Serpent embodies dragon in an infusion form as “beast within beast”. The dragon has an obstacle size to reach and uneasy to penetrate, the paradise of Adam and Eve is an example. A serpent is a second form belonging to the same reptile in image and reality, but much simpler than a dragon. Being armless, hairless and featherless can coil on Cleopatra’s breast, lurk in a rose-bush or hide under the ground and hard to be slayed by St. George. Serpent holds supernatural power in winding form but not a normal snake. It ruptures the unity of the human personality by repressing the unconscious deepest aspirations and inspirations of being, affecting the vital principle itself. A serpent is like the snake comes sneaking to wrap itself around someone throat in feelings. The magnitude of evil stays the same in all performances and in mass protests against the concept of love and its continuity.
St. John announces its defeat in the Revelation “and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil”.
Christians consider the serpent as associated with every sin laid by his charge. There is no good being in it, proud, selfish, greedy and all that left is a false being who love to take a material shape to feel well. A thief to steal heart without feeling guilty. A symbol of lust for fertility to show his authority in evil creatures. Control is creatures sustaining what the serpent likes in every situation.
Eve lost her virginity, largely due to seduction to sow seeds of beastliness within mankind.
Yang is a dragon male and serpent is a female Yin alleged to exist and operate togather to produce changes. Dragon and serpent are symbol of the Satan love, namely erotic love prepared to give children sacrifices offered in affection under fear.
Life is a business of duality for unfold development. One enhanced unconscious step, life goes to silence.
My inspiration tells me the serpent is the dragon’s wife developed in secret. Thus Satan is the devil man and the serpent made by him, a devil woman. She is unpredictable and as swift as the dragon and terrifying in its anger. Also identical in death activity. The dragon has the power of changing into any shape.
The female serpent marriage has a great furnace of sex to keep the dragon under control, building his calm against external stimuli.
At the time of the forbidden tree, the meeting was between two women, a divine and beastly having a snappy one line conversation. The serpent is fashioned with seductive colors on parts of her body.
In earth creation, the serpent was made parallel to the first water in spirit which then turned into countless rivers. Many rivers have been named holding the meaning serpent. The serpent is seen as the rainbow linking the upper and the lower world, only to be seen after the rain. In black Africa, the she-serpent is the water God and weather and Lord of springs and rivers.
Thus the serpent is an old God as old as the dragon worshipped for its libido and soul. Also the Lord of the life principle and of the power of nature. She is invisible and dwells with the dragon under the deep sea.
The serpent folds on to the body of the dragon and can also be free to inflict harm.