The author is an archaeologist and professor at the University of Toronto. As the Year of the Blue Snake unfolds, I find myself reflecting on the symbolic meanings of the serpent across various ...

As for the serpent coiled around a stick that appears within the star, like the chains seen dangling beneath some ambulances, it has a specific purpose, as it represents the staff of Asclepius.

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