs) was defeated in the battle for the Earth with the bright gods led (see also) with Svarog or Semargl, the son of Svarog.As a result of this battle(in which a myriad of kites perished, and " the whole Earth [was] mixed with blood, drops of blood on every pebble") the first world was destroyed where there were no people. This is an extremely important circumstance, because both Rakshasas and Fomorians have already fought with people. And they, according to Slavic legends, did not exist before the first catastrophe.
In "Adiparva" there is an episode: 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 attributed to people very conditionally. Thirdly, in the episode of the destruction of snakes, the 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?) display of some monstrous catastrophe, as a result of which the former world perished. The proximity of this episode to the Slavic legends about the death of the first world is more than obvious.
The similarity of the thousand-headed Slavic Black Snake or Chernobog with the leader of the Nagas, the thousand-headed serpent Sheshu, can also serve as confirmation of the simultaneous existence of Nagas and Vievichi, and his armies of multi-headed serpents with an army of nagas.

Rudra and Typhon are also similar to Chernobog and Shesha, and Quetzalcoatl, in turn, looks like 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, the Egyptian papyrus of the XII-XIII dynasty of the pharaohs (XX-XVII centuries BC) tells about him "Tales of the shipwrecked": an Egyptian thrown by the waves on 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, destroyed the entire population consisting of serpents.
It is very curious that inIn the legends of three different peoples living in different parts of the globe, one and the same scenario of the catastrophe that destroyed the former world is given. 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 mankind was destroyed by fire.
So,Slavic, Indian, Egyptian, American and other legends say that the heyday of the civilization of vieviches, nagas and other serpent demons on Earth fell on very distant times from us - so distant that the storytellers could not remember the real appearance of these creatures.According to some legends, then there were no gods on Earth yet. They appeared later - as you might guess, in order to win back 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 which there were very, very many: tens - hundreds of millions, and maybe much more.

The attention of all actors is drawn exclusively towards the Tree of Knowledge, and the Tree of Life seems to be ignored by no one. 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, no matter how he stretched out his hand, and took also from the Tree of Life, and did not eat, and did not begin to 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 tasted from one Tree and, through this, became like God in the knowledge of good and evil, would also taste from another Tree and be compared with 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 arranged a wonderful garden of Eden, populated it with animals and birds, and created a woman for Adam to wife. The benevolence of the Creator, undoubtedly, is more in line with the assumption that initially God intended to crown his merciful attitude towards man with the gift of immortality.Why did it 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, nor does it say that he was created mortal. Most likely, a person was given both opportunities - death and immortality, and the choice depended on him. A man 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, quite clearly declared that you 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 Knowledge of good and evil, a person could not eat from the Tree of Life? This position is closely connected with the image of the speaking Serpent.

The Revelation of John says:"Whoever 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 and whom should win? In Genesis, God says the following to the Serpent: “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 that 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 legends of wild peoples from different countries and times about the origin of human death, where a snake or a snake tries to outwit or intimidate a person in order to appropriate the immortality intended for a person.

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. Such a belief in antiquity also existed in the habitat of the Semites. So, for example, the ancient Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon argued that the serpent is the most durable animal, as it changes its skin and thanks to this regains its lost youth. The Jews - a people neighboring the Phoenicians - could assume the same thing.

The plot that the serpent by cunning took possession of the plant that gives eternal life, which was intended for man, is also found in the Babylonian poem about Gilgamesh. And the Babylonian myths, as you know, became the main source of quite a lot of the initial myths of the Bible. The legend of Gilgamesh tells how the god-like Utnapishtim revealed to Gilgamesh the existence of a plant that has the ability to restore youth; how Gilgamesh obtained this plant; how, before a man could taste the magic plant, the serpent stole it, while Gilgameshbathed in a stream; and how, at last, having lost hope of immortality, Gilgamesh sat up and wept.

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

So the Khoi 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 the message of immortality to mankind, 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 am reborn to life again, so you will die and be reborn to life again." The hare appeared to people, but whether because his memory had betrayed him, or through malicious intent, he distorted the words of the message and said: “Just as I die and do not reborn to life again, so you will die and will not be reborn again to life." Therefore, the Khoi consider hares to be unclean animals and do not eat them.

A similar story exists among the Bushmen. The moon once said to 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 an argument between him and Luna over this event. "Your mother fell asleep," Luna said. "No, she's dead," the man protested. An argument broke out, and the moon, losing patience, hit the man in the face and split his lip. And then she cursed him and turned him into a hare, and deprived people of immortality. But in the hip of a hare, according to this belief, human flesh is still preserved. Therefore, the Bushmen, when killing a hare, cut out its thigh so as not to eat human meat.

The Nandi tribe (in East Africa) has a legend that attributes the cause of human death to unscrupulousthe dog that carried the message of immortality. According to legend, when a dog appeared to the first people with the news of immortality, she distorted the words of the moon and announced: “All people will die like the moon, but, unlike the moon, you will not return to life again unless you give me a drink. milk from your gourd and beer through your straw." But people laughed at the dog andgave her milk to drink from a chamber pot. The dog became angry and announced in 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 who is obliged to fulfill an important assignment, and the fatal result is attributed to his carelessness or malicious intent. In some other wild mythsnations about the origin of death, two messengers are sent, and the cause of death is the slowness or irresponsibility of the messenger who carried the joyful news of immortality.

Many savage tribes believed or believe that the serpent was the herald who distorted the message of immortality.
Most savages believe that due 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 the snakes allegedly appropriated 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 serpent was awake and immediately answered: "I am." Therefore, people and other animals die; only snakes do not die their own death. 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 will not die and, becoming old and weak, will shed their skin from themselves and thus restore youth. The bird flew away to convey the glad tidings of immortality; but before she had time to fly away, she met a snake that ate 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 the message of God." The snake finally reluctantly agreed. Then the bird said: “This is the message: people will die when they grow old, and you snakes, when you grow old, will shed your skin and become younger again.” That's whypeople, having reached old age, die, snakes crawl out of their old skin and become young.

Melanesians living on the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain say that the good spirit To-Kambinan loved people and wanted to make them immortal. So he called his brotherTo-Korvuvu and 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; but tell the snakes that they must die.” But To-Korvuvu fulfilled the order incorrectly, and ordered people to die, and gave the snakes the power of eternal life.

A similar legend exists in Annam. The deity Ngoc Hoang sent a messenger from the sky to tell people to change their skin when they grow old, after which they will live forever, and snakesannounce that when they grow old they will die. The herald came to 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 said to 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 man is old, he will die.”

The legend about the fall of man in the III chapter of the book "Genesis", apparently, is an abridged and distorted version of the corresponding myths of savages, where a snake stole immortality from a person.

GRANIMYTHOLOGEMESSNAKE.

The serpent, or serpent, is a fundamental symbol present 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 kind of special one) leads to the acquisition of magical abilities. In particular, understanding the language of animals and birds, and therefore - to a prophetic gift. So in the Scandinavian "Volsunga Saga" the following is told about Sigurd: "Then he waved his sword with that Gram and cut off Regina's head, and then he ate part of the snake's heart, and kept a part."

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

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

On the other hand, in its appearance, the serpent is a phallic and fertilizing symbol. The serpent accompanies many female deities, including the "Great Mother", and is often depicted in their hands or wrapped around them, which symbolizes pregnancy, birth, fertility. Also, the snake sometimes wraps around the "Lingam of Shiva". In the form of a cobra or a cobra-headed woman, the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and grain harvest Renenutet was depicted.

As a creature that periodically changes its skin, the snake symbolizes rejuvenation, and as a source of healing, with proper use of poison, 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 incarnation.
As a creature that can move without the help of legs or wings, and as a creature that penetrates deep into cracks and crevices, the snake symbolizes a certain all-pervading spirit.
A snake wrapped around a tree, or any other axial symbol, and moving upwards, means the awakening of a dynamic force, the spirit of everything growing.
The coiled snake (Kundalini) is a symbol of hidden (lurking, 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 is the emblem of royal power, the chariot of immortality, a symbol of the new incarnation of the dead. The snakes next to the solar disk in ancient Egypt personified the goddesses who expelled the enemies of the sun god Ra. Image of a snakeIt was attached to the forehead of the pharaoh as a sign of his reign in heaven and on earth.

The snake biting its tail (ouroboros) is a symbol of the cycle and cyclicity of phenomena, the relationship of the Eternal world and the transient world. In the context of cosmology, the snake is a symbol of the "original ocean" from which everything arises and into which everything returns, the power of primitive chaos.

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

In its negative incarnation, the snake is hostile to the Sun, light and all heavenly forces.When an eagle or a deer, or a horse appear 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 hooves, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, heavenly and eternal over earthly and transient.

In further history, the mythological image of the snake acquires some features of animals that are opposed to it. The opposition of snakes and birds is replaced by the image of a flying, winged or "feathered" (Quetzalcoatl) snake-dragon, which combines the signs of both snakes and birds; oppositionsymbols of a snake and a horse later lead to the creation 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 dragon-serpent. A snake with horns or with a ram's head is often found in both Celtic and Gallic 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 Indians of America and the natives of Australia. In the myths of the peoples of Africa3mei-Rainbow acts as an absorber of waters, which fights with the son of the Sun. This common African mythological motif can also be traced back to the ancient Egyptian myth of the serpent Apep, who drinks all the water of the underground every night.Nile and smitten for it by the god of the Sun Ra.

The ideas about the connection of the snake with the rain among many peoples of the world are reflected in the rituals of honoring or sacrificing snakes during the rainy season, or during the drought. These rites are alsocorrespond to the myths about the victory of the serpent fighter (in Indo-European mythology - the thunder god) over the serpent or dragon, after which thunder and rain begin.

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

The caduceus of Mercury combines the scepter (the phallic symbol of royal power); two snakes wrapped around a scepter; and their crowning wings. 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 "serpentine" mythologemes are united in a single image of the World Serpent.

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In ancient Indian mythology, the World Serpent (Shesha) was presented as holding the Earth on itself. Also in the 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, Jormungandr - the Serpent of Midgard (Middle World) - lives in the surrounding Midgard Ocean, encircles the whole earth and holds his own tail in his teeth(one of the variations of the image of Ouroboros). Having emerged from the World Ocean at the end of time, Jörmungandr will cause disastrous floods, a three-year winter (fimbulwinter) will come, the Sun will go out, the stars will fall from the sky; between the gods and the giants there will be the last battle - Ragnarok; the gods will defeat monsters and jotuns, but they themselves will perish. Yggdrasil (sacred ash, 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 "Divination of the Völva" tells.

According to the myths of the Indians of Eastern Bolivia, the sky once fell to the ground, but the World Serpent, coiled around them, again separated them 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 break into two parts a voracious monster that swam in the original 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 the three-term vertical models of the World (such as the 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 Jörmungand 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 Serpent.

Thus, the Cosmic Serpent is a mediator between Heaven and Earth, between earth and the underworld.
Also, the Cosmic Serpent is associated with the "original Ocean" and with the World Tree; serves as a symbol of primary Chaos.

You can say so! The Chaos Serpent separates Heaven and Earth, the Universe is born from Chaos and Chaos destroys it, Chaos keeps the secrets of Eternal Life and death…

Serpent Chaos separates Adam and Eve...

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The "Primitive Man" in Kabbalah - Adam Kadmon - is a universal being, uniting the masculine and feminine principles.
“And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female, created them” (Bible, Genesis 1:27).
That is, the Primordial 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 the Sky. And yet he separates Adam and Eve...

The name "Adam" (or "Adamy") is derived from the Hebrew "Adamia" -"Earth".
That is, Adam is literally - an earthling, countryman, land, earthen.
"Eve" - ​​from the Hebrew "Hava" - "life" or "giving life."
It is noteworthy that in the Greek 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 soul” (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, the myth of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Gebe was widespread.

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 a snake here - the god Geb was often depicted with a snake head.

Once Geb was angry with Nut for eating her children - the stars, and called her a pig that eats 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 ordered 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 resisted Geb and Nut, the wind broke their embrace. Heaven separated from earth.

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

The bronze 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 him for cowardice and grumbling during wanderings 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 copper serpent and put it on a banner, and when the serpent bit a man, he, looking at the bronze serpent, remained alive” (Numbers, 21: 9).

Therefore, in Christianity, the snake is a dual symbol: it is 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 Knowledge of good and evil. A snake raised on a Cross or a pole of a certain Tree, or wrapped around the Cross, is a prototype of Christ raised on the Tree of Life for the sake of healing and saving 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 serpent is the guardian of the Divine Gnosis.

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 will subdue the Serpent sitting on the Tree of the original Chaos, that is, whether the person will become the Image of God, embodied in the dust of the earth ...

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

And the Serpent, which a person needs to subdue, lives in himself ...

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", "coiled in the form of a snake".The concept of kundalini is associated with an esoteric idea of ​​a certain kind of energy concentrated at the base of the spine, the correct awakening of which opens the chakras.Symbolically, the kundalini is depicted as a snake coiled three and a half times, sleeping at the base of the spine (muladhara chakra).

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In the light of the topic under consideration, the icons depicting the serpent fight of St. George the Victorious are also interesting. This plotclosely related to folklore. It is a special case of the world wide plot of a hero's struggle with a snake, which is found in many fairy tales, epics, legends, spiritual poems, lives. The presence of a plot of snake fighting in fairy tales is very important, because the classic plots of fairy tales have prehistoric antiquity.

There are two types of icons depicting St. George.

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

But there are icons dedicated to George the Victorious, of a completely different kind. These are not portraits, but an image of him fighting a snake, where George is shown in motion. There are three types of such icons. On some, George is shown slowly riding a horse. Walking beside himElizabeth leads the snake conquered by the hero. They approach the tower where Elizabeth's parents are. On the icons of the second type, only the mortal fight of George with the snake is depicted. The third type is a mixture of the first two. George on horseback strikes a snake with a spear. And at the same time, Elizabeth leads this snake on a lead.

It is interesting that the icon of George on horseback is not in any of the temples of the Moscow Kremlin. There is only his image standing. There is also a scientifically made inventory of all the icons of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, which takes into account 1127 icons. But the icons of George the snake-fighterNone in this listing. In this regard, scientific researchers argue that the cult of George the serpent fighter for a long time was not recognized by official theology. The Kremlin and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra were places of state worship. Themthe temples were the temples of kings and the highest nobility. In the Church of the Savior Nereditsa in Novgorod there was also not a single image of George in the fight with a snake. An illustrated complete inventory of the Nereditsa frescoes was published in 1925. It has 143reproductions, but George the snake fighter is not among them. And in the entire legacy of Rublev there is also not a single image of George the snake fighter. Rublev carried out state orders.

Icons with George the snake fighter were in many churches, mainly in rural areas and in provincial cities, but they were not in the large churches of the statevalues. George the snake fighter entered the cult of the Orthodox Christian Church gradually, contrary to the church leadership. The apocryphal life of George the snake-fighter was condemned in the Slavic indexes of forbidden 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 Nicephorus was once again forced to 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 recounted in folk spiritual verses in almost all Christian countries, they decorated the walls of temples.

Let us dwell on the analysis of the icon of the type in which George peacefully brings the serpent and Elizabeth to her parents: she leads the tamed serpent, George accompanies her on horseback. ForThe interpretation of this icon has valuable auxiliary material - a folk spiritual verse about Egor the Brave and Elizabeth the Beautiful. Its plot boils down to the fact that in some fantastic city or kingdom (the city of Anthony, Rakhryn-gorod, the kingdom of Arapinsky) live a king and queen. They are either pagans orapostates from the Christian faith. God sends a terrible punishment on the city. A “riding snake” appears, which requires a person to be devoured every day. The king proposes that the sacrifice be determined by lot. The residents accept the offer. But the lot falls on the king. His wife invites him to send their daughter Elizabeth to the sacrifice instead of herself. After all, she is not of the same faith as her parents, she is a Christian: "She prays to the Lord crucified." By deceit, they lead their daughter to the sea or lake in which the snake 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 snake, but tames it by casting a spell over it or hitting it with his scepter. Elizabeth takes off her belt and George wraps it around his neck.snake, and gives her the end of it in her hand. They return to the house of Elizabeth's parents. This moment is depicted on the icon. Further, George invites Elizabeth's parents to accept Christianity. The celestial being of George is opposed by his antagonist - a serpent coming out of the ground. On the icons of this type in the corner is markeda mountain or elevation, and in that mountain is a serpent's hole. The snake is led by Elizabeth, the royal daughter, who was appointed as his sacrifice.

The esoteric meaning of this apocrypha is that the Ancient Serpent, the Tempter of the human race, in his incarnation in a person must not be killed, but conquered, subjugated ...

If it happened to turn into a crow, the news received will be extremely negative. There is a high probability of a 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 unkind thoughts will settle in your head.

Do not think that after separation, life ends. Fate always knows when to bring people together and when to breed. Probably, this person has already fulfilled his role in your life, and now it's time to give his place to another.

Why dream that he has turned into a woman

For a man, a dream in which he turned into a woman means that he has a too soft character, which is actively used by others. Uncertainty and indecision neutralize your inherent talents and extraordinary mind. You will not be able to achieve success in the business field if you do not show your strength and masculinity.

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

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

The meaning of the dream about turning into an animal

The interpretation of the dream, where the transformation into an animal took place, largely depends on what kind of animal you have become. If it was a bear, wolf or other predator, it means that you lack decisiveness and firmness of character. A fox, a 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 between your soft and decisive qualities in order to become a harmonious personality, able to find a compromise, and when necessary, to show rigidity and inflexibility.

I dreamed how a man turns into a snake

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

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

Treat people the way you want to be treated. It is impossible to demand decency from others if you yourself are not such.

Interpretation of a dream about turning into a cat

According to the dream book, the vision where the transformation into a cat took place portends favorable events in your life. They will happen after you develop such qualities as diplomacy and flexibility. Some incidents will contribute to your transformation, which will somewhat change your inherent tough demeanor.

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

The dream in which the transformation into a werewolf occurred

If you dreamed that you turned into a werewolf, it means that at present you are led by base instincts. Greed, greed and thirst for easy money clouded your mind and turned into a completely different person. The sign you see serves as a warning that if you don’t change your mind, you risk incurring serious trouble.