Snakes & Adders

Venom in Ancient Greece; snake poison in contemporary mRNA devices

This will be the last excerpt from Hermes Runs the Game: Myth, Sacrifice and Initiation In-Forming the Events of 2020-2024 before publication, as it is ready to go to our book designer. It will be a slightly larger format book, maybe 7x10 inches, to better show off the 170 or so beautiful images. Everyone who is a paid subscriber to this substack will receive a copy in gratitude for supporting us.

The application of nicotine patches a few months ago shifted things for me, especially the stupor and vertigo from being shed upon early on during the craze to get ‘vaccinated’, via a hug from someone who had just got the jab. It lasted years and certainly made the pace of finishing the book glacial. I think Bryan Ardis’ new book, Moving Beyond the Covid-19 Lies, is important. See what you think.

Snakes and Adders

Illustration from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Snake and the Beautiful Lily, 1795.

The Pharisees and scribes took the key of gnosis; they neither go inward, nor do they permit those who desire to, go inward. Become prudent in the manner of a snake and pure in the manner of a dove.

—Gospel of Thomas, 39^⁠1

All of this pain, Oh mercy sweet,

All of this pain, I’ll stamp it out beneath my feet.

It’s these snakes, wrapping ‘round my ankles,

It’s these snakes, playing with my desires,

It’s these snakes, threatening my inhibitions,

I’ll have them banished to the damned eternal fires . . .

—Susan McKeown, “Snakes/Mná Na Héireann” (1997)

Ancient Greeks had a complex and comprehensive relationship to snakes and their venom. Hermes and Asclepius both hold a serpent-twined caduceus, and use its power for healing. And not just healing for ambivalent Hermes. Snakes are both adversaries and protectors, bringers of cures and deadly poisons, chthonic travelers and wielders of worldly wisdom, and especially the mysterious power of that knowledge. Thus, one would never harm a snake within a temple sanctuary.

That the serpent [Draco] is among the chief symbols of the sun is shown by the way its name is formed from derkein, that is, “to see”: for they say that this serpent imitates this star’s nature with very sharp and always wakeful glance, and that serpents are made to guard temples, shrines, oracles and treasuries on that account.

—Macrobius, Saturnalia^⁠2

Snakes and serpents within mythology is an infinite discussion,^⁠3 so we will limit ourselves to this rarely-discussed aspect of Greek life: the use of venom as pharmakon.^⁠4 Classicist Ammon Hillman, whose ‘literal’ reading of Greek texts runs roughshod over academia,^⁠5 claims a pervasive pharmakon use throughout the ancient mindscape that freezes scholars clinging to their rationalist comforters.

The orders of priestesses and the female guilds guarding them—Medusae, Furies, Draco, Wolves—were not diaphanous pushovers, but fierce and feared. These women controlled the destinies of entire countries through the oracles. A trend in contemporary scholarship claims these oracles were naught but a spy network, which may be correct in some sense, but that limited view physicalizes and trivializes the absolute fact the the gods were fully real and participating in the experience of the Greek world. Socrates’ oracle affirmed him as “the wisest man in Greece”, and sent him on a search to disprove it. The framework of that quest inspired his philosophy.

These Medusae “mastered the use of neurotoxins, necrotizing venoms, and hemorrhage-producing venoms in both recreational and militaristic settings. The knowledge of these venoms was considered sacred and the recipes for the poisons they used were closely-guarded secrets”.^⁠6 Venom and herbal preparations were foundational elements of initiation, warfare, assassination,^⁠7 ritual mania, and temple fumigation. Adherents would sit before enormous statues enveloped in the dense smoke of psychotropic preparations made from herbs, fungi and snake venom. After a few hours it would surprising if the statue didn’t start speaking to you.

Athena Parthenos, gilded 42-foot statue within a replica of the Parthenon, Nashville, 1990. Original by Phidias, 437 BC. The closest one can get to the experience of an ancient Greek temple. Her snake adjoins her shield, represents the power behind her protection of Athens, and could be her son Erichthonius (chthôn, ‘Earth’ is in his name), born of Hephaestus’ wanton semen squirting on her thigh.

The Garden of the Hesperides, red-figure volute-krater; attributed to the Lycourgos painter, Ruvo di Puglia; ca. 360 BC. (Ruvo, Archaeological Museum.)

All that said, if we acknowledge the ubiquitous mind-altering use of snake venom in ancient Greece in temple worship, initiation, cult activity and the mystery traditions, as well as for the usual deadly arrow poisonings and the riddance of pesky political rivals, is there an inverted correlate now, of a pharmakon priesthood fully using snake poisons to the detriment of humanity?

Enter pharma researcher Bryan Ardis. His recent book Moving Beyond the Covid-19 Lies has the most comprehensive answers to the questions raised by the deaths and injuries we have experienced via the responsible corporate death cults creating this. We will attempt to be clear and brief. There will be a bit of medical terminology, but hopefully no test afterwards.

While the media rang in the belfry a batty ditty about a Wuhan market bat biting a human somehow causing a simultaneous global outbreak, papers showing a different etiology were quietly published.^⁠8 Revelation of the method. Snake venoms, particularly the Krait and the king cobra, are found through DNA analysis of the covid-19 ‘virus’. We were hammered into isolating, distancing and masking due to its supposed airborne transmission. Shockingly, it turns out that a virus reportedly so devastating to the lungs left smokers unaffected. Turns out, the same AEC2 receptors that the venom-based ‘spike proteins’ have an affinity for, have even a greater attraction for nicotine. Thus the neurotoxic spike proteins that carry instructions to our cells to create snake venom, are prevented from doing so by nicotine, as does the media-vilified Ivermectin.

Both nicotine and Ivermectin are antidotes to COVID-19 Spike Proteins because they both bind and protect the specific nicotine receptors that the two venom spike proteins target, thus preventing COVID symptoms. Once Ivermectin was administered, the nicotine receptors released the venom spike proteins, resulting in improved breathability as they latched onto the Ivermectin instead.^⁠9

Thus the decades of successive surgeon generals and various cancer donation conglomerates decrying the evil effects of smoking. Nicotine is famously non-addictive, while the hundreds, if not thousands of carcinogenic chemical additives in cigarettes are. Given the billions donated to cancer research for generations now, with nothing to show for it besides slow chemical death and the occasional exorbitant exotic treatment, one can only conclude cynically that the last thing the American Cancer Society wants to do is find a cure for their boondoggle.

And beyond this: a French study^⁠10 shows that the ACE2 receptors that hook into our cells are not even found in the lungs. This means that every Fauci-Faustian lockdown mask and distancing and school closing and injection due to the fiction of breathable covid particles was pure, absolute, intentional, sanctimonious fraud.^⁠11

The effects of the so-called mRNA shot, mirror those of the disease, and are exactly what occurs with venom consumption. This is because the what are called DNA plasmids lie within all the shots.

In each COVID-19 mRNA shot are billions of microscopic DNA plasmids, and each DNA plasmid has the spike protein gene instruction placed inside it . . . researchers in France discovered that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were identical to three things: cobratoxin (King Cobra venom, bungarotoxin (krait snake venom), and parts of various rabies virus proteins . . . the DNA plasmids, in turn, are instructing cells in the body of the vaccinated to manufacture the spike proteins, which were found to be identical to snake venom proteins.^⁠12

The deliberate side effects of the injections—like death, myocarditis, loss of taste or smell, Bell’s palsy, blood clots, swelling, cancer, chronic fatigue, nerve damage, vertigo and psychological disorders—all reduplicate as symptoms of snake envenoming. The same with what is called ‘long covid’, which is really the same as poisoning. The Greek use of pharmakon as drug and poison remains fully embedded in our culture, and now within our bodies.

(top to bottom) Visconti coat of arms; Alfa Romeo logo; Abys family Coat of arms.

If all this isn’t unnerving enough, and relating to some of the darker chapters of this book discussing child abuse, a viper eating a child sits in full view of any oncoming Alfa Romeo, proudly displayed as the symbol of the wealthy Milanese Visconti family, and the coat of arms of an ancient Swiss family named Abys or Abis. Americans for Innovation ran covid control villain Anthony Fauci’s family line back eleven generations to this Abys family.^⁠13 Abyss indeed.

Laocoön and His Sons, likely the sculpture praised by Pliny the elder early in the first century AD. (Vatican.)

Snakes shed. ‘Shedding’, in this case, is the passage of symptoms from the those who took the shots to those who haven’t. It remains an under-discussed phenomenon and one at the top of the dirty laundry list of denials by the pharma industry, Center for Disease Control, National Institute of Health, and their ilk. There are few supporting articles^⁠14 because the evidence is anecdotal, that is, experiential. Early on during the mRNA injection indoctrination nurses tending ‘inoculated’ patients reported becoming ill; our acupuncturist had to cancel appointments after getting sick after working on recently vaxxed people;^⁠15 and worst, our very healthy friend and massage therapist, who also worked on the vaxxed, developed aggressive pancreatic cancer apparently our of nowhere. This book is for her and all the causalities of this sick and evil cult. The author spent nearly a year with vertigo after being hugged by someone who did not tell him he had just gotten the shot.^⁠16

The mechanism of shedding remains easy to debunk because it is not physical, it is vibrational resonance. We all have been inhaling and imbibing nanotech and toxicity for decades, sprayed overhead, through all the crops we consume, and through the water systems ‘purified’ by a chemical oleo.^⁠17 It is all gurgling about our interior terrain.

And Hermes runs the transmission game.

¹ In something odd and little-discussed, the Christ contradicts the Elohim of Genesis 3. They punish the serpent for revealing knowledge/gnosis to Eve and Adam, by forcing it to remain on its belly. Clearly then it had a more upright form previously. Christ credits the snake with prudence, as does the author of Genesis. The Hebrew word is ärûm, and carries the meanings of being crafty, subtile, sensible and prudent. A serpent or snake, nächäsh, connotes viewing with attention, and to learn by focused observation. Nächäsh also includes augry, divination and incantation, related possibly to its hiss. The Christ of the Gospel of Thomas contradicts the Elohim by exhorting his disciples to live by the wisdom and prudence of the serpent. Could be why it did not make the final four of the Christian canon. ‘Original sin’ is the first psyop.

² Quoted in Hillman, Original Sin. The connection of snakes to sight bring us to the mysteries, and the  epoptai, who are ‘those who have seen’.

³ See, for example, Diana Pérez, “The Meaning of the Snake in the Ancient Greek World”; Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess; or Robert Graves, The White Goddess.

⁴ For a good overview of ancient sources for snake toxicology: Ana Marie Russo, “From Iology to Toxicology”.

⁵ In particular his book Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape & The Church, where his shows how the mystery traditions were darkly transmuted into a Christian pedophile sodomy cult. This horror continues, fully expanded into media, Hollywood, and Washington DC.

⁶ Original Sin, p. 41-2. Epitomized by the queen of poisons, Livia, in Robert Graves’ I Claudius.

⁷ Apollo overcame the male serpent Pytho with envenomed arrows, co-relative to the poisoned covid injections—as discussed fully by Jason Breshears of Archaix.com in relation to the opening First Seal—but other accounts tell of a female serpent, Delphyne, which maps onto the male sky god overcoming the female chthonic deity trope.

⁸ Ji et al, “Cross-species transmission of the newly identified coronavirus 2019-nCoV”, Journal of Medical Virology, 22 January 2020.

⁹ Moving Beyond the COVID Lies, p. 99.

¹⁰ Changeux et al, “A nicotinic hypothesis for COVID-19 with preventative and therapeutic implication”, Comptes Rendus, Biologies, Volume 343, No. 1, 2020.

¹¹ And in case anyone is wondering who funds all this snake venom research, it turns out to be the usual pharma/defense suspects: Moderna through a subsidiary of Moderna called Ophirex (meaning ‘snake king’), Welcome Trust (of the WEF), the World Health Organization, and the US Department of Defense. “WHO Group Working of Snakebite Envenoming”; www.ophirex.com/funding-and-collaboration.

¹² Moving Beyond the COVID Lies, p. 141-2.

¹³ “Anthony Fauci: Chief Globalist Snake Oil Pitchman, Leader of Biological and Germ Warfare”, Americans for Innovation, 9 April, 2021.

¹⁴ Marina Zhang, “COVID Shedding is “Real,’ FDA and Pfizer Documants Are Proof: Clinicians”, THe Epoch Times, 23 February 2024. “All gene therapy products pose a risk of shedding, according to the FDA.”

¹⁵ Her bloodwork shows spike proteins and nanotechnology the same as the vaccinated. As does pretty much everyone at this point.

¹⁶ The author is not psychosomatically inclined. Three days after applying nicotine patches, he felt ‘normal’ for the first time in years, certainly since being shed upon.

¹⁷ See the film Watch the Water and decide for yourself: https://rumble.com/embed/vycczr/