MythTickle by Justin Thompson for March 14, 2022

You need better parables about good little snakes, there must be at least one, some where.

Hisstory begs to differ……

There are good snakes that eat rodents and good snakes that are not poisonous or want to hug you so hard that you are squeezed to death.

St Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland ’cause that were peeing in the Guiness. (it makes it taste like American beer)

Y’know, we’ve never heard the snake’s side of the story, have we?

From the Wikipedia article “Serpent (symbolism)”:

“In some cultures, snakes were fertility symbols. For example, the Hopi people of North America performed an annual snake dance to celebrate the union of Snake Youth (a Sky spirit) and Snake Girl (an Underworld spirit) and to renew the fertility of Nature. During the dance, live snakes were handled, and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. “The snake dance is a prayer to the spirits of the clouds, the thunder and the lightning, that the rain may fall on the growing crops.”"

Still trying that old “eat of this apple” ploy?! It’s no wonder no one loves you, Snake….

All he wanted was to go behind the tree and have a quiet hiss……

One of the oldest known sacred places is a cave in southern Africa with a painting of a snake on the wall. Speculation is that the snake was a symbol of regeneration because it is symbolically ‘reborn’ when it molts.