He grew up at the end of the nineteenth century, during the gold rush era, when the indigenous Maidu culture was coming into conflict with white culture. ”‘” ģ) Henry Shipes was the son of an English father and a mother from the Maidu Indians of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia. I said: “And who is it that is saving me, and what is this snake?” A voice said: “I am Jesus and this snake is Ramadan. I called to you but you said: “I cannot save you, for you are not following our road.” I went on calling for help, and one came up to me and loosened the snake from off my neck. To-day my husband told me, “You must tell them.” I dreamed that a great snake was twisting round my throat and strangling me. I dreamt it Saturday night, but I was too frightened to tell you yesterday. You said to the snake: “In the name of Jesus, let go.” It uncoiled and fell like a rope, and I woke almost dead with joy.’ And the shining of his face told that his soul had got free.” B) Trotter says, “Blind Houriya came this morning with ‘I want to tell you something that has frightened me very much. ‘I dreamed that a great snake was coiling round my foot and leg, and you were there, and in horror I called to you. She wanted to help Boualem, but didn’t know how then she says, “now God has dealt with the matter. A) Trotter says that an Algerian she knew named Boualem had been involved in an angry conflict with a neighbor. Ģ) Lilias Trotter, a Christian missionary who worked in Algeria in the early part of the twentieth century, had these two dreams reported to her by Muslims who were converting to Christianity.
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Now she dreams about the rattlesnake quite frequently and she learns new songs and is told how to cure sick people in this way. The snake appeared three or four times before she be lieved that she would be a shaman. The snake gave her the songs that she sings when she is curing. Then a rattlesnake came to her in dreams and told her to get eagle feathers, white paint, wild tobacco. “She dreamed that he came to her and told her to be a shaman. Eighteen years after his death, Rosie started to dream about her father. Rattlesnakes frequently came to him in his dreams and told him how to cure snake bites and other illnesses. As the following examples suggest, many people through history have regarded snake dreams as deeply spiritual experiences–for these dreams reveal the ambivalent nature of the sacred, its capacity to be a force of joyful creativity and violent destructiveness in human life.ġ) A fifty year-old woman named Rosie Plummer, of the Paviotso people living on the Walker river reservation in Nevada, told anthropologist Willard Park of her shaman father. Many reports of snake dreams emphasize their strange, uncanny quality the dreamer feels both attracted to and yet repelled by the serpent. Content analysis studies performed by Robert Van de Castle indicate that even in the dreams of modern Americans, who presumably have little direct contact with snakes, these animals appear with surprising frequency. People from cultures all over the world report dreams in which they have intensely vivid encounters with snakes. But the animal that makes perhaps the most powerful spiritual impact in dreams is the snake. Birds, dogs, bears, wolves, fish, and even insects have come in people’s dreams to deliver important messages from the divine. To learn more about actual snakes, check out the East Bay Vivarium.Īnimals of various kinds appear in spiritually meaningful dreams.
If you’d like to know what Carl Jung said about snake symbolism in The Red Book, read this post. If you are interested in how to interpret a dream of a snake, you might take a look at this post. It comes from my book Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Journey. Below is a chapter about the history of snake dreams, using psychology and religious studies to explore their meanings.
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