He was not such in Tanakh. That is later Christian mythology, - written AFTER Jesus' death.
Christians turned the Serpent into Satan. If Satan was meant - they would have used that name.
Also - this serpent was condemned to be a real serpent on the ground for the rest of his life. That is obviously not your Satan idea.
The serpent has usually meant knowledge. My guess is that the "Nachash/Serpent" - whom we are told was part of the first animals creation, - probably represents the KNOWLEDGE in the religions around them, - that they considered evil, or not in-line with God. The Nachash/serpent is just representing the OTHER religions, such as the Babylonian, - with the new religion represented by a "special people" Adam and Chavvah being the story "First" of that line, from God, and following God's Laws.
"Ancient
Mesopotamians and
Semites believed that snakes were immortal because they could infinitely shed their skin and appear forever youthful, appearing in a fresh guise every time. The
Sumerians worshipped a serpent god or goddess named
Ningishzida, an ancestor of
Gilgamesh. Before the arrival of the
Israelites, snake cults were well established in
Canaan in the
Bronze Age, for archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at
Megiddo, one at
Gezer, one in the
sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at
Hazor, and two at
Shechem.
In the surrounding region, serpent cult objects figured in other cultures. A late Bronze Age
Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other. In sixth-century Babylon a pair of bronze serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of
Esagila. At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker, and a goldsmith two images, one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god
Nabu". At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age
Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered. ...
" Snake worship - Wikipedia
Your religion claims YHVH created everything, - thus also creating evil, - or it would not have been there in the Beginnings story, to be used
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