Talk:Snake (zodiac)

message: Hrmpf. In the very minute I finally got the Dog article finished, the new categories were put up into the Deletion candidates. Go here for details, and please tell if you want the categories kept, deleted, or if you got another suggestion entirely. I've stopped editing for now. Teshik 14:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Split contested, candidate for deletion

message: I thought I should mention that there's apparently a rather indignant Snake-born who vandalized the Dragon description and edited the Snake article to read "It is widely accepted that Snake is way better than Dragon." I've reverted his/her edits. --Jitterro 05:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc 

message: have the statements in question been discussed? has the tagger been back? kzz* 20:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  who put th four sitation tags near the top? 

message: I thought the Chinese symbol for 'Year of the Snake' was 巳, as apposed to 蛇, which just means 'Snake'.  I could be wrong though.  Could somebody please verify which is correct.  Sadako No Deshi 18:56, 18 July 2006 (BST)
:I'm sorry, but you're thinking of something that isn't much used. I'm not sure where you are getting these ideas but in chinese we are using 蛇 for the year of the Snake all the time. If you do a google search I'm sure you will see what I mean. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.128.234.186 (talk) 21:41, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Chinese and Japanese Wikipedia pages linked from the page, you would be wrong.  Updating the character to match usage in Chinese and Japanese page. Ice-Wolf 04:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese Character

message: Was Augustus really a Snake? He was born in the year 63 bc and I can't find anywhere that says 63 bc was the year of the Snake. This site indicates he would be a Horse: http://www.yutopian.com/search/search.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bosghost (talk • contribs) 06:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Augustus a [[Snake (zodiac)|Snake]]?

message: Do not reply here; go to centralized discussion at Talk:Rat (zodiac)#Let's remove all the celebrities lists. — coelacan — 18:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  remove list of people 

message: isnt red-green YELLOW  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.144.28 (talk) 12:02, August 27, 2007 (UTC) 
Sokdara Dara sok (talk) 05:52, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Colour

message: I have factual links that tell you the meaning of the Chinese zodiac Snake, etc.
They are not advertising anything personal. I feel they may help the site.
If you do not believe so, please remove. They were previously posted on two articles.
I want to combine them and post them on each horoscope, Including this one. Ariyen (talk) 13:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I removed the word thinking from this phrase since "critical thinking" is usually seen as a positive as shown by wikipedia's own page on critical thinking.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.28.201.63 (talk) 07:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical thinking 

message: Every organization needs the wisdom and charisma of the Snake to survive and to beat out the global competition.
In many ancient cultures, because of these divine qualities, Snakes are worshipped as gods, instead of being in positions of power. Under these wrong conditions, the organization may become powerful but demonic as the sign of the Snake is the ultimate sign of evil.
To ensure corporate success, always place Snakes in the highest positions of powers and follow their advice or recommendations but never worship them, treating them as equals, in order to experience prosperity and blessings, failing which the organization will become demonic.
Who writes this shit ?
Really.
Is it at least referred ?
Iulian28ti (talk) 12:46, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTF ?! 

message: I couldn't believe the bullcrap that was on this page, so I took it all out and wrote in an accurate description of the Snake character. This made me laugh the most:
:"The only sign that can possibly overcome the Snake is the mythical sign of the Dragon with its superhuman benevolence and love. Persons born under the sign of the Snake are the most powerful in the year of the Ox."
Yes, the Snake is one of six Power signs, but Chinese tradition saus it is the lowest ranking of the six. The Rat is the highest ranking, followed by the Ox, then Dragon, Tiger, Monkey comes next, and last comes the Snake.
In a nutshell, Snakes are diplomatic, caring, empathetic, decisive, and they're usually good judges of character. They enjoy the finer things in life and are usually quite attractive and romantic. On the negative side, they can be jealous, possessive, and suspicious. They are also known to be a bit dramatic, tending to exaggerate things. 
Chinese tradition and belief does not place the sign of the Snake anywhere near where a sign like the Dragon or Rat are placed. Whether by coincidence or not, the world's greatest leaders (tyrants or not), revolutionaries, composers, scientists, etc were born under the six Power signs. Looking back at the worlds most famous or infamous leaders, revolutionaries, composers, scientists, writers, etc, you would see that the vast majority were born under a Power sign. A quick survey done of 25 random famous people who had great influence or changed the world in some way, came out with a result of 21 born under a Power sign, and 4 born under a Romance sign (Rabbit, Horse, Goat, Rooster, Dog and Pig). The majority of the 21 in the Power group was the Rat (with 9) and the majority within the Romance group was the Rooster (2). On a side note, there were more Rat American presidents than any other sign.  
A list:
:Rats
::*Hatshepsut
::*Constantine the Great
::*Jawaharlal Nehru
::*Adolf Hitler
::*Empress Dowager Cixi
::*Alexander the Great
::*Heinrich Himmler
::*Richard Nixon
::*Ruhollah Khomeini
::*Plato
::*Mary I of England ('Bloody Mary')
::*Hillary Rodham Clinton
::*John McCain
::*Tigranes the Great
::*Timur (also 'Tamerlane the Great')
::*Idi Amin
::*Hannibal
::*Queen Cleopatra of Egypt
::*Ashoka the Great
::*Emperor Diocletian
::*Kim Il Sung
::*Emperor Trajan
::*William Shakespeare
::*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
::*Qin Shi Huang
::*Galileo Galilei
::*Asparukh of Bulgaria
::*Muhammad Ali Jinnah
::*Yongle Emperor
::*Peter the Great
::*Robert Mugabe 
::*George Washington
::*Stephen III of Moldavia
::*António de Oliveira Salazar
::*Álvaro Cunhal
::*Tomás de Torquemada
:Dragons
::*Julius Caesar
::*Francisco Franco
::*Hermann Göring
::*Emperor Augustus
::*Emperor Caracalla
::*Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
::*Joan of Arc
::*William the Conquerer
::*Belisarius
::*Susan B. Anthony
::*Florence Nightingale
::*Vladimir Putin
::*Deng Xiaoping
:Tigers
::*Louis XIV of France ('The Sun King')
::*Joseph Stalin
::*Ivan the Terrible
::*Muhammad (Prophet of Islam)
::*William III of England ('William III of Orange')
::*Admiral Horatio Nelson
::*Cai Lun (also 'T'sai Lun')
::*Ptolemy III Euergetes
::*Johannes Gutenberg
::*Jiang Qing
::*Ludwig van Beethoven
::*Attila the Hun
::*Maximilien Robespierre
:Monkeys
::*Khalid ibn al-Walid
::*Hideki Tōjō
::*Emperor Caligula
::*Eleanor Roosevelt
::*Jane Addams
::*Aristotle
::*Euclid
::*Mencius
::*Cyrus the Great
:Oxen
::*Saddam Hussein
::*Spartacus
::*Pol Pot
::*Emperor Marcus Aurelius
::*Diana, Princess of Wales
::*Johann Sebastian Bach
::*Madeleine Albright
::*Barack Obama
::*Margaret Thatcher
::*Emperor Hirohito
:Snakes
::*Benazir Bhutto
::*Mao Zedong
::*Mahatma Gandhi
::*Abraham Lincoln
::*John F Kennedy
::*Emperor Vespasian
::*Indira Gandhi
::*Elizabeth I of England
I am pretty sure the Rat wins here hands down!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.23.21 (talk) 21:13, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: No, seriously WTF?

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message: There's something interesting about Scorpio and the Snake (zodiac), because they seem so mystifying and empowering, must be the lineage to Ophucius and the relationship about the center of the Milky Way. --74.34.66.148 (talk) 18:06, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Discovery

message: There are sources  for these attributes about the Snake below me. --Mr.Goblins (talk) 20:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Elements

message: I was wondering why the number nine has been removed from the list of lucky numbers. Is there are reason for this as it is in all other sources around the Internet? So, if nobody objects, I'll put it back soon. Ayeron (talk) 15:48, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Why has the lucky number 9 been removed? 

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message: Please chime in at Talk:Rat_(zodiac)#Celebrity_lists,_again regarding removing the list of people from all Chinese zodiac articles. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:26, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove list of people, again 

message: is the snake Ying or yang? 2601:882:8180:9550:D421:D6AA:8624:BD4B (talk) 19:54, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ying and yang