05-04-2021, 07:52 PM
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Planar Protector
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Originally Posted by Evia
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What’s the symbol for the medical association? I’ll give you a hint it involves a serpent. I mean you literally cannot make this shit up. God has a pretty great sense of humor.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)
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Historically, serpents and snakes represent fertility or a creative life force. As snakes shed their skin through sloughing, they are symbols of rebirth, transformation, immortality, and healing.[10] The ouroboros is a symbol of eternity and continual renewal of life.
In some Abrahamic traditions, the serpent represents sexual desire.[11] According to some interpretations of the Midrash, the serpent represents sexual passion.[12] In Hinduism, Kundalini is a coiled serpent.[13]
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Serpents are connected with venom and medicine. The snake's venom is associated with the chemicals of plants and fungi[14][15][16] that have the power to either heal or provide expanded consciousness (and even the elixir of life and immortality) through divine intoxication. Because of its herbal knowledge and entheogenic association, the snake was often considered one of the wisest animals, being (close to the) divine. Its divine aspect combined with its habitat in the earth between the roots of plants made it an animal with chthonic properties connected to the afterlife and immortality. The deified Greek physician Asclepius, as god of medicine and healing, carried a staff with one serpent wrapped around it, which has become the symbol of modern medicine. Moses also had a replica of a serpent on a pole, the Nehushtan, mentioned in Numbers 21:8.
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