Union Civil War Flags. Between 1861 and 1865 the United States was engulfed in Civil War. The Union fought to keep the country together and defeat the secessionist Confederate States. In the process, the abhorrent practice of slavery was abolished and the United States as we know it today began to take shape.
1 The Indian snake goddess Manasa, literally meaning of the mind, or conceived in the mind, or power of the mind is the tutelary deity of snakes and fertility, worshipped mainly in Bengal an the eastern parts of India.2  Diktynna, aka the Cretan Mistress of the Wild, is a possible identification.vans tentatively linked the snake goddess with the Egyptian snake goddess Wadjet but did not pursue this connection. Statuettes similar to the snake goddess identified as priest of Wadjud and magician were found in Egypt.
Snake has been a longstanding symbol of healing, represented by two snakes or serpents spiraling around the staff of Asclepius, who is the Greek God of healing... this staff is a symbol of medical and healing intuition bringing forth first hand knowledge of diagnosis and healing directly from nature.