RE: Veganism
September 12, 2024 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2024 at 4:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If we look at this through the ane framing that it belongs in (and it's later european influence), the serpent isn't so much a villain, or even evil..as it is an agent of disorder, chaos, etc. In the coming of age myth the serpent represents mistrust of authority figures. Mistrust of our parents, in a specifically man-and-woman kind of way, wink wink nudge nudge. Dis-rule, disorder. A similar thing pops up when magic book talks about the sea dragons. How they can wreck any human plan, nothing we can do to it. How only god could create such a creature or bring it to heel.
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