Mysteries & Realities of the Serpent Holder Constellation
by Donna J. Provancher

Copyright © 2005-2012 Donna Provancher – All Rights Reserved

Asclepius with Telesforos and Hygeia
Roman Diptych, c. 400/430 AD Museum on Merseyside, Liverpool

Table of Contents

1. The Quintessential Ophiuchus ~ The Quest Begins

• Standing at a Fork in the Road
• Out of the Starry Blue
• 13th Constellation Shockwave
• Meta-Historical Background
• REALLY Ancient History
• In Sum: The Simple Essentials

2. The Ophiuchus Family Tree ~  I. Celestial Branch

• Constellation Ophiuchus & the Mythical Underpinnings
• Celestial Intelligence, Intelligent Universe & the Divine
• Constellation Ophiuchus: An Argument for Intelligent Design
• The ‘Hood
• SN 1604: Death of a Star in Constellation Ophiuchus = Signs of Life

3. History, Myth, Fable & Legend

• Vital to Development of Context

4. The Ophiuchus Family Tree ~ II. Greek Branch

• Asclepius
• Man or Myth?

5. The Asclepiads

• The Asclepius Family Calling
• The Cult of Asclepius
• The Asclepiads Period
• The First Asclepiads
• Podalirius and Machaon: The Sons of Asclepius
• Hygeia: Good Health Personified, Asclepius’s Daughter & Serpent Handler
• The Asclepiads Legacy: Professional Association & Standards

6.  Major Asklepions, Temple & Healing Complexes

• Epidauros – the City and Main Sanctuary of the God Asclepius
• Asklepion at Kos
• Asklepion, Bergama (Pergamum) – Modern day Turkey
• Rome
• The Cult of Asclepius is Established in Rome
• Roman Temple of Aesculapius

7. Ascleius: The Issues & Their Precipitating Causes

• Issue: Usurpation
• Issue: Preferring to Line His Pockets with Gold
• Issue: Were the Sons of Asclepius Really Sons of Asclepius?
• Issue: Three Asclepii
• Family: The Wife, Sons and Daughters of Asclepius
• Merging Cultures-Merging Gods: Turning Lemons into Lemonade

8. Goddess & the Serpent

• Ophidian Symbolism
• Asclepius Acquires Serpent Power
• The Gorgon Medusa
• Pythian Apollo: Critical Reading of a Pivotal Greek Myth
• On Serpents and Serpent Holders: The Struggle for Power
• The Serpent of Wisdom: Fearlessly Exposing the Truth
• Lilith: Dark Mother, Serpent, Goddess Defiled
• The Serpent-Goddess: Origins in Neolithic Period Old Europe
• The Minoan Crete Serpent Goddess & the Poet-Alchemists of Pre-Hellenic Greece (Stealing Her Serpent Fire)

9. Greek Family Portrait ~ Part I (Where did Goddess go?)

• Archetypes in the Family – Forewords
• Asclepius’s Father: Apollo, God of Light, Music, Art, Archery, Medicine & Healing
• Asclepius’s Paternal Grandfather: Zeus, King of the Olympian Gods
• Tracing the Serpent Holder Bloodlines and Gene Pool
• The Ancient Mediterranean as a Cauldron
• Post-Minoan Metamorphosis of the Great Goddess

10. Greek Family Portrait ~ Part II (Bedtime Stories)

• Wounded Healer Archetype
• Chiron the Centaur, Hand of the Gods
• Chiron in the Sky
• Chiron the Wounded Healer Revisited
• Return of the Centaurs
• Chiron as Dying & Resurrected God
• The Olympians: New Order
• Haides (Aides, Gk. “unseen”)
• Persephone & the Power of Choice

11. Goddess & the Greek Branch are Whacked

• The Seed of Destruction: Æsculapius Saves Rome
• The Power of Naming
• All Roads Lead to Rome

12. The Ophiuchus Family Tree ~ III. Egyptian Branch

• Relation to Constellation Ophiuchus
• Imhotep, Egyptian God of Healing & Wisdom
• Root Incarnation of Asclepius, Greek God of Healing & Wisdom
• Imouthes-Asclepius
• Ancient Egypt
• Coptic Christianity

13. Jesus, Mary Magdalene & the Thirteenth Aeon

• Christianity, the Mysteries, Gnosis & the Divine Feminine  

Appendix A ~ Timeline

Appendix B ~ Major Greek Deities of Healing

Appendix C ~ Genesis:1-3 Revisited

 Copyright © 2005-2012 Donna Provancher – All Rights Reserved