Carving of a snake and lion legged stand at UNESCO World Heritage Archaeological Site, Ephesus, Turkey
Carving of a snake and lion legged stand at UNESCO World Heritage Archaeological Site, Ephesus, Turkey. Tour guides at Ephesus describe this carving as a symbol of medicine. The Rod of Asclepius. The Greek god wields a serpent-entwined rod. The following information is credited to Wikipedia: The Rod of frequently confused with the staff of the god Hermes, the caduceus. The following information is credited to : Curetes is one of the three main streets of Ephesus between The Hercules Gate till to the Celsus street took its name from the priests who were called as Curetes names were written in Prytaneion. The Snake Cult During the Roman Empire there was a large medical school in Ephesus. The medical tools can be seen ‘house findings hall’ in the museum of Ephesus. The symbol of the hospitals in antiquity was the snake on a staff. As in Biblical times looking to the snake on the staff of Moses brought healing, they used the same they symbolized the god Asklepios. Asklepios was the god of health, medicine and physicians. He was the son of the sun god Apollo. Apollo had a mortal lover, Koronis. Apollo, as was his duty, carrying the sun from the east to the west was able to see everything on earth as he was on the Mountain of Olympia. One day Koronis betrayed him. So Apollo saw it and killed her with a thunderbolt. But he remembered that she was pregnant. He came to the earth and saved the baby from her baby was called Asklepios. Apollo gave him to the horse Chiron. He taught Asklepios every secrets of healing. Even he became so wise to raise the dead. The God of underworld and deaths was so nervous and complaint about him to Zeus. Zeus had to kill Asklepios when he was working on a that rainy that the formula went into the earth and grew the useful garlic as a remedy of many sickness. Asklepions were the only hospitals of the ancient times.
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Location: Curetes Street, UNESCO World Heritage Archaeological Site, Ephesus, Turkey
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