Jafar brings cobra staff with him all the time in order to use sorcery to manipulate sultan and princess Jasmine. He uses that cobra staff to take the lamp from Aladdin and makes a wish to the genie. In the climax, Aladdin and Jafar have a duel to be the owner of the lamp. Jafar not only has a cobra staff but he also turns into cobra itself. Cobra is highly venomous snake native to Africa and Asia that spreads the skin of …show more content…
Cobra symbolizes destruction, change, and restart. In India, cobra is known as sacred in Hinduism. Hindus have a belief that the God of Destruction and Regeneration or Lord Shiva is seen in a cobra. In addition, they believe in the immortality of the snake, in its ability to moult and renew its skin. However, in Persian culture, serpent which is cobra was seen as an evil creature. The serpent shaped demon fought many battles with Persian cultural heroes including Thraetona, an early cultural hero. Moreover, the Ahriman is another serpentine god of darkness in Persian mythology. This implies that there always fight between good and evil, but it is our duty to combat these elements of evil repeatedly. In the Christianity, snakes and serpents are symbols of the evil as well. They are thought to be crafty and deceitful. They symbolizes an enemy or satan. The first biblical reference to a serpent is found in Genesis 3, where Adam and Eve are tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden and ultimately fall victim to sin. Serpent is not expressly linked with Satan, but it directly and indirectly states that