أسكليبيوس الأسطورة و العبادة و الرمز

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Asclepius is one of the gods that the Greeks portrayed while living on Mount Olympus, so the Iliad described him as the earthly ruler of the world, and opinions differed about his lineage, but the gods predicted his future and stated that he would be a bringer of health to the whole world, so he is the first physician worked in the country of the Greeks.

Asclepius was the first founder of the surgery science and using drugs and herbs for treatment in his temples spread throughout the Greek world, which had a great impact on the healing of patients who frequented these temples and received the highest levels of medical care there, and the temples of Asclepius were more like health resorts in which all means existed for rest and enjoyments, as the priests of these temples enjoyed the highest authority of being clerics and medical sciences at the same time.

The snake is the symbol taken by Asclepius, it is one of the oldest symbols in the Greek beliefs, as it symbolizes protection, healing, regeneration, fertility and revelation, as Greek mythology states that snakes taught Asclepius the secrets and properties of medicinal herbs, so the followers of Asclepius used the symbol of the snake wrapped around a wand as a magic amulet for treatment.