There is this picture, It looks like its a stick like pole with what looks like snakes intertwining the stick with eyes at the top and wings on top of the eyes like eyebrows...I know it has something to do with life and I was wondering if anyone knows what this symbol is called because I want to know what it means, I am considering getting a tattoo of it, but I want to know what it means first. Thanks...
2007-03-21 10:15:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
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lots of versions of the symbol, any tattoist with have a copy somewhere the symbol is called caduceus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
2007-03-21 10:20:17 · answer #1 · answered by steven m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe your picture is describing something written about in the Bible.
In the Hebrew scriptures at the book of Numbers, the 21st chapter and verses 7-9 Moses was instructed by God to make a copper snake and attach it to the top of a pole. Then Moses was told to tell the people that if they were bitten by poisonous snakes, they should look at the copper snake and they would be cured.
2007-03-21 19:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by quaver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the caduceus alright.That symbol is quite similar to the paramedic logo.
2007-03-21 18:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by cashew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋