Indian symbols and analogies Every culture has some unique symbols in poetry, arts and even daily conversation. Here goes. But don't try to fit your cultural and theoligical ideas on our symbols. Here go some of them. Snake In Hindu culture there is no institutionised hatred for snakes. Lord Vishnu, after all, reclines on the coils of Sheshnag, a thousand headed cobra. Snakes as such are thought to be wise. As per our culture, long, black, shining hair are a mark of female beauty. So it finds it way into poetry and folk songs. "Take care of the cobras of locks lest some one may charm them with spells." "When your locks flutter,charmers come with their flutes." It is a complement. Or "Your swaying gait is like that of a female cobra." Again a cpmplement. Clouds and rains and monsoon season Lols. Cloudy, rainy day is pleasant and romantic. Monsoon is the right season for romance. Clouds and winds are used to take messages of love to your beloved. Crows Lols. They bring advance news of coming guests. Then a crow may perch on your terrace and caw loudly, Of course, not grue, but then... Crow is sent as messenger too. A woman sing, " O, black crow, take my message to my beloved and will feed you sweet bread." PS: It is hard to translate Indian poetry into foreign languages as meanings, and more impotantly, the spirit and passions cannot be coneveyed at all.
So non - Indian Indians should not have their own interpretations or folk tales of these animals? Maybe your' translation software is not functioning properly....especially if you are trying to translate Hindu poetry with it. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Uh...you can keep the cobras, but the rest of those critters live where I do - Detroit. Many of those have special meaning to my Cherokee ancestors as well. We also have weather and rain here, in fact we may get tornadic storms this very afternoon. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Thanks for sharing anyways though. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The majority of Americans are afraid of snakes. The reasons are: They sneak up on you silently. Many species can bite painfully. Quite a few are poisonous. Several can kill you if you don't get to the hospital rather quickly.
Unfortunately, many Americans are afraid of pretty much everything, including people that have a different color than them, also for those same "reasons". Most North American snakes are not poisonous and are very shy so they do not "sneak up on you", silently or otherwise. They will indeed bite you if you step on them or try to capture them - especially by grabbing them.
The only snake I can think of that sneaks up on people is Solid Snake, but he's a video game characterPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Snakes hiss before striking. As Chanakya said 2300 years ago: Even a non venomous snake must pretend to be venomous if it is not to used as a rope. But can you not find a certain beauty even in a snake? @stioiohi By Indians I do not mean Cherokee or any other American natives. Of course you have a different meaning to symbols. You have a Medusa, we have no such creature. Rains for us are pleasant weather, for you it is bad weather.
Medusa was a character in Greek mythology. I find her as entertaining as Ganesh or Garuda, but I find none of them to be convincingly real. I run in the rain and find it most pleasant in warm weather. I am glad that you enjoy the rain as well. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Bad weather here would be a tornado, a lightening storm or a hail storm - such that injure people and animals and destroy property. I am a Buddhist, I find beauty pretty much everywhere, snakes included.
Apparently, every species of deadly snake that lives in the US lives in Houston - which proves that God hates the space program. Tower of Babel, anyone?
We have several species of dangerous snakes right here in Maryland. Oh, and we also have snapping turtles that can bite your thumb off.
