Editing Snail (section)

===Cultural depictions===
[[File:Mochesnail.jpg|thumb|Land snails (''[[Scutalus]]'' sp.) on a [[Moche (culture)|Moche]] pot, 200 AD, [[Larco Museum|Larco Museum Collection]], Lima, Peru]]

Because of its slowness, the snail has traditionally been seen as a symbol of laziness. In Christian culture, it has been used as a symbol of the [[Seven deadly sins|deadly sin]] of [[Sloth (deadly sin)|sloth]].<ref name="deVries76">{{cite book |last=de Vries |first=Ad |year=1976 |title=Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery |publisher=North-Holland Publishing Company |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-0-7204-8021-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsymb0000vrie/page/430 430] |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsymb0000vrie/page/430 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Tresidder |first=Jack |year=2006 |title=Symbols and Their Meanings |publisher=Barnes & Noble |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7607-8164-7 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlVsHBc443gC&q=The+snail+was+also+a+Christian+emblem+of+sloth.+...}}</ref> In [[Mayan mythology]], the snail is associated with sexual desire, being [[personification|personified]] by the god [[Uayeb]].<ref>Susan Milbrath, Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars, University of Texas Press, 01/01/2010</ref>

Snails were widely noted and used in [[divination]].<ref name="deVries76"/> The [[Greeks|Greek]] poet [[Hesiod]] wrote that snails signified the time to harvest by climbing the stalks, while the [[Aztec mythology|Aztec]] moon god [[Tecciztecatl]] bore a snail shell on his back. This symbolised rebirth; the snail's penchant for appearing and disappearing was analogised with the [[moon]].<ref name="Cooper92">{{cite book |last=Cooper |first=J. C. |year=1992 |title=Symbolic and Mythological Animals |publisher=Aquarian Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-85538-118-6 |page=213}}</ref>

[[File:Dewi Sekartaji Keong Emas.JPG|thumb|Dewi Sekartaji as Keong Emas]]

[[Keong Emas]] ([[Javanese language|Javanese]] and [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] for '''Golden Snail''') is a popular [[Javanese culture|Javanese]] [[folklore]] about a princess magically transformed and contained in a [[Pomacea canaliculata|golden snail]] shell. The folklore is a part of popular Javanese [[Panji (prince)|Panji cycle]] telling the stories about the prince Panji Asmoro Bangun (also known as Raden Inu Kertapati) and his consort, princess Dewi Sekartaji (also known as Dewi Chandra Kirana).

In contemporary speech, the expression "a snail's pace" is often used to describe a slow, inefficient process. The phrase "[[snail mail]]" is used to mean regular postal service delivery of paper messages as opposed to the delivery of [[email]], which can be virtually instantaneous.