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Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge, he cursed the serpent . .upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Ancient Greeks and Romans thought of snakes as the earthly forms of the gods. Snakes have also been worshiped as symbols of water, fertility, longevity or wisdom. To the ancient Egyptians, a snake symbolized the beginning and end of time besides being a sign of fertility.
In China and Germany, snakes were believed to control lakes, springs and the rains. (Encyclopedia Americana).
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