Random Dumb Question

[Gently Gazing Eyes]

A)First one is a famous medical symbol, it is a snake entwined rod from greek mythology.

B)The name of a creature with a human face and the body of a serpent, this creature of fable resides in the Patala, a watery region under the earth.


Anyone? :)

[serenarian]

Huh? Is this some kind of quiz or something?

BTW hi hon. :)

[Gently Gazing Eyes]

Yes it is.
Someone asked me those and I was stumped, so I figure I'd take it to mysticwicks because we have Albert Einstein incarnate here. :)


And hello dear, I've missed you.

[serenarian]

Thanks for clarifying. :D

Missed you too.

[Phoenix Blue]

Quoth PaganInkubus:

A)First one is a famous medical symbol, it is a snake entwined rod from greek mythology.

B)The name of a creature with a human face and the body of a serpent, this creature of fable resides in the Patala, a watery region under the earth.

Anyone? :)
A) Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22snake+entwined+rod%22+%22Greek+mythology%22) is your friend.

B) Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Serpent+Patala) is still your friend.

:) I had a good idea what the second answer was before I went to Google and did those lookups; but my point here is that if you know how to use a search engine, you can find out just about anything you want to know.

[Valnorran]

I'm probably butchering the spelling but the first item is the cadeuces (pronounced ka-doo-sus) and was the wand of Hermes/Mercury, messenger of the gods (Greek pantheon) and god of all who lived by their wits, such as gamblers.

The only thing I know of that fits your second question is something called a naga. I believe the idea for it originated in India. I think they were seen as creatures of great wisdom. Despite what their appearence suggests to those of us in the West (human head on a snake's body), I think they were regarded as benevolent. That is all that I know about them.

[Rainx]

Originally posted by Valnorran
I'm probably butchering the spelling but the first item is the cadeuces (pronounced ka-doo-sus) and was the wand of Hermes/Mercury, messenger of the gods (Greek pantheon) and god of all who lived by their wits, such as gamblers

Uh, Hermes was a lot more then a God of gamblers.

I think that's the first time I've heard that connection :)

[Eudaimonia]

I can't think of the names, but I thought the first had to do with that guy who was such an amazing healer/doctor that he brought people back from the dead and pissed off Zeus?

Anywho, the second is either a naga or a lamia.

[Grey]

the snanke thing is hermes staff thoug it has a fancy name I cnat remember and the second is a Naga.

gotta love pop quizzes

[Semele]

Oh man, I actually knew the first one. We had to learn the history etc when we got our nursing pin with it on there. I think it is ugly!

[Ben Trismegistus]

Originally posted by Valnorran

I'm probably butchering the spelling but the first item is the cadeuces (pronounced ka-doo-sus) and was the wand of Hermes/Mercury, messenger of the gods (Greek pantheon) and god of all who lived by their wits, such as gamblers.

You're only slightly butchering the spelling. It's spelled caduceus. It was a staff given to Hermes by his father Zeus. There has never been concensus among mythological historians (historians of mythology that is, not historians who are themselves mythological) as to the significance or properties of the caduceus. Because of Hermes attributes as a healer god, the symbol was picked up a symbol for the medical profession.

[Valnorran]

Originally posted by Rainx

Uh, Hermes was a lot more then a God of gamblers.

I think that's the first time I've heard that connection :)

"Hermes, merriest of the Olympians, was the god of shepherds, travelers, merchants, thieves, and all others who lived by their wits."

D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, page 50.

Gambler was just an example I used of someone who lives by his wits.

[Rain Gnosis]

Hermes is known as a musician, a poet, a messenger, a psychopomp, a dream giver, a fertility and prosperity God, a charmer, a hero, a boxer, and all around athlete. He was cunning, shrewd, athletic, beautiful, artistic, poetic. He tamed the savage beast Argos with his flute, having created that instrument, and traded his flute with Apollo to get the heralds staff. He played the lyre and also invited the pan-pipes. Hermaiherm were stone or bronze pillars with the head of Hermes and male genitals at the base were used as markers and to fend off evil.

He was associated with the Kemetic Djehuti (aka Thoth), and we also see him in Hermeticism. As you can see he wasn't just associated with one or two correspondences like we see some Gods :)