>>22395705>Materialism Indeed. It represents the ego and being reborn back into the physical universe, being trapped in a cycle of life, death and rebirth.
Sounds a lot like samsara, huh?
Notice though that Hermes holds the caduceus with 2 serpents climbing, or rising, to the center point with 2 wings. 2 serpents=polarities within you, yin/yang, rising up the spine to the 3rd eye at the top, and then the 3rd eye has 2 wings to show harmony of the polarities once the process is completed, so not all serpents all bad, just Typhon and the "reptilian brain", the scientific term for your lowest self, the one closest to earth.
