/lit/ - Literature

>>19189561
Sigurd the Dragon slayer had one snake eye and Moses told the Hebrews to look on the snake on the cross to heal their venomous bites. The archetype is there for Christ.

>>16556606
>>16556580

>Being and Becoming

It's an eternal dance where the ratio of Being to Becoming increases in the archetypal spirit space. Matter evolves into spirit. Becoming becomes being.

Put another way, Becoming is the Evolving force - the vitality of matter, the drive for change, profit, novelty, and procreation. Pretty much every time you see a snake in world mythology (from Eden to Queztacoatl to the Uraeus to the kundalini), we're talking about this force. It's inside of you, because you are made of matter.
The counterpoint to this is the divine spark, the eternal atman, the holy spirit, the connection to source, the breath of life, whatever you wanna call it - pure being, pure consciousness. You have an eternal soul and what you sow in this world, you reap in the next. We are all connected via this source.
A primary task of man and woman in this realm of duality is to reign in their serpent, become the master of it (and importantly - not suppress it entirely) to achieve balance, harmony, and find love.
Jesus himself likened himself to Moses’ snake on a rod (nehushtan - like the caduceus) and said “Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

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>”Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, Christos and the Serpent, are all convertible terms, all Logoi. "One is unintelligible without the other." They are spiritual saviours and physical regenerators; the former ensure immortality for the Divine Spirit and the latter give it through regeneration of the seed. The serpent or saviour has to die because he reveals the secret of the Immortal Ego.”

Jesus is another serpent-redeemer, just like Apollo and St. George.

This is duality playing itself out, getting itself off - an outcome of natural cosmic law.