Snakes

I want to write about the Shahmaran.  But first, I have to tell the readers to go away.  This blog post is about snakes.  It's something that my friends do not want to read about.

I discovered a mythological creature named, the Shah Maran.  I found a sweet cartoon picture of her on Pinterest.com. And you can read about the Shahmaran on Wikipedia - link below.  She is Queen of the Snakes in Turkey, and she is very kind hearted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahmaran

The rest of what I have to say is just my opinion.  Uninformed opinion.  I'm guessing that the reason the Shahmaran was so nice and kind hearted is that there is some kernel of truth to this crazy story.  I'm guessing that long ago people may have used snakes to gather some sort of hormonal medicine.  Maybe the snakes gathered together in clumps in the winter time, the way our garter snakes sometimes gather together.  Maybe a very brave person could gather pheromones from a den of snakes, maybe enough to make an aphrodisiac...

I'm guessing that cast off snake skins might have traces of hormones in wax.  I'm guessing that at the time of the ancient Greeks, they might have been pretty smart about collecting hormone-stuff from animals.  Things quoted in Pliny that could contain hormones:  sow's dung, sow's milk, snake skin...  There's more I can't remember them all right now.  I'm saying that a shaman in Ancient Greece would have at least 200,000 years of human history behind them.  That's plenty of time to taste everything, and might be enough time to combine everything until you find things that work really well.

I am having troubles with my hormones.  I wish I knew some chemists who could help me sort out my problems.  These day-dreams about shamen are just my longing for an improvement.