can you break it down further?
"In mythology, the serpent symbolises
fertility and procreation, wisdom, death, and resurrection (due to the shedding of its skin, which is not akin to rebirth), and in the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol of ‘The Word’ was the serpent. The ‘light’ that appeared was metaphorically defined as a serpent called ‘Kundalini’, coiled at the base of the spine to remain dormant in an unawakened person. "
the fertility goddess was worshiped in these pagan temples with snake imagery, and sleeping with the prostitutes in those pagan serpent temples were part of rituals