The snake does not die
It was mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh a secret that the priest - Ziusidra - Noah the Sumerian revealed to Gilgamesh, who was searching for the secret of immortality. This was in the dialogue that took place another time, when he told him about the secret of the plant that restores a person to a renewed youth if he eats from it, and after a long and arduous journey, Gilgamesh obtained the result. Therefore, the plant went down to the lake to bathe before eating it, but I smelled the distinctive scent, and I swallowed it and swallowed with it the secret of immortality, and when Gilgamesh looked at it and saw how quickly the herb began to affect the body and got rid of it - its skin - a team and the return of youth again.
From that date until the present, he removed it to renew it, which led to it becoming an immortal trophy - when Gilgamesh sat down, he faced tears – The ancient Iraqis believed that the snake was immortal and did not die, and that exchanging its skin for another skin every year meant renewing its life whenever it was damaged. Until the snake in ancient Iraq became a symbol of healing and immortality, where the Sumerians developed a logo for it in the middle of the third millennium BC to be an emblem of Sumerian medicine, represented by two snakes representing the god - Ninkish Zida - the god of medicine, the son of God - Nanazu - the god of medicine. They are wrapped on the branch of a tree, which is the tree of knowledge and life. The snake represents a symbol of healing and immortality. Its venom has a medical antidote and the renewal of its skin indicates eternal immortality - in the French Louvre Museum
A sculpture found in the Sumerian-Iraqi city of Lagash. This sculpture decorated a flask in which there were images of two beards curled up on each other, with the Sumerian prince - Gudea - standing behind them - on which it was written that it was dedicated to - Ninkesh Zida - God of healing dating back more than 4167 years - This slogan is still used all over the world on the facades of pharmacies and hospitals as a slogan for medicine and pharmacy - and they linked the immortality of the snake to the moon, which eternally renews its life in its perpetual monthly cycle, shedding its old skin in its waning phase and putting on new skin in its continuous monthly cycle -----
Sources
The Book of Sumer: Myth and Epic - p. 247 - Dr. Fadel Abdel Wahed
Sumerian Arts Magazine, Issue -3 - 2008 - Page 9 - Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani
Book of the History of Mesopotamia 151 - 152 - Dr. Abdullah Al-Sulaiman