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>>5126762 (OP)
only by pagans, everyone else likes snakes

>>5126762 (OP)
>>do nothing
snake bite hort

Blame the fallen angels, nephilim, and all their followers for using snake imagery.

>>5126764
You mean non-pagans? They're associated with healing (and other things, granted...) by the Greeks, the Hindus are generally favourable to them, one of the Aztecs' main deities was a snake; Abo creator god etc... As opposed to the Abrahamics...

Europe only has a couple of venomous snakes, so I imagine the cultures that DO treat snakes as something to be feared and revered, not hated.

>>5126762 (OP)
>onotlogicly evil
>weirdos still love me
How can I get that level of charisma

>>5126813
and abrahamics stole everything from the pagans, like the germans, middle easterns, they usually have a story of a giant evil snake, tiamat, jormgandr

>>5126762 (OP)
>>do nothing
Don't they bite and inject venom?

>>5126842
only if you're a bitch who deserves it

>>5126842
northern europe has like one singular venomous snake and thats the common adder that isnt aggressive
but then you have stuff like bears and wolves that are aggressive and DID cause problems for settlers, but bear worship is really common in early european religion
maybe it really is just early europeans not being terrified of snakes like everywhere else

>>5126762 (OP)
Weren't our early ape ancestors frequently preyed upon by giant snakes? I thought that's where we became hardwired to be wary of snakes from.

>>5126839
in ancient Egypt, the cobra uraeus was a divine symbol of the royalty. The cobra was also associated with the sun god Ra and many other deities such as Wadjet, Renenutet, Nehebkau, and Meretseger.

The Sumerians worshiped a serpent god named Ningishzida. In ancient Greece, snakes are symbols of health and renewal as part of the Rod of Asclepius.

Treating snakes as symbols of evil was an invention of Judaism.

>>5126866
no, it was cats

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>>5126762 (OP)
GOOLD?

>>5126866
Big cats were much more likely to prey on early humans

>>5126943
Judaism poisoned lots of attitudes towards animals for centuries

>>5126842
most of them don't

>>5127072
And yet, they ended up universally admired and venerated by every culture that encountered them

>>5127952
so were snakes until the Abrahamics came along

>>5126762 (OP)
>do nothing
fuck sniggers, they've been eating our primate ancestors since the Cretaceous.

>>5126831
>onotlogicly evil
bro, snakes just want to eat mice and nap on warm rocks.
Yeah, they can fuck you up with the tools nature gave them but so can many other species that don't get nearly as much shit as snakes.
As a matter of fact, snakes are so conflict-averse they independently evolved multiple warning displays to get non-prey animals to fuck off without having to bite them.

>>5128872
most snakes don't eat primates

>>5127216
I'm almost amazed we rehabilitated dogs from their Biblical reputation.

>>5126762 (OP)
snakes are cute

>>5129411
Kind of funny that the hyrax is mentioned in the Bible but not thousands of other species Levantines couldn't have known about then

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>>5126762 (OP)

>>5130186
gonna aurafarm by gobbling up lizards

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>>5130186
>The said embodiment of evil according to reptile haters

>>5129033
most pitbulls don't maul toddlers either

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>>5126762 (OP)
I am an unrepentant snake hater. I deeply believe that the only thing snakes deserve is complete genocide. As a child, I thought they were God’s only mistake, an abomination cast down to crawl the earth for eternity. But God doesn’t make mistakes. It’s simple, really: snakes are His way of separating the wheat from the chaff. It’s simple: if you like snakes despite their hideous, slithering presence, you’re more likely to be in league with Satan himself. Just like enjoying anal sex with a woman means that deep inside you are a flaming homosexual. You know this to be true, and that’s why you participate in defending these abominations and create heathen threads such as this. You need to validate each other’s opinions with mental gymnastics to shield your petty minds from the light of the truth.

Burn all snakes. Wipe them off the face of the earth and rehabilitate the weird cult which defends them.

May God have mercy on us.

>>5130612
>I deeply believe that the only thing snakes deserve is complete genocide. As a child, I thought they were God’s only mistake
Id rather have Snakes still on our planet than cockroaches, ticks, bedbugs, mosquitos, botflies, and shitbulls. There are far worse disgusting and hideous disease carrying pests you can choose from to wipe out. You're out of your mind.

>>5130612
>retard completely destroys ecosystems the world over because his Abrahamic superstition told him to

>>5130612
snakes hunt many pests and most of the people they kill live in Africa or India. First Worlders rarely ever die from snakebites.

Most fatal snakebites occur in rural agricultural regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.

India accounts for the vast majority of global snakebite fatalities, followed by several other highly affected countries.

The top countries and regions for snakebite mortality include:

India: Reports approximately 50,000 to 60,000 deaths annually. This represents the highest absolute number of fatalities in the world, largely due to high population density and the widespread presence of the "Big Four" venomous snakes (Russell's viper, spectacled cobra, common krait, and saw-scaled viper).

Pakistan: Averages around 2,000 deaths annually.

Nigeria: Reports roughly 1,500 deaths per year, heavily concentrated in its rural farming communities.

Bangladesh: Accounts for more than 1,000 deaths annually.

Sub-Saharan Africa: Other heavily impacted nations include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and various countries in Western Africa (such as Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana).

Other highly affected regions: Significant fatality rates are also documented in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.

The staggering disparity between these regions and countries like Australia or the United States (which typically see fewer than five deaths annually) comes down to several factors:

Human Proximity: High rural populations rely on agriculture, which brings humans and snakes into direct conflict.

Healthcare Access: In many rural and impoverished areas, victims are far from medical facilities, and antivenom is either unavailable, unaffordable, or inadequately stocked.

Footwear: Walking barefoot or in open sandals significantly increases the risk of being bitten in high-grass and agricultural settings.

>>5130612
st. patrick please fuck off

>>5130946
Thanks Gepetto, Grok, Gemini, or Claude.

>>5130946
why haven't these people figured out shoes yet?

>>5130192
Well what police are gonna believe a leopard gecko groomed you into being a domestic terrorist?

>>5127216
>>5126813

The fun thing is that Yahweh himself has a snake motif across the OT. He miracles Moses' staff into a snake, he makes a winged snake rod to repel wild animals, and the seraphim are described in non-canon texts as dragon-like

>>5126813
To be fair the aztec snake deity wasnt considered to be a super great guy overall

>>5132375

Yeah, his worship was kinda been eclipsed by Huitzilopochtli

>>5126978
i started watching SG1 like a month ago and now i see it mentioned on 4chan like every other day. STOP watching me.

>>5130612
Abrahamics are mentally ill, you can't change my mind.

>>5126943
Snakes are both good and bad in egyptian and early jewish thought. Snakes just get bad rep over the devil accusations from genesis, but have positive roles later on. Healing bronze snakes and flaming angels similar to snakes are mentioned. And the egyptians had the symbol of chaos as a snake too. It's nuanced, I for one believe it's zoroastrian influence of reptilian evil that permeated this.
>>5132364
Correct, people are just dumb and hate on the coily fellas over refusing to see they're woven in complex motifs and not affixed to evil.

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>>5126762 (OP)
same for crows/ravens/etc
>grow up being told they're harbingers of death, bad omens, signs that some truly evil shit is afoot, even if you are not spiritual, all they do is lie, cheat, steal

>they're actually relatively friendly and goofy as fuck

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>>5126762 (OP)
They killed a lot of our ancestors in the past. They strike fast, if venomous it will be absolutely lethal every time. We often slept in caves for shelter, snakes crawl up while we sleep and strike. Snakes, as you know, often have great camoflague. Many will have been struck while foraging for berries and nuts and such. Of course we will grow an inate fear of them.
Unpredictable and absolutely deadly.

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>>5132699
Also would like to add that it's similar reason for the great fear of spiders. They lurk where we don't want them to, can have extremely potent venom that will destroy us if bitten

>>5132700
>>5132699
This.
Snakes, spiders & mosquitoes are our worst enemies.
Big cats killed a lot of us too, enough we still have a residual fear reflex inbuilt, but we get to moderate it by exposition to smaller cats. Our brain knows a small kitty can't kill us, we can't judge a snake or a spider on size or shape alone, there's too many.

>>5130186
>>5130192
Why do people antagonize reptiles so much? Outside extremely venomous snakes and the crocs, the vast majority of them are totally harmless. And even infamous ones like gila monsters or snapping turtles requires you to be a total retard to actually get bit by either one of them.

>>5132700
>>5133131
Fear of spiders isn’t instinctual. There are exactly zero dangerous spiders where our primate ancestors evolved

>>5133145
>There are exactly zero dangerous spiders where our primate ancestors evolved
A very cursory search suggests that is wrong, there are Latrodectus indistinctus at least. It doesn't need to be fatal, if the bite is consistently very unpleasant.

>>5133218
Latrodectus aren’t particularly dangerous even on an individual basis, let alone in terms of presenting an evolutionary pressure to avoid spiders. Only Phoneutria sp and Atracids are anywhere close to that sort of threat

>>5132428
Crows are associated with death because they are scavengers. After a battle crows would show up and get busy with the bodies. So its less that they are harbingers of death and more that they come to places where a lot of death just happened. But when billy the medieval spearman sees a crow under normal circumstances he thinks of the time he saw all those crows after a bloody battle and associates it with death.

>>5133131
Large herbivores like hippos are more dangerous than any of these animals except mosquitoes

>>5133265
>Latrodectus aren’t particularly dangerous even on an individual basis
No, but a bite will be very unpleasant, and will often cause visible skin ailments.
>>5133611
No they aren't, snakes still kills way more per year than the next large animal (almost all in India).

>>5133994
>No they aren't, snakes still kills way more per year than the next large animal (almost all in India).
per capita?

>>5133994
>almost all in India
okay but indians are retarded, remove them from the statistic and snakebite fatalities drop to like 5k worldwide lmfao

>>5126762 (OP)
Just like the so-called devil or satan. According to the bibble, G*d killed over 20 million people, Satan only killed 10, a drop in the bucket or in other words nothing. Yet the so-called devil is the epitome of evil and the entity that killed +20mil is the le good guy. Tell this to a christcuck and watch his brain break and hell cope by saying "god works in mysterious ways" or some other nonsense babble

>>5134745
Marcion was right