įurthermore, the psychoanalyst Joseph Lewis Henderson and the ethnologist Maude Oakes have argued that the serpent is a symbol of initiation and rebirth precisely because it is a symbol of death. Isbell argues that for millions of years snakes were the only significant predators of primates, and that this explains why fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias worldwide and why the symbol of the serpent is so prevalent in world mythology the serpent is an innate image of danger and death. The anthropologist Lynn Isbell has argued that, as primates, the serpent as a symbol of death is built into our unconscious minds because of our evolutionary history. 4.2.1 Bronze and Iron Age United Arab Emirates.2 Symbolic values frequently assigned to or related to serpents.The Great Goddess often had snakes as her familiars-sometimes twining around her sacred staff, as in ancient Crete-and they were worshiped as guardians of her mysteries of birth and regeneration. "The snake dance is a prayer to the spirits of the clouds, the thunder and the lightning, that the rain may fall on the growing crops." To the Hopi, snakes symbolized the umbilical cord, joining all humans to Mother Earth. During the dance, live snakes were handled, and at the end of the dance the snakes were released into the fields to guarantee good crops. For example, the Hopi people of North America performed an annual snake dance to celebrate the union of Snake Youth (a Sky spirit) and Snake Girl (an Underworld spirit) and to renew the fertility of Nature. In some cultures, snakes were fertility symbols. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to mankind and represent dual expression of good and evil. The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake. The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.
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