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http://smollin.com/design/nature/applthm.jpg The snake is often times used in literature to symbolize evil or as an ominous sign, foreshadowing a dark event. In the Bible, the snake tempted Eve into eating from the forbidden tree, though God had decreed “thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” Gen: 2.17. Eve then brought the forbidden fruit to Adam who also ate. God punished Adam and Eve with death. He then cursed the snake to live its life eating dust and sliding on its belly. Last he cursed both mankind and the snake, saying “ I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Gen: 3:15. This event is referred to as original sin, the act of man defying God, where innocence was lost and evil revealed – deeming the serpent as the ultimate antagonist against mankind. What would it mean if an author referred to the Sirens or their songs? In Greek mythology the sirens were half women, half bird, who tempted sailors with their beautiful singing so that their ships would be caught among the rocks and destroyed. “The Argonauts were accompanied by the god Orpheus and sailed past in the ship Argo, [who] was able to drown out their singing with his music so that only one man, Butes, heard them and leapt overboard. The goddess Aphrodite loved Butes and saved his life. Odysseus also escaped, because, on the advice of Circe, he blocked his men's ears with beeswax, and made them tie him to the foot of the mast so he could not be drawn away by the lure of the Sirens' song. When he begged to be released, the crew had orders to tighten his bonds.” http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/SIRE NS.html