snakes represents SATAN in christaianity..but in HINDUS they r their..GOD.?WHT DOES IT REALLY MEAN?
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You must never have any other gods against my face. \n\n8 “‘You must not make for yourself a carved image, any form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth. 9 You must not bow down to them or be led to serve them, because I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion, bringing punishment for the error of fathers upon sons and upon the third generation and upon the fourth generation, in the case of those who hate me;\n\n\nso its another false god
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Considering 'satan' is the xtians view of one of the pagan gods, sure, why not? It's a phony religion like all the others, just an excuse to be 'evil' and a need to worship something better than themselves due to the servile nature of humans.\n\nso there! :)
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haha, hindus, primarily pray to 3 deities..........\n\nthey are shakti (kali), vishnu, and shiva........\n\nkrishna is incarnation of vishnu......\n\nso ppl who workship vishnu are called vaisnavas,\nand those who workship shiva are called shivaites,\n\nnow , shivates, wear ash on their heads, 3 horizontal lines, which represents shivism,( shiva wears the ash like that, so followers also do the same)\n\nand vaisnavites wear the "yellow stuff" as u put it lol, they are 3 lines upwards, ie, vertical lines, to represent that they are vaisnavites......\n\nthey are monks, and they give up the world, and dont keep any posessions, they dont enjoy any luxuries, and are always trying to help the world......\n\nthey should not keep any posessions as a rule......\n\nso they beg alms from day to day and carry them, and carry ash sometimes, in those bags.....\n\nand why not?????\n\nu mean why yellow? , yellow clothes are worn by vishnu, \nyellow is supposed to represent wisdom or intelligence, i am not sure......\n\nand if you are confused with krisna and vishnu, like i said, krisna is an incarnation of vishnu, so workshippers of krisna are considered vaisnavas........\n\ndid u get the idea??\n\nand the robes they wear are in orange color, orange color represents renunciation and purity.......\n\nthe orange clothes are there to remind them that they are monks,(and have to be pure in thought word and deed, )\nand that their purpose is to serve(help) humanity......\n\ngot the idea?
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I believe this verse means that a venomous serpent would not harm them, as the remainder of the verse states that deadly poison also would not harm them.\nAn example of this is found in the Book of Acts\n\n3Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. 4When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live." 5But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.\n\nI believe this because there is no place in scripture where Jesus or any of His followere did this themselves.
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Now there's a thought that took guts to put out there.  I've always felt that way.  It just seems logical that the ancient serpent always has been society as a whole.  Any loose or even general translation refers to the great serpent as having dominion over the earth.  It would seem to me that the serpent/satan are in fact one and the same, thus, the earth/society.  Just my opinion.
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People associate it with witchcraft, which they (incorrectly) associate with devil worship.  Therefore they assume its a santanic symbol, even though it isn't.
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It comes from Hermes' caduceus, which has long been a sign of medical symbology representing thus medicine... Its a staff with two snakes, sometimes one encircling it to the top... it may even look like a double helix...
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First off...I say no.\n\nSecond of all, perhaps there's more to consider.  \n\nAsk yourself WHY satan appeared as a serpent in the garden?  (hit...satan always tries to decieve).\n\nIn Exodus, when the children of Israel are being afflicted by the "flying serpents" moses puts a serpent on a cross (um...symbolic) and says "look to the serpent to live".\n\nThis is not doctrine of my faith, however I sincerly believe that at one point the serpent was a symbol of christ rather than of satan.  Satan appeared in a manner trying to mimick christ and therefore decieve eve.  Moses knew this symbology but it's since been forgotten.\n\nI believe the snake was originally a symbol of Christ.
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I was taught that the snake/serpent was changed when cursed by God to from then on it had to crawl on its belly and eat dust.  All of creation changed after the fall.\n\nOf course this particular serpent was Satan, but the animal he used to represent himself was cursed as well.\n\nGen 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, \n       "Cursed are you above all the livestock \n       and all the wild animals! \n       You will crawl on your belly \n       and you will eat dust \n       all the days of your life.
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Well, they don't believe in or worship satan.  They state that they use the word "satan" as a symbol of anything inherently anti-Christian (ie- indulgence in sin).  They worship themselves.
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A very good question.  \n\nMuch debate has gone up about the POLYTHEISTIC nature of Hindu.  The religion is known to have so many gods it is debated that there is no god at all to Hindu (among western academics), though it is so obviously a religion.\n\nGodhead is the name for the form of god in Hindu.  Godhead is in all things, all objects, all shapes, and all places.  In Hindu, god is worshipped in many shapes, the shapes of the many gods, and yet it is a general, universal god they celebrate, even though it is multitudes of gods.\n\nI understood it best when I heard a (poor) translation of a Hindu prayer, I will try to recall here: \n\n"God forgive me for these sins I commit, \nFor I am human.  \n\nYou are in all things, \nAnd I worship you in these things, \nYou are in all forms \nAnd I worship you in this form, \nYou are in all places, \nAnd I worship you in this place.  \n\nGod, forgive me for these sins I commit, \nFor I am human."
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It means that you are afraid of betrayal. The snake is a symbol of betrayal. \n If the snakes are friendly at first and then threatening - you are afraid a friend or someone else close to you is betraying you. \n If the snakes start out being violent towards you, you are afraid of someome outside your immediate group who may hurt you. \n   As with all fears, this should not be ignored, but should be confornted.
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one god too many forms. just like different facets of a diamond. did you ever heard of the story of an elephant and 4 blind folded persons. each of them was touching different part and expling differently about it. that is how the different relegions describe god.\n\n  posts above me have explained it beautifully. i just want to add thatn hinduism rather includes than excludes. do you know jesus was almost going to be an avatar ? britishers jumped to save it from indianization and in their words currption. \n\n  a grat deal of this harmony is credited to Gupta dynasty. the Gupta kings worked very hard and wisely. this unity was the result of many wise and great men who intermingled different sects and  resultent hindu philosophies. you will get Suprme God as well as Suprme Goddess . and they are not rivals. they make each other complete. they made up even new gods to stop arguments and lead them to monothism. we have an Ardhnarishvar (half man half woman ) idols to represent that they are one. that is combination of a male God and Mother Goddess and it defused tention about if god is a he or she. the god Harihar (Hari + Har)repesented both Lord Shiva and  Lord Vishnu. Hari means Vishnu Har means Shiva. it united two main sects of shaivites and vaishnavas ... result is that all the avatars are form of either vishnu or shiva. but they are one so all gods are one. all the goddesses are form of one goddess Shakti . and Shakti and Shiva are a couple and united they are Ardhanarishwar so again only one god in the end...besides that Upanishads say god has no form. thats ok because he has no definite form thats why he can appear in any form. \n\nif you are atheist thats fine too. just do good work. God is too great to punish someone because he does not believe him. he does not need their confirmation.\n    \n  Great teachers taught  to respect mutual beliefs and the feeling has been strengthened with time. thats how there are so many relegious schools flourished in India. That is our heritage we are most proud of .\n\neven many muslim asctetics in India helped this feeling. some sufi saints followed the local culture and mingled the basic concept of hinduism and islam. unfortunately not many muslims followed them.
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Hindus do not worship idols any more than a Christian who wears a crucifix worships a piece of metal. They worship Gods and use statues as perpetual reminders and symbols. Furthermore, Hinduism is a vast range of practices and beliefs that are far more complex than your simple, uneducated presentation acknowledges.
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Why is a serpent used to incite Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree in the biblical tale ?\n\nWhy NOT?\n\n\n>Why is the serpent the one who incited Eve to eat \n>from the forbidden tree? \n\nWhy NOT?\n\n>and what does the serpent symbolise? \n>in many civilizations the serpent was depicted as a deity \n>symbol as the egyptian and sumerican civilizations , \n>what was the reality behind the serpent symbol \n>in the garden of Eden? \n\nCould it be the same, the Deceiver? The one who deceived them in the Garden of Eden and the one who got the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations to worship him as Deity?  Isn't that what he always wants? To be "like god"?
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The Rainbow Serpent belief not only is widely sparse through the Aboriginal Australia, but it does also appear to exist in other societies and cultures (in this instance it suffices to narrow the definition to belief, whilst I shall demonstrate in the following discussion, the complexity of the ideological system enclosed in the terminology). By means of discussing the origins of the Rainbow Serpent belief, through analysing a version of a Northern Australian myth, and by discussing an Aboriginal ritual, I shall analyse the results of my research in light of 'matriarchal' perspectives and attempt to demonstrate that, being the Rainbow Serpent one of the oldest "religious belief documented in the world" (Flood, J. 1983. page 150), embodies important elements useful to formulate a valid theory for the origin of symbolic culture.\n\nWhat exactly is the Rainbow Snake? Is it possible to lessen its complex features into formal description? An attempt to describe its constantly evolving features would be useful; moreover, given the fact that the Serpent symbology is present almost in any continent, culture and religion (African, Amerindian, Australian, Aztec, Chinese, Christian et cetera) and its features are somehow similar to each other, I will limit the description to a general overview of the serpents' characteristics. Consequently, I shall draw the most relevant attributes and analyse them in light of Aboriginal traditions.\n\nThe existence of a 'divine' Serpent is testable in countless cultures and, it must be pointed out, it embodies various and complex symbols. It is possible to come across male serpents as well as female serpents; moreover, the Rainbow Snake represents a self-generating creature since snakes' skin is seasonally shed. The skin, seasonally shed symbolises a ritualised temporary death, which is followed by rebirth: hence, being the mythical Serpent an essence that has the capacity to die and live again, represent Death itself and Life.\nIconographies of snakes are often characterised by 2 creatures biting each other's tail, or only one serpent, again, in the act of chasing its tail in a perpetual circular motion. Cyclical and seasonal recurrences are in this manner represented. Accepting the fact that the snake is a widespread element in a great number of regions of the world, it is necessary to narrow the argument and focus the attention on the Aboriginal version of the ideology: the Rainbow Snake.\nThe greatest difficulty in attempting to decode the implicit meanings embodied in the Rainbow Serpent "religious structure" (Eliade, in Maddock, K. 1978: 4) is suddenly encountered when we try to translate the various features into language. Because of its nature and its multifaceted meanings we shall indicate, at this moment, the Rainbow Snake (bolung, in Northern Aboriginal Australia's language) as "a being or a class of beings as well as an attribute of certain beings" (Maddock, K. 1978: 117). Moreover, underling the complexity of the terms by which Aboriginals refer to the Rainbow Serpent, Maddock argues that bolung "not only […] refers to a semantic configuration unlike any to which any of our words refers, but is perhaps a result also of its special symbolic function in verbal (and visual) communication" (ibid.). The concept of bolung / Rainbow Snake encloses the maleness symbolism, as it is associated to a phallus (a non-transcendent explanation for the phallic symbolism attributed to bolung, can be seen in the cobra snake, for instance, when it raises its head before attacking); by opposite, the Rainbow Serpent corresponds to femaleness and the whole, wide symbolism circulating around the fertility and life-giving domains. This 'being', does not symbolise snakes in their physical attributes, but contains metaphysical snakes' attributes: the Rainbow Serpent is not a serpent but behaves like other reptiles since it lives in
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Dreaming about Snakes means:\n\nIn its psychological interpretation a snake in your dream is a phallic symbol, and to dream of one, especially if it was coiled around you, or otherwise on your body, is a warning that you may be a slave to either your sexual passions or repression. However, according to the oracles, snakes in a dream are warnings of various troubles, obstacles, or treachery. Of course the colors and other details must be carefully considered, but as a general rule: to dream that you were bitten by one portends a period of struggle against unfortunate circumstances, and if it was a cobra, it carries a special warning to guard against accidents in the following few weeks. If your dream featured a snake wound around you which you could not throw off, you are being warned to expect treachery where you least suspect it. To dream of being surrounded and unable to kill more than one or two indicates that you are in danger of being seriously cheated by someone you trust, but if you managed to kill (or get rid of) them all, it is a sign that you will succeed in spite of any hostile opposition; to walk over snakes without trying to kill them suggests that you will, in the end, actually turn the tables on those who are trying to block your way. To dream of playfully handling snakes suggests that you are in danger of being led astray by unprincipled friends or associates; and if your dream featured a professional snake charmer at work, it indicates that you will have to defend your reputation against malicious gossip.\n\nSource: Swoon, http://www.swoon.com \nfrom: http://www.experiencefestival.com/snakes_in_dream