Is there a spirtual meaning behind centipeds?
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Centipedes are symbolic for Awareness says http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm303042.html\n\nAccording to Animal-Wise by Ted Andrews, they are symbolic of movement into new psychic connections and relationships, and protection against psychic deceptions.\n\nI'm afraid that's all I can find...
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Who's to say there is a meaning\n\nMaybe we don't have a plan - we're just creatures who sprouted from organisms.  \n\nPersonally I like to believe in a more spiratual meaning - God is testing us to see if we are worthy to enter heaven, but then again we might just be the play toys of a giant alien race.  Nobody Knows
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Good for you! I've often asked the question: How can we possibly understand even a tiny part of an omnipotent being? To think we can is presumption. I'm reminded of a quote from Inherit the Wind: God created Man in His image, and Man returned the favor. To think that any religion speaks for God (or all religions, for that matter) would cast God as a sociopath with the emotional maturity of an infant. We ascribe so much to God's will; everything from winning a Grammy to losing a child, to finding a parking place to destroying entire civilizations for being "primitive".\n\nIn my searching I found some New Age teachings which suggested that God contemplated Itself and, as a result, split into billions of tiny pieces, each piece endowed with the will and the ability to experience all that Life is. So in the sense that an omnipotent being would have no reason (in my tiny comprehension) to hate any part of itself, God therefore loves each and every one of us.\n\nThat's also the reason I don't believe there is a Hell. But that's another story. ;-)
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In Comparision with the Spritual Creation, the Vedic scriptures does discribe this Material Universe to be as good as a Stool Pit. \nWe have indeed put our head in this Pit, and we still think that this is a place of enjoyment, and this miserable existance is a way of life.
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well actually I've been pondering this for a while. God say's He created them. I dont think they were 'pets'. the fossil soil beneath us is four miles thick all around the earth. that translates into one hell of a lot of dinosaurs. then they died . God begins creating again calling forth 'every living creature'. life begins to grow and mulitply on its own without God's help. so it is my feeling that the dinosaurs served one absolute and essential purpose. God created them specifically to be used as fertilizer for the earth. to provide fossil fuel. the earth would not be in existence today if not for the dinosaurs. life as we know it would not be the same. they were used to prepare the earth for human habitation.
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I agree. I think deities are metaphors for something too immense, infinite, and eternal for the human mind to understand. It's a way of trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, to define the indefinable. And think the more we define it, the further we get from the truth.
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The original-language terms (Heb., ne′phesh [?פנ]; Gr., psy·khe′ [ψυχή]) as used in the Scriptures show “soul” to be a person, an animal, or the life that a person or an animal enjoys.Earth’s First Souls. The initial occurrences of ne′phesh are found at Genesis 1:20-23. On the fifth creative “day” God said: “‘Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls [ne′phesh] and let flying creatures fly over the earth . . . ’ And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul [ne′phesh] that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind.” Similarly on the sixth creative “day” ne′phesh is applied to the “domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth” as “living souls.”—Ge 1:24.\nThe Human Soul. Precisely the same Hebrew phrase used of the animal creation, namely, ne′phesh chai·yah′ (living soul), is applied to Adam, when, after God formed man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, “the man came to be a living soul.” (Ge 2:7) Man was distinct from the animal creation, but that distinction was not because he was a ne′phesh (soul) and they were not. Rather, the record shows that it was because man alone was created “in God’s image.” (Ge 1:26, 27) He was created with moral qualities like those of God, with power and wisdom far superior to the animals; hence he could have in subjection all the lower forms of creature life. (Ge 1:26, 28) Man’s organism was more complex, as well as more versatile, than that of the animals. (Compare 1Co 15:39.) Likewise, Adam had, but lost, the prospect of eternal life; this is never stated with regard to the creatures lower than man.—Ge 2:15-17; 3:22-24.\nSoul—A Living Creature. As stated, man “came to be a living soul”; hence man was a soul, he did not have a soul as something immaterial, invisible, and intangible residing inside him. The apostle Paul shows that the Christian teaching did not differ from the earlier Hebrew teaching, for he quotes Genesis 2:7 in saying: “It is even so written: ‘The first man Adam became a living soul [psy·khen′ zo′san].’ . . . The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.”—1Co 15:45-47.
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The Wikipedia says this: one facile with words, witch, shape-shifter, and animal co-essence. The last is a name for an entity, to which refers a widespread and ancient Mesoamerican belief that one part of the souls of humans (or human-like figures, such as gods), manifests itself as a sort of animal (or phenomenon, such as lightning) of a spiritual character. The Mayan term is way. The belief is still current in many parts of Mesoamerica, though the term may vary. Nagual has found its way into the Mexican Spanish idiom, with the meaning lie or trick.\nI am not one.
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it depends on the number of body segments, centipedes have 1 pair of legs on each segment, so a centipede with 10 body segments has 20 legs. Millipedes have 2 pairs of legs on each segment.
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They're in the Diplopoda class, and a lot are in the Julida and Spirostrepida orders.  Now there's an array of suborders and families, try the spirostrepida order... they're nice.  \n\nAs there's many types of millipedes, you might need to narrow down your search a bit.  Try http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
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Yes, it is all taken care of by the gods in trivial knowledge panthenon of the discworld called Topaxi, God of certain mushrooms, and also of great ideas that you forgot to write down and will never remember again, and of people who tell other people the "dog" is "god" spelled backwards and think this is in some way revelatory (a little red god)
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Evil's daddy is right you know, you should ask him these things, he can be right sometimes, I know you don't want to admit it :)\n\nCuckoo-Spit “Frog-Spit,” or “Froth-Spit.” The spume which forms the uidus of an insect called the Cicada Spumaria, or, more strictly speaking, the Cercopis Spumaria (one of the three divisions of the Cicadariæ). This spume is found on lavender-bushes, rosemary, fly-catch, and some other plants. Like the cochineal, the cicada spumaria exudes a foam for its own warmth, and for protection during its transition state. The word “cuckoo” in this case means spring or cuckoo-time.
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Reminder: 5n Theory, all continents used to be attached to one another- so in theory this is highly possible- if two of every species has moved from place to place. Also remember, animals have a good sense of unusual events happening, like earthquakes and things, so they might have had the sense to know where to go. Then you might ask about the unicorns, but it is said that they were too stubborn to get on the ship... dragons and pegasuses... I have no idea about.
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I know of caterpillars that look exactly like centipedes if that's of any help? just email me
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There are *many* different genera of centipede.  ('genera' is the plural of 'genus'.)\n\nThe word 'centipede' is an entire Class (Chilopoda) of the subphylum miriapoda, which also includes millipedes.  (See source 1.)\n\nUnder this class there are four Orders (Geophilomorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Scolopendromorpha, and Scutigeromorpha).\n\nAnd each Order has multiple Genera.\n\nFor example, my second source below lists the many genus under the Order Scolopendromorpha ... and those are only the ones native to N. America.\n\nI believe the total number of genera is in the dozens.
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Sorry, I think they are mythical creatures.  Nice to think about, but not real.
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If one see animals that are not from this realm it doesn't negate that they exist, it merely means that they are seeing beyond this plain of existance. I have as a Totem animal the mighty Lepreachaun named Erniesta O'Latern of the Spanish Donegal and People try and tell me all the time that She doesn't exist yet I know that She does. So yes Sweetie Pie mythological Totems do exist and Your friend is really seeing those non existant armidillos. My other Totem when Erniesta is out of town ( She has a time share in the Caymans ) is Santa Claus! People are hard pressed to say Old Nicky doesn't exist eh, eh?.