Second giant snake dream (gory)

[LadyDaphne]

I think this dream may have a connection to my first dream involving a giant snake, though the actual snakes in the dream are different and behave differently. Can't post links yet, but it's called "Stalked by giant snake whose thoughts I could hear (very long)" This dream also has two distinct parts, the first, which takes place in the forest, and the second, which takes place at my home, probably about two or so years later. The characters: Me - My role in this is pretty much that of a warrior. I'm calm for most of it and for the most part unafraid, even though I should be. There is an angry flare up when I actually have to fight and there's also anger when discussing the event. Keiko - my dog, she's about 25 lb and looks like a miniature wolf. She's feisty and independent, but sweet at the same time, a very good watch-dog, and still something I feel an immense maternal instinct towards. Just as in my dream, I talk to her in full sentences. In the dream I call her "Baby-love," and myself as "Mama" which is true to how I speak to her IWL, as well. My friend's mother, Deborah - IWL, she's a pagan high priestess / psychic / author My mother - She and I do not get along and haven't spoke in six years. She pretty much represents in my life all things that are unpleasant. In this one, I'm out for a walk in the woods at night with my dog under the full moon. I'm on a mission there to get a message from the goddess Hecate (crossroads, entrance-ways, fire, light, the Moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, necromancy, and sorcery). There's no path, we're just walking up a hill. We get to a little shelf-like space and decide to lie down for the night and go to sleep. When we wake, I notice there's an enormous snake around us. In this dream, it's an albino python (I know this because it's white and yellow). It's awake and checks us out, but leaves us alone for the most part. I'm cautious when it's looking at me, but I get very nervous when it looks at my dog, and pick her up, climb over its body and carry her down the hill. It allows this and seems uninterested in us and what we're doing. Keiko wants to check it out and tries to sniff it a few times, but I don't let her because I don't want to provoke it and risk losing her. I tie her leash to a tree and kiss her on the forehead, with the feeling that I must do something grim, pick up a bundle of trash that's been wrapped like a baby in a blanket and a hatchet and head back up the hill. I hear her whine as I walk away, and I turn with my finger over my mouth and whisper "shh, Baby-love, it'll be ok. Mama will be right back" and then keep climbing. It's now raining lightly, and the snake takes alert as I lay the bundle (which is meant to look like a baby) on the ground and cross behind a tree. It was very slow and curious before, but now it is keeping eye contact with me and its head is moving from side to side trying to figure out what I'm doing. I keep my weapon hidden behind my back. It looks at me, still for a few seconds and then launches itself at the bundle I've lain on the ground, getting almost totally airborne and right before it hits the ground, and I attack it with the hatchet. Its teeth sink into the ground on either side of the bundle and it's stuck there. There's blood flying everywhere, hitting the trees and I'm drenched in it, and I behead it and then I'm mostly fighting with its body, which is writhing and thrashing around. When it finally stops moving, I pull the head from the soft earth by a piece of its skull which is exposed, shake the hatchet off and head back down the hill as the sun comes up. I'm cold and covered in its blood, but I take very little notice because my mission isn't completely over. I collect my dog and abandon the hatchet we head back through the woods to a little house, which we enter after I change out of my blood-soaked clothing into witch's ceremonial robes, and I see Deborah sitting at a little table looking into a glass bowl. She looks up as I enter, I hold up the head, she nods and I set it down and go to sit across from her at the table. We talk for some time (I cannot remember what we spoke of) but she is very solemn and serious the whole time. She shows me a few star charts and as I leave, she pulls me in for a hug and I feel her hand on the back of my neck, and then she looks me in the eyes, smiles and nods. Second part of the dream is I'm sitting on the couch at my grandparents house trying to explain to my mother what happened. It's about two years after the event and I'm getting angry because she's not listening to me and is telling me I'm wrong about certain details and telling me not to contradict her. I'm livid because she wasn't there to see what happened, and therefore could not have a better recollection of the event, yet she's correcting me anyway (much like she did IWL before we stopped talking). I'm drinking a glass of red wine, and I set it down on the coffee table and grab my keys to leave because there's no point further discussing this with her when she won't listen to the truth. and then I woke up.