What does the symbol of the snake rapped around the sword mean?

Question

What does the symbol of the snake rapped around the sword mean?

Answer 1

in heraldry a snake means wisdom and a sword

means justice or honor in the military sense.

the snake wrapped around the sword

would be the swords guard  (in the symbolic and literal sense)

symbolic = snake guarding the sword

literal = a sword guard is a part of a sword that pins or redirects an enemy's sword to protect the sword wielder.

so a snake wrapped around a sword would translate into something like.  wisdom guards, protectects justice

Answer 2

Actually that's a medicinal symbol.

Answer 3

I think your symbol is a snake twisted around  a staff not a sword.

The Caduceus is a short rod entwined by two snakes and topped by a pair of wings.  This is the caduceus or magic wand of the Greek god Hermes (Roman Mercury), messenger of the gods, inventor of (magical) incantations, conductor of the dead and protector of merchants and thieves. It is derived from the Greek karykeion = "herald's staff", itself based on the word "eruko" meaning restrain, control.  It has been misappropriated by many medicial societies as the symbol of medicine.

Those medicial societies should have used -- the Staff of Asclepius (Æsclepius) This is the "correct" and traditional symbol of medicine.  The staff of Asclepius has a single serpent encircling a staff, classically a rough-hewn knotty tree limb. Asclepius (an ancient greek physician deified as the god of medicine) is traditionally depicted as a bearded man wearing a robe that leaves his chest uncovered and holding a staff with his sacred single serpent coiled around it, symbolizing renewal of youth as the serpent casts off its skin.

The single serpent staff also appears on a Sumerian vase of c. 2000 B.C. representing the healing god Ningishita, the prototype of the Greek Asklepios.

Answer 4

voldemort

Answer 5

I don't think it has a particular meaning. The snake wrapped around a staff is the symbol of medicine, but a sword?

It's probably a recent invention. Snakes symbolize all sorts of things, including wisdom, medicine, poison, evil.

But a snake/sword combination - only things I've seen that on are Tattoos and stuff for people who are into "metal" or fantasy games.

Answer 6

snake wrapped around a sword is the seal of medical practitioners.

Answer 7

There isn't any meaning that I could find either.  And btw, HP, if you were the REAL Harry Potter, you would know that the death mark is of a skull and snake, not a snake and sword.