At 09:09 AM 8/28/2007, you wrote:
It could also show that she is all-seeing, all-hearing. This could be
seen as being ever-watchful, ever protective of her realm and its
people. Elizabeth I once stated "I see, but am silent" and in her
"Golden Speech" before Parliament, near the end of her reign, confessed
that England may have had better rulers, but never one who loved her
people more. It was probably having the memories of both her father's
and elder sister's matramonial trials always in her mind the reason she
never married--as she once said that she was married to England,
indicating her coronation ring.
I'm not quite sure of the significance of the snake--but the fact that
it curls around her arm--rather like the serpent around a physician's
caudecus, might not be as sinister a symbol as we might interpret it to
be.
Cindy Abel
A snake is also a sign of wisdom.
Joan Jurancich
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