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Kahlil Corazo's avatar

You need to use modern paradigms to make sense of these highly symbolic texts. For instance, a Freudian-Girardian reading will show us that the snake is obviously a phallic symbol of the scapegoat mechanism.

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Étienne Fortier-Dubois's avatar

Troubling. I might add that serpents are obviously central to mythologies from Mesoamerica (Quetzalcoatl) to China (dragons). Perhaps the cult is so ancient as to precede the migrations of Homo sapiens across the continents.

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