Tracing the origins of the Serpent Cult | Ancient Origins
Tracing the origins of the Serpent Cult
In
mythology, the serpent symbolises fertility and procreation, wisdom,
death, and resurrection (due to the shedding of its skin, which is not
akin to rebirth), and in the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol
of ‘The Word’ was the serpent. The ‘light’ that appeared was
metaphorically defined as a serpent called ‘Kundalini’, coiled at the
base of the spine to remain dormant in an unawakened person. Divinity
or awakening one’s Godhood and latent abilities came with the rituals
and teachings brought by the serpent people.
To understand them, we must look at the original ‘serpents’. In
China, it was a male and female pair with human heads and serpent bodies
named Fu Xi and Nu Wa who created humans. In Sumer, it was the Annunaki
Nin-Khursag and her husband Enki who were given the task of creating
workers. Enki is known to us as the serpent in Genesis—the one who gave
us the ability to think and reason and so was cursed by his brother
Enlil for it. To the Hindus, it was the cosmic serpent Ananta who
created us. So, if, at the dawn of man’s creation we have a pair of
serpent-like beings who created us, then those of the serpent cult must
have been their direct descendants, either by blood or by spirit.
