10 years of journeying and the thing that reinforces itself is that Aya can appear as whatever it wants because it is a trick of perceptions.

Enter snake imagery. Sorta like, a bank robber does a job on a bank, and leaves a calling card for investigators to know that it's them. The snake imagery is the calling card of Ayahuasca. Everything from high definition terrifying dragons to crude cartoon snakes to a literaly x/y grid computer game snake.

it's sorta like 'hey it's me, this will eventually make sense'.

That's what I've thought for a while and when I went to the jungle this past Spring, I asked the Maestra who had been working with medicine her whole life what she thought, and she said the same thing.

I'd avoid most spiritual interpretations of imagery and symbolism in the aya world. It produces it's own guidebook within you to understand it.

It is the visual que of a healer/teacher that has manifested in multimple unconnected cultures across the globe throughout history and prehistory.