I was just looking at Michaelangelo's painting "The temptation of Adam & Eve" (Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoe) anyway the snake is a woman she has a human torso and has breasts...check it out! comment please!
2006-07-19 08:35:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i think that would reflect michelangelo's feelings towards women more so then the bible's view on the gender of the snake.
2006-07-20 01:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Interesting question because according to Genesis, snakes looked nothing like they do now. It was YVWH who changed their appearance, made them slither, etc.
From my viewpoint, a Gnostic one, the snake was actually Sophia, the "mother" of YVWH who made him mistakenly without the essence of The Source, of which she was the feminine part.
In my Gnostic cosmology, Sophia then came to earth and had Adam and Eve eat of the knowledge of truth so they could have a chance at realizing the true God that was part of them and within them. It was this that angered YVWH to expel them from "Eden".
Perhaps Michaelangelo was alluding to this in the fresco. Supposedly there are al kinds of little "digs" at mother church in many of the art in the Sistine Chapel.
2006-07-19 08:43:52 · answer #2 · answered by Dante 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i haven't seen the painting but michaelangelo is just expressing his feelings. i think the word "temptation" is mostly associated with women who seduces, so he used the snake as a representation of temptation. i dont think he meant it to have a literal meaning when you look at it.
2006-07-19 08:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by islandgrl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The snake was cursed! Imagine that! It was made to crawl on its belly from that day on. So imagine what it would be like to take a walk in the woods today if it wasnt. To see the snake walking straight up and standing straight staring you into your eyes!
Eweeeeeee !!!!!
2006-07-19 09:01:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sad Mom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always pictured it as a dude - ya know, kind of a phallic symbol that was what tempted eve. I'm gonna check out that painting tho'.
2006-07-19 08:40:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The snake was not a female as 'the serpant' represented Satin, the Devil
2006-07-19 08:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by Forbes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Bible, in Genisis it doesn't really specify whether the snake had a gender. but if you read further you find out that the snake was satan in a snake form. and satan is a male demon.
2006-07-19 08:42:15 · answer #7 · answered by Bri 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Satan.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
That old serpent.
Study to show thyself approved.
2006-07-19 14:31:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I am sure you were mesmerized by those breasts. Especially since that's a pic of yo mama.
2006-07-19 09:07:33 · answer #9 · answered by skooter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the snake wasnt a female.
2006-07-19 08:38:25 · answer #10 · answered by NY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋