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Published: 2012-05-21 04:21:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 464; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 5
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After getting the set 7325 Cursed Cobra Statue for half price, I naturally decided that the snake in it simply wasn't big enough, and neither was the obelisk. So, managing to catch it on sale for half price at a totally different store from the first one, I got a second one, and put them together. With the addition of every tan and gold brick I have, I give you, the Obelisk of Wadjet.One that note, does anyone wonder why the symbol for Paramedics/EMTs is a serpent coiled around a staff?
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It somewhat remind me of The Great Devourer but with 2 heads.
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Hm, so it does. But you know what they say.. Two heads are better than one.
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Just like Fangdam/Fangtom.
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Very cool snake! As for the snake in the EMT symbol [link]
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Yeah. Though this snake is Egyptian, not Greek or Hebrew.
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Figured that. I was just answering your question.
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I know, and thank you.
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Well, I meant the snake too 
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I think it looks kinda like a (two headed) actual Goa'uld symbiont.
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See? (I need to watch more stargate 
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Nice idea
To answer your question the serpent and staff, or Aesclepius wand, originates from ancient Greece and was a symbol of Aesclepius, the god of healing. The significance of the snake is thought to come from the use of snake venom in certain types of medicine.
The image of a snake rising up a rod or tree appears elsewhere however as a representation of matter transcending nature and transforming into spirit on attaining enlightenment.
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Yeah. I've always ascribed it more to the story of Moses, when he cast a bronze serpent coiled around a staff for the purpose of healing the Israelite victims of snake bites. (Numbers 21:6-9) It's essentially the same idea, but Moses came before Greek religion.
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Nice idea
To answer your question the serpent and staff, or Aesclepius wand, originates from ancient Greece and was a symbol of Aesclepius, the god of healing. The significance of the snake is thought to come from the use of snake venom in certain types of medicine.
The image of a snake rising up a rod or tree appears elsewhere however as a representation of matter transcending nature and transforming into spirit on attaining enlightenment.
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I clicked the wrong button, sorry
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ooh okay. its all good, mistakes happen
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