User blog comment:JapaneseOPfan/Lesson Two (Animal Sounds)/@comment-1949364-20110210011644

Snake: "Shaaaa". Like "Hissss". No names that come from this. Maybe "Heath" from the american "Hiss"? Not sure. (Snake is Hebi in Japanese.) That actually makes a lot of sense, I never thought of it like that. I think the medicine symbol is based on a snake right? Something about Hermes...