Comments on: Wicked Green http://symbolwatcher.com/2009/06/symbolism-of-green/ The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery Tue, 08 May 2012 15:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Writeye http://symbolwatcher.com/2009/06/symbolism-of-green/#comment-159 Writeye Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:53:46 +0000 http://symbolwatcher.com/?p=441#comment-159 Natalia, Your thought is an interesting one. The King James version of the Book of Genesis doesn't say the color of the snake who tempted Eve in the garden, but it's widely interpreted that the snake is Satan. So are you saying that it is because the snake (Satan) was an inhabitant of the vernal garden of Eden that he began to be associated with/portrayed as green? After I read your comment I started doing some research about snakes and found that in Tibetan Buddhism one of the three base instincts is the green snake of hatred. I wonder if the seed of Satan's greeness was sown from that more ancient symbol? Natalia,
Your thought is an interesting one. The King James version of the Book of Genesis doesn’t say the color of the snake who tempted Eve in the garden, but it’s widely interpreted that the snake is Satan. So are you saying that it is because the snake (Satan) was an inhabitant of the vernal garden of Eden that he began to be associated with/portrayed as green?

After I read your comment I started doing some research about snakes and found that in Tibetan Buddhism one of the three base instincts is the green snake of hatred. I wonder if the seed of Satan’s greeness was sown from that more ancient symbol?

]]> By: Natalia http://symbolwatcher.com/2009/06/symbolism-of-green/#comment-158 Natalia Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:42:23 +0000 http://symbolwatcher.com/?p=441#comment-158 I think maybe Satan is depicted as green because before the fall (before his name was Satan) He was Lucifer, who transformed into a Snake to tempt Eve in the Garden (Green Snakes??) That's my best guess! I think maybe Satan is depicted as green because before the fall (before his name was Satan) He was Lucifer, who transformed into a Snake to tempt Eve in the Garden (Green Snakes??)

That’s my best guess!

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