The key to all aspects of life and death are programmed in DNA.
Secrets of DNA were actually known to academic men in ancient cultures such as Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, the Indus Valley, etc. This may seem to be an exaggerated claim, but the proof of that scientific knowledge happens to be recorded in many art representations of those ancient cultures. That knowledge is even presented, although in a less persuasive version, in the Old Testament.
The most telling art alluding to DNA from those more ancient cultures—older than the priest-authors of “scriptures”—was of the Mesopotamian region—Sumer/Babylonia. The secrets of genetics and biomedicine are fully depicted in many wall sculpture and bas-reliefs—the images of entwined serpents—an emblem used to this day for the arts of medicine and healing.
In ancient Egypt, too, entwined serpents symbolized life, and the “god” associated with that symbol was known as PTAH, the developer. That the scientific principle of DNA was known in ancient Egypt is artfully presented in the myth of the half brothers Seth and Osiris. Seth was the unscrupulous one, and sought the domain ruled over by his brother Osiris. Seth made two attempts to dispose of Osiris, the second time by seizing Osiris, murdering him and cutting his body into fourteen parts, which he scattered across the world. Osiris’ grieving wife, Isis, managed to recover all parts of her husband’s body except for his phallus. With the help of the god Thoth, the Divine Scribe, they managed to extract “the essence” from Osiris’ body from which Isis impregnated herself and eventually gave birth to the god, Horus. It is the first known recorded case of artificial insemination!
In biblical myth the reference to life’s DNA connection is in the presentation of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. A fertilizing gamete of a male (spermatozoon) is a long nucleated cell with a thin, mobile tail; which is to say it is serpentine in appearance, and is why in the Genesis myth it is the Serpent that awakens life-awareness in Eve.
Later in the Genesis myth, the rivalry expressed in the Egyptian Seth/Osiris myth is echoed in the myth of Cain murdering Abel. The later priest-authors dedicated to Yahweh, however, were a little fuzzy on the scientific particulars expressed in the Egyptian tale, and interpreted it as an underlying rivalry between agriculture and animal breeding.
The sacred Serpent of the pre-Jewish Hebrews was Nehushtan or Ne-esthan from the Hebrew root NHSH, which meant, “to decipher”or to make out the meaning. Again the serpent was a reference to the life-awakening power symbolized with the squiggling fertilizing gamete. Thus in the book of Numbers this is the meaning behind the story of Moses making—at God’s command—the Brazen Serpent that was to be placed upon a pole (Numbers 21:9). The symbolism got lightly brushed with superstition by saying that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he would behold the serpent of brass, he lived.
The point of mentioning these few examples is to show that the understanding of the Serpent figure as symbolizing the creative impulsion was worldwide in ancient times. The accusation extended in the Judeo-Christian faith that the Serpent represents evil was therefore far from universal. It demonstrates that in the competing divisions of religious politics it is common practice to use the competition’s emblems as representing evil. Thus in Judeo-Christian myth the creative wisdom represented with the serpent became inverted.
- See also related posts: Dressed for Sex, Bible Style, Sept. 08; Breastplate, Sexy Biblical Garb, Sept. 09; The Stringy Coil of Life, July 01; Inner Relationship of All Things, July 27; Natural Equality, August 21.
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