Caduceus Health Symbol And Kundalini On Drug Store Signs

[lomax]

Lately i noticed that a lot of drug stores,(pharmacies) have the sign of the equal cross with the caduceus symbol,or only the one of them.

My inner self told me that the equal cross is the symbol of the four directions,symbolizing balance.(balance is equal to health).Then i remembered Josephine Maccarhty saying that the opening of the four directions,automaticaly drives away any kind of low level beings,and how almost all magical systems are utilizing the power of the directions in different ways.

Now,i'm not sure how the serpent-kundalini can be connected with the equal cross or the four directions.

On the other hand,what do you think about the serpent being a symbol of health?
Also,is there any connection between the caduceus and the kundalini?

[lomax]

I did a mistake on the thread tittle.I wanted to type about the caduceus and the equal cross sign.
In fact the whole sentence is wrong.
Sorry guys.

It's a medical symbol: After intervening in a rumpus between two snakes they curled around the rod he tried to divide them with. In this context the snake is a symbol of healing.

[lomax]

The two snakes remind me of the kundalini rising via ida and pingala.

[NoOne]

The Caduceus is the staff of Hermes, it represents Kundalini. Healers traditionally used the power of Kundalini, that is part of the reason it has become the symbol of medicine.

[lomax]

thanks for the input guys.Seems like the serpent is a missunderstood concept by many people.Seems like it's not so evil after all.

Originally Posted by lomax

thanks for the input guys.Seems like the serpent is a missunderstood concept by many people.Seems like it's not so evil after all.

The Caduceus originates from Sumer, the staff represents the Rod of Life and the snakes are said to represent DNA - a symbol of Enki. The Greeks took the original tales and changed them as their own, which is why Hermes Tregistamus makes an entrance here. The reason the snake is nasty is because of the tale of the Garden of Eden. The tale is that Enki genetically modified the local hominids not only to dig for gold but tend the gardens on which the Biblical story is based. There Enlil is represented by God himself and Enki is represented by Satan - hence the association with the snakes and the name Satan. Enki's title was 'Satam' or Administrator. The Garden of Eden (as is most of Genesis) is another tale of Enlil vs Enki and that's why Satan as the snake (aka Enki and genetic manipulation) appears in the garden. Enlil (aka God) wanted to keep Adam (Sumerian Adamu) and Eve away from the Tree Of Knowledge and dumbed down, the tree representing knowledge/consciousness/awareness. Enki, on the other hand, was a rebel and wanted Adam and Eve to become sentient because he thought the hominids would make better workers and he had a soft spot for them.

That is why that within Christianity the snake is the bad guy - as is the Greek Prometheus who stole fire form the gods. In many other cultures and with the Hopis in particular, the snake is a watcher of sorts because it can feel the vibrations of the earth. Most other Pagan religions revered the snake because of associations with either wisdom or earth energies.

[lomax]

Thanks greenslade.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by Greenslade

The Caduceus originates from Sumer, the staff represents the Rod of Life and the snakes are said to represent DNA - a symbol of Enki. The Greeks took the original tales and changed them as their own, which is why Hermes Tregistamus makes an entrance here. The reason the snake is nasty is because of the tale of the Garden of Eden. The tale is that Enki genetically modified the local hominids not only to dig for gold but tend the gardens on which the Biblical story is based. There Enlil is represented by God himself and Enki is represented by Satan - hence the association with the snakes and the name Satan. Enki's title was 'Satam' or Administrator. The Garden of Eden (as is most of Genesis) is another tale of Enlil vs Enki and that's why Satan as the snake (aka Enki and genetic manipulation) appears in the garden. Enlil (aka God) wanted to keep Adam (Sumerian Adamu) and Eve away from the Tree Of Knowledge and dumbed down, the tree representing knowledge/consciousness/awareness. Enki, on the other hand, was a rebel and wanted Adam and Eve to become sentient because he thought the hominids would make better workers and he had a soft spot for them.

That is why that within Christianity the snake is the bad guy - as is the Greek Prometheus who stole fire form the gods. In many other cultures and with the Hopis in particular, the snake is a watcher of sorts because it can feel the vibrations of the earth. Most other Pagan religions revered the snake because of associations with either wisdom or earth energies.

There is a lot of conjecture in that. Syncretizing Enki with the Biblical Satan is erroneous in my view, if anything the Biblical God is a collection of various deities, which would include both Enki and Enlil in terms of where it originates from. In the Sumerian original of the flood story for instance, Enlil was the one that wanted to wipe out humanity and his brother, Enki was the one that decided to save Ziusudra (Noah) and warned him to build an Ark and take domesticated animals and seeds with him, so he could restart civilisation after the flood. In that sense, Enlil and Enki are different aspects of the same Biblical God.

If you actually wanted to Syncretise the Gods of Sumer with the Biblical one, Anu is the same deity as El, from which we get Elohim and Anunnaki, the sons of God, or sons of the sky (god), depending on which meaning you want to emphasise.

Ultimately, the Christian view of God and divinity in general is confused and it is fruitless to try to make sense of it. It is better to look at the original sources from which much of its world view and theology was borrowed and forget about the Christian interpretation.