By Drake Stutuesman
ISBN-10: 186189239X
ISBN-13: 9781861892393
A snake smells with its tongue, hears with its flesh, and breathes below the sand with one lung; it will possibly copulate for days with one snake or with fifty instantly; it has infrared radar; and it will possibly set off spontaneous bleeding if threatened. With some of these traits, you can actually see how snakes have such different institutions in cultures worldwide: whereas celebrated in tattoos and stories, and for medicinal merits, snakes also are so universally feared that they continually suffer extreme persecution and infrequently take pleasure in safe rights. Drake Stutesman explores the following in Snake the attention-grabbing common heritage of the maligned serpentine.Stutesman examines quite a lot of resources to enquire the complicated and frequent symbolism the snake has encouraged, together with the serpent's temptation of Eve within the Bible, Kaa within the Jungle ebook, the chinese language zodiac, Indian snake charmers, and the Hollywood movie Anaconda. She appears to be like on the position snakes have performed in human tradition and technology, from snake delicacies and using venom in drugs to the interesting background of snake symbolism in paintings, structure, cinema, or even garments. Richly illustrated and written in an attractive variety, Snake is a useful source for snake fanatics and students, in addition to for all who love, respect, or worry this interesting and enduring animal. (20051101)
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Out of the egg of their union gushed forth sun, moon, planets and living earth. When the serpent claimed credit, Eurynome kicked out his teeth and banished him to the underworld. Here the male snake, clearly a consort, is explicitly a phallic emanation of the creatrix womb. The Christian Gnostics believed similarly that their Mother of Creation, Sophia, ‘infused’ Jehovah with energy. When he appropriated the change as his own she also punished him. This adds a serpent’s ghost to representations of Jehovah.
9000–6000 bc). Her immediate ancestor was the Snake and Bird Goddess, inheritor of the Palaeolithic birdserpent. The frequent egg-shapes of that period evolved into 44 stylized snake and egg patterns in the Neolithic and, in iconography across Europe, the Snake and Bird Goddess appeared as a world egg or two eggs, usually wound by snakes, a motif much passed on (as evidenced in the Eurynome tale). These very images return centuries later in the icons of the Orphic Mysteries and the Gnostic world egg.
The lethal coral snake’s distinctive warning colours. The snake’s intricate, flexible skeleton, from an 1860s English Anatomy of Vertebrates. copycat snakes to live undisturbed. But snakes have desperate defences, which they use as a last resort. Some species will break their tails off between vertebrae despite the fact that, unlike the lizard tail, it cannot regenerate. Some snakes, even cobras, feign death by flopping onto their backs and letting their mouths hang open. Others roll into a very tight ball, coiled around the head as much as possible.
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