Someone in the corps may have confused the caduceus with the Rod of Asclepius, the signature walking stick of the actual Greek god of medicine, which took the form of a wingless staff with a ...

While few may have associated snakes with the art of diplomacy, let alone with a chubby baby, many have confused the caduceus with the Rod of Asclepius, a staff entwined with a single snake that ...

Asclepius is Greek god of healing ... In one myth explaining the origin of the caduceus, Hermes used his rod to separate two fighting snakes. In the Chinese Legend of the White Snake, Bai Suzhen ...