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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-13-2017

It's interesting that there is a lot of car companies that have serpents in their emblems. Take for example the Mustang Cobra or Dodge Viper or Alfa Romeo. Serpents are usually regarded as being evil in many cultures. The snake in the bible was Lucifer in disguise. Lamborghini has a bull emblem. A firstborn bull represents majesty in the Bible, but they have also been given up as sacrifices. Dodge has the Ram. Rams were given up for guilt offerings. Porsche and Ferrari have a steed (a horse). Chariots of fire are described of hell and hades in the book of revelation, but a white horse is also described as symbolizing heaven. Peugot, Saab, and Holden all have a Lion for its logo. The Lion of Judah is described as Jesus in the bible. Lions are also known for causing destruction in the bible. Lions are seen on the flags of Flanders and on one of the original flags of Ethiopia. The current Ethiopian flag has a pentagram though. Lions are also present on a number of coat of arms.

"Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty."

As for flags, you have the Gadsden flag which has a serpent for its logo with the caption, "Don't Tread on Me". The flag is named after American general and politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution. It was used by the Continental Marines as an early motto flag, along with the Moultrie flag.

Modern uses of the Gadsden flag include political movements such as libertarianism and the American Tea Party as well as American soccer supporter groups, including Sam's Army and the American Outlaws since the late 1980s. As the American colonies came to identify more with their own communities and the concept of liberty, rather than as vassals of the British empire, icons that were unique to the Americas became increasingly popular. The rattlesnake, like the bald eagle and American Indian, came to symbolize American ideals and society. In Mexico, you have an image of an Eagle devouring a Serpent. In one of Benjamin Franklin's cartoons there is a picture of a severed serpent with the caption Join or Die.

Dragons are memorialized in legends, historical accounts, and artwork from around the world. To name a few, there’s an Aboriginal depiction of a water monster that resembles a plesiosaur, an ancient historical account of serpents in Egypt with bat-like wings, the epic poem Beowulf with its account of a fiery flying serpent, and Native American petroglyphs (etchings in stone) that resemble dragons. Dragons are depicted on flags, emblems, tapestries, maps, pottery, pictographs, and more. Dragons are usually depicted as good in Asian cultures, but in European cultures they are sometimes known for destroying castles.
You see Dragon logos on the flags of countries. Wales and Bhutan for example both have them displayed. Ironically, the Grand Dragon is the top role someone can earn in the KKK a White Nationalist organization.

Tigers aren't very prominent in company logos and they are described very ambiguously in the Bible. They do represent the mascots LSU, Mizzou, Clemson and Auburn for colleges. They are also logos for the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinatti Bengals.

Panthers aren't discussed much in the bible. Leopards are considered to be the product of a lion and a panther. Panthers are the logos for the Carolina Panthers and the Florida Panthers hockey team and the University of North Iowa. A Black Panther is used to symbolize African culture. The Black Panthers are also a Black Nationalist organization.

That's all I care to mention for now, but can anyone name any others?

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - The Beast1 - 07-13-2017

Deep Forum, learn to post there.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-13-2017

Can a moderator move it over there?

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - polar - 07-13-2017

Reporting à post and politely requesting a move usually works. I did it for you

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-13-2017

Thanks.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - Mayhem - 07-14-2017

Quote: (07-13-2017 03:31 PM)numanist Wrote:  

That's all I care to mention for now, but can anyone name any others?

Got your daily fix bro.
   

As for hidden meaning, I think it could be that camels can last days without water, so the word dry comes to mind. Dry throat, feeling thirsty after some light smoking.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - Jay Gatz - 07-14-2017

Yes, I myself find it interesting knowing the old meaning of symbols.

But I am quite sure the emblem of Saab was that of a griffin. Which is a metologial creature with the front and wings of an eagle and the back of a lion.

It rests on the coat of arms of the southern district in Skåne (Sweden), where Saab was started.

But I'm not sure of its symbolism.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - sterling_archer - 07-14-2017

Alfa Romeo symbol and meaning



On the left is the flag of Milan, a hometown to Alfa Romeo. On the right is heraldic symbol of Visconti family that ruled Milan. It represents snake that eats a human.
Some say this is not snake eating a human but a human is exiting from snake as a "purified", "new" man. Visconti motto was "I will not violate the Snake's uses".

In my opinion there is a some kind of occult symbol here as Elites throughout the history have been fascinated with reptiles and put them frequently in their heraldy. Visconti were probably one of the "blue bloods" that will later become ruling dynasties of Europe.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-14-2017

The Arizona Diamondbacks are a type of snake. Eels are basically water snakes. You also have Copperheads which are also a type of snake. Alcohol is usually distilled in copper tanks. Many people regard alcohol as being snake oil because it promises things that it cannot always deliver. Alcohol is also a carcinogen and it dries out your skin. It's interesting that the royal families have names like Windsor and Bourbon which are two types of alcohol.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-14-2017

Eels are basically water snakes.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - RexImperator - 07-14-2017

Eels are a fish.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - kosko - 07-15-2017

I'm a fan of quirky topics like this. I spent a night trying to read up in this stuff many years ago.

The marriage of colours, tones, symbols, all have a specific overt or cover meaning. Especially with older brands that have been around for decades now.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - Mage - 07-16-2017

Meaning is very simple - apex predators are on top of food chain the most powerful animals around and everyone who wants to appear powerful, be it a state leader who wants to say "don't challenge my authority"or a car model who wants to say "I am the fastest and meanest thing around" wants to look like an apex predator to get respect and fear.

Dragon is an amalgamation of three basic predator types that hunted our mammal ancestors -snakes (maybe including dinosaurs), birds of pray (maybe including pterosaurs) and other larger mammals. Therefore dragon has snake scales, wings of raptor and claws like a beast. It is proven babies know how to instinctively be afraid of snakes. During history of mammal evolution no other type of animal has killed so many human ancestors as the snake so fear of it has become instinctive. Therefore Dragon is basically a snake with some raptor and beast elements thrown in to appear as ultimate predator to our mammal mind. Plus it breathes fire, another scary phenomenon of nature that appears to be alive to an animal mind - a huge bright colored hungry rapidly growing beast. Dragons exist in our collective memories as amalgamation of these four basic types of threats and therefore they appear in all cultures.

Apex predator reptiles like dragons and snakes usually convey the idea of "cold leadership" - a cold blooded tyrant who doesn't care for his subjects, but cares for the rules - the blind and harsh force of law. The phrase "draconian law", comes from here or more precisely that is why Dragons are named after Draco.

Apex predator birds like eagles usually convey the idea of distant and arrogant leadership - "ruling from above", the idea of ruling class not mixing with the common folk it rules, the idea of ruling class being divine and having the right to do as it wills without any rules. Examples - Horus of ancient Egypt, Nazis with their racial superiority ideology, Russian Tzars and other European blue blooded monarchs who didn't mix with common people all loved and used the eagle symbol.

Apex predator mammals like lions, wolves or bears usually covey the idea of "warm leadership" - a benevolent leader who is fierce to protect it's people but has a warm and kind heart. The nurturing side of mammals and the warm blood. Trump is a good example that is why people like to draw him as a lion as opposed to republican elephant and democrat donkey. Richard is called Lionheart because despite his flaws he fought in battle with his men and was a courageous military leader and had a generally favorable rating or at least it was made such by troubadours.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

National Animals of Europe

CountryNational Animal(s)
Belarus European Bison
Belgium Leo Belgicus (Heraldic Belgian Lion)
Croatia Pine Marten
Cyprus Cypriot Mouflon
Czech Republic Two-Tailed Lion
Denmark Mute Swan, Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Estonia Barn Swallow
Faroe IslandsEurasian Oystercatcher
FinlandBrown Bear, Whooper Swan
France Gallic Rooster
Greece Dolphin
Hungary Turul
Iceland Gyrfalcon
Latvia White Wagtail, Two-Spotted Ladybird
Lithuania White Stork
Macedonia Lion
Moldova Aurochs
Netherlands Lion, Black-Tailed Godwit
Norway Lion, White-Throated Dipper, Fjord Horse
Romania Lynx
Serbia Wolf, White Eagle, Lynx
SpainBull
Turkey Grey Wolf
United Kingdom Bulldog, Barbary Lion, Mute Swan, Red Kite, Unicorn, Welsh Dragon/Queen's Beast

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

National Animals of Asia

CountryNational Animal(s)
Afghanistan Snow Leopard
Azerbaijan Karabakh Horse
Bangladesh Royal Bengal Tiger, Magpie Robin, Ilish
Bhutan Druk, Takin
Cambodia Kouprey
India Bengal Tiger, Indian Peacock, King Cobra, Ganges River Dolphin, Indian Elephant
Indonesia Komodo Dragon, Garuda
Iran Mugger Crocodile
Iraq Goat, Golden Eagle
Israel Hoopoe
Japan Green Pheasant, Carp
Malaysia Malayan Tiger
Nepal Cow, Danphe
North Korea Chollima
Oman Arabian Oryx
Pakistan Markhor, Chukar, Snow Leopard
Philippines Carabao, Phillipine Eagle
Qatar Arabian Oryx
South Korea Siberian Tiger, Korean Magpie
Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Junglefowl
Thailand Elephant
Turkey Grey Wolf
United Arab Emirates Arabian Oryx, Peregrine FalconCountryNational Animal(s)
Afghanistan Snow Leopard
Azerbaijan Karabakh Horse
Bangladesh Royal Bengal Tiger, Magpie Robin, Ilish
Bhutan Druk, Takin
Cambodia Kouprey
India Bengal Tiger, Indian Peacock, King Cobra, Ganges River Dolphin, Indian Elephant
Indonesia Komodo Dragon, Garuda
Iran Mugger Crocodile
Iraq Goat, Golden Eagle
Israel Hoopoe
Japan Green Pheasant, Carp
Malaysia Malayan Tiger
Nepal Cow, Danphe
North Korea Chollima
Oman Arabian Oryx
Pakistan Markhor, Chukar, Snow Leopard
Philippines Carabao, Phillipine Eagle
Qatar Arabian Oryx
South Korea Siberian Tiger, Korean Magpie
Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Junglefowl
Thailand Elephant
Turkey Grey Wolf
United Arab Emirates Arabian Oryx, Peregrine Falcon

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

National Animals of Africa

Algeria Fennec Fox
Angola
Red-Crested Turaco
DR Congo Okapi
Egypt Steppe Eagle
Ethiopia Lion
Mauritius Dodo
Rwanda Leopard
Somalia Leopard
South Africa Springbok, Blue Crane, Galjoen
Tanzania Giraffe

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - sterling_archer - 07-17-2017

Quote: (07-17-2017 08:10 AM)numanist Wrote:  

CountryNational Animal(s)
Croatia Pine Marten

Our currency is called Kuna, which is translation of Marten!

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

National Animals of South and Central America

Argentina Rufous Hornero
Belize Baird's Tapir
Colombia Andean Condor
Costa Rica Yiguirro, White-Tailed Deer, West Indian Manatee
Guatemala Quetzal
Honduras White-Tailed Deer
Panama Harpy Eagle
Peru Vicuna

National Animals of American States

Alabama - Black Bear
Alaska - Malamute
Arizona - Ringtail
Arkansas - White-Tailed Deer
California - A Grizzly Bear
Colorado - Bighorn Sheep
Connecticut - Sperm Whale
D.C. - Orca
Delaware - Golden Retriever
Florida - Florida Panther
Georgia - White-tailed Deer
Hawaii - Hawaiian Monk Seal
Idaho - Appaloosa Horse
Illinois - White-Tailed Deer
Indiana - Bison
Iowa - The Eagle
Kansas - American Buffalo
Kentucky - Thoroughbred Horse
Louisiana - Catahoula Leopard Dog
Maine - Moose
Maryland - Chesapeake Bay retriever
Massachusetts - Boston Terrier
Michigan - White Tailed Deer
Minnesota - White Tailed Deer
Mississippi - White Tailed Deer
Missouri - Missouri Mule
Montana - Grizzly Bear
Nebraska - White Tailed Deer
Nevada - Bighorn Sheep
New Hampshire - White Tailed Deer
New Jersey - Horse
New Mexico - Black Bear
New York - Beaver
North Carolina - The Grey Squirrel
North Dakota - Nokota horse
Ohio - White Tailed Deer
Oklahoma - Buffalo
Oregon - Beaver
Pennsylvania - White Tailed Deer
Rhode Island - The Harbor Seal
South Carolina - White Tailed Deer
South Dakota - Coyote
Tennessee - Raccoon
Texas - Longhorn and Armadillo
Utah - Elk
Vermont - Morgan Horse
Virginia- American Foxhound
Washington - Marmot
West Virginia - Black Bear
Wisconsin - Dairy Cow
Wyoming - Bison

National Animal of Canada
Canada - Beaver

National Animal of Greenland
Greenland - Polar Bears

National Animal of Australia
Australia - Red Kangaroo

National Animal of Antarctica
Antarctica - Whale

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

Serpents are worshipped as a sign of fertility in many indigenous cultures especially South America and Africa. In many African cultures, snakes are representative of deceased ancestors. They also see the snake as being representative of the umbilical cord. In Ancient Egypt, serpents were seen as being both good and evil. Ancient Egyptians worshiped snakes, especially the cobra. The cobra was not only associated with the sun god Ra, but also many other deities such as Wadjet, Renenutet, Nehebkau, and Meretseger. Serpents could also be evil and harmful such as the case of Apep and Set. They were also referenced in the Book of the Dead, in which Spell 39 was made to help repel an evil snake in the underworld. "Get back! Crawl away! Get away from me, you snake! Go, be drowned in the Lake of the Abyss, at the place where your father commanded that the slaying of you should be carried out."[6]

Ancient Mesopotamians and Semites believed that snakes were immortal because they could infinitely shed their skin and appear forever youthful, appearing in a fresh guise every time.[18] The Sumerians worshipped a serpent god named Ningishzida. Before the arrival of the Israelites, snake cults were well established in Canaan in the Bronze Age, for archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at Megiddo,[19] one at Gezer,[20] one in the sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at Hazor,[21] and two at Shechem.[22]

In the surrounding region, serpent cult objects figured in other cultures. A late Bronze Age Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other.[23] In sixth-century Babylon a pair of bronze serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of Esagila.[24] At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker, and a goldsmith two images, one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu".[25] At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered

Wadjet was the patron goddess of Upper Egypt, and was represented as a cobra with spread hood, or a cobra-headed woman. She later became one of the protective emblems on the pharaoh's crown once Upper and Lower Egypt were united. She was said to 'spit fire' at the pharaoh's enemies, and the enemies of Ra. Sometimes referred to as one of the eyes of Ra, she was often associated with the lioness goddess Sekhmet, who also bore that role.

Serpents figured prominently in archaic Greek myths. According to some sources, Ophion ("serpent", a.k.a. Ophioneus), ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Kronos and Rhea. The oracles of the Ancient Greeks were said to have been the continuation of the tradition begun with the worship of the Egyptian cobra goddess, Wadjet. We learn from Herodotus of a great serpent which defended the citadel of Athens.

Typhon, the enemy of the Olympian gods, is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus, or confined beneath volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus (a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane), the serpent-tailed Chimaera, the serpent-like water beast Hydra, and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon Ladon. Both the Lernaean Hydra and Ladon were slain by Herakles.

Python, an enemy of Apollo, was always represented in vase-paintings and by sculptors as a serpent. Apollo slew Python and made her former home, Delphi, his own oracle. The Pythia took her title from the name Python.[16]

Amphisbaena, a Greek word, from amphis, meaning "both ways", and bainein, meaning "to go", also called the "Mother of Ants", is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. According to Greek mythology, the mythological amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from Medusa the Gorgon's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with her head in his hand.

Medusa and the other Gorgons were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes whose origins predate the written myths of Greece and who were the protectors of the most ancient ritual secrets. The Gorgons wore a belt of two intertwined serpents in the same configuration of the caduceus. The Gorgon was placed at the highest point and central of the relief on the Parthenon.

Asclepius, the son of Apollo and Koronis, learned the secrets of keeping death at bay after observing one serpent bringing another (which Asclepius himself had fatally wounded) healing herbs. To prevent the entire human race from becoming immortal under Asclepius's care, Zeus killed him with a bolt of lightning. Asclepius' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods. In honor of Asclepius, snakes were often used in healing rituals. Non-poisonous Aesculapian snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept. The author of the Bibliotheca claimed that Athena gave Asclepius a vial of blood from the Gorgons. Gorgon blood had magical properties: if taken from the left side of the Gorgon, it was a fatal poison; from the right side, the blood was capable of bringing the dead back to life. However Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself. In this version the blood of Medusa had the healing power while the lethal poison originated from Medusa's serpents.Zeus placed Asclepius in the sky as the constellation Ophiucus, "the Serpent-Bearer". The modern symbol of medicine is the rod of Asclepius, a snake twining around a staff, while the symbol of pharmacy is the bowl of Hygieia,[17] a snake twining around a cup or bowl. Hygieia was a daughter of Asclepius.

Laocoön was allegedly a priest of Poseidon (or of Apollo, by some accounts) at Troy; he was famous for warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks, and for his subsequent divine execution. Poseidon (some say Athena), who was supporting the Greeks, subsequently sent sea-serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus. Another tradition states that Apollo sent the serpents for an unrelated offense, and only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret them as punishment for striking the Horse.

Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great and a princess of the primitive land of Epirus, had the reputation of a snake-handler, and it was in serpent form that Zeus was said to have fathered Alexander upon her; tame snakes were still to be found at Macedonian Pella in the 2nd century AD (Lucian, Alexander the false prophet) and at Ostia a bas-relief shows paired coiled serpents flanking a dressed altar, symbols or embodiments of the Lares of the household, worthy of veneration (Veyne 1987 illus p 211).

Aeetes, the king of Colchis and father of the sorceress Medea, possessed the Golden Fleece. He guarded it with a massive serpent that never slept. Medea, who had fallen in love with Jason of the Argonauts, enchanted it to sleep so Jason could seize the Fleece.
In Italy, the Marsian goddess Angitia, whose name derives from the word for "serpent," was associated with witches, snakes, and snake-charmers. Angitia is believed to have also been a goddess of healing. Her worship was centered in the Central Apennine region.[15]

A snake was kept and fed with milk during rites dedicated to Potrimpus, a Prussian god. On the Iberian Peninsula there is evidence that before the introduction of Christianity, and perhaps more strongly before Roman invasions, serpent worship was a standout feature of local religions (see Sugaar). To this day there are numerous traces in European popular belief, especially in Germany, of respect for the snake, possibly a survival of ancestor worship: The "house snake" cares for the cows and the children, and its appearance is an omen of death; and the lives of a pair of house snakes are often held to be bound with that of the master and the mistress. Tradition states that one of the Gnostic sects known as the Ophites caused a tame serpent to coil around the sacramental bread, and worshipped it as the representative of the Savior. In Lanuvium (32 km from Rome) a big snake was venerated as a god and they offered human sacrifice to it.

In ancient Norse culture, Jörmungandr, alternately referred to as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, is a sea serpent of the Norse mythology, the middle child of Loki and the giantess Angrboða.

According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children, Fenrisúlfr, Hel and Jörmungandr. He tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent grew so big that he was able to surround the Earth and grasp his own tail, and as a result he earned the alternate name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. Jörmungandr's arch enemy is the god Thor.

In the Poetic Edda, Odin tells of 8 serpents gnawing on the roots of Yggdrasil: Nidhöggr, Gravvitnir, Moin, Goin, Grábakr, Grafvölluðr, Svafnir and Ofnir.

In the Old Testament of the Bible,

Contemporary Christian culture identifies the snake as a symbol of evil and of the devil himself. Snake handling is a religious ritual in a small number of Christian churches in the U.S., usually characterized as rural and Pentecostal, particularly the Church of God with Signs Following.[citation needed] Practitioners believe it dates to antiquity and quote the Bible to support the practice, using references such as (Mark 16:18) and (Luke 10:19).

In the Hebrew Bible the serpent in the Garden of Eden lured Eve with the promise of being like God, tempting her that despite God's warning, death would not be the result, that God was withholding knowledge from her. The serpent is identified as having hidden knowledge: "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made" (Genesis 3:1). There is no indication in Genesis that the Serpent was a deity in its own right but only Lucifer the fallen Angel (now called Satan), although it is one of only two cases of animals that talk in the Pentateuch, Balaam's ass being the other. Although the identity of the Serpent as Satan is identified in the New Testament Holy Scripture Book of Revelation,[27] in Genesis the Serpent is merely portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, promoting as good what God had directly forbidden, and particularly cunning in its deception (Gen. 3:4–5 and 3:22)[28]

The staff of Moses transformed into a snake and then back into a staff (Exodus 4:2–4). The Book of Numbers 21:6–9 provides an origin for an archaic copper serpent, Nehushtan by associating it with Moses. This copper snake according to the Biblical text is wrapped around a pole and used for healing. Book of Numbers 21:9 "And Moses made a snake of copper, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a snake had bitten any man, when he beheld the snake of brass, he lived."

When the reformer King Hezekiah came to the throne of Judah in the late 8th century BCE, "He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, smashed the idols, and broke into pieces the copper snake that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017



The star of life is a common symbol you see in medicine. It is a symbol of birth and death (Think maternity wards and hospices) . It is a symbol seen in modern medicine namely medical organizations and ambulances. Have you ever heard the phrase, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Do you believe that there is some truth in that phrase or do you believe there is some controlled opposition going on there?

Apples (especially the seeds) can be quite poisonous, and a lot of them are genetically modified with DNA from other things. There is also a lot of pesticides used in farming them. The truth is you really don't know what you are eating when you sink your teeth into an apple. The serpent was the one who tricked Eve into eating an Apple.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017



Does anyone know the meaning of the car company Lotus? Lotus is a type of flower but you also have those letters CABC. You also have the C which doesn't look like a regular C. It looks like a snake.

Also what does Corvette mean? When I think of Corvette, I think of Corp Vet as in someone who served in the armed forces. When I check the dictionary, it says that Corvette means a small warship designed for convoy escort duty.

I know Maserati has a Trident which is similar to the one that Poseidon used.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - debeguiled - 07-17-2017

@numanist

As far as animal mascots go, the U.S. loses for originality. Why so many white tailed deer? Did they just choose the first thing they saw out the window?

There is nothing inspiring about this little gay prancer:



I learned almost nothing from the U.S. animals. Obvious choices nearly all.

-1 goes to Iowa for choosing the same animal as the nation.

Partial credit goes to Hawaii for their monk seal. At least they didn't choose a seal of the harbor variety.

They look like they are saying "Aloha" in a mocking way, which resonates with me for some reason.



Arizona did okay with the ringtail.



Though let's face it, they have one of the coolest animals of all time and should have used it:



In my opinion, there is no greater boss of a creature than the burrowing owl, and yet not one state chose this majestic beast:








The winner among U.S. states has to go to Louisiana for the Catahoula Leopard Dog. Great name. Good eye contact.



On the level of beauty, Guatemala wins for the Quetzal:




For self deprecation and humor, Belize hands down for that awkward shitlord, the Baird's Tapir.



Good thread idea, numanist. I am looking forward as time permits to check out the animals from the rest of the world.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

Snake oil is really bad in almost all cases, but it is really good in the game Red Dead Redemption.

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017



This is the logo for the church/synagogue of Satan. Do you notice the wolf/goat symbolism? It has the face of wolf but the horns and goatee of a goat. You also have an upside down pentagram. The 5 letters are in Hebrew. I've had trouble deciphering what they stand for. The image bears a resemblance to the Order of The Eastern Star a freemasonry group. It is basically an upside down pentagram. The Order of The Eastern Star has stories from the bible but it is a very universalist group.

According to wikipedia, the 5 people that the Eastern Star describes are:
Adah (Jephthah's daughter, from the Book of Judges) In Eastern Star, Adah is the color blue.
Ruth, the widow from the Book of Ruth In Eastern Star, Ruth is the color yellow.
Esther, the wife from the Book of Esther In Eastern Star, Esther is the color white.
Martha, sister of Mary and Lazarus, from the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John In Eastern Star, Martha is the color green.
Electa (the "elect lady" from II John), the mother. In Eastern Star, Electa is the color Red.




This is a logo of a pentagram and its meaning:

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Animals In Images/Logos and Their Potential Meanings - numanist - 07-17-2017

Bears, Chicago
Bengals, Cincinnati
Lions, Detroit
Bills, Buffalo
Broncos, Denver
Panthers, Carolina
Colts, Indianapolis
Rams, Los Angeles
Ravens, Baltimore
Saints, New Orleans
Seahawks, Seattle
Dolphins, Miami
Jaguars, Jacksonville

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