I always figured this was why so many old depictions of Adam and Eve showed the snake twining around a tree trunk. Of course, lots of snakes still do that, so I guess the writers of Genesis weren’t familiar with, say, the Amazon, but that’s just a guess.
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I always figured this was why so many old depictions of Adam and Eve showed the snake twining around a tree trunk. Of course, lots of snakes still do that, so I guess the writers of Genesis weren’t familiar with, say, the Amazon, but that’s just a guess.