@0xabad1dea I believe the snake being associated with healing originated from Genesis, when the children of Israel were being attacked by fiery serpents and they needed to look to the bronze serpent to heal them. However, the serpent they looked to was not a real snake, it was a bronze one, without the actual venom. So snakes, inherently, are poisonous, and the “healing snake” was in the form of a snake but without the snake’s poison.