Python snake saves tsunami victims from drowning.

[praxiz]

This might sound too incredible to be true, but according to a local newspaper (which is in Norwegian, hence no link) a python snake saved the lives of a 26 year old woman and two 9 year old girls during the tsunami.

Even though Riza, as her name is, fled to the 2nd floor where she lived, she was not out of reach for the wall of mud and water that raged towards her.

While fighting for her life against the incredible forces she sees a woman from her neighbourhood and her two twin daughters. Riza saw that the woman was severely injured and tried to help them. The mother cried out "Save my children, please, but leave me here."

It was then, while the three of them tried struggled to stay afloat that they saw a huge python snake swimming towards them. Riza and the twins grabbed on to it

- Thank God, it pulled us into an area where the water was only about 3 feet deep, and we were safe, said Riza who has now sought shelter in a temporary camp near the Bandar Blang Pintar-area.

- God still loves me, she added.

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Ok, I don't know about you but I suddenly dislike snakes a whole lot less. I mean this is almost like something out of the bible.

[Truman01]

1. I'm glad for them but I'd have to drown nt

[displacedtexan]

2. The snake in the bible...

wasn't a snake.

This hero/snake makes an excellent story, though.

[Khephra]

9. Depending on your interpretation of Genesis

The Serpent wasn't evil or Satan either. Instead he was trying to open Adam and Eve's minds up to knowledge which the insane Demiurge tried to keep from them.

Us Gnostics are a wacky bunch.

:evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Ignorance is bliss

I look at the birds and animals that come in my backyard. They have no clue or care about anything except the here and now. There is no good or evil for them, everything just is.

However for us humans, we have taken the bite of the apple and with it comes a price. Knowledge brings self awareness and free will. Knowledge also brings the concepts of good and evil. So maybe the Demiurge weren't so insane? Maybe they just wanted to protect us from the inevitable pitfalls that are the price of knowledge?

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Sounds like a very fortunate event

The python was swimming by at the right time.

I'm glad they overcame any fear and grabbed hold of the snake.

[Ian David]

6. And then they all had Python and biscuits for lunch

[allemand]

4. Large python saves Riza and twins

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A few survivors of Sunday's calamity have a snake to thank for being alive.


Riza, a 26-year-old clothes vendor, said that at about 8 a.m. she was enjoying the holiday in bed when suddenly she saw walls of water, mud, rocks and branches rushing into the neighborhood. People were screaming and running. Riza, who was living in a rented house near the coast in Banda Aceh with three friends, dashed up to the second floor of a neighbor's house and stood on top of a cupboard.

But as she told Antara from a makeshift shelter on Wednesday, the current swept her and her friends off their perch. As Riza was drifting, she saw her neighbors, two girls -- twins -- and their mother. Riza, who can swim, managed to help the girls. She saw that their mother was badly injured. "The mother shouted, 'please help save my children. Let me be, but please save my children,'" Riza recounted, in tears.

As she struggled for her own life and that of the twins, she said a large snake as long as a telephone pole approached her. She and the nine-year-olds rested on the reptile, which was drifting along with the current.

"Thank God, we landed on higher ground where the water level was only about a meter deep. The twins, who were badly injured, were safe." Riza then slapped her face to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

More:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20041230.@02&irec=1

[HereSince1628]

5. This has great potential as a founding myth...

Born on the flood by the mystic worm...
the earth mother and her twin daughters are saved...
a new time begins...
classic mother-daughter conflicts ensue...
with the twins in the roles of Good and Evil.

[sportndandy]

7. Meat is murder

And here is more proof. I want to here some vegetarian pledges please.

[HeeBGBz]

8. Yay! Monty, the Good snake!

Cool story. I agree that it has potential for an awesome myth.

[Pithy Cherub]

10. Incredible Story!

The truth will be more fantastic than fiction. A Great and real urban legend later.

[KittyWampus]

12. Strange, Beautiful Story That Sounds Like A Myth Waiting To Be Retold

for many generations.

I would say these 3 females now have a totem animal.

[The Stranger]

13. Please, can we appreciate what was done without bringing the Bible into it

There are many stories -- not only in the Bible but in the lore of other cultures -- that sound similar to this. In fact, the Bible merely scooped up some from Sumeria, Assyria and Egypt, then later Christians made it the "Word of God" and began killing people for not accepting it.

[Moderator]

14. locking, please feel free to repost with link