& I do realize Iris in the original sense did not refer to... well, our eyes / sight, but I am definitely making that connection. In the sense that seeing, contrary to the idiom, is not believing. It often causes more problems. In the sense of ... prejudice and things of that nature
However, contrary to that (because few things are absolute) www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
It is probably unnoticed in the chaos in the first reddit link my reference to rainbows for reasons which may seem strange (hint: not mythology) In addition to her relation to rainbows, Iris "is depicted as a woman carrying a caduceus the symbol of the messengers" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(m...
See the picture but one point to emphasize is the two snakes present in the caduceus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_m... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceu...
Which is different from the single snake in the Rod of Asclepius - there is a difference between the mythological gods of commerce and medicine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_...
All of which is awfully similar and uncannily related to all things discussed in this thread, such as the conflation of very similar but meaningfully different concepts, specifically the point I made about strife being antithetical to life, or said another way, instability is antithetical to life
To bring it back to your specific point: there are two snakes in the mythological story you are referencing, and they were mating. Tiresias was punished for interrupting the mating, I am guessing. Whereas what Orwell's father did in the story I referenced was to dissect a single snake. Which is all
Metaphorically meaningful for the various concepts I mentioned throughout as well as elsewhere and very much applicable to real world scenarios that have been seemingly entrenched in processes and theories that have been unproven and unchanged and from what I can tell clearly harmful and effectively
the only thing they are accomplishing is incentivizing and spreading not only 'piracy' (vaguely defined) but the other words which are related to it, which I helpfully mentioned already elsewhere in the thread you replied to: bsky.app/profile/rele...
specifically referring to filibuster which is to say I can't be the only person who feels we have been stuck in groundhogs day for like thirty fucking years And maybe those who've succeeded due to access to large amounts of money succeeded due to large amounts of money, and not magnificent ideas?
I hope that resolved something for you. I'll add here that Iris' kerykeion/caduceus/herald's wand is indeed what is probably being hinted to with the two snakes and changing gender of Tiresias. The other holder of the herald's wand is Hermes.