Be it for Lord Krishna's love for milk and butter or for Lord Shiva's favorite gate-keeper Nandi, cows are immortalised sacred providers of life force (milk and meat) and strength..Snakes, on the other hand have had a mixed history. Immortalised as an agent of transformation by seducing Eve in the Garden of Eden but also for balancing Mother Earth on its hood as Sesh Naag, snakes represent Rebirth and Stability.