Ancient depictions of snakes

[Cargo]

You can find them in a few off-beat sci-fi movies. Anime being the best kind of course, real freedom to create. I have another thread about a scene in the recent He-Man from NetFlix. There's also another I haven't wrote to the internet about, but in Garden of Vampires (iirc), there is an episode with several scenes of a northern climate farm, and the Aurora going on during which last several minutes, and different vantages points, is absolutely mind blowing. If you can see the EU, this artist's impression will bring you to tears almost. Just imagine.

[Poppa Tom]

Incredibly unbelievable, I would think. Most do not think on the scale of a lightening bolt hundreds of miles wide, the literally deafening noise....the world.....the whole world heaves in miles high convulsions. Wow.

[Poppa Tom]

Another thought passed between my two braincells
That when lightening hits the ground it will strike at you, seemingly looking for you as charges fight to equalize and the bolt crawls along the ground till it bites you......what do you think? Feasible?

[Poppa Tom]

I would think cosmic lightening. Everything being supercharged. An incredible sight, miles wide lightening....maybe hundreds of miles! Unthinkable

[Open Mind]

Another thought passed between my two braincells
That when lightening hits the ground it will strike at you, seemingly looking for you as charges fight to equalize and the bolt crawls along the ground till it bites you......what do you think? Feasible?

Seems if so, the depictions would be more focused on that 'bite event'. If they see 'snake like activity' and fixate on solely the communication of the presumption that it is a snake, without even demonstrating the bite event that triggered that association, it feels like a stretch. I'm still focused on the undulations as the trigger of the association, considering its an observation we can make even in present day still.

[Poppa Tom]

Yeah, but it's a tiny reach

[nick c]

While researching another topic, I came across this quote and thought of this thread. It is from Pliny the Elder, who wrote in his book: Natural History, ii 91 (translated by Rackham, 1932) as cited on p 82 of Worlds In Collision by Velikovsky (1950) (Doubleday) ...

A terrible comet was seen by the people of Ethiopia and Egypt, to which Typhon, the king of that period, gave his name; it had a fiery appearance and was twisted like a coil, and it was very grim to behold: it was not really a star so much as what my be called a ball of fire.

[bold added]

Note, that in the bold in the quote, we have a description of Birkeland Currents from an ancient Egyptian witness to a horrific Earth threatening comet which corresponds to the celestial serpent/dragon of Greek myth.
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As a sidenote, and going a bit off topic: I find it curious that the word "typhoon", which describes a Pacific Ocean hurricane, is derived or associated with the Greek "Typhon" = serpent/dragon/monster, or the Chinese "t'ai fung' = a great wind, or the Arabic "tufan" = smoke; separate descriptions, but, each of which could be associated with an Earth threatening comet. is there some relation to the similar phonetics of these seemingly unrelated words?

[Poppa Tom]

I have absolutely no knowledge of root words. Anything I say would just be an uneducated guess:)
However
Very interesting