| Show WHY of B H arvins KINQ SNAKES TAIL TF YOU kill a snake its tall will not die until the sun goes down eliut Is a superstition which Is general throughout the unites states that the muscular contractility in reptiles lasts for long time after they bae been decapitated or dismembered la a fact well known to comparative physiologists the idea that the snakes fall aves until the sun goes down Is clearly inherited from egyptian my rabe story of clorus and the great serpent apap the symbol 0 darkness and ehll borus represented the rising sun and the sun in its progress across the arch of the beav ens but the setting sun washes fa ther osiris and when osiris died up on the western horizon killed by apap borus avenged the murder hy slaying the serpent of ehll the con between the death of the sun and the complete death of the amke Is it should be stated that in early egyptian mythology it Is set who kills osiris but later set became identified with alip in grecian mythology which ana largely dermed from the Egypt lin we find apollo the god of light and the powers of the bun killing the evil serpent bithon pithon and the cult of apollo was not only carried over into roman mythology but nourished in the gillie and celtic worlds the une of descent of the snakes tall su Is clear and the farmers boy who having run a black snake in the road remarks to his corn canlon that the creatures tell will not die until sunset Is but harking back to the nature myths of ancient egypto egypti by mcclure newspaper syndicate |
