Snake tattoo on his leg.<br />
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Historically and across cultures, serpents represent fertility and creative life force. Since they shed their skins they are apt symbols of transformation, rebirth, healing, and immortality.<br />
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In ancient mythologies, the snake is often a symbol of knowledge, wisdom, fertility, knowledge, and patience.  <br />
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Snakes represent many powerful things psychologically and symbolically, and as a life symbol or animal spirit, they are powerfully evocative. <br />
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Body art or tattoos has entered the mainstream it is no longer considered a weird kind of subculture.<br />
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"According to a 2006 Pew survey, 40% of Americans between the ages of 26 and 40 have been tattooed".