Why serpants are deeply asociated with religion?

Answer 1

Adam and Eve

Answer 2

Serpants shed there skin and represent the idea of immortality they shed there skin and are reborn. Serpents represent the lower energies THE gut digestion the consuming of life if you look at it all it is is a mouth and a digestive track. In religios symbology the spirit starts at the heart shakra if you look into yoga and the position of the chakras the spirit starts above the lower chakras of sex hunger ambitition. so the spirit is above that and the snake represents the lower desires/
This is a very old idea going back long before the invention of writing
Some people worship snakes
that is off the top of my head
some good books on it Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Cambell

Answer 3

Bcoz without a single sadness there is not the anxiety for happiness,so serpants plays a great role in increasing our belief in our religion and god.

Answer 4

Most ancient cultures seem to have a facination with serpents and serpant-like creatures. It's no wonder it spilled over into religious texts as well.

Answer 5

Honestly, if people knew more about judaism and the roots of christianity, they'd know that the serpent is a metaphor for females--anathor is the corresponding term for males. The whole serpent thing was just more sexism

Answer 6

The devil usually takes the form of a serpent and is extremely bad in probaly every religon so thats why its deeply associated.

Answer 7

Steriotypical views. Serpents are often portrayed as disloyal, secretave, etc. That, and Satan DID take the form of a serpent in the book of Genesis.

Answer 8

It could very easily be a species memory of being a small mammal at a time of large snakes.

Answer 9

It's a metaphor. Snakes have an unusual shape and are best known for their horrifying habit of swalloing their food whole and then digesting it.

Answer 10

They shed there skin to be born anew, as the moon sheds it's light, the law of karma. The ability to throw off death.