SNAKE WORSHIP - What's your take? |
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Aug 11th, 2005, 11:36
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| SNAKE WORSHIP - What's your take? This, rather primitive form of worship, has been around for centuries. Milk is offered to the snake gods. I have seen snakes (specially the rat snakes) being force fed milk. I am told by an expert on reptiles that a snake's digestive system cannot break down the enzymes of milk and so eventaully the snake dies. In fact, every year thousands of snakes are killed around this time of the year. Why harm another creature, which has as much right as us to dwell on plant earth? What is your take on this ? |
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Aug 11th, 2005, 11:52
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Bangalore
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| You know in South India, around any snake hill, they built a small temple kind of premise. Put turmeric powder, pour saffron and start praying the snake hill and the resident snake. Then, during Nag Panchami, they pour milk inside the snake hill, and drop eggs also. The devotees want to please the snake by giving it milk and egg. But, what they don't realise is that they destroy the snakes home. |
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Aug 11th, 2005, 11:56
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| Snake worship I agree with you and disapprove of this massacre under the guise of religion. For the snake charmers/catchers it is an opportunity to make money so as for retailers of milk. In many cases, the snakes' poison glands are also removed which shortens their life span. There is a movement to educate people on the harm and ills of this practice and hopefully, they will learn. Let us hope that this form of worship dies down eventually. Some now worship a clay model of a snake. |
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Aug 11th, 2005, 12:06
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| Lost in translation Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: India !
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| Do you think that there are snakes inside those pits at the temple compounds? Though thier brain size is too small, snakes are no big fools to live inside it  News reports says that this time there was a showdown between the authorities and the charmers on the Nag panchami day at some places. |
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Aug 11th, 2005, 12:42
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| Milk fed Snake!!! YUM
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Dec 29th, 2005, 08:57
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| its like u said, a primitive form of worship...remnants of the worship of early tribes in india.. |
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Dec 29th, 2005, 09:53
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| bang a whore? Bangalore Dammit!  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bangalore
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If you meant prinitve as in 'old', fine but if you meant 'pagan' as in why havent these chaps moved on to worshipping the backend of cow....why should they? For sure, it's retarded, worshipping snakes in the way you describe but so is religion in general. When you suspend rational thought & give in to the ridiculous, this is what you'll do. <snootily walks off, being an athiest> :-)
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Dec 29th, 2005, 11:43
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| I am for the charmers as an ardent reactionary. I have some relations in the south that dance with oisonous snakes as part of worship. Sometimes, they get bitten and even die. I think of it as a form of evolution.. |
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Dec 29th, 2005, 13:03
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| yea, worship of snakes is as ridiculous as worship of the backend of cows.. |
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Dec 29th, 2005, 13:08
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| ...or people nailed to crosses? Well, I think so ---but I suppose it is not so acceptible to be rude about Christianity's strange teachings   |
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Dec 30th, 2005, 01:44
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Dec 30th, 2005, 04:14
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| When it comes to putting things in perspective I like to visit this web site... http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051023.html The awe inspiring images make me want to question the relevance of humans and their religions. We are mighty small fish, we don't know dick! The closest Galaxy to our own is M31 which probably looks similar to our own Milky Way if we could view it from afar. This shot shows off it's hundreds of billion stars quite nicely.... http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040718.html Now the piece de resistance. If you aim the Hubble space telescope at a tiny region of the sky and take a three month long time exposure what do you get? (Click on the image to get the highest resolution if you have a high speed connection.) ... http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040309.html Have more than once been tempted to reply Hubbleist when people ask my religion.  W22 |
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Dec 30th, 2005, 06:58
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| To be technical Nick it was not a Christian belief to go around nailing people. That was a pagan Roman practice fairly well documented.. |
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Dec 30th, 2005, 08:47
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| bang a whore? Bangalore Dammit! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bangalore
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Does that mean, there was only 1 christian(JC) and they nailed him for that? Tsk, tsk, so insecure, these pagans. :-) | |
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Dec 30th, 2005, 10:41
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| I did say nailed rather than nailing W22... thanks for the wonderful picture of a drop of pondwater seen through a microscope  |
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