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-- rather nice, made of silver, with rhinestone eyes -- winds around my wrist. I wear it sometimes when I am feeling ticked at the patriarchy. I used to wear it all the time, but it is so malleable that it broke once and I had to have it repaired, so now I wind it on just when I feel the need. I was having lunch with an elderly friend one day, when a women came over and showed me her snake -- very similar to mine. She had noticed mine across the room, and she began to speak of my mother, who she had known, asking if it had been a gift from her -- her snake was a gift from her mother. I felt as if it was a sign -- from my mother -- from THE mother. My elderly friend asked if I could find a snake to give to her granddaughter for college graduation. I never could find another one, but it was clear to me that my friend had keyed into something special about the snake, too.
From a speech I gave a couple of weeks ago -- In the many myths spun by the male God worshipers (the battle ax cultures which invaded and conquered the more agrarian female God worshipers over several thousand years -- known as the Northern invasions) the female deity is symbolized as a serpent or dragon, associated with darkness and evil. In the worship of the Mother God, the serpent was a symbol of divine counsel. Think of the myth of Hercules and the serpent Ladon, who guards the sacred fruit of the Goddess Hera. In Hebrew myth, we have Yahweh's conquest of the serpent Leviathon. (read more: When God was a Woman; Ariadne)
Since I have read your posts on "Fat as a Feminist Issue" (yah, probably still have it in my library, too), I'd say the Goddess is saying -- keep the faith -- you are right.
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