1. In ancient times, people divided snakes into domestic snakes and wild snakes. In some places, it is considered a good sign to have a domestic snake at home. Abroad, the ancient Egyptians believed that snakes were the protector of the monarch. Pharaoh shaped the image of cobra with gold and precious stones and decorated it as a crown as a symbol of imperial power. Ambassadors of European countries carved the images of two snakes with crutches in BC.
Second, snakes were once sacred objects that were praised and worshipped in ancient times. Dragon, the largest "sacred object" in China, is a totem product of snakes. The earliest dragon was like a big snake, so was the word "dragon" seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Fuxi and Nu Wa, who are "people in loess", are both "snake gods" in ancient belief.
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Not all the associations about snakes are frightening. In South Asia and South America, snakes are regarded as the gods of water, creation and wealth. In Hindu mythology, the cobra-shaped "Naka" is the god of water, fertility and reproduction.
In many bronzes, stone carvings and paintings, we can often find the image of "Naka". In the Hindu myth "Turbulent Sea", the huge snake body of Naka is dragged at both ends by ghosts and gods, symbolizing the opposition between good and evil, creation and destruction, and wealth and poverty.
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