{"id":1004,"date":"2022-02-22T02:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2022-02-28T01:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T01:50:29","slug":"snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-snakes-Graveyard-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3649\" width=\"142\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-snakes-Graveyard-Symbols.webp 568w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/graveyard-snakes-Graveyard-Symbols-204x300.webp 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Symbol of eternity, power, wisdom, medicine, healing, eloquence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snakes on gravestones can represent a variety of things. The Ouroboros emblem of a snake eating its own tail was a symbol of life and death in ancient Egypt. On a gravestone, a circle snake signified eternity. A snake entwined with another could symbolize strength and wisdom. Two interwoven snakes represented yin and yang in ancient China. A snake encircling a staff is symbolic of medicine and healing. Eloquence is symbolized as a winged staff with a snake wrapped around it. In current times, gravestones with a snake on a staff may be used to commemorate a physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol of eternity, power, wisdom, medicine, healing, eloquence. Snakes on gravestones can represent a variety of things. The Ouroboros emblem of a snake eating its own tail was a symbol of life and death in ancient Egypt. On a gravestone, a circle snake signified eternity. A snake entwined with another could symbolize strength and wisdom. &#8230; <a title=\"Snake\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/snake\/\" aria-label=\"More on Snake\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}