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Aster Part 2, David Son Dey (@sondolo) x Tyler James for #AntiAnti

"Star," perceived as a cyclic deity, attending the sun into the underworld at sunset, and also announcing "She is risen" in the morning.

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@sondolo "Germans remembered this Aryan lore + said a serpent with a magic stone in its head would be found at the root of a hazel tree witchwood near mistletoe. The serpent’s stone was sacred to the moon, and was identified with the Philosopher’s Stone, which could bring eternal life."

"According to this imagery, the divine male serpent acquired a “blood-red jewel” in his head. Hindus said all the great snakes carried blood-red rubies of immortality in their heads."

"… even the Great Serpent who gave oracles from the earth-womb, Apollo Python, known as Sol Niger (Black Sun) during his nightly sojourn in the underworld."

"This great dragon which is here described is evidently identical with the leviathan of Job. The executor of judgment, the centripetal force, the old serpent ever seeking to penetrate into Paradise; finally, in a more exoteric sense he is Satan and the devil, the accusing one."

"Greeks said Mother Hera kept the magic apple garden in the west, where the Tree of Life was guarded by her sacred serpent."

"The whole story of Eve, Adam, and the serpent in the tree was deliberately misinterpreted from icons showing the Great Goddess offering life to her worshipper, in the form of an apple, with the tree and its serpent in the background."

"Hellenes misinterpreted icons of the hero-victim receiving an apple from the Triple Goddess, before his journey to paradise, as the Judgment of Paris: a picture of a young man receiving the apple from three Goddesses, not vice versa."

"Gilgamesh found the patriarch, who showed him a magic “rose” of eternal life. Gilgamesh took the plant, but it was stolen from him by a serpent. Thus the serpent became the only immortal creature, capable of shedding its skin and becoming periodically reborn ..."

The outer darkness is a great serpent, the tail of which is in its mouth, and it is outside the whole world, and surroundeth the whole world; in it there are many places of punishment, and it containeth twelve halls wherein severe punishment is inflicted.

In each hall is a governor, but the face of each governor differeth from that of his neighbor. The governor of the first hall hath the face of a crocodile, with its tail in its mouth.

From the mouth of the serpent proceed all ice, and all dust, and all cold, and every kind of disease and sickness; and the true name by which they call him in his place is Enkhthonin.

Blending fact and fiction, they have described the magnetic field and the stratosphere where it is believed diseases do manage to drift from space to earth according to eminent scientist, Sir Fred Hoyle, as micrometeorites are pulled down from their electromagnetic area of space.

Seraph … the divine fiery serpent, used to mean an earth-fertilizing lightning- snake, and later became an angel.

Athene stood waiting to infuse the figure with the spirit of life. Behind her rose a tree encircled by a serpent, totemic symbol of her wisdom.

Semitic serpent god whose idol was made by Moses (2 Kings 18:4). Hebrew Nehushtan or Nahash, “serpent,” descended from the Vedic serpent-king Nahusha, once ruler of all the gods, later cast down to the underworld by Indra.

Gnostic Jews worshipped Nehushtan in the first few centuries ad. and were known as Naassians, “snake-worshippers,” counterparts of the Ophites. — Nehushtan

The serpent was also called Christ, who taught Adam to eat the fruit of knowledge despite the god’s prohibition.

Taaut—Tammuz Phoenician name for the World Serpent, called Tuat or Thoth in Egypt, Ouroboros or Python in the Greco-Roman world. The traditional figure of the underground serpent with his tail in his mouth was also associated with … the serpent Sata at the roots of the earth.

Egyptians said the chambers of the serpent’s body provided the many “mansions” (Arits) of the nether world.

The ibis may be a slang term for a group of people with certain abilities, who like the bird, devoured the ‘snakes’ that were either radiation and/or missiles, as the Veda tells us.

The serpents wings were said to resemble bats and similar bat-winged airships are shown in Sumerian pictographs. It was from the earth that the witch told Saul she “saw gods ascending out of the earth.”

Manasa, seated in a posture of royal ease, has a hood of seven snakes and an additional snake in her left hand. The fruit in her right hand and the vase underneath her foot are symbols of wealth and fertility.

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The ascetic to her right is her husband Jaratkaru, and to her left is a figure who is either her son, Astika, or her brother, Vasuki, the serpent king. Even the flying offering deities flanking the blossom finial at the top of the stele have snake bodies.

The Serpent Goddess Manasa (circa 900):

Manasa-Devi, Serpent Goddess of Bengal, identified with the moon, bearing the moon’s magic name Mana.

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