Voldemort and Sauron and Others

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 191482



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, sigurd at ... wrote:
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> Dear List
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> Also interesting is the constant recurrence of the snake as the symbol for evil.
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> Otto
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Steve:

I think there is a pretty reasonable explanation as to why Snake have been considered evil. There is no logical reason, especially to a primitive mind, that snakes should be able to move at all. I mean, they don't have legs. However, snakes do move and very quickly at that, yet with no logical mechanism for that movement. 

Snake are UNNATURAL, and that which is perceived as unnatural is also perceived as having some dark force of evil behind it. 

Now one could say similar about ...say... an earth worm, but the movement of an earth worm is a little more clear. One can observer and divine how they move. Not so with snakes, snakes seem to move under some unfathomable power, and that which we do not understand, we fear and condemn.

Steve/bboyminn