Word: serpentes
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...Serpent. Accepting divinity instead of death, Moon stays with the tribe for almost a year and finds peace in the simple forest life. But in this paleolithic paradise there lives the old serpent of self-knowledge, and in the end it hurls this modern Adam out of his paradise and into the dark night of the soul. For weeks, for months, he drifts alone and probably insane down a mighty river that is sometimes the Amazon and sometimes the River of Life. Then one day he looks into a forest pool and sees a face: "A face bare with privation...
There was, after all, a serpent even in the Garden of Eden...
...Purgatorio, the most complex and psychological of the canticles, is an allegory of a process the church calls conversion and the psychoanalysts individuation. Purgatory, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a mountain. Around the mountain, like a mighty serpent, winds a path that spirals upward to the summit. At seven stages of the ascent are situated seven cornices, and on each of them penitents purge one of the seven deadly sins. The proud plod under heavy burdens; the envious wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they...
...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...
...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...