Article #2: the serpent wasn't Satan (and the snake-legs sketch)

• Was the serpent in the Garden of Eden Satan?

Item two: the Garden serpent is simply a crafty snake in Genesis, never identified as Satan there — which launches the 'defense of God's justice' comedy: if Satan did it, why did the snake lose its legs? A host reads up the caduceus (Hermes's staff, two serpents twined) and ties it to Moses's bronze serpent as 'the Moses staff,' then the room spirals into a Monty Python-style sketch where the legless snake petitions against the Lord ('I once had legs where there are none now'). Boova is handed the scholars' crown ('Hey, Bubba. You were right.').