Animal on Arts

In India not just they consider as one of their God and must be threaten nicely, but also snakes, a crawling creatures which are consider enemy on most of country in the worlds. And India traditional music to call and made snakes dancing is snake earrings.
Traditional earrings in the villages and tribal areas of India are manifestations of symbolism, religious meaning and social significance. A woman wears a particular type of earring as a sign of identity, of membership in the defined social group into which she was born. Wearing the specific earrings of her community, she continues the tradition of her ancestors.

In a field work of ten years, I could locate and describe in detail 170 specific types of earrings, of which a majority are worn until the present day. Many more are extinct or neglected, others will follow this fate in the future under the present fast economic growth and impact from the west, which erodes values of tradition and heritage.

One of the most interesting and conspicuous traditional Indian earring types is the snake earring which can be found in three far-apart areas of the continent: Orissa in the East, Tamil Nadu in the South and Gujarat/Rajasthan in the West.

In the tree of evolution, snakes appeared for the first time around 130-100 million years ago. Except in the arctic, snakes are found everywhere in the world; they are able to survive heights over 4000 m and can dive to a depth of 100 m. Since ancient times, snakes have been of special significance for the human race. They have been feared and venerated, associated with gods and have been deified.

The origin of ophiolatry or serpent worship (in India referred to as the naga cult) has its roots in the unusual manners of living and behaviour of snakes: its swift yet graceful and mysterious gliding motion; its unexpected appearance from the void without any sound; its beauty and strength; the sudden fatal consequences of its bite; the moulting and reappearance with immaculate new skin suggesting longevity or even immortality. All these attributes gave rise to feelings of wonder, respect and fear and led to worship and mythology.

The earliest snake images are known from Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in Turkey which dates back to 9000 BC.
In ancient Babylon, Ninazu was the patron god of Eschnunna (Eshnunna – modern Tall al-Asmar in eastern Iraq) and the king of the snakes, related to the realm of the dead, but also to the annual vegetation cycle.

The Uraeus was the stylized form of an Egyptian cobra. It was used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty and divine authority in ancient Egypt. The goddess Wadjet, patroness of Lower Egypt, was often depicted as a cobra and as such was worn by the Pharaohs as a head ornament or rather part of their crown, as a claim for the land.

The winged serpent Python, who lived in Delphi, was killed by Apollon. By the spilling of her blood, her prophetic abilities were transferred to the place, and the oracle of Delphi emerged from this event.
In the Jewish and Christian traditions, the snake symbolises the evil and the devil, who tries to lead man into temptation. Adam and Eve were driven from the Paradise because they committed the original sin of mankind by their disobedience. The Blessed Virgin Mary is in Christian art often depicted stepping on the head of a snake, thus crushing the evil under her feet.

The Midgardschlange of Germanic mythology was the world snake, lying in the sea and encircling the whole earth. In China the snake is known as a symbol for shrewdness, malice and deceit.