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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1234407, member: 2844&quot;]No, it isn&#039;t onyx, I have seen it before, just can&#039;t remember where. It must have been on either a European carving or maybe Asian.</p><p>There is no reason to think the box is Mexican, since a straight-beaked bird surrounded by two snakes is not the Mexican eagle on a cactus with a snake in its beak.</p><p>Birds and snakes are symbols people in Asia and Europe have used since pre-history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, the total of eagle, cactus, and snake was the sign for the ancestors of the Aztecs to settle in the site where they built Tenochtitlán. The vision was very precise, they didn&#039;t look for just any old bird with two snakes in its vicinity. If they had just looked for any bird with two snakes in its vicinity, they would have settled close to their starting point, which could have been in the US.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This very precise vision became the symbol of Mexico.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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