Nachash, simply known as The Serpent, is a minor antagonist of The Bible.
A deceptive creature thought by many to be Satan and by some the Leviathan, it gave the first humans, Adam and Eve, the chance to learn of all that is good, at the cost of discovering the horrid perversions and degenerate fantasies of all that is evil, thereby giving them and their descendants the potential to commit the latter.
History[]
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil gave the serpent the ability to speak.[1]
He then came to Eve and enticed her to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. She ate from it, indeed, followed by her husband, Adam. But when God confronted the three of them for their folly and wrongdoing, the serpent tried to escape. This was futile, however, as the serpent was transformed into a snake, stripped of its legs, by God as punishment.
Other depictions[]
- In the Animaniacs episode, "Guardin' the Garden", the snake is voiced by Jeff Bennett. God hires Slappy Squirrel to prevent him from giving Adam and Eve the apple.
- In The Simpsons episode, "Simpsons Bible Stories", the serpent is played by Snake Jailbird.
- In "The End", the last book and episode of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Incredibly Deadly Viper gives the Baudelaire children hybrid apples to save them from the Medusoid Mycelium. This is an example of role reversal of the story as Ishmael is the main antagonist.
- In the Family Guy episode, "Holly Bibble", the serpent is played by Glenn Quagmire.
- In the Adventures in Odyssey book, "Opening Moves", Philip Glossman fills in the role of the serpent in something of a retelling of the story. The book expands the episode, "A Bite of Applesauce", where Connie gets curious about a program, activates it, gets Eugene involved, and Whit fires them from Whit's End as punishment. "Opening Moves" contains a scene where Glossman talks to Connie intending his words to indirectly lead her into activating the program.
