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Serpentine
The loop of the ☥ ankh is the Ouroboros, the endless serpent that swallows its own tail, and there is a void at its heart. Mind the gap.
The Kalbelias of the Thar desert in Rajasthan make a new snake dance—the men singing songs of myth and folklore, playing the pungi, or bīn, a woodwind; the women tattooed, bejewelled, twirling ever faster in embroidered, mirrored skirts. By golden lamplight, the puḷḷuvakkuḍam and the puḷḷuvavīṇa knock and keen; an aching song coils, “ nāgamalayile nāgadeivangaḷe, kāvum kaḷangaḷum pottunna deivangaḷe… ”When the tempo builds, women enter a state of trance and dance up a wild frenzy, an act called sarppam thuḷḷal. In Vonda McIntyre’s strange, sexual, subversive 1978 Dreamsnake, a young woman called Snake traverses the post-apocalyptic, radioactive, low-tech tribal landscape with her genetically engineered snakes—Sand, a rattlesnake; Mist, a cobra; and Grass, an alien dreamsnake—using their venom to heal the sick and soothe the dying.
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