O P H I O N and P H A N E S

Well it seemed to work elsewhere... ;-) Seriously though... Anyway I mentioned this the other day and thoght I would elaborate a little bit more on what symbolism the snake may have relating to mythology, protection and the creation of life This tallies up pretty well: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophion]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophion[/url] BUT... Ophion and the "Ophanic egg" also then leads on to PHANES: [url=http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Phanes.html]http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Phanes.html[/url] PHANES was the Protogenos (primeval god) of procreation in the Orphic cosmogony. He was the primal generator of life, the driving force behind reproduction in the early cosmos. Phanes was hatched from the world egg (the primordial mixture of elements) when it was split into its constituent parts by the ancient gods Khronos (Time) and Ananke (Inevitability). Phanes was the first king of the universe, who passed the royal sceptre on to his daughter Nyx (Night),who in turn handed it down to her son Ouranos (Heaven). From him it was first seized by Kronos (Time), and then by Zeus, the ultimate ruler of the cosmos. Some say Zeus devoured Phanes in order to assume his primal cosmic power and redistribute it amongst a new generation of gods--the Olympians which he sired. I think something can be extracted from that alone