Serpents - 19 degrees Scorpio. Considered by some to be a malefic degree of the zodiac.
Serpents (or snakes) are ancient symbols of regenerative powers, partly because of the analogy that is built into the creature's ability to shed old skin.
Naagesh : god of serpents ( sheshnaag )
Naagpal : saviour of serpents ( the cobras )
Naagpati : king of serpents ( vaasuki ) ...
Padma Purana, these infernal lokas are (i)Patala (where dwell the Nagas under the rulership of Vasuki; where dwell the animal body of men and their material propensities), (ii) Mahatala (the abode of men's astral body; here reside the great serpents), ...
Originally a triple-headed serpent, it is now a rod with two serpents twined around it, and two wings at the top.
According to legend he left the Atlantic coast of Mexico on a raft made of serpents and vowed one day to return on a day of his own energy.
According to a legend the devotional act of a little girl towards the serpent god led to the revival of her family when accidentally her father, a farmer killed some serpents while tilling the land. So on this day tilling the land is forbidden.
In Athens it was an ancient custom of the priests of Asclepius to place Willow branches in the beds of infertile women, this in the belief that it would draw the mystical serpents from the Underworld and cure them, ...
Mercury is Thoth/Hermes,
His symbol= 2 entwined serpents around a winged caduceus
Are the 3 channels of the kundalini axis ...
Atlas, left, bearing the heavens on his shoulders, harassed by the Hesperian (from Hesperides: a garden at the western end of the world in which golden apples grow, guarded by this dragon) Drakon (Drakons were a race of gigantic toothed serpents, ...
(This is, by the way, identical to certain incidents in the first branch of The Mabinogion.) This was also the night when the serpents of the island would roll themselves into a hissing, writhing ball in order to engender the "glain", ...
Even with the help of both hands, we can barely discern whether the pupils are towards the top or the bottom of the eye. If the pupils are looking up, the demons in possession are scorpions. If looking down, they are serpents." ...
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