[Jamestown1630]

I wonder what the meaning is of the prominence of the snake motif..

[SunkenCiv]

It’s associated with followers of Bacchus, seen here in Catullus (and hat tip to some anonymous scribbler on Wikipedia), wasn’t gonna guess, but I had one that was not right at all:

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/cat64.shtml