The image given is that of a serpent coiled three and a half times around a smokey grey lingam.

Shakespeare may allude to the image when Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't " ( 1. 5. 74-5 ).. And the Porter's speech ( 1. 3. 1 – 21 ), in particular, may allude to the trial of the Jesuit Henry Garnet in spring, 1606 ; " equivocator " ( line 8 ) may refer to Garnet's defence of " equivocation ", and " farmer " ( 4 ) to one of Garnet's aliases.

The image of Garuda is often used as the charm or amulet to protect the bearer from snake attack and its poison, since the king of birds is an implacable enemy and " devourer of serpent ".

Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story " The Cask of Amontillado " invokes the image of the serpent as a symbol for petty vengefulness.

The serpent, because it represents temptation, sin, and feminist weakness, is used by 19th and early 20th century critics to undermine Cleopatra's political authority and to emphasize the image of Cleopatra as manipulative seductress.

In 1508 Michelangelo's image of the Israelites deliverance from the plague of serpents by the creation of the bronze serpent on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The ram-horned serpent is a well-attested cult image of north-west Europe before and during the Roman period.

The demi-god Aidophedo uses the image of a serpent biting its own tail.

The iconic image of the god or hero on horseback battling the chthonic serpent, on which his horse tramples, appears on Celtic votive columns, and with the coming of Christianity it was easily transformed into the image of Saint George and the Dragon, whose earliest known depictions are from tenth-and eleventh-century Cappadocia and eleventh-century Georgia and Armenia.

The prior logo was an image of serpent which is symbolic of Mixcoac.

In Renaissance emblems, Lamia has the body of a serpent and the breasts and head of a woman, like the image of hypocrisy.

William Bruton, the first English traveler to visit Puri and to see the Jagannath temple, made a certain counter-factual observation in 1633 that the image of Jagannatha " is in shape like a serpent, with seven heads " and the holy pagoda is " the mirror of all wickedness and idolatry ".

After his victory he took an image of a celestial serpent from Waka ' and brought it to Tikal.

The character Orc is connected to the Biblical serpent, the image of being hanged on a dead tree, and to the sun.

In order to prove that she was the daughter of Sigurd who had slain Fafnir, she said that she would bear a child whose eye would bear the image of a serpent.

In Pak Tai temples, the bronze tortoise and serpent under the feet of Pak Tai's image signifies that the good will always prevails over the evil.

Sedgwick expressed concern for " our glorious maidens and matrons .... listening to the seductions of this author ; who comes before them with a bright, polished, and many-coloured surface, and the serpent coils of a false philosophy, and asks them again to stretch out their hands and pluck forbidden fruit ", who tells them " that their Bible is a fable when it teaches them that they were made in the image of God — that they are the children of apes and breeders of monsters — that he has annulled all distinction between physical and moral ", which in Sedgwick's view would lead to " a rank, unbending and degrading materialism " lacking the proper reading of nature as analogy to draw moral lessons from physical truths.

The Order of St. Michael dedicated to the Archangel Michael conveyed to every member a gold badge of the image of the saint standing on a rock ( Mont Saint-Michel ) in combat with the serpent.

A huge feathered serpent, the symbolic image of the pre-Hispanic god Quetzalcoatl, complements the composition at the bottom.

The crown contains an image of the Sheshnag — the serpent of Vishnu.

The previous High School mascot was a more serpent like dragon image and could still be found on school memorabilia and district buildings throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

Nevertheless, with the media's help, Lysenko enjoyed the popular image of the " barefoot scientist "— the embodiment of the mythic Soviet peasant genius.

As with Philo the Logos is the original image of man, or the original man, so in the Zohar the heavenly man is the embodiment of all divine manifestations: the Ten Sefirot, the original image of man.

Indeed the formation of these regiments helped to unite the Highlanders and Lowlanders, and give them a shared sense of " Scottishness ", by changing the image of Highlanders from being backward and savage, to being " the very embodiment of Scotland " ( which became clearly evident during the Romanticist period in Scotland ).

However, when he proposes after two years, Anne abruptly realizes that Roy does not really belong in her life, and that she had only been in love with the idea of him as the embodiment of her romantic image of love.

Frederick Courteney Selous image remains a classic, romantic portrait of a proper Victorian period English gentleman of the colonies, one whose real life adventures and exploits of almost epic proportions generated successful Lost World and Steampunk genre fictional characters like Allan Quatermain, to a large extent an embodiment of the popular " white hunter " concept of the times ; yet he remained a modest and stoic pillar in personality all throughout his life.

His music, voice and image were so endearing to so many that he became the living embodiment of love.

These could be the classical virtues — courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom — that promoted the Greek ideal of man as the " rational animal ", or the theological virtues — faith, hope, and love — that distinguished the Christian ideal of man as a being created in the image of God.

The veneration of that classical past, particularly pre-Christian Rome, the new availability of Greek philosophical works, the successes of humanism and natural science along with the fragmentation of the Christian churches and increased understanding of other faiths, all helped erode the image of the church as the unique source of wisdom, destined to dominate the whole world.

On the appointed day, 20 Prairial by the revolutionary calendar, Robespierre spoke, descended steps, and with a torch presented to him by David, incinerated a cardboard image symbolizing atheism, revealing an image of wisdom underneath.

To Anatoli all men are, in truth, formed in the image of God, though the Jews stand under a particular obligation to further the true cognition of God simply by reason of their election —" the Greeks had chosen wisdom as their pursuit ; the Romans, power ; and the Jews, religiousness " ( l. c.

As patron goddess of wisdom, Minerva frequently features in statuary, as an image on seals, and in other forms, at educational establishments, including:

To Anatoli all men are, in truth, formed in the image of God, though the Jews stand under a particular obligation to further the true cognition of God simply by reason of their election —" the Greeks had chosen wisdom as their pursuit ; the Romans, power ; and the Jews, religiousness "

Reproduction of an Athenian tetradrachma with the image of Athena | Pallas Athena — protector of the city — on the front and an owl — symbol of wisdom — on the back ( circa 490 BC )

In this period of moral indecision God endeavors to prepare the earthly nous for virtue, presenting to him in the " earthly wisdom and virtue " an image of heavenly wisdom.

The temple's main image, representing Prajnaparamita, the personification of wisdom, was modelled on the king's mother.

The supremely beautiful is God, the highest beauty is His intellect or wisdom, in the image of which the whole derives from the form that actuates their matter, and therefore all the forms or Ideas pre-exist in the eternal splendor.

The image presented was originally of an older woman providing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name " aunt ".

It is the image of an individual who has acquired experience and wisdom not only in the sphere of his art but also in life, and his willingness to impart what he has to a deserving young individual, whom he recognizes as fit to be groomed to reach his innate potential.

The explosion of new knowledge about actual Egyptian religion, wisdom and philosophy exposed the mythical image of Egypt as an illusion that had been created by the Greek and Western imaginations.

His next work, Geheimniss der göttlichen Sophia, showed that he had developed a form of mysticism including a female image of wisdom ( sophia ) as a kind of divinity.