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For example, the Hopi people of North America performed an annual snake dance to celebrate the union of Snake Youth (a Sky spirit) and Snake Girl (an Underworld spirit) and to renew the fertility of Nature. During the dance, live snakes were handled, and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops.
Likewise, the Korean snake goddess Eobshin was portrayed as a black snake that had human ears. The Aztec spirit of intelligence and the wind, Quetzalcoatl ("Plumed Serpent"). The Mayan sky-goddess was a common attribute. However, in her case, the snakes leaned into her ears and whispered the secrets of the universe (i.e. the secrets of herself).
The first three snakes Danh-gbi, Li, Liwui were all worshipped at Whydah, Dahomey where the serpent cult originated. [37] For the Dahomeans, the spirit of the serpent was one to be feared as he was unforgiving. [38] They believed that the serpent spirit could manifest itself in any long, winding objects such as plant roots and animal nerves.
Ouroboros symbolism has been used to describe the Kundalini. [22] According to the medieval Yoga-kundalini Upanishad: "The divine power, Kundalini, shines like the stem of a young lotus; like a snake, coiled round upon herself she holds her tail in her mouth and lies resting half asleep as the base of the body" (1.82). [23]
Nāḥāš (נחש ), Hebrew for "snake", is also associated with divination, including the verb form meaning "to practice divination or fortune-telling". Nāḥāš occurs in the Torah to identify the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, it is also used in conjunction with seraph to describe vicious serpents in the ...
A dream interpreter reveals the meaning of dreams about snakes biting you, attacking you, or being in your house. ... The dreamer will have to look at their own spiritual beliefs and ask ...
Here's the Spiritual Meaning Behind Dragonflies daniele nobile / 500px - Getty Images [table-of-contents] stripped . In all the world, there may be no bitty beastie more revered than the dragonfly.
Shamanic teacher and spiritual healer Dr. Jonathan Dubois has studied hawk symbolism extensively. "The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a ...