MagsJ wrote:Greatest I am wrote:We have had temples and nature worship for at least 57,000 years. That is how old the oldest serpent temples are.
What part of the world was that? and why serpent worship? were these poisonous ones by any chance..? to kill thine enemy with a snake bite or toss them into a pit full of snakes and so into an agonising death..I can see why we would want to invent gods, as the epitome of being the fittest humans, but to invent gods and then let them rule over us is stupid.
We are to rule over them and not them over us.
Regards
DL
..or coexist in a harmonious union? One dominating over the other, has proved not to lead to the furtherment of humankind, but hinder it by the struggle of power and wills.
I goofed on the timing. It is not 57,000 years. It is 70,000. It does not matter much but accuracy is good.
Is a python poisonous?
https://www.apollon.uio.no/english/arti ... glish.html
Even if it is, you might remember that physicians use the snake as a part of their symbol and the bible shows that when the serpent bites, he give life and not death.
I think the serpent is revered world wide due to it sheading it's skin and being reborn the way many want to be in heaven after their death.
To your last.
Cooperation is good, but if we do not compete for the best and fittest who have the best ideas, we will go extinct.
We are a hierarchical species and must have leadership. It is in our nature to want to be the fittest or to follow the fittest.
Regards
DL