Laura Esquivel

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

Mexican Author

Dario Argento

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Italian Director

Casey Affleck

When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

American Actor

Joseph P. Bradley

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

American Judge

Charles Mackay

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

British Poet

Karl G. Maeser

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

American Educator

Franz Kafka

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Novelist

Muqtada al Sadr

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

Iraqi Clergyman

Robert Lowell

American Poet

Heinrich Heine

German Poet

Often implies deceitfulness or danger when used to describe a person.

Negative Connotation

Frequently appears in literature and fables with a moral lesson involved.

Literary Usage

Has historical significance; may symbolize evil or wisdom in different cultures.

Historic Symbolism

Represents a mythical creature, not an ordinary snake, in stories and legends.

Mythical Creature

Can be a sign of power, mystery, or the unknown in mythological contexts.

Symbol of Power

Its movement mimics the unpredictable path of a snake, not straight like a rocket.

Unpredictable Path

Used for visual entertainment in firework displays, sometimes scaring viewers.

Entertainment Usage

An antique wind instrument that is rarely seen or used in modern music.

Archaic Instrument

Produces a distinct, sometimes haunting sound unlike modern instruments.

Unique Sound

 serpents then it says and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt me I wonder how many others got a jar of some kind anything and ranking it anything come on once you take a drink of any deadly thing once it crosses your tongue and you swallow it there's no going back they said they kept service and if they drinking today

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 rodents like our little desert kangaroo rat have their own skills to evade the serpent’s tooth. They stomp their feet at rattlesnakes, kick sand towards them, and evade their strikes with acrobatic leaps and powerful kicks— helping them live to guide another snake tour.

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 which weakens everyone eventually. As for the other challenges, they had also been illusions. The drinking horn was filled with the ocean, and Thor had drained enough to cause the tides. The cat was the serpent that encircles the world,

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 sometimes the real thing is just as impressive as to legend the black mamba is one of Africa's most feared serpents and it's all that and more its Africa's longest venomous snake growing to a length of 14 feet it's also the world's

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 sometimes the real thing is just as impressive to legend the black mamba is one of Africa's most feared serpents and it's all that and more its Africa's longest venomous snake growing to a length of 14 feet it's also the world's

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 is the home of the Yacumama, mother of the waters, a giant serpent spirit who births hot and cold water. And here we find a hot spring, mixing with cold stream water underneath her protective motherly jaws

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 her other hand and her hands are like scales kind of like the earth and cosmos and balance when you go to the other side she turns into an 18 foot long serpent she's spitting clouds out of a Ganesh like

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 that me buying snakes says always put us in some tight spots because we believe in taking up serpents you have to have it we got pay the bills you need try not to buy no more then until we get this paid

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 Khmers, and people all over the world practiced animism. Serpents were especially important in this belief system because in their fluid, curvilinear movement, they mimicked the flow of water.

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 could a glimpse of that tail breaking the surface lead to even taller tales of sea serpent sirens and mermaids luring sailors away from their ships I'll let you be the judge of that

Serpent

Negative Connotation

Literary Usage

Historic Symbolism

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