Here she displays the Moses caduceus in detail. On the right is a coin from Sardis (Turkey) with a caduceus (c. ![]() In Greek mythology she is the personification of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods. The Jews have written proofs of their founding and history from the 1400’s BC forward to Now.ĬLICK HERE for article on the Dead Sea Scrolls “It” had a name “Nehushtan” which is a derogatory name in Hebrew meaning “a mere piece of brass/ a brazen thing.” The “right in the eyes of the Lord” King Hezekiah tore it down and rid Israel of all the rest of its pagan idols. They even burned incense to it as they were doing for all their pagan gods. The Jews had forgotten the history of the brazen snake on a pole and since it was such a long time since the meaning was taught, they had been worshipping it as a pagan symbol. It was called Nehushtan.” 2 Kings 18: 1-4 He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. (Hezekiah) did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. “In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 550 BC, the Jews had preserved not only Moses’ five books of the Torah and other of their prophets’ writings, but had preserved the serpent of brass on a pole which Moses long ago had made as a mark of healing for the Jews: And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.” Numbers 21:5-9 About a thousand years later in c. And the Lord said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live. Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you pray to the Lord, that He take away the serpents from us. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people and many people of Israel died. “The people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this desert, for there is no bread and no water, and we are disgusted with this rotten bread. The first appearance of the symbol, especially in relation to healing, is found in the Jewish Tanakh during the Jews’ Wandering in the Wilderness in c. But their god of healing, Ascelpius, had the same rod and snake that Moses had made. ![]() The original caduceus is of Biblical origin-a rod with a brass snake on it. The Greeks over a thousand years later gave their god Hermes a rod with wings on the top and two snakes entwined around it. The definition of a caduceus is a staff from ancient times which shows one or two serpents coiled around a staff.
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