Caduceus

hi, i make some research on this and fin out that mythologically, the Caduceus was the staff Apollo gave Hermes, which had the power of generating accord, or agreement. It was worn by heralds as a mark of their office and was adopted by the medical profession.

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=tDc&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=caduceus&spell=1 Oh I don't need to write any thing out its basicaly here in the link at the bottom (of course) is the biblical reference to the symbol. thanx ...

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For the wings and the origin and symbolic of caduceus see [url=http://drblayney.com/Asclepius.html] here[url]. In short the medical caduceus should be with only one snake and no wings, and was asclepios (god of medicin symbol), but the Hermes caduceus ...

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... (and it does predate the Greek symbol), it's kind of a stretch to connect keeping snakes away with healing (to my mind, at least). Plus, Caduceus was associated with healing existing problems, not just prevention of their causes. And even if the Greek symbol came from the Biblical one ...

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... possible source from another time). But the reasoning that I've heard was that the Greek god of medecine, Aesculapius, had a familiar named Caduceus, which was a snake. People would go to one of Aesculapius' temples and pray for healing, and in some cases their answers supposedly came in ...

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