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Re: Of Snakes, Massacres, and Talking Donkeys
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Sat, 10 May 2003 00:08:34 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, David Koudys writes:
> Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks, David.
> As a tangent, iirc, the snake on a pole is how today's medical profession
> derived their symbol of healing--a snake wrapped around, well, a stick :)
Yes, I had heard that. I don't know where they get the idea that the snake
was wrapped around the pole. Yahweh tells Moses to make the bronze serpent,
*then* raise it up on a pole. Nothing mentioned about coiling the bronze
snake around the pole/stick.
To add to the confusion, another symbol called the Caduceus that is used by
some in the medical profession. It is a winged staff with *two* snaked
coiled around it. This, so far as I know, has nothing to do with the Moses
story, but was the symbol of Hermes the Greek messenger of the gods.
> Love all the little bits (especially the snakes--did I mention the snakes?),
> especially God dumping all the snakes out of a bucket. And God shoving the
> letter into Balaam's mouth--funny!
I think Yahweh had that big cauldron full of poisonous snakes just lying
around ever since the Ten Plagues. It was his back-up plague for the
Egyptians, but he didn't end up using it. And ever since then, he's just
looking for an excuse.
-Rev. Smith
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| (...) Absolutely fantastic! As a tangent, iirc, the snake on a pole is how today's medical profession derived their symbol of healing--a snake wrapped around, well, a stick :) Love all the little bits (especially the snakes--did I mention the (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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