Hissing snakes and shimmering serpents playing hide and seek in The Garden of Adin

Hissing snakes and shimmering serpents

playing hide and seek in The Garden of Adin

 

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Snakes and serpents - One of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols in various cultures is the snake or serpent. Symbol of fertility, immortality, wisdom, intelligence and healing, the snake has always been adjusted many positive (and negative) characteristics.

Therefore it should not come as a surprise that they always were a rich source of inspiration for goldsmiths and jewelers over the ages. At Adin we have a nice collection of snake jewelry, mostly made at the end of the 19th Century. Come and take a look.

 

 

Antiqualy yours,

The Adin team
www.adin.be

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Serpents and apples in The Garden of Adin

ANTWERP, June 28 (Reuters) – Well-informed sources at Adin, Antwerp - Belgium, told us that they are being overwhelmed with requests for information on the exact whereabouts of the Garden-of-Adin. For obvious reasons the exact location of this garden and its treasures is kept a secret. But we were told that the Adin-team is planning to offer on their website some of the treasures they will find.

In the beginning of this week, in the midst of the garden, a serpent was discovered. But behold! When Adin's photographer wanted to create an image of this illustrious animal, he found it entwined with a mate in a rather intense position on a just-eaten apple.

We believe that any resemblance with other known cases of serpents and apples is purely coincidental.

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The Adin team
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Snakes and serpents at Valentine's day ?

From all low reptiles the serpent has clearly made the highest profile career.

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Snake (or serpent) jewelry has been worn since ancient times. Each era and part of the world seems to attribute its own symbolic meaning to this intriguing animal; eternal love, healing, fertility, wisdom and even immortality. In early Egyptian society it was the symbol of royalty and deity and the Romans regarded the snake as a symbol of everlasting love.

Closer to our times, in the Victorian era (roughly the 19th century) an entwined snake symbolized infinity and eternal love, so snakes were significant symbols. When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, he gave her two snake rings, entwined together, which demonstrated the mutual communion of love that they felt for each other and symbolized an eternal life together.

Snake jewelry is best given as a symbolic gesture of good fortune, good health, and as a loving gift to a partner where the ring is a protective charm and represents the union of the couple and their eternal and never ending love for one another.

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The Adin team
www.adin.be

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Snakes and serpents

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Snakes and serpents

The snake and its symbolic attributes have been a rich source of inspiration for goldsmiths over the centuries. Some examples of snake (or serpent) bracelets of the type of the one pictured above were already made in Greece from the 3rd century BC and also in the Roman Empire. The timeless, evocative look of antique snake jewelry makes a distinctive addition to every woman's jewelry wardrobe.

The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. Considerable overlap exists in the symbolic values that serpents represent in various cultures. Some such overlap is due to the common historical ancestry of contemporary symbols. Much of the overlap, however, is traceable to the common biological characteristics of snakes.

The following are some of the particular symbolic values frequently assiged to serpents in myth, legend, and literature:

• guardianship
• poison and medicine
• renewal, rebirth, regeneration

More information on snakes and serpents as symbols.


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